Who was alma d. ready?
Alma D. Ready was a driving force behind the creation of the Pimeria Alta Museum and its large research library. At her 2003 memorial service, the library was renamed the Alma D. Ready Library in her honor.
During a special presentation, a beautiful stone plaque created by Mexican artist Alonzo Villanueva was mounted at the library entrance featuring the image of a windmill taken from one of Ready’s photographs.
“Few can describe their lives much less write it as if a suspenseful novel yet with blunt, self-effacing honesty. Alma Ready’s memoir is not a tell all, but she tells all, the unpretentious story of her life growing up in World War I, becoming a young woman in the raucous, roaring twenties, surviving the Great Depression, her four marriages of convenience and romance, producing four children and wrenchingly forced to surrender three, and growing up again in World War II to find her true calling as a photographer, historian and author.”
– Axel C. F. Holm, former President of the Pimeria Alta Museum and Historical Society and noted Historian.
Visit our museum to purchase a copy of Alma D. Ready’s book, a bibliographic gem for those who are interested in the history of Santa Cruz County and the Arizona-Sonora border region.