A sleek new diesel engine is set to pull the Copper Spike this week. The new streamlined passenger engine was put into service after the Heisler Steam engine failed to make the grade – literally. The steam engine thrilled crowds but the slight grade heading out to San Carlos proved …
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Hanging Memory of Globe by Yndia Roca Smalley Moore
“You have to ask me questions, or I can’t remember things.” That’s what Yndia Roca Smalley Moore told me after one of our first taping sessions. She was born in Tucson in 1902, but lived in Globe in its heyday, from 1905 until 1912. We began our Thursday afternoon oral …
Read More »A Day at the landfill
Hall closets and Landfills have much in common. They store things we don’t want to think about. You know. Everything we don’t want company to see. Or you just can’t deal with at the moment. “Things” like the VCR we’re going to have fixed one day, the winter coats we …
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 »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. …
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