The Arizona State Fair

Author G.G. George is a founder and current president of the Encanto Citizens Association and vice president of the Phoenix Historic Neighborhoods Coalition. A longtime community volunteer, preservation advocate, and coauthor of Phoenix's Greater Encanto-Palmcroft Neighborhood, she initiated the movement in the 1970s that listed the Encanto-Palmcroft neighborhood and Encanto Park on the National Register of Historic Places. She serves on the Encanto Village Planning Committee, the Mayor's Neighborhood Advisory Committee, and the Arizona State Fairgrounds Stakeholders Action Group, which worked to preserve the 1938 Works Progress Administration Building.