Every Week in Print
A column of lamplight
Flagstaff History is Susan Johnson’s weekly column in the Arizona Daily Sun, published Sundays and carried across the region by the Navajo-Hopi Observer. One story at a time, it pulls the town’s past out of the dark: a trial, a fire, a building everyone walks past without knowing why it matters.
The column has run for years and keeps running; the research desk never closes. One reader letter to the paper said it plainly in its headline: Flagstaff History gatherer applauded.
The paper holds the column itself, so the archive below is a reading list, not a reprint. Headlines link to azdailysun.com, where a subscription to the Arizona Daily Sun opens every piece. It grows as new columns are collected here.
Arizona Daily Sun
Flagstaff History · A Weekly Column
- Trial in Canyon Lodge murder ended in acquittalJune 28, 2026
- George B. Seitz’s The Last Frontier filmed in northern ArizonaMay 17, 2026
- 10,000 city residents went missingMarch 29, 2026
- Transistor radio saved livesNovember 30, 2025
- Hogan building became a big businessNovember 18, 2025
- Old Main was due for a faceliftDecember 2024
- City experienced growing painsNovember 2024
- With warmer months came writers of bad checksApril 2024
- Sunnyside began to take shape
- Southside wanted a say in city renovations
- Local psychic weighed in city’s future
- Whiskey stills, bicyclists and Santa
12 headlines collected · Also carried by the Navajo-Hopi Observer
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The column is the shortest introduction to how Susan Johnson works: one documented story a week, checked against the record, written for neighbors. If that is the voice your program or page needs, she is available for interviews and commissions.
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