Honk if You Love Higley!

Welcome to the the Make Higley Historic! blogspot! Your definitive source of Higley happenings - past, present and future.

Anyone who knows Higley is aware that its boundaries and residents have been quite elusive the last 100 years. This page has been created to bring together fellow Higleans, Gilbillies, San Tan-ites, travelers and friends who all have something to say about the history of this unique place.

Higley needs your voice! If you are interested in authoring posts for this community blog, we'd love to hear from you and the site administrator will get you set up.


Please feel free to email any photos you would like to share to makehigleyhistoric@gmail.com and we will add them to the page. And if you know of any older folks who may not be technologically savvy or speak only Spanish, let us know and we can arrange an interview so their stories are recorded as well.

We look forward to hearing from many and hope you all check in weekly for updates and new posts about our history and our efforts for recognition. Thank you kindly for all of your support in making Higley's historic value known!

Friday, July 24, 2009

Higley Center for the Perfoming Arts

On June 25th, azcentral.com's Srianthi Perera wrote an article about Higley's largest cultural resource, the Higley Center for the Performing Arts. The article notes that the center has yet to have a sold out show, so Make Higley Historic! wanted to be sure to get the word out about the Center's progress and upcoming performance schedule detailed in the text.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/06/25/20090625gr-higley0626.html

Tickets can be purchased for
their events through their website -

http://www.higleyarts.org/ (updated 7/27/09)

We thank
HUSD and the HCPA endlessly for their mission in “providing a facility in which all members of the community can participate as audience, as performers or as presenters.” We also wait patiently for their "historic" sold out show - you'll see the review here first at Make Higley Historic!

Sustainability for Higley - The Issue of Our Age

In 2007, ASU's Morrison Institute for Public Policy and Global Institute for Sustainability issued a publication named Sustainability for Arizona - The Issue of Our Age to bring light to a topic detrimental to the future of our communities.

For many who think of sustainability, the term "green" often comes to mind first, however, Make Higley Historic! has linked to this ground-breaking publication to demonstrate the issue is much more than recycling, keeping the air clean and conserving water. Sustainability, in a nutshell, is achieving a balance between environmental, social and economic issues as to not deplete our resources for future generations.

In all actuality, "
sustainable" can be applied to any practice it precedes, but fostering sustainability, local through global levels, has been historically challenging for citizens and governance alike. Today, azcentral.com has released two articles referencing the challenges of achieving sustainable growth in and around the community of Higley. We have included them to illustrate the broader view of the topic.

Gilbert county island fire district annexation costs millions - Alia Beard Rau

Williams Field - Higley road widening in Gilbert delayed - Astrid Galvan

To explore the history of these articles further, a library card and/or access to news archives will reveal plenty of information as they have been in discussion for years. And again, we invite everyone to report their findings on the community's relationship to sustainability here at MHH! To research other public policy issues affecting our great state and find more about the history of the Morrison
Institute's namesake, check out morrisoninstitute.org. The Institute's research is truly invaluable to Arizona and the family's Higley Road farming fame makes us swell even more with pride. We thank all the players there for making it known that in Higley's 100th year, and Arizona's upcoming Centennial, sustainability is an issue of historic proportions.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Native works to preserve what's left of Higley

Check out the July 6th azcentral.com article by Astrid Galvan. The story has also been printed in the Midweek July 8th Gilbert Republic. Someone's stirring up Higley :)

http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/2009/07/06/20090706gr-higleypreserve0708.html