{"id":49151,"date":"2017-10-20T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=49151"},"modified":"2017-10-20T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:22:37","slug":"book-signing-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/book-signing-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Bookstore hosts book-signing event for alumna during Homecoming week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0\u201cThe Journal of Sedona Schnebly,\u201d author and Northern Arizona University alumna <strong>Lisa Schnebly Heidinger<\/strong> tells the story of how Sedona got its name. Sedona Arabella Miller Schnebly followed her husband west, when their small Missouri town condemned his Presbyterian religion. Arriving in Arizona Territory in 1901, they planted orchards and hosted early tourists in what is now named Sedona.<\/p>\n<p>This vivid journal of her life introduces a pioneer family from their genteel upbringings through adventures with rattlesnakes, trappers and colorful guests. With 30 photographs from family collections, this volume of Sedona Schnebly\u2019s experiences and ruminations illustrates a fiercely private woman\u2019s life that is by turns amusing, heartbreaking and fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>Great-granddaughter of Sedona Schnebly,\u00a0Lisa Schnebly Heidinger\u00a0wrote nine books about various aspects of Arizona before this\u00a0<em>tour de force<\/em>\u00a0journal, which is a culmination of decades conducting interviews and exploring archives. Voted OneBookAZ author for her Arizona Centennial book, she shares Sedona and T.C. Schnebly\u2019s deep love of Arizona and of travel. A former television and newspaper reporter, then editorial columnist, she loves drinking at historic hotels, doing anything outside and coffee.<\/p>\n<p>The NAU Bookstore will host a book-signing event for Heidinger from 3-5 p.m on Oct. 27. \u201cThe Journal of Sedona Schnebly<em>,<\/em>\u201d\u00a0and Heidinger\u2019s other books,\u00a0\u201cImages of America: Sedona\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cCalling Arizona Home\u201d can be purchased at the NAU Bookstore,\u00a01015 S San Francisco St. (Building #35 on campus maps). Parking is available in the garage immediately south of the bookstore. Route 10 of NAIPTA\u2019s Mountain Line Bus Service also stops in front of the Beaver Street entrance of the store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/book-signing-homecoming\/\">In\u00a0\u201cThe Journal of Sedona Schnebly,\u201d author and Northern Arizona University alumna Lisa Schnebly Heidinger tells the story of how Sedona got its name. Sedona Arabella Miller Schnebly followed her husband west, when their small Missouri town condemned his Presbyterian religion. Arriving in Arizona Territory in 1901, they planted orchards and hosted early tourists in what&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":49152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}