Thirty Long Years is a Mighty Short Time

ARIZONA Thirty Long Years HIGHWAYS IS A MIGHTY SHORT TIME

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS is published monthly by the Arizona Highway Department a few miles north of the confluence of the Gila and Salt in Arizona. Address: ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, 2039 W. Lewis Ave., Phoenix, Arizona 85009. $4.00 per year in U.S. and possessions; $5.00 elsewhere; 50 cents each. Second Class Postage paid at Phoenix, Arizona, under Act of March 3, 1879. Copyrighted 1968, by the Arizona Highway Department. All rights reserved.

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In the January issue of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, in the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-eight, the name of the under-initialed appeared on the masthead as editor of these pages for the first time. Except for a couple of years during World War II when editorial duties were put aside for service in the U. S. Army in New Guinea and the Philippines (how far from Arizona can you get?), the same old name as editor has appeared herein month after month, year after year.

How wonderfully pleasant, rewarding, and exciting those years have been! Looking back, we realize more and more that a brief span of thirty long years is a mighty short time. Anyone engaged in the pleasant task of trying to tell the Arizona story would find, indeed, such a task exciting. Rewarding, too, has been our warm association with the many dedicated photographers, writers and artists whose creative work in the final analysis has made these pages what they are.

Richly rewarding, also, to this particular editor has been the "by-mail" friendships made with readers near and far, friendships engendered by more than a passing interest in these pages and the subject they portray. Arizona! What a subject it is! If we have learned anything in thirty years it is this: our subject has no end.

Years and years ago, a bright, long spell down the road, we learned of a photographer in Tucson by the name of Esther Henderson, whose creations with a camera, we were told, were outstanding. They were and are! Hers were the first photographs we purchased. Readers of our pages will be familiar with the name and with her many fine contributions to this publication. We always contended she is one of the best.

In these pages this month she is much with us, giving us intimate views of what she calls "My Southwest." Hers is a treasure to share and enjoy R.C.

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35mm. slides in 2" mounts, 1 to 15 slides, 40c each; 16 to 49 slides, 35c each; 50 or more, 3 for $1.00. Catalog of previous slides issued available on request. Address: ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, 2039 West Lewis Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85009.

GC-162 Great Are Thy Glories, O Lord, cov. 1; TC-199 Autumn Interlude, cov. 2; TA-128 Into Tomorrow, cov. 3; BC-12 Winter Wanes, cov. 4; OC-99 The Colors of November, p. 13; DS-171 Spring Bounty, p. 14; DS-172 Delicate Shadows in a Harsh Land, p. 14; DS-173 The Road to Nowhere, p. 15; PF-90 Thundering Retreat, p. 16; TA-129 Desert Lake, p. 17; DS-174 Road-Rut Reflections, p. 17; TA-130 The Circle, p. 17; TA-131 Golden Pocket, p. 18; DS-175 Hard Hills, p. 18; C-34 Palms of the Kofas, p. 18; CC-57 Autumn Shadows, p. 19; GC-163 Winter Sleep Grand Canyon, p. 20-21; MV-45 Monument Valley Skyline, p. 22; PF-91 In the Land of the Ancient Woodchopper, p. 22; WM-12 Mountain Columbine, p. 23; V-153 When Fall and Winter Meet, p. 23; BC-13 Rainbow Distance, p. 24; NM-53 Lonely Road, p. 24; Z-10 The Walls of Zion, p. 25; CNP-24 Beyond the Rim, p. 26; CNP-25 The Wayward River, p. 26; NM-54 Long Shadows, p. 27; DV-12 The Road Across No Man's Land, p. 27; S-62 Sun's Lingering Rays Herald Day's End, p. 28.

"GREAT ARE THY GLORIES, O LORD! A TREE AND THE CANYON" BY ESTHER HENDERSON.. Photograph taken on South Rim of Grand Canyon. And how wondrous to be alive and cognizant of Thy blessings. This Grandest of Canyons tells the Story of the Ages; this juniper tells the story of a single life: how it twisted with the winds, how it hardened under adversity, and how it emerged at last, full of years, beauty and grace.

"AUTUMN INTERLUDE" BY ESTHER HENDERSON. Pleasant Street, Prescott. The photographer says: "Curling leaves, sun-shafts through smoke; 'our' street, 'our' town, 'our' neighbors. These are the good things well-remembered from my childhood in midwest America fifty years ago. One fall morning, when passing through Prescott, I saw just the right conditions to re-create this remembrance. Rev. Charles Franklin Parker of Prescott dropped his morning duties to assist with pipe and rake, my husband became the other 'neighbor' and the postman happened to walk by. After all these years, fall never really comes to me until that sweet smell of leaf smoke announces summer's end."