FREE LECTURE:
Major League Baseball teams have been training in Arizona for more than a century, starting with sporadic training sessions and barnstorming games and evolving into the modern Cactus League. Kevin Schindler will recall people and places that established a regular pre-season in our state.
Kevin is the historian and Public Information Officer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he has worked for 28 years. He shares Lowell’s long history of research and exploration through writing and public presentations and contributes articles for a variety of publications on subjects ranging from space and exploration to local history. Schindler contributes a bi-weekly astronomy column, “View from Mars Hill,” for the Arizona Daily Sun newspaper and has authored seven books, including Images of America: Northern Arizona Space Training, which features a chapter about the Grand Canyon. Fun fact: Kevin has both a fossil crab and asteroid named after him!
As Lowell Observatory’s Historian for over two decades, Kevin Schindler was selected as Grand Canyon’s Astronomer in Residence for his extraordinary record of unveiling the history of astronomy in the Grand Canyon region. His residency focused on researching and sharing NASA’s Apollo Astronauts’ connections with the region in preparation for their historic missions to the Moon. Public programs included the history of astronaut training at Grand Canyon, as well as stargazing programs that involved comparisons of classic Greek and Roman mythological stories with traditional stories of local indigenous communities, and more.
