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America rightfully comes by its nickname of “the great melting pot” largely because of towns like Globe and Miami. Especially around the turn of the last century, when mining bonanzas were erupting in this part of the world, people from dozens of countries on multiple continents made their way here …

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 …

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 …

*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 …

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 …

For anyone who fancies fine things, Simply Sarah is must-destination in downtown Globe. Put simply, it's a women's spoils store. Beyond that, however, it's a treasure trove of novelties from West Texas to Thailand.

Our world would look much different, perhaps with a lot less plastic, had it not been for the advent of Bakelite in the early 1900s. In 1907, Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland of Belgium was experimenting with a new form of insulator when he created the compound now known as phenolic formaldehyde resin... He called it Bakelite. From then on, it was all the rage.