One Book Yuma

Hosted and produced by the KAWC News team, Arizona Edition is focused on the issues facing Arizona, with an emphasis on stories and news impacting the people of Yuma and La Paz counties.

In the 1930s Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter wanted to gather and catalogue plants in the Grand Canyon, and while the details of their journey are amazing – how they became scientists, faced sexism and danger, and changed the field of botany is equally as engaging.

Yuma adopted the One Community One Read program entitled One Book Yuma in the early 2000s. Sarah Wisdom from the Yuma County Library District says it…