Tag: History

The Importance of Family History

Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg There is a very old black and beige (having originally been white, but decades have darkened the white color) photo of my maternal grandparents hanging in our guest bedroom. They both immigrated from Poland but died in 1919 during the devastating flu pandemic. What lives they could have had were it…

Photography Club Captures the Colors of Historic Tucson

Vicki Cunningham and Robert Shea Fourteen SaddleBrooke Photography Club members spent a beautiful Sunday morning photographing the colorful buildings in both Barrio Viejo and El Presidio Historic District near Presidio San Augustine. Participating members of the newly merged SaddleBrooke Photo Clubs were Bob Shea (field trip leader), Byron Cotter, Sharon Cotter, Tom Stafford, John Triebe,…