Keep Sedona Beautiful will hold its next Preserving the Wonder Speaker Series event on Wednesday, September 18 at 5:00 pm.
The event will be held at Keep Sedona Beautiful, 360 Brewer Road in Sedona, starting at 5:00. Doors for this free public event open at 4:30.
This month’s speaker is Barry Mallis. His topic will be “Sinaguan Echoes in the Verde Valley.” Barry will share facts and artifacts to illuminate the presence, over the course of several hundred years, of pre-contact indigenous people in the Verde Valley.
Barry Mallis and his wife, Melanie Vuicich-Mallis, have been litter lifters for years in Sedona. Both have a lifetime of volunteering, including over a thousand hours at Red Rock State Park where Barry leads nature hikes and presents monthly programs on Sinaguan archaeology and anthropology. Melanie, the “Bird Lady,” tends to the park’s Hummingbird Garden. Barry has also led geology hikes for Friends of the Forest.