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Biographies Beth Ann Krueger lives in Bisbee with an orange Betta fish that can’t swim. Acorn woodpeckers and Curve-billed thrashers provide acoustic entertainment in their yard while Anna’s hummingbirds and several types of bees and butterflies visit the numerous Salvia plants. Beth Henson moved to Bisbee in 1983. She recently earned a PhD in Latin American History from the University of Arizona and is working on a book tentatively entitled: From Smeltertown to New World Border: Douglas, Arizona since 1983. Bill Smith lives in Cochise and enjoys the quiet and beautiful rural life of Cochise County with his dog Bailey. Bob La Fleur is a retired college instructor, a writer, and woodsman. His writing has appeared in a number of publications. He has for a decade lived off grid in a cabin in the Minnesota north woods. At present he divides his time between that cabin and a hundred-year-old miner’s shack in Bisbee. Cappy Love Hanson likes to imagine she was delivered by an eagle instead of a stork and was watched over in the nursery by a snowy owl. She insists that sticking her fingers in an electric socket as a child, when her parents told her not to, does not make her a Taurus. The most-asked question in the off-grid home she shares with her husband and menagerie is, “What’s that running across the roof ?” Carol Chandler has enjoyed seasonal stays in Bisbee over the past ten years. As a new resident of Old Bisbee she now plans to become more engaged in artwork. Carol is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a degree in philosophy. Carrissa Hernandez writes, “We all need a touch of whimsy.”
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