Eight costumed characters will guide visitors through the Arizona History Museum Saturday and share personal stories from their pasts:
• George Hand 1830-1887: Tucson saloonkeeper known for the diaries he wrote about life in the Old Pueblo.
• John Spring 1845-1924: Swiss immigrant and the first public-school teacher in Tucson. His collection of local plants is now in the Smithsonian Museum.
• Anna Charouleau 1883-1973: Tucson proprietress who owned many downtown buildings, including Number 12 House, a popular bordello in "Gay Alley."
• Sarah Herring Sorin 1861-1914: The first woman to practice law in Arizona and argue - and win - a case in the Supreme Court without the assistance of a male lawyer.
• David Jackson 1788-1837: A scout, early trapper, fur trader and mountaineer who trapped and hunted along the streams of Arizona. He was one of the early travelers of the Oregon and Santa Fe trails.
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• Henrietta Herring Franklin 1870-1963: One of Tucson's "Grand Old Ladies," she lived in "Snob Hollow," now Main Street, and served as an officer for the Tucson Woman's Club, YWCA and Arizona Children's Home.
• Nellie Cashman 1849-1925: The Irish immigrant panned for gold in the Klondike and kept lodging houses in Tucson, Tombstone and San Francisco. She was known to feed and care for homeless boys, and provide them with grubstakes.
• Larcena Pennington Page Scott 1837-1913: Kidnapped by Indians, stabbed and left for dead in the mountains, she crawled through the desert for 16 days before finding help.
