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Serving Up The Harvest rowing up in the Midwest or on the East Coast you could easily believe in your innate ability to grow things. Everyone back East, it seems, is blessed with a green thumb. Homes are filled with healthy house plants and prolific backyard gardens. Seemingly, gardening takes little skill outside of the brute force required to rototill frozen ground in Spring.

“A good cook knows that it’s not Overall, you can count on more rain, what's on the table that matters, richer soil and more humidity. Plus it’s who is in the chairs.” – Leigh you don’t have to import your worms.

In fact, back East the main problem is not growing stuff, it is finding enough neighbors who aren’t already growing their own to take your overflow zuchinni, tomatoes and apricots.

Ahhh, but that was then, and this is now. Now, you are in Arizona, where day and night time temperatures swing wildly in the Spring and by Summer remains at 90 degrees even when the sun goes down. The soil is alkaline. It rarely rains, and when it does, the rains come in big, late afternoon downpours which threaten to rip young plants from their precarious march towards maturity.

Oh, and worms are not found in the soil...unless you import a few.

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What good soil looks like and ooohh the sweet smell!

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ADOBE RANCH SPA

KNOTS B GONE

NADINE’S ATTIC

PALACE PHARMACY

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BALD ENGINE

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et’s be clear. This is not a story about the movies which have been filmed in Superior. However, the latest eatery to open on Superior’s main drag got it’s beginning in the movie industry and draws inspiration from Hollywood's ability to create a time capsule.

It began with the 1997 movie "U-Turn" starring Jennifer Lopez and Sean Penn and filmed in Superior. The set designer, Billy Holmquist, was asked to design a ‘70s roadhouse cafe in which most of the movie takes place. He did. Vinyl benches, linoleum lunch counter, old stools that swivel, a mural of the southwest painted on the wall, cool lighting. Although the B-movie flopped at the box office and Lopez, Penn and Holmquist went on to much bigger things, Holmquist fell in love with Superior while working on that project and relocated his warehouse from LA to Superior. He now works his magic in a large sprawling warehouse on Superior’s main drag...and champions the causes of Superior by leading the fight against slum lords while working to attract new business to downtown Superior.

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Making a 'U-Turn' at Superior

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Preserving Our Cultural Heritage...

Bob Jones Museum 300 Main Street • Superior Visit Bob Jones Museum, operated and managed by the Superior Historical Society. Located at the home of Arizona's sixth Governor, Robert Taylor "Bob" Jones, explore the rich history of Superior, including its culture, relation to mining, minerals, and pioneer families. Make sure you stay for the showing of "Silver, Copper and Sweat – The Story of Superior," playing every hour. Visit

us.geocities.com/superiorhs/museum.html for more information.

Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum 131 N Plaza Circle • Miami (928) 473-3700 First Friday Programs: Presentations of historic interest are presented on the First Friday of each month, September through June, at the Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum in Miami, at 6pm unless otherwise noted. These programs are sponsored by the Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum and the Gila County Historical Museum, and are made possible through the Arizona Humanities Council.

Ask us about our Great Selection of Historical Books!

Gila County Historical Museum 1330 N Broad Street • Globe (928) 425-7385 The museum will begin hosting it's monthly hamburger fry on April 29th.

Join us on the lawn for this community tradition. Everyone is invited. The Museum offers 4,000 photographs, historical documents, texts and displays plus a complete line of books from local authors and others who have written on the history of this area.

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Cutting the grade for the Arizona Eastern Railway to access the Old Dominion Mine – 1911

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Walk A Mile In My Moccasins: Harley Dosela

by Darin Lowery Harley Dosela is one of the busiest men in Peridot, Arizona, a small town of 1300 people approximately ninety miles east of Phoenix. His home is filled with the sounds of his sewing machine, with buckskin hides and yards of colorful cotton readied for transformation into custom Apache moccasins and camp dresses.

Harley’s mother and great-grandmother of Whiteriver were both well-known cradleboard makers. These are the mesquite slat and cloth carriers in which Apache infants are held and transported. While Dosela is also known to create durable and pretty cradleboards, his dressmaking skills are what keep his machine humming. He not only creates camp dresses – the two-piece time honored dress of Native American women, but his traditional moccasins are well known and sought after. Traditional Apache moccasins are made of buckskin or elk hide, with a latigo or ‘hair on hide’ sole, an extended, upright ‘toe’, and the requisite adornment of fringe, beads, and conchos. In addition, he produces buckskin dress outfits for the Apache Sunrise Dance (a sacred four day ceremony marking the passage of a young girl to womanhood). Finally, he also creates the lovely beaded ‘T’ necklaces (so named because they resemble a capital ‘T’ while laying flat) and the shawl necklaces, which are beaded strands which drape over the shoulders.

The Native American art of cradleboard making is “going away,” Harley says. “There are only three of us on the Reservation – me and two ladies – who make them.

It’s hard, but it keeps us busy.” He was able to talk one of the women into continuing, at least for now, when she considered retirement.

When it comes to buckskin outfits and moccasins, it’s the beading which takes most of the time. Harley meets with the customer to discuss color choices, and then he gets to work. He likes to “choose colors that work together; then I start with the light colors and finish with the darker ones.” He prefers #11 or #13 beads (which are tiny- the higher the number, the smaller the bead) to decorate the buckskin garments. The result is more than ornamental- it can be dazzling.

While Dosela accepts that there are more and more first-time moccasin makers, “some people are making them on their own,” he confides. He also stresses that his art takes time to learn – the cutting, the beading – and he’s received a lot of help from his friends over the years. “My friends have shown me – pushed me.

It’s better – and easier – when we all help each other,” Dosela claims. “It’s easier when we keep each other busy.”

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From t he Desk of t he Publisher “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

– Leonardo Da Vinci

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he best antidote I know of for all the bad news coming out of Washington and the world-at-large today is to be around people who are busy creating, producing, expanding and building things. And in this issue we feature several people who are doing just that! In the process they are contributing to that sense of community we all enjoy in Globe-Miami and adding value where there was none. They remind me of what is right with the world of ours! Just as nature does at this time of year, when I look out on a barren landscape one morning and see a few green buds on my trees and later find, seemingly overnight, an entire blanket of green!

The Rooney’s, who have restored the old ‘Home Hotel’ over on Sycamore and

Ron Hughes who will be putting the finishing touches on a 1930’s Mobile Station in Miami, can be said to have spun silk purses out of a sows ear. But others, like Cindy Levi, have injected life and comfort food into a once empty space in downtown Superior which now hosts both locals and travelers seven days a week at the new Uptown Cafe.

