Photograph by Mark Boisclair
Quite Wright
As I catch my first glimpse of the David and Gladys Wright House in Phoenix’s Arcadia neighborhood, one word pops into my head: playful. It doesn’t seem like that could be the proper reaction to a…
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
Ba'cho
This story ran in Arizona Highways' August 2015 issue. For the White Mountain Apache Tribe, history lives in the spoken word. Significant events from the past, cultural practices and spiritual…
Photograph by David Wallace
Foraging Ahead
Like many 13-year-old girls, Margie Bendle is fond of crafts. She likes to make bracelets and anklets out of string. She also enjoys playing basketball. And she prefers math over English. And there’…
Photograph by David Zickl
Down on the Farm
As a little girl, Ramona Button followed her father, Francisco, as he planted and harvested traditional crops on their family’s 10-acre allotment near Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Community. The…
Photograph by David Wallace
Returning to Their Roots
Lilian Hill will never forget the first time she walked into a grocery store. She was 8 years old and had traveled from Second Mesa, on Hopi Tribe land, to visit her grandmother who lived in…
Photograph by Steven Meckler
The Mexican Food Capital of the World and Elsewhere
The best breakfast I have eaten in my seven decades occurred one morning in 1985 in a home kitchen in Oracle, a tiny town on the back side of the Santa Catalina Mountains from Tucson. An elfin…
Photograph by Paul Markow
Q&A: Paul Markow
These photos of artist Douglas Miles show how a smartphone can be a useful scouting tool for photographers. The image above was made using an iPhone to give the subject…
Photograph Courtesy of Katie Malik
Phantom Ranch Turns 100
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…