On August 12, 2017, 11 of us were able to gather at the Tuck Shop to bid farewell to our dear Elizabeth Pickens. We will miss you!  

Members of the Board were hosted in the cool pines of Mormon Lake by the Hesleys and the Heils for a planning retreat on the weekend of July 21-23, 2017.    

  On Thursday, June 22, 2017, 27 lively dancers stepped to the music of Ladies at Play, at the Irish Cultural Center. Caller was Bob Green, from MIssouri. Ladies at Play area high-spirited and musically adventurous contra dance and English country dance band from...

  On Saturday, May 20, 2017, 12 members enjoyed English verdure, English culture, and English comfort at a Box Hill Picnic at the lovely estate of Perry & Carole Krowne, Lake Montezuma. Welcome, Janeites: Janet, Peg Hesley, Judy Shappee, Joyce Howell,...

  On Saturday, May 13, 2017, more than 20 Austen aficionados met at Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, for a discussion of Emma, led by Renée Frost, and readings from the text by Diane Gorham and Sylvia Hom.  

  On April 1, 2017, six members from JASNA Greater Phoenix traveled to the Tucson Botanical Gardens to attend a Jane Austen Day, sponsored by the Southern Arizona Region. Program Highlights  "Seeing and Being Seen in Northanger Abbey" by Dr. Timothy Erwin Dr....

  Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon marked its 200th anniversary of publication and was set for its first film version (now stalled) in 2017. When Austen died in 1817, she left the unfinished manuscript to her niece Anna Austen Lefroy, also a writer. Anna's...

  On Saturday, December 17, 2016, 32 members and friends gathered at the Gaslight Inn, Glendale, for a lovely tea to celebrate dear Jane's birthday. In the spirit of the holiday season, donations were accepted for United Methodist Outreach Ministries (UMOM).

  Peg and Joe Hesley hosted 36 to hear author Kim Wilson discuss her most recent book At Home with Jane Austen, a tour of Austen's life in her various homes, on Saturday, November 5, 2016.