And Tim Harmon has quietly been perfecting his avocation while working his day job as a contractor. He was recently inducted into the Western Artists of American this January where he took the gold for his bronze sculpture, “Switchback.”

All of them share several traits inherent in successful ventures. It is an all-out, hands-on effort by each of them to create ‘art’ from their respective chunks of clay. And, while never loosing sight of the big picture, they all have created the wow factor because of their attention to the small things.

As Michelangelo once said, “Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”

Our piece on 'Serving up the Harvest', focuses on the 'art' of growing fresh produce and the folks who are working to bring a new Farmer’s Market to Globe-

Publisher Linda Gross Creative Director Jenifer Lee Contibuting Writers Linda Gross Darin Lowery Kim Stone

Contact Information: Linda Gross 175 E Cedar Street • Globe, AZ 85501 Phone: 928-701-3320 Fax: 928-425-4455 linda@globemiamitimes.com www.gmteconnect.com www.globemiamitimes.com Miami this summer. Plus the unique relationship between Simply Sarah’s and Reevis Ranch in providing fresh organic produce for customers - at a dress shop.

My friend Sarah believes in “cultivating beauty in a multitude of mediums”, and I get the feeling that she sees no distinction between displaying an elegant jacket in her shop...or a flat of freshly harvested peaches.

Looking back on it, I believe, the folks who garden, and those who restore old things share something in common.

Both pursuits take inordinate amounts of time, energy and talent.

If you do it right, it is a beauty to behold....and it only gets better in the sharing.

So here’s to those visionary, hands-on, creative ‘Do-ers.’

Thanks for sharing!

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The Hidden Second Half of Spring

By Kim Stone

The second half of spring, that is to say, April and most of May, is not for the timid. The perennial plants that flower and fruit during these late spring months are case-hardened desert dwellers that never ask for a break from the heat and wouldn’t get one even if they did. They don’t aspire to be the wimpy annual wildflowers that germinate in the fall and then spend a few leisurely winter months fattening up, only to rush through their life cycles and die back in the stressful first weeks of April.

Brittlebush is a bit smug because it is a crossover.

It’s a perennial plant that can germinate and grow in great quantities just like an annual, often covering entire hillsides in a near monoculture of yellow flowers in April, like it did in 2008 and 2010. And then, to leave no doubt as to its well-rounded character, it hunkers down with the rest of the surrounding jojobas, chollas, creosotes, prickly pears, and palo verdes, and stays the course, bravely taking on the brutality of six months of summer. Its Achilles’ heel is its lack of frost tolerance, but it makes up for this trifling handicap with a fast spring recovery and a reputation as one of the Sonoran Desert’s most drought-resistant plants.

Over time, the flowering plants of the second half of spring have developed an attitude and who can blame them? They prove their beauty and unflagging resolve year after year, yet they’re underappreciated by the great proportion of year-round residents who quickly trade perspiration for refrigeration, and the seasonal

Sometimes spring is a state of mind. In the beginning,

snowbirds that flee aridity for it seems stand-offish and unapproachable; then it rushes at you in an untamed charge, filling each humidity. It’s quite possible moment to capacity from March through May, before that many long-time winterit quickly – and inevitably -- decays into summer. only residents that have been coming to Arizona from Minnesota or Alberta – even for dozens of years -- have never seen a cholla flower, or the velvety orange petal of a mariposa lily, or even the magnificent white flowers crowning Arizona’s most famous cactus. These warm-weather gems and many others like them are reserved for the rest of us.

Even with the best of intentions, life cycles progress quickly in the desert and it’s easy to miss the passage of flowering events without some measure of predictability. Who wants to wait until next year? I’ve kept decades of records and I refer to them often. Rules-of-thumb are also helpful: Flowers of foothill palo verdes always follow blue palo verdes; ironwoods, saguaros, and soap tree yuccas begin to flower right around Mother’s Day; and saguaro fruits are ripening just as I’m licking the stamp to send off my Father’s Day card.

At the Arboretum, where plants from arid regions all of over the world intermingle copasetically with natives, the color wheel is whirring non-stop with plant combinations unlikely to be found anywhere else. April is the time for the pink-orange-coral-flowered aloes of southern Africa to be at their peak, and they’re often surrounded by complimentary yellow brittlebush and desert marigolds. Most of our succulents, cacti, and yuccas are all flowering during this period and many of them are artfully arranged, combining both muted and saturated colors that only a skilled artist with a fully stocked palette of Grumbacher paints could ever hope to replicate.

Even with all of this color and excitement, heat is still heat, so we’ll be going to our summer hours of 6am – 3pm starting May 1. We have many events planned throughout April and May, including a nighttime photography class, and lizard, butterfly, dragonfly, geology, and plants of the bible walks. We also have a A blue yucca in full flower emerges from the mass of volcanic rock that surrounds it. Agaves, aloes, and once-a-month dog socialization walk and a children’s prickly pears grow from their own adjacent crevices book reading every Sunday. Check out our website for and help to balance and unite this engaging scene near the Children’s Garden. more info. arboretum.ag.arizona.edu.

Living architecture.

With rosettes of stiff, radiating leaves pushing out in all directions against a waning blue sky, all are softened by native and exotic flowers that are as perfectly composed as they are well-adapted to this prominent location just outside the front entrance.

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One In Every Color

by Darin Lowery Before I made Globe my home, I lived in the Valley of the Sun for five years.

After almost a lifetime spent in the Midwest, my first winter in the Valley was certainly a change. No boots, no snow, no shovels. Nary a piping hot cup of cocoa to be found.

While it wasn’t warm enough (for me) to swim, I certainly loved to sit on the patio by the pool and call all of my freezing friends back home.

“Hi! Yeah, it’s Darin- I’m calling from Arizona and I’m sitting by the pool in a tank top, drinking iced tea with lots of ice and watching the blazing sunlight bounce off the sparkling water of my built-in swimming pool!

And man, you should see these palm trno, it’s Darin. D A R I N. We were in the same class in third grade- I wore glasses?

Yes- that’s me! No, I’m not showing off, for God’s sake- just calling to say hi!

Well, sure, forty years is a long ti- Yeah.

Fine. Bye.” Valley living soon lost its appeal.

