Frontdoors Magazine August 2018

BOOKMARKED {what are you reading} Museum Leaders Share Their Favorite Books

CARRIE HEINONEN CEO and Robert Breunig Director of the Museum of Northern Arizona

IS READING “The Pueblo Food Experience Cookbook: Whole Food of Our Ancestors” EDITED BY ROXANNE SWENTZELL and PATRICIA M. PEREA

H E R TA K E : “The Museum of Northern Arizona is a place-based museum where we explore the Colorado Plateau across all disciplines. Recently we’ve been considering incorporating food into our programming. Reading this book inspired me with recipes and insights into the ways food ties the disciplines together. Food provides

a new and delicious lens through which to experience the objects and histories of our collections, and can inform what we grow in our museum garden as well.

Likewise, Roxanne’s recounting the unexpected pleasures of communal gardening makes the historic Puebloan cultures come to life.”

JODY CRAGO Museum Administrator of Chandler Museum

IS READING “Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese-American Internment in World War II” BY RICHARD REEVES

H I S TA K E : “It shares the heartbreaking stories of 120,000 Japanese and JapaneseAmericans from the West Coast and parts of Arizona who were incarcerated by our country during the early days of World War II for no other crime than looking like the enemy. It shows how easy fear, suspicion and the unbridled search for ‘safety’ can

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lead our nation to lose track of its own cherished values. After reading it, I wanted to read more personal accounts of the people who, despite losing their homes, communities, most of their possessions and their livelihood, stayed loyal to the country that incarcerated them without due process.”