INSIDE THE MARCH 2022 ISSUE: Trying Out a Low-Cost Airport Shuttle p. 3 Why Goodwill is Opening Two New Stores p. 6 Highgate Chef is Fulfilling his Dream p. 8
Sedona Film Festival Celebrates Mariette Hartley p. 10 Amanda Guay is Flagstaff’s newest ATHENA p. 12 Building a Better Rover on Babbitt Ranches p. 18
Mother Road Archive Ale Benefiting NAU Special Collections L
By Bonnie Stevens, FBN
ike many great stories, this one began over beer. As Mother Road Brewing Company Storyteller Billy Miller tells it, brewery founder Michael Marquess was having a beer with Northern Arizona University Cline Library Special Collections Archivist Sean Evans. Afterward, Evans invited Marquess to visit the library to see the Fred
Harvey Collection associated with Route 66. “Michael took an interest because that’s what Michael does. He’s dedicated to history.” So, what started as a playful conversation about all the connections to Route 66, Marquess, an NAU alum, learned that NAU received a grant to survey diverse Route 66 populations. “That means everyone – all the varied, distinct and distinguished who live along the Mother Road,” said
Marquess. The grant would afford Special Collections the ability to hire two paid interns to examine the collection, document oral histories and archive the many boxes associated with America’s Mother Road. “The Fred Harvey Collection is more than 100 boxes alone!” said Evans. “This was an opportunity to celebrate their archiving,” said Marquess. “And the flavor - it’s winter. A good,
dark beer seems to match.” Thus was born Archive Ale, a Russian Imperial Stout, smooth with notes of coffee, chocolate, tobacco and dark fruit, and strong at 9.1% ABV, or alcohol by volume (most beers are 5% to 7%). “It’s a take-no-prisoners kind of beer – you better not be planning on doing anything after drinking it,” said Evans. “And it’s marvelous.”
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Cowgirls and Fairies Boutique Offers Whimsical, Western Experience Cowgirls & Fairies owner April White says she has always been the kind of person who creates what she wishes already existed.
Entrepreneur and musician April White opens her shop with a blend of rugged chic and fantasy
Photo by V. Ronnie Tierney, Fresh Focuses Photography
March 2022 | Issue 3 Volume 15
By V. Ronnie Tierney, FBN
C
iting that Williams is a “cute little town where everyone has your back,” musician and entrepreneur April White has opened her newest highly curated business adventure, Cowgirls & Fairies.
Located downtown, Cowgirls & Fairies is an eclectic women’s boutique that White refers to as whimsical and experiential, bringing big city shopping to a small town. “I will be offering a creative combination of luxury and rugged feminine Boho chic, desert Continued on page 46
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