While unloading groceries from the Ford one sweltering July day- the air temperature was an astounding 157 degrees, a carton of eggs slipped from the plastic bag and hit the asphalt.

Within two minutes a dozen perfect sunnyside up smiley faces gazed up at me. All I needed were waffles and coffee and I could’ve had the ‘Dante Special’. The once novel weather was explosive in its cloying and unbearable hotness- and that was at night.

The traffic, never manageable, was a sea of SUVs, an army of soccer moms on cell phones.

The upkeep of the pool and yards took up valuable me-time (I’m an inveterate, incurable junker, hitting eight or nine thrift shops before lunch, and I don’t want to be bothered with silly chores like re-hanging a busted garage door or wrestling with a ruptured, gushing hot water heater). Free time was meant to be enjoyed, not spent rushing to the ER with a home-related injury.

My choice spots for shopping are thrift stores. Sorry, but because I have scruples, you’ll never find me at a garage sale. Used baby clothes and boxed VHS sets of The Simpson’s leave me cold, and 1970’s eight tracks are just plain depressing. So are elderly women in lawn chairs on driveways with metal cashboxes, who chain smoke and bark at each other over prices quoted or change given (‘Dammit, Verna, the man gave you a twenty, not a fifty!’). Yes, I’m a fool, probably missing out on a gilded demitasse set from Napoleon’s brother’s pied-a terre, priced at six dollars. But I have my sanity, and because this is not a very deep well, I hold on to what I can.

It’s a known fact the Valley has 13,736 thrift stores. Globe has two; Miami lost theirs last year.

So I ‘bite the bullet and buy retail’, as my Aunt Sylvia would say. There is a wealth of product to be found in the twenty-six antiques shops in our two towns, however, and because I know all of the dealers I have a pretty good idea of what’s going on the shelves.

And while the Valley, with its wealth of junk and junque shops had its good points, Globe is a bit more manageable. Two blocks separate the two thrift stores.

The following exchange occurred at Sam’s Good Junk Bakery last week, when I ran into ‘Madame X’, a vintage dealerwe were drinking Costa Rican coffee and trading war stories: “Darin, I found the bottom half of a mermaid costume last week- gold sequins galore, you know, like scalesthe fins are three feet wide, and-“ I interrupted her. “What about the top half?”

She looked at me blankly and shrugged. “Beats me. Maybe she lost it.”

“Honey,” I replied, “there is no top part to a mermaid costume!”

We had a little chuckle over that for a few days. I’m known for my nonstop wit.

My problem, if you want to call it that, is an innate inability to say no to any shiny trinket, any colorful tidbit- a trait I share with newborns. Yes, I know all of the magazines say to pick one or two things (antique Persian rugs, soothing Roseville pottery, 1970s Rubik’s cubes) and concentrate on building a collection. I’ve tried- to no avail. Why have one or two collections, when you can have seventy-five? If one item is good, how ‘bout fourteen? And how about one in every color?

While perusing a junk store once I literally stumbled across a green marbleized bowling ball and before you can say ‘strike’, I’ve got a collection of fifteen of them. They make the dogs nervous, but the colors are fantastic.

They look like oversized Jawbreakers on my living room floor, scattered around the coffee table.

It would be tempting to provide a top ten list of the coolest shops in our area, but that would be unfair. Check the map in the middle of this paper and discover the area, firsthand. Every shop in GlobeMiami has something fun, unusual or silly to offer: colorful Bakelite flatware and Bauer or Fiesta dinnerware; wacky mid-century barware, goofy 40’s ceramic planters and delicate, hand painted china tea sets. You’ll find old hammers, vintage fox stoles, beat up tricycles and big honkin’ jukeboxes; loads of dance records with outstanding cover art; bottles and stamps and dice and buttons, Bibles and beer signs. Stop for a cup of coffee and a pastry, and then pick up where you left off.

You’ll find pretty much whatever you’re searching for in the Globe-Miami area, and eventually, you may find one in every color.

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This is the last day of a successful 4th season of the Copper Spike Excursion Railway and we're throwing a party!

Hobo Hoedown Sunday May 1st begins at 5pm

$15

Barbecue hosted by Adobe Ranch Outfitters! Hobo Bingo!

Beer Garden on the Train along with Mohave Muleskinners making an appearance before the 2:30pm train!

Dustbowl Croquet! Fun for the Whole Family!

Come dressed in your Hobo Finest and share in the festivities!

The Bawdy Broad Street Tour is baacck by Demand!

Friday, May 13th; Begins at 6:30pm At the Old Jail $5 DONATION

Meet at the Old Jail where you will discover the sad tale of Fancy DeLaRue and enjoy a guided tour of Globe's famous "Fancy Ladies."

Easter Parade April 23 • 9am Check in at the Historic Train Depot 9-9:30 Stroll Broad Street in your best Easter Finery!

Judges will be on hand and Prizes will be awarded!

Summer Youth Musical Theatre

“Alice in Wonderland" Performance dates July 7th-9th, 15th &16th TICKETS $10

Monday-Friday 10am-5pm; Saturday 10am-4pm; Sundays 12-4pm Closed Holidays The Copper Cities Community Players are proud to announce the audacious production of

"The Third Great Course Acting Show"

A play which brings out the best of the worst. A comic romp of epic proportions.

April 29 & 30 May 6 & 7 at 7pm

We are here to answer questions and direct you to the many great things to see and do in the Historic District.

E-mail thedesk@cvarts.org or call 928-425-0884.

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GLOBEMIAMITIMES "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." – Emerson

GLOBEMIAMITIMES The Chrysocolla Inn may be the newest of Globe’s bed and breakfasts but the property itself has a long history in the area. In it’s heyday it was known as Mack’s Home Hotel and served as a boarding house and dining room for many of the local visiting elites, local miners, youth attending school from nearby towns and visitors here for dealings with the assayers office, which was just next door.

Margaret McLean purchased it in 1915, at a time when Globe’s business climate was booming and over

Few could have looked at this property eight years ago and seen it’s potential to become the elegant Bed and Breakfast it has become.

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Coming Back From The Brink The Chrysocolla Inn prepares to open its doors this Spring 35 mines were operating in the area with the Old Dominon Mine leading the copper production for the nation. The downtown district had just completed a ten-year phase in which a new grand commercial building went up almost every few months, and money flowed in from East Coast monied interests.

A fine time to operate a “Home Hotel.”

