Elizabeth Compton Hegemann poses with two kachina plaques, one completed and one in progress, at the Hopi village of Oraibi in 1927. | Elizabeth Compton Hegemann
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Towering Figure

During their brief marriage in the 1920s, writer and photographer Elizabeth Compton Hegemann and her husband, Michael…
Night sky viewed through narrow walls of a slo canyon along the Colorado River in the GrandCanyon. By Dawn Kish
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Dawn Kish: This Is My Story

The first time I slept under the stars in Blacktail Canyon — a slot canyon at Mile 120 of the Colorado River in the…
James Porter pictured in a doorway at Terra Farm and Manor. By Jill Richards
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Terra Farm and Manor

As we drive past a metal gate and make our way up a rugged dirt road, acclaimed chef James Porter (pictured) can hardly…
MacAlpine's in Phoenix

Phoenix Institution MacAlpine's Receives Historic Preservation Grant

One of Phoenix's best-known dining destinations is receiving a grant intended to help protect its legacy. The National…
Runners compete in the 2017 Canyon de Chelly Ultra, an exclusive 55-kilometer race that takes participants to the bottom of the canyon. The annual race is capped at 150 participants. | Caitlin O'Hara
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Everyone’s Running According to Plan

It’s early morning up on the Navajo Nation, the sun beginning to rise, the red-rock cliffs slanted in shadow. And Shaun…
Sean Parker happened to be leading a Milky Way photography workshop near San Manuel, northeast of Tucson, the night the aurora borealis appeared in Arizona. He made this photo at about 1 a.m.
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Oh, What A Night!

Editor’s Note: On the evening of May 10, at 3:54 p.m. Arizona time, the National Weather Service observed conditions…
A.E. Douglass extracts a core sample from a tree on Mount Lemmon, in the Tucson area’s Santa Catalina Mountains, in the mid-1940s. | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona
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Tree Cheers For Andrew Douglass

A rainy winter day in Tucson is as good as any to stay inside and explore the Special Collections at the University of…
Shadows cloak the sandstone buttes of Monument Valley in a sunset view from Hunts Mesa. By Larry Lindahl
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High Ground

Summer wildflowers thrive on a slope on the east side of the San Francisco Peaks, near…