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Ranching in southern Arizona in memory of Joe Goff part 6

Bob Simpson Having adequate sources of water is a critical matter for ranchers. Goff uses springs, earthen dams (tanks) to capture runoff, drilled wells and even old hand-dug wells with windmills. An interesting example of the latter is The Swizos, located between Park Link and the Florence Highway. The well is over 90 feet deep…

Injuries and healing

Susan Dawson-Cook An uncomfortable pull in your bicep muscles makes you grimace during a weight workout. You shrug it off. As the week progresses, the pain and tenderness continue. You’re getting older, you say to yourself and press onward. By the weekend the discomfort lingers for hours post-workout. You find yourself rubbing the sore spot…

Verse to Vic Garcia

Vic Garcia

James E. Cox St. Peter, when you meet this man at the gate to paradise, you’ll find Vic more than met the plan that God decreed we emphasize. He worked among the lawless to bring to Justice their foul crimes, but did not stay anonymous when he retired to safer climes. Vic joined the Elks,…

Artist of the Month: Harry Huizinga

Harry Huizinga’s color pencil Mountain Lion; photo by J. Cohen.

Jacqueline Cohen To see like an artist is a powerful talent. Artists look with the same camera-type eyes as the rest of us but often process images differently. Artists see leaves and also patterns, lights, shadows, spaces and more. Harry Huizinga has spent years learning to see like an artist and interpreting what he sees…

Marchons – Marchons: Musical world of marches part II

Punch Howarth Part I of this essay on marches covered their history, military and circus marches and before going on, the title above needs explanation. Marchons-Marchons starts the chorus of a song by Rouget de Lisle that became musically the greatest of all national anthems, the March La Marseillaise and was arranged for orchestra by Berlioz.…