The property which sat just one block off the downtown district enjoyed a brisk business at the turn of the century, and by 1929, the McLeans decided to put on a third floor. Although the timing of the expansion couldn’t have been worse with the onslaught of the Great Depression and the closure of the Old Dominion Mine in ’31, the Home Hotel pulled through and continued to operate into the 40s.

Over the ensuing seventy years, the building changed hands several

Holly Rooney at work on the custom tile in one of the showers. Each tile selection and pattern is coordinated with the overall design of each bedroom.

times. The McLeans sold it sometime in the 40’s, and from there it’s history is somewhat sketchy. While it continued to serve as a boarding house and later as small utility apartments, by the mid ‘80s, it was unfit for human habitation and sat empty for nearly 15 years.

“My sister would walk by the place during high school and say, “I love that building! She always wanted to own it,” says Holly Rooney, whose family now owns the property.

By the time the Rooneys purchased it in 2000, nearly 20 years later, the building was a shell of it’s former self.

The years of neglect had not been kind and the property looked more like an aging bag lady from LA rather than the Grand Dame of Globe it had once been. Paint no longer protected it’s plaster walls, rusting refrigerators sat in junk heaps on abandoned patios and porches where they had been dumped.

Signs of sagging floors and walls hinted at structural issues, and wood beams, now dried and cracking, were beyond any simple repair.

“When we first went to look at the inside of the building, my sister immediately changed her mind,” laughs Holly. “It was just too far gone she thought, and she didn’t want to Chrysocolla Inn, Continued on page 10

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Rosemary and Holly Rooney at the entrance to the kitchen/dining hall

do it. But, I decided I did want to. I’d always thought that this would make a great B&B.” Looking back now, after eight years of renovations it seems Heidi might have been right.

Recently, the property was on the home tour (in March) and many people asked if the renovations had cost a hundred thousand dollars. Holly laughs and says, “We only wish it had cost that!”

“Of course, we made it more expensive than it had to be,” admits Holly, “because we would get into something and decide it could be even better if we did something more than just what was required.”

A good example are the stairways in the home. Meticulously fabricated by

GLOBEMIAMITIMES Tim Harmon, a master craftsman and key to much of the home’s elegance, Harmon has been on the project since the Rooneys purchased the building. It was Harmon who replicated the original design of the staircase on the north side and made a matching set for the south.

He also fabricated additional clothespin balusters to replace ones which were beyond repair, and re-worked the stair treads, ordering more Douglas Fir out of California to match that of the original wood. All the windows in the three- story boarding house had to be re-worked, and Harmon built the windows in the kitchen to match that of the original windows throughout.

Additional elbow grease was provided by Holly’s aunt and uncle, Pat and Howard Baldwin, who helped with the initial demolition, the making of the 90 window screens, the refinishing of nearly 40 original doors and many other projects throughout the eight years. All the bedroom doors were in surprisingly good shape for being nearly 100 years old, but all had to be refinished and the original hardware with keyhole locks refurbished to good working order.

When the Rooneys purchased it in 2000, Holly had just launched her new family practice and her mother, Rosemary, was involved in another project involving an adobe home, so the “Home Hotel” sat for almost a year.

“We also had to take some time to think about just what to do with it,” said Holly.

They eventually began by doing demolition on the bottom floor and within months discovered unsettling issues such as wooden beams which had been cut off midway and no longer went to the ground floor for support.

Globe’s new building inspector, Chris Collopy, suggested they would need a

There was ample need of lifts during the restoration, especially rebuilding the multiple porches which jut out from the 2nd floor. Here Rosemary, and Tim are in the bucket.

structural engineer and the building again sat for another year while they looked for an engineer who would come to Globe and assess their “treasure.”

That report revealed structural issues with the third floor which had been poorly constructed. The entire weight of the roof and third floor were being borne by just the outside walls. And beams could be seen bowing under the weight, threatening the entire structural integrity of the entire place. “We were told that we need to have ‘major footers

The buffet in the dining hall came out of the Copper Hills Restaurant.

measuring 2ft x 2ft x 2ft with support beams running from the bottom floor to the roof,” said Holly. “So that whole summer, that’s all my mom and I worked on, is digging out those footers so the floor could be poured.”

Holly describes a huge rock pile that accumulated just from that project alone. Typical of ground anywhere in this area, any attempt to just dig out six inches, would invariably include a tussle with an immovable rock boulder which might take half a day to get out and result in a hole two feet deep.

Holly says this is one of her mother’s fortes. “She’s just been a major gardener all her life,” said Holly. “She’s always been able to get her

crowbar in there and get any rock out of the ground! Plus, she’s just a very hard worker.”

Skills which were vital to the renovation of the old Home Hotel.

When asked if she or her mother ever had serious doubts about their decision to purchase the place, Holly says her mother would often wonder aloud if this had been a good idea. Holly “less so.” But even at the end of very long days when both were exhausted, Rosemary was known to smile and say, “This is kinda fun.”

Together, they laid the black and white tile on the lower floor, and all the brickwork. They did all of the tiling for the showers, and the custom plastering on the interior walls.

The work on the home took over eight years during which both mother and daughter continued to collect furnishings, artwork, hardware and construction items to be used in the bed and breakfast. “Almost 90 percent of all the furnishings came from local antique shops and residents,” Holly says.

The home boasts 19 chandeliers- all unique- and all gathered from the local area. The buffet in the main dining room came out of the renowned Copper Hills Restaurant which operated from 1954 to the late 1990’s. While much of the upholstered pieces came out of local shops, it was the talent of Colleen Beck and the fabric collection of mother and daughter which resulted in over 40 upholstered pieces gracing bedrooms and common areas.

While all of the beds serve to reflect the time period of the home itself, two in particular have direct ties to local lore. Two of the iron beds came out of the Sang Tai Restaurant on North Broad, a well-known, Chinese establishment which operated from the late 1800’s up into 1960 when the son took over the property and changed the name to the

Daughter, Heidi (right) originally thought the building was too far gone to save. There were times during the 8-year renovation when Rosemary and Holly agreed with her.

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The staircase leading to the 2nd floor was meticulously re-created by Tim Harmon including fabricating matching clothespin balusters reminiscent of the original “Home Ho tel”

Star Buffet. The beds were purportedly used by working girls on the 2nd floor during some point in the building’s history although much of the details have been lost to history.

The property dates back to the late 1800’s when Modesto Borques owned it from 1896 to 1909. When he passed away, his estate was settled and the property went to Charles Clark. It continued to go through several hands

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“We have always believed it was built in the late 1800’s because in photos from that time period you can see a two story structure behind the post office,” says Holly.

