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Jim Andrus (pictured) has a lot of stuff. So much that it fills cabinets and rooms, display cases and counters, closet shelves and several drawers, a sprawling front yard and a porch, too.
Stacks of…

Standing at the edge of a small meadow in the Prescott National Forest, I contemplate a small, neglected orchard with Kanin Routson and his wife, Tierney (pictured).
“There’s a ton of places like…

While most people find it difficult enough to live happily in one culture, Jason Nez (pictured) manages to thrive in three. He’s an employee at Grand Canyon National Park, where he navigates a large…

I find Ernie Adams, signature green Fire King coffee mug in hand, at the Dwarf Car Museum when I arrive. Adams recently turned 82 but looks much younger, his 6-foot frame nearly as lean as in…

Anyone living in the Sonoran Desert during the summer monsoon knows the sweet smell of the land suddenly coming alive. It’s an intoxicating combination of scents — a kind of olfactory fireworks show…

Wednesday is deadline day at the Navajo Times, and at the weekly newspaper’s headquarters in the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock, Olivia Benally is taking a break from answering emails and…

Architecture isn’t something we practical humans have devised just to enclose space. Architecture carries meaning, and with it the possibility of expressing our culture. And our aspirations…

Phantom Ranch, at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, is turning 100 this month. But on the night of April 28, 1999, Warren Tracy was worried it wouldn’t make it to 80.
“There’s a big railroad bell that…