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Cowboy Day, a fun-filled event for the whole family honoring hard-working local ranchers and farmers, is this Saturday, Aug. 11, at Arizona Zipline Adventures in Oracle. Admission is free. Activities begin at 11 a.m. and run until dusk. Games, such as egg race, sack race, and tug-of-war, will be played …
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A Creative Community Comes Together
By Libby Rooney Throughout history, artists have needed to find creative solutions to the problems of making a living and also funding the making of art. Photography, a relatively new art form, has its own set of problems and interesting solutions, some social and some cyber. Artist and professional coops, …
Read More »Imagine: Justa Band of Good Fellas
Harken back 60 years to a time in Globe-Miami when music filled the air, and all the kids wanted to learn. “People were on their porches dancing, and we’re out there playing our guitars,” Neto Vasquez, a Globe-Miami native, reminisces. “We had so much fun.” He was twelve when …
Read More »The Miami Loco Art Festival : A Work in Process.
Miami Loco Art Festival is a one of a kind experience of music, poetry, visual arts, performance art, body art, street art, and “open-to-suggestions” art. It combines a little bit of Loco, some heart and soul and enough of the unexpected to be worth a drive from the Valley or …
Read More »Pretty Patty Bids Adieu
This summer Patty Dodd and her husband, Doc, are going to close the doors of the little shop on S. Broad Street they’ve run for 16 years. The shop at the end of Broad with the red, white and blue sign has delighted local women with its sheer variety of …
Read More »Miami Flyboy: Lt. Col. Hector Santa Anna
Lt. Col. Hector Santa Anna was with the Army Air Corps/USAF and entered service on July 1942. The following is an excerpt from the 2nd edition of ‘Arizona’s Hispanic Flyboys,’ by Rudy Villarreal. It is available at Bullion Plaza Museum and through Amazon.com. “Author Rudolph C. Villarreal has chronicled some …
Read More »Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight: Draft resistance and tragedy 1918
TUCSON- On a cold winter morning, Jeff Power was lighting a fire in his remote Arizona cabin when he heard a noise, grabbed his rifle, and walked out the front door. Someone in the dark shouted, “Throw up your hands!” Shots rang out from inside and outside the cabin, and …
Read More »Miami, Arizona Celebrates its Centennial
Miami, Arizona will be celebrating its 100th anniversary this month and on Saturday, March 10th, the Miami Centennial Committee has planned a gala line up of events inside Bullion Plaza Museum‘s gymnasium to ring in the next 100 years. Activities will include a dedication of a new lighting project at the museum, …
Read More »Arts Commission hosts Globe event to gather ideas on Arts Education in Schools
PHOENIX- Globe-Miami will be the site of a state-wide community conversation to discuss arts education in Arizona schools. The event will be held in Globe at the Center for the Arts on March 22nd. The series is hosted by the Arizona Commission on the Arts along with Arizona the Arizona …
Read More »Six Myths of Buying Turquoise
The Smithsonian has called turquoise the most” important defining gem stone in Southwest jewelry,” and suggested in THIS article that turquoise is becoming almost more valuable than diamonds. Buyers who wish to make the most of their investment in turquoise should be aware of these six myths of buying turquoise.
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