“We also believe the property may have been where Big Nose Kate had her boarding house after she split from Doc Holliday.” Although the history books are not clear on the details, Holly says several people stopped by during the eight years they worked on the place to talk about it’s history. One older man said his mother used to manage it and that it definitely belonged to Big Nose

Kate. And another historian pointed out a document which states her place was “off Broad”, (not on Broad Street as some have suggested), lending credence to the possibility that this was home to the famous madame.

However, a majority of the home’s historical information came from a McLean son, now in his 80’s, who stopped by during the construction to share some stories about the place.

Seems Mrs. McLean was a cook of some renown, and the Hotel offered meals not only to guests, but the local population as well. According to the son, “...the line at meal time used to stretch all the way down the street to Hill Street, and back in those days the clientle included the Mayor of Globe and other important people."

Today, the Rooneys have big plans for the place including a full service bed and breakfast, and hosting special events

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and small weddings. They have named their place, “The Chrysocolla Inn” as a nod to the mineral wealth of the area.

They plan to serve full breakfasts and Holly explains there are also plans to extend food services to the general public next Fall.

“I’d like to look into doing a brunch, and/or dinner...maybe two days a week.” she says. “I’m not sure exactly how many days or what the menu will look like, but we definitely want to expand into that next Fall.”

The Rooneys expect to open the B&B by the end of May or early June and will be launching a website this summer for the bed and breakfast. However, in the meantime, if you’d like more information about the rooms, rates and event information, visit their business on www.gmteconnect.com profile under Bed and Breakfasts.

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The Society Page

The Lincoln Dinner Dream Manor Inn

Angel & Louisa Medina and Pam Burruel check in guests at this years annual Lincoln Dinner.

Dr. Nelson, Superintendent of Globe Unified School District, and Jennifer Kinnard, Director of Business Operations, received an award for excellence in “Effective Government” for their work at the school district.

Wedding

Sandra and Javier De La Torre

Mancha-De La Torre March 26

Parents of the Bride, Pat and Ruben Mancha, with Javier and granddaughter Trinity.

Nea Mancha, Xavier Mancha, Dylan Mancha and Alana Mancha

Rebecca and Carl Williams, of Dream Manor Inn, are usually at all the ‘high society’ events. They are just usually working behind the scenes hosting them! The couple received the 2011 Success Award of Gila County from the Arizona Small Business Development Center Network.

Chano Castellanos, Rosemary Mancha, Eddie Castellanos, Cindy Fletcher and Pat Castellanos

Christian De La Torre, Andy Perez, Robert Cano, Eddie De La Torre, Javier De La Torre and Joey De La Torre

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Out & About The Society Page

Bill Quintera is the always friendly 'master of cermonies' on the train. Here, he cross checks dinner reservations.

Marie Brantley-Gregg and husband, Andy, enjoyed the ambience of Valentine's event "Romancin' the Rails" on the Copper Spike. Marie is headed to LA this Spring with a recording contract to sing back up for Adele and Anastasia. Kudos!

Virgil and Pat Dodd on board the Copper Spike.

The Bridges, from Indiana, travel with Flat Stanely – seen here with Engineer Earl Knoob. They were in town to ride the Copper Spike and send pics back to their grand daughter. They were two of the 11,000 passengers that rode the Copper Spike this season.

Grace Whalen operates her "Stonehouse B&B" in Wyoming during the summer months and works for the Copper Spike during winters in Globe.

Donna Anderson, local historian and train employee now hosts the "Freight Office" where she answers questions and showcases a 20 minute video on the history of rail travel in the region.

Southwest Gas employees volunteered a Saturday to help put in new ground cover for the Salvation Army Day Care Center.

Thomas the Train hosted over 15,000 riders in just two weekends in March here in Globe, breaking all previous records for the company.

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A Good Read

By Linda Gross

The Tuesday Afternoon Book Club has been meeting for over 60 years and discussing books and lives at their bi-monthly meetings between September and May. It is by invitation only and I’m glad to be among the newest members having been ‘inducted’ a few years ago. It is through this group that I’ve discovered many books I might not have otherwise picked up.

This new column will serve to highlight my new found discoveries, beginning with a recommendation for "Sometimes the Blues."

The book by Susan Clardy is more than the sum of original diary entries garnered from her great-grandfather, Frank Hammon, who lived in Globe and Phoenix between 1882 and 1889. Thanks to Clardy’s exhaustive leg work in researching the context and historical accuracy of his diary entries we are treated to a rare, unvarnished look at what life was like in Globe around 1882. We have the benefit of the narrowed perspective of a man writing about life as it unfolds, as well as the broader perspective in looking back on ‘history.’ Hammond’s life intersected with many, more famous of Globe’s early residents including Judge Hackney, Gene Middleton and the Tewksburys.

He fell in love and married in Globe, worked in the mines and on nearby ranches, and as Deputy Sheriff was a first hand witness to the famous Pleasant Valley War between the Tewksburys-Grahams. This is a must-read for anyone who has a passing interest in Globe, the Pleasant Valley War or life as it was in this Arizona Territory.

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LOST & FOUND

This advertisement for Good Year tires was one of the only pages salvaged from a copy of the Leslie’s Weekly which had been used as insulation in the walls of a Globe home.

Uncovered when the owners re-modeled these pages helped to date the house atleast as far back as 1918, the date of this issue.

The Weekly was an illustrated literary news magazine founded in 1852. By 1897 it enjoyed a circulation of 65,000, up from it’s initial first printing of 30 copiers. It continued to publish until 1922 and often featured patriotic editorials and the works of now famous illustrators including Norman Rockwell.

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Rescuing. Rebuilding. Restoring.

A Labor of L ve Driving along Highway 60 as you come and go through Miami, you can’t help but notice what looks to be an old gas station of your Grandfather’s vintage. Except this one looks like it did back in 1934.

This is no accident. It is by design.

And the man behind that design is Ron Hughes, who owns Soda Pops Antiques in Miami and has

been the creative genius and hands-on talent for several of Miami’s most memorable remodels.

The property you see on the highway was originally a Mobile service station with a showroom for International Trucks on one side and Chrysler cars on the other side. Just across the street was a Plymouth and Dodge Dealership.

