Photograph by Joel Hazelton
Making A Beeline
The southernmost miles of the Beeline Highway are uninspiring. A miasma of power lines intersect overhead. An active mining operation hacks into the crumbling banks of the adjacent Salt River. Ragged…
Photograph by Josef Muench
White Mountain Country
I am no physician, but I do know that if anyone should come to me in need of a rest cure, I would have the name of an ideal place on the tip of my tongue.  “Go into the White Mountains of Arizona,”…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
The Maverick
We’d have met Sam Luce much sooner had it not been for the dogs. Two of them — part German shepherd, part redtick coonhound — began barking as soon as we pulled through the gate at the end of Luce…
Courtesy Sedona Heritage Museum
What a Place to Call Home
Nestled between ancient sandstone walls and shaded by centuries-old sycamores, Indian Gardens is a place deeply rooted in time. The most obvious monument to its past is the weathered stone face of…
Photograph by John Burcham
Passing the Test of Time
Jeff Perkins came to Verde Valley School in 1955, when he was a year old and his parents were hired as teachers. For the most part, he’s been there ever since. “My sophomore year, I took a class…
Photograph by Guy Schmickle
Flavor of the Months
NOVEMBER Clear water rushes over small waterfalls at Slide Rock State Park in Oak Creek Canyon. The main attraction here — an 80-foot natural waterslide made slick by…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
You can call me ‘Cowboy’
There’s no promise of rain on the horizon, none of those bloated blue-black clouds that might deliver a wall of water. Instead, the only things floating in this wide sky are white, wispy, romantic…
Photograph by Joel Hazelton
The Advent of Spring
Demeter was furious. Discovering her daughter, Persephone, had been kidnapped by Hades, king of the underworld, she took revenge by inventing winter. As goddess of agriculture, she had the power to…