Former Justice O'Connor's old house finds a new home

The museum will open its "Sandra Day O'[Connor]: A citizen for all seasons" exhibit Thursday. On Sunday, the former justice hosted what she coined a "mudslinging" party to celebrate the work it took to preserve her house. Mudslinging, O'Connor style, involved slathering...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inGannett News Service
Main Author Nanez, Dianna M
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published McLean USA Today, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc 22.10.2009
Subjects
PHOENIX, Ariz
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:The museum will open its "Sandra Day O'[Connor]: A citizen for all seasons" exhibit Thursday. On Sunday, the former justice hosted what she coined a "mudslinging" party to celebrate the work it took to preserve her house. Mudslinging, O'Connor style, involved slathering a milk-and-mud concoction onto the house's exterior walls to seal the adobe. On Sunday, prior to dipping her hands and a paintbrush into the mixture and asking the crowd to join her, O'Connor spoke of the adobe's history, thanked those who helped preserve the house and expressed her hopes for Arizona's future. "I said, 'You can't. I mean - it's adobe; that's impossible,' " she told the crowd Sunday.