Although the dealerships closed, one-by-

Ron Hughes stands next to a ’51 Henry J which he is rebuilding as a station wagon. He rescued it from the desert where it had been used as target practice.

one, with the last one shutting the doors in 1952, the gas station remained another ten years, although it changed hands and became a Chevron Dealership before closing in ’62.

The building was later used as a taxidermy business, muffler shop, U-Haul office and a garage for a diesel mechanic.

When Hughes bought the property several years ago it had seen better days and one could be forgiven for thinking it might be best just to tear it all down.

Not Ron. He can see things as they can be - not

as they are. He has a warehouse full of cool, old things that have long since lost their shiny luster, their chrome handles and their bright colors. They are rusted, bent and broken. But in Ron’s hands they come to life again.

When he gets time. Which is always in short supply with Hughes.

At any one time, he is working on a dozen projects, while wife, Marcia runs their store, Soda Pop’s on Sullivan street. Currently, his primary focus is restoring the old gas station to it’s 1930’s prime.

GLOBEMIAMITIMES When he first took over the property six years ago, he discovered the tenant who had been in the building previously had kept dogs locked inside on the carpeted floor. So the first order of business was to rip out all the flooring and pour a granite-like floor with an embedded image of the Mobile Oil horse in the center.

The large plate glass windows came out of a Target store which was being dismantled and Hughes picked up nearly 40 thousand board feet of red oak from a TGIFs which was being dismantled. He and his stepson and a friend spent several weekends and

hauled out five 16 ft trailers of oak which have gone into refurbishing the Mobile Station and outfitting a shop.

“I took the bar, which was three inch solid oak," he says, pointing to over 30ft of bench with neatly racked bins that serves as the nerve center for a man who is continually restoring, fabricating or repairing something.

Hughes is standing next to his latest project involving a 1941 Ford Cab Over Engine which

PAGE originally served as the go-power for a two-ton wrecker. Ron took a torch welder to it recently and has cut up the back half to make way for a new oak flat bed. When it is done, it will have new chrome, a new paint job and oak flat bed and will serve as an eye candy to help entice traffic off of Hwy 60 and into downtown Sullivan street.

“At one point," Ron says, “the Town of Miami would give you an entire block of Sullivan Street of you brought a business to Miami.” That was in 1972.

By the time Ron and his wife, Marcia, began shopping around for a place to

Ron Hughes' father, Sam, was featured in the 1998 Arizona Highways for his work in restoring radios and clocks.

retire, that deal was off the books, but the buildings here were still affordable, the lake was nearby and they loved the small town charm.

Their antique store, Soda Pop’s Antiques, could hold it’s own in any market and many are surprised to discover the quality and quantity of so many restored antiques. When people visit for the first time, many just gawk, prompting Hughes to put up a sign,

“This ain’t no museum.

This junks for sale!”

The Mobile Station is slated for completion this Fall and Hughes, has already had inquiries from car

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clubs, motorcycle groups and local organizations to use the place. He is happy to oblige. After all, what good is restoring something to this level, if people aren’t around to enjoy it?

He’s fishing around for a name and says he thought of naming it after his dad, Sam, who had five filling stations at one point and as a master craftsman himself, has provided much of the inspiration for Hughes own efforts. But then again, he might just name it after the local creek bed: Bloody Tanks Service Station.

You can be sure, that whatever name he decides on will look like it has been there since 1934.

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ELEGANT, FUN & UNUSUAL

Hoboes developed their own coded language for the road. Here are just a few. Discover more during the Hobo Hoedown where we will be using symbols for a Hobo Bingo - for adults and kids !

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Hobo Terms used 'til the 1940's Accommodation Car – the caboose of a train Barnacle – a person who sticks to one job for a year or more Big House – prison Bindle Stick – collection of belongings wrapped in cloth and tied around a stick Blowed-in-the-glass – a genuine, trustworthy individual Bone Orchard – a grave C,H & D – indicates an individual is Cold, Hungry and Dry (thirsty) Chuck a Dummy – pretend to faint Catch the Westbound – to die Cover with the moon – sleep out in the open Glad Rags – one’s best clothes

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HOBO HOEDOWN Celebrating the American Traveling Worker

Although hoboes existed long before the Great

“A hobo, or ‘bo’ is simply a migratory laborer. While he

Depression, so many more people were displaced during

may take some longish holidays, he eventually returns to

the Depression, and forced to become migratory workers

work. On the other hand, a tramp never works if it can be

and vagabonds that the term is often associated with

avoided. He just travels. And a bum, neither works or travels,

the ‘30s. Many were good, honest people down on their

unless it's to run from the police.”

luck, just trying to get by. They even established their own code of ethics at a Hobo Convention held 40 years earlier in the small town of Britt, Iowa. The code of conduct, voted on at that convention in 1889 still guides those who live the hobo life today. It begins with, “Decide your own life, don’t let another person run or rule you.”

While some people lump tramps, bums and hobos into

My experiences made me a lot more humble and I appreciate the smaller things in life – like a good bed and something to eat.

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one category, the great writer H.L. Mencken in his book

There were some famous hobos, including the poet

“The American Language” published in 1937 clarified the

Carl Sandburg and writer Jack London, but many more

difference between each class of people this way;

were faceless and included over 8,000 women and 200,000 children during the Great Depression. According to one study done in 1906, the hobo population was around 500,000 and later statistics show that this population exploded to millions during the Great Depression.

In his book, “Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes, (1984)” writer Ted Conover reports that as many as 20,000 hobos were still riding the rails in the US. “It was suggested by one writer that the reason you stopped seeing hobos riding trains was once the railroads switched over to diesel engines and retired the steam locomotives, trains moved much faster and no long slowed for the coal and water stations. Although trains can still be boarded in rail yards, the presence of police and railroad employees make this a tricky affair.

Today, the Chamber of Commerce in Britt, Iowa, still hosts the National Hobo Convention the second weekend in August. It is the largest gathering of hobos, rail-riders and tramps who gather to celebrate the American traveling worker.

Here in Globe, the Historic Mainstreet Program is wrapping the Hobo tradition into the last weekend of the Copper Spike Excursion Railway. They will be hosting their own ‘celebration of the American traveling worker’ with a Hobo Hoedown on Sunday, May 1st. It will include our own hometown version of Hobo Bingo, Dustbowl Croquet, and a barbecue on the front ‘lawn’ and a beer garden in the Mardi Gras car.

Check out the events calendar at gmteconnect.com for the full details on this not-to-be-missed event!

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The code of ethics for Hobos 1. Decide your own life, don't let another person run or rule you.

