A woman with long hair sits in a dark dress in her jewelry studio. Boxes of gems, houseplants and other ephemera  surround her.
What piece of jewelry is your favorite or the one you're proudest of?I would say that my proudest piece is probably all of the engagement rings I’ve made over the years. It really pushed me…
Burned buildings on Tombstone Canyon in Bisbee after a February 2024 fire
Spring is typically Bisbee’s busiest time of the year, when many snowbirds and other visitors come to the old mining town. This year, however, damage from a February fire on the town's main drag is…
Drawing by Bob Waldmire
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)
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
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 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 Jonathan Buford
I’ve spent much of my time in Arizona exploring and photographing the state’s 90 wilderness areas, and one of the spots closest to home is the Four Peaks Wilderness, northeast of Phoenix. As…
Photograph by Jeff Maltzman
Zipping past Texas Canyon, an hour southeast of Tucson, it’s impossible not to notice the boulders — giant, eye-catching piles of granite, like something out of The Flintstones. But other than…