Drawing by Bob Waldmire
Drawing Attention to Bob
It was early 1996, and Bob Waldmire was living in Hackberry, along Northwestern Arizona’s stretch of Historic Route 66, and running his revived Hackberry General Store. To those who’d followed his…
Photograph by Josef Muench (NAU Cline Library)
Land Of The Stone Comics
Tucked away in the southeastern corner of Arizona is the Chiricahua National Monument. It covers 10,693 acres in the extreme northern end of the Chiricahua Mountains. Aside from the beauties to be…
Photograph by Laurence Parent
Set In Stone
A rock arch frames Punch and Judy, two hoodoos that resemble a bickering couple, near the Heart of Rocks Loop. The loop itself is 7.3 miles in length, but some…
Courtesy Spragge Family Collection
On This Day In Rock History
On Labor Day in 1934, some 7,000 visitors crowded onto Massai Point for the dedication of Chiricahua National Monument. While the Bisbee High School Bugle Corps played and dignitaries expounded,…
Photograph by Guy Schmickle
Take A Picture, It’ll Last Longer
Desert sand verbenas (purple) and evening primroses (white and yellow) blanket a sand dune at Havasu National Wildlife Refuge in Western Arizona. Operated by the U.S.…
Photograph by Joel Hazelton
The Trickle-Up Effect
North of Clarkdale, at the end of a long, twisting road that starts out paved and ends as a rough dirt path, you’ll find the Parsons Trailhead. And following the Parsons Trail about a mile into…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
Down On The Farm
WhiteBarn Hay & Cattle, near Portal, rests in the cradle of the San Simon Valley, the 65-mile-long swath of land that separates the Chiricahua, Dos Cabezas and Pinaleño mountains on its western…
Photograph by Peter Coskun
Springtime in the Desert
Spring is the beginning of time. I know this because my brother and I and our two cousins were all born in the spring. I also know it because spring marks the beginning of the year for the Tohono O’…