According to a benchmark study done on travel and tourism in the Globe-Miami area, Besh-ba-Gowah ranks in the top ten attractions in the area, and it is estimated 45-50,000 people visit it each year. But if it hadn’t been for the intervention of a local Councilman, Louie Aguirre, in the …
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Julie’s Sewing Corner: The Little Shop around the Corner
By: LCGross The little quilt shop on the corner of Sullivan Street and Inspiration Avenue buzzes with activity every day of the week except Sunday. In fact since opening last year, Julie’s Quilt Shop in Miami has become one of the most prolific businesses on Sullivan Street; a location long …
Read More »THE GREAT SOUL TRIAL…… one mans search for life beyond
One of the longest and most sensational trials in Arizona history revolved around a Miami man, James Kidd who lived in the area and worked for the Miami Copper Company for nearly 30 years in the early 1900’s. While his life in the area, as well as his disappearance in …
Read More »Gila Countys’ Burch Cattle Sale: A Family Affair
The Burch Cattle Auction featuring beef raised in Gila County is held once a year and constitutes both serious business and social affair. Put on by the Gila County Cattle Growers Association, the auction ran over 2000 cattle through the sale this year. Anda according to Therese Griffin-Hicks, a fourth-generation …
Read More »The Paper Trail: Chinese Immigration
There are signs that they were here. Although in the blink of an eye you could miss the remains of the decaying mud adobe huts which sit along Pinal Creek. These, and the small Chinese cemetery which sits on the hill just outside of Globe are testament to some of …
Read More »A paper trail: The story of Chinese immigration
There are signs that they were here. Although in the blink of an eye you could miss the remains of the decaying mud adobe huts which sit along Pinal Creek. These, and the small Chinese cemetery which sits on the hill just outside of Globe are testament to some of …
Read More »Douglas Miles: Artist, Activist, Apache
His work adorns the walls of museums and collectors as far away as the Smithsonian, and as close to home as the local skate park out at San Carlos. As a fine artist, the work of Douglas Miles—artist, Apache and activist—is hard to peg. His recent venture into skateboard graphics …
Read More »A tribute to my mother: A Wave
*Reposted from 2008. KC Cole is a writer for the LA Times and has a regular column in which she writes about complicated scientific things in terms everyone can understand. She was explaining the properties of wave particles one day and wrote: “There is a big difference between Waves and …
Read More »Local singer to compete in Colgate Country Showdown
Before there was American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and America’s Top Model, there has been the Colgate Country Showdown. Now in its 26th year, the show seeks out talent across the country in communities large and small, discovering the likes of Garth Brooks and Sawyer Brown in the process. …
Read More »A Generation of Beadwork: San Carlos Apache couple excels
San Carlos Apache Beadwork is renowned for its detail and two of the best craftsmen are a husband/wife duo who have been beading and sewing Sunrise Dresses for two decades. His earliest memories of beading trace back to his grandmother. The elder woman would spread her blanket on the ground and …
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