Stories Archive

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...

This story ran in Arizona Highways' August 2015 issue. For the White Mountain Apache Tribe, history lives in the spoken word. Significant...

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...

As a little girl, Ramona Button followed her father, Francisco, as he planted and harvested traditional crops on their family’s 10-acre allotment...

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...

Ponderosa pines are among the old-timers in Arizona — their eminence is measured in centuries, not centimeters. Most live anywhere from 200 to 500...

There are countless scenic routes in Arizona just waiting to be discovered, but these days, a newly acces-sible drive doesn’t often just materialize...

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...