The Winslow Historical Society will host its 2017 annual meeting from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 5, at the Winslow Visitors Center/Hubbell Trading Post, 523 W. Second St.
The free event will begin at 2 p.m. with refreshments and a concert by Navajo musician Khent Anantakai. Since 2009, Anantakai has entertained nightly at La Posada Hotel, where the building’s history and atmosphere have inspired his original compositions of “contemporary classical” guitar.
The annual meeting will begin at 2:45 p.m. with a performance of the Star Spangled Banner by twin sisters Bailey and Madison Hartman. The meeting will include the election of new board members and brief reports on museum activities over the past year.
While there, attendees can join or renew their memberships for 2018; order the Old Trail Museum’s 2018 historical calendar, Getting Together: Recreation and Celebrations in Winslow; and take a ticket for a chance to win a door prize donated by the old Trails Museum Store, La Posada Hotel and several board members.
In addition to current members, the Old Trails Museum extends a special invitation to anyone who might be interested in becoming a museum volunteer. If you or someone you know loves history, please consider attending the annual meeting and talking with current volunteers about their experiences.
The museum’s volunteers bring their enthusiasm and professional skills to a variety of duties: hosting visitors, organizing collections and archives, and helping with public programs. Volunteers can have their pick of ways to help, in manageable 2½-hour shifts.
Museum volunteers learn more about our home and its history; they make new friends and deepen existing friendships; they attend the annual Volunteer Thank-you Party; and they meet and talk with visitors from all over the country and the world. They serve as the public face to these visitors, as ambassadors from the museum, from Winslow, from Arizona and from Route 66.