2. When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times.

3. Don't take advantage of someone who is in a vulnerable situation, locals or other hobos.

4. Always try to find work, even if temporary, and always seek out jobs nobody wants. By doing so you not only help a business along, but ensure employment should you return to that town again.

5. When no employment is available, make your own work by using your added talents at crafts.

6. Do not allow yourself to become a stupid drunk and set a bad example for locals' treatment of other hobos.

7. When jungling in town, respect handouts, do not wear them out, another hobo will be coming along who will need them as bad, if not worse than you.

8. Always respect nature, do not leave garbage where you are jungling.

9. If in a community jungle, always pitch in and help.

10. Try to stay clean, and boil up wherever possible.

11. When traveling, ride your train respectfully, take no personal chances, cause no problems with the operating crew or host railroad, act like an extra crew member.

12. Do not cause problems in a train yard, another hobo will be coming along who will need passage through that yard.

13. Do not allow other hobos to molest children, expose all molesters to authorities, they are the worst garbage to infest any society.

14. Help all runaway children, and try to induce them to return home.

Grease the Track – to be run over by a train

Rum Dum – a drunkard

Honey Dipping – working with a shovel

Sky pilot – a preacher or minister

Possum Belly – to ride on the roof of a passenger car. Spear biscuits – looking for food in garbage cans One must lie flat, to not be blown off Yegg – a traveling professional thief

15. Help your fellow hobos whenever and wherever needed, you may need their help someday.

16. If present at a hobo court and you have testimony, give it. Whether for or against the accused, your voice counts!

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TIM HARMON Bronze Sculptor

Tim Harmon may just give up his day job and pursue his avocation full time this year.

Recently, the lanky, soft spoken contractor from Globe, was invited to join the Western Artists of America and showcase his work at the Seventh Annual Western Artists show in Corsicana, Texas in January. Admission to W.A.A. is by invitation only and the show contained forty of the top Western Artists in the nation working in a variety of mediums from oils to bronze sculpture. Harmon took the Gold in his category, with his bronze sculpture titled, Harmon at his shop in Globe.

“Switchback,” and his booth, featuring over a dozen pieces, also won the Best Presentation Award. Not bad for a guy who grew up cowboyin’ and started sculpting just eight years ago.

Harmon, who grew up around here, worked for uncles in Tonto Basin and Mammoth before moving just outside of Magdalena, New Mexico where he married and started raising two boys. At the time, he says he kinda wanted to be a veterinarian but ended up as a medic instead and was sent to Korea during the Vietnam war.

When he got out, he went to work for some large ranches laying in watering holes for cattle, and later came back to Globe where he helped to dismantle the old Sleeping Beauty mine. He eventually got his contractors, license and has been building and remodeling homes in the Globe area with his main focus for the last several years being on the historic Chrysocolla Inn which is slated to open the end of May. Through it all he has dabbled in artistic pursuits as time would allow; whittling wood pieces, doing pencil sketches, trying his hand at oil painting and fabricating custom spurs. But it wasn’t until eight years ago when he picked up sculpting that all his life experiences and artistic pursuits seemed to dovetail into...the perfect groove.

It was 2003 when he took his first sculpting class and learned how to build armatures (a framework on which to mold the

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GLOBEMIAMITIMES clay) and from there he was hooked on clay. His very first piece, ‘Burnin’ Daylight’ has won several awards and depicts a cowboy headed out to saddle up. From the sweat hardened blanket to the minute details on the bridle, spurs and chaps, Harmon depicts a life he knows intimately.

Harmon’s knowledge of his subject is very much on display in his work, “Switchback”, which shows two cowboys attempting to navigate a steep switchback while bringing in a wild range cow. From the facial expressions of both man and animal, to the precarious position of all three, Harmon conveys an authenticity "Switchback" which marks all of his works.

With his recent successes at shows and induction into the Western Artists of America, demand for his sculptures is rising and Harmon is looking forward to wrapping up his work on the Chrysocolla Inn this Spring and turning his focus full time to sculpting.

Visit www.timharmonwesternbronze.com or pick up this year’s catalogue of Western Artists of America to see more of Harmon’s work.

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Visiting the Past...

The old Globe cemetery was established in the 1800's and later purchased by the City fathers who purchased more land over the years and expanded it's footprint.

It contains several famous historical figures including Al Sieber who was a leader of Scouts for the U.S. Army and Sheriff Glenn Reynolds. Sieber was killed while supervising construction on the Roosevelt Dam in 1907 and Reynolds was killed while attempting to transport the Apache Kid to the Territorial prison in Yuma. There are now markers throughout the cemetary which point out the final resting place of history's significant few. But there are many more which simply invite reflection. The Buffalo Soldiers are buried here. So are the members of the Woodmen and all the Fraternal orders which played a part in Globe's history. There is even a Chinese cemetery in the lower portion which was established in 1946 when Chinese businessman, Dea Gin Foo, had all the chinese graves dug up and moved to the new site. A writer once said," cemeteries are more than old bones and marble stones. They are a link to our past." You can visit the old cemetery by taking Hackney and following the signs.

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Uptown Cafe, Continued from page 1

GLOBEMIAMITIMES was looking for her next project. After putting in 35 years in the restaurant business and running a high-traffic, themed restaurant, Cindy Levi was looking for new opportunities.

She’ll tell you that she really started looking at strip malls in the Valley to

So it was not surprising that the owner of the building which had allowed the movie folks to turn his old building into a set, sought out Holmquist a few years ago when he was ready to sell the building. Turns out, he had boarded up the place after "U-Turn" was finished filming and never set foot inside again.

When Holmquist took off the boards, the interior of the building was exactly as he had left it nearly 15 years earlier.

He bought the building and began looking for the right person to run the place as a restaurant. After all, it had already had the lunch counter and looked the part!

It just didn’t have any real restaurant equipment.

He put a notice on Craigs List and got a call from a caterer out of the Valley who thought running a full scale eatery in Superior would be just the ticket. But the Universe had other plans. While those negotiations stalled, another Cindy Levi, shown here with her daughter, Hope, restaurant savvy entrepreneur and Superior's Town Manager, Melanie Oliver

open up her own place, but nothing there struck her right. No personality.

Her friend Cathy Roberts kept suggesting she look at this place in Superior that belonged to one of Roberts’ neighbors...Billy Holmquist. It took months of gently prodding to get her to look at the building.

