Written by: John Michael Benson Politics and Wind have both been known to change directions on a whim. For some Arizona has been a staunch Republican state since polling maps started identifying “red” and “blue” states. But this wasn’t always so. There was a time when Arizona was just as …
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The Librarian who Launched a Generation
IN THE BEGINNING She was traveling west for her health and planned to stop over in Globe to visit a friend.Little did she realize when she stepped off the train that day into the bright Arizona sunlight that she was in fact stepping into her lifework and one might say …
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As Globe-Miami bordellos go, there were none as famous as Miami’s Keystone Motel which operated more-or-less in the open until it was shut down in 1962 after an unfortunate ad placed in the yellow pages from an over zealous manager brought it down. Miami historian and master story teller, John …
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