As a boy, future anthropologist Edward Bridge "Ned" Danson dreamed
of adventure. He read books about explorers and heroes and studied
the lives of prominent men. He raced cars through the streets of
Cincinnati, when he should have been studying, and made friends
using a charm that was second to none At age seventeen, he lived
his dreams by joining the crew of the schooner Yankee for a voyage
circumnavigating the globe. Over the next year and a half, Danson
encountered cultures dramatically unlike his own and won friends
around the world: From a German baroness in the Galapagos islands
to the descendants of the Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn Island. In
1937, he found a new home, Arizona, and discovered his passion,
anthropology. With newly learned discipline, fused with his skill
at uniting people in common cause, Ned Danson, as Director of the
Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff during the 1960s and '70s,
helped reveal the past and reshape the future of a West on the
rise. With his wife Jessica and children Jan and future actor Ted
Danson at his side, he placed himself at the crossroads of past,
present and future, the meeting place of the first peoples of
Arizona and its newest immigrants. He worked with Arizona giants
like Barry Goldwater and Stewart Udall to preserve the grandeur of
the Southwest, even as it modernized, and traveled the country to
extend and advance the National Park system for all to enjoy. From
the World War II battlefields to the halls of Congress, from
Cincinnati country clubs to Navajo trading posts, and from
passionate lectures in university classrooms to sacred ceremonies
on the Hopi Mesas, Ned Danson lived a life of adventure and
consequence that shapes the West to this day. ALL PROCEEDS OF
PURCHASE WILL GO TO THE EDWARD BRIDGE DANSON ENDOWED CHAIR OF
ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA, INC. (MNA), AN
INDEPENDENT 501(C)3 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION. Eric Penner Haury is a
freelance writer and grandson of Ned and Jessica Danson. As a
child, he stayed several weeks each year with his grandparents, who
regularly took him to the Museum of Northern Arizona. He can be
contacted at
[email protected].
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