Photograph by Eirini Pajak
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…
Photograph by John Burcham
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…
The dome atop Mission San José de Tumacácori by Jack Dykinga
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…
Photograph Courtesy of Katie Malik
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…
Photograph by Paul Markow
Nothing against Yuma. But as a burr-grinding, pour-overing coffee snob who sometimes travels with his Chemex carafe and a stash of unbleached filters, I didn’t have especially high hopes for my…
Photograph by Steven Meckler
There’s plenty of history at Angle Orchard, which is celebrating its centennial this year. And according to the descendants of Andrew Preston Angle and his wife, Viola — who began growing fruit in…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
Vast and flat, Southeastern Arizona’s Sulphur Springs Valley stretches for 65 miles, from its northwest section along the Galiuro and Piñaleno mountains to its southeast end just west of the…
Photograph by John Burcham
The career pinnacle for most successful U.S. attorneys might be a judgeship on a circuit court — or even becoming a Supreme Court justice. Given her professional track record, Camille Bibles (…