Levi kept insisting that she wanted to stay around Mesa. Roberts response?

“If you are asking God for Guidance, don’t turn around and give him directions.”

She finally talked Levi into taking a ride up to Superior to look at the building last October and as soon as they walked in, Levi was hooked on the place.

By November Cindy Levi had a deal on the place, and two months later she opened on January 26th.

Friend Cathy Ferguson encouraged Cindy to look at Superior.

You can feel the vibe created by people who like their job, their boss and know their stuff. They know how to move as an orchestrated team and handle a packed house or one single diner with the same efficiency and friendliness. This is a

Superior Police Chief Lou Digirolamo

The Uptown Cafe has loads of personality and ambience of course, but you gotta love the atmosphere generated by the staff; from the cookwho operates in full view of the patrons, to the wait staff – many of whom followed Levi to her new ventures. They all know each other. They like what they’re doing, and they like each other.

good thing, since opening in January the Uptown Cafe has had several packed nights. The Cafe operates seven days a week and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Levi expects to make her place a destination attraction in the area and judging by the first several months she has all the right ingredients to do just that.

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Simply Sarahs is not just clothing. The store offers a wide array of cookware, cook books and gourmet products

Sarah Bernstein, who is a business woman, mother, wife, and artist in equal measure, runs her store as she does her life. Practically. With an eye towards quality, beauty, value and common sense. So when her friend, Peter Bigfoot was fishing around for a local outlet for his fresh organic produce that made sense with all the other demands he was juggling, Sarah came up with a plan.

Peter Bigfoot with Reavis Ranch and Sarah Bernstein proprietor of Simply Sarah's in Globe, have a somewhat “I had tried Farmers Markets,” Bigfoot says. “I like unusual arrangement, turning a corner of her dress supporting them.” But he finds it hard to justify sitting shop into a small bounty of fresh produce throughout the summer months. at a booth to sell a few flats of apricots when there are over a hundred fruit trees, flocks of chickens, turkeys Farmer's Market, Continued from page 1 and ducks and a half acre garden to keep up and classes to teach. Plus, with gas getting so expensive, So why would anyone try to garden here? it is impossible to even break even selling lettuce, Driven on by memories of successful gardens unless you happen to be going that way already. and the pure deliciousness of home grown Sarah’s idea would take both things into account. produce, we persist. We plant. We water. We She would make room on her counters and shelves wait. But if, like me, all that planting, for whatever fresh produce Peter wanted watering and waiting gets taken away to bring into town while he was running in a nano second of forgetfulness (as errands. That way it wouldn’t cost any in, I forgot to water today), or swarms more gas than he was already going to use of aphids or wild javelinas attack your for errands, and she would work with her little garden plot ...then take heart. customers to let them know when produce Master gardeners and community had arrived. The money for the produce stakeholders have been conspiring with a goes to the Ranch. For both Sarah and Peter, VISTA volunteer to bring a first rate Farmers the arrangement is primarily a community service Market to Globe-Miami, and this summer will since if either of them ever tracked the amount of mark the third season of fresh produce at Simply time, gas, floor space or any other measure of cost Sarah’s where her store becomes an outlet for fresh, of goods you normally apply to a venture like this, organic produce brought in from Reavis Mountain it would hardly make sense.

Ranch just an hour or so east of Globe.

Knowing how to compost is a vital skill for any gardener. Cayci shows off her sizeable compost pile which goes into her own sizeable gardening efforts each year. The Backyard Growers workshop was held here in January.

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Each week or so when Peter delivers produce at the store, Sarah will assess the bounty and call customers she knows will be interested. She even remembers that ‘so-n-so’ loves arugula, or that another said they would like a dozen eggs. So these are her first calls when items arrive but she makes a dozens calls each time and within a few days the produce has flown out of the store and onto someone’s kitchen table.

So, this summer, as you are shopping at Simply Sarah’s for a linen blouse, or elegant evening wear, you may surprise yourself by walking out with persimmons.

Persimmons? Hmmm, you wonder to yourself while standing in the store staring at a flat of acorn shaped wrinkly fruit. You quickly search your midwest memory bank for anything resembling persimmons...and come up blank. That’s when Sarah walks over. “Oh yes!” Sarah says, as if reading your mind, “these are wonderful.”

It is the same enthusiasm she has when describing the heirloom fabrics found on her latest collection of clothing from Afghanistan. She then launches into the finer points of picking persimmons when they are ripe and suggestions for preparing them.

Wilted greens with walnuts

Your mind begins to see the fruit in a new light.

These small wrinkly morsels are beginning to look more and more like the “fruit of the gods” - the ancient Greek meaning of the word. Yes, those Greeks knew what they were talking about, and now you can see clearly what you have been missing. You take a dozen.

Or take mixed greens. Those big beautiful “bouquets” of lettuce and other greens may seem a little overwhelming until you listen to Sarah talk about the best way to cook up a batch of greens. “...Just heat your pan and then roast some walnuts,” she says and then pauses. “Better yet,” she suggests, “roast the walnuts by drizzling some lemon olive oil from Queen Creek on them. Then throw in your greens and wilt them just slightly and add fresh ground pepper and sea salt.” She pauses again to let the image and aroma of that sink in. She smiles as you contemplate your newfound appreciation for ‘greens.’

"Please give me two bags of the fresh greens and some of the Queen Creek olive oil.”

And so it goes through the growing season, with Sarah providing the counter space, connections and conversation to keep produce flying out the door, and Peter supplying what he can, when he can...which still equates to a bounty of fresh produce at Simply Sarah’s.

First up. Asparagus in April.

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GLOBEMIAMITIMES phone rang all the time! We cut it off after 122 people signed on, and we scrambled to restructure the day so each speaker/educator could talk to a group of 20+ people and there would be more of an opportunity to interact with each group. Topics included soils and composting, designing irrigation in desert climes, building cold-weather frames, starting seeds, and working with the Farmer’s Market.

“We had Board members pitching in to park cars, register people, and answer questions and because of having to split into groups, each speaker gave their talk five times that day! Yet, it all went so smoothly!

Paul Buck will take on the role of market manager for the new Farmer’s Market which will officially open June 26th. The job comes with few, if any, perks. Pay is minimal – 5% of whatever the market brings in.

Pat Romero and husband, Manuel grow over 3000 plants each year for their “Sunrise Sunset Chili and Herb Garden” out on Six Shooter road. They start over 60 varieties of tomatoes and chilis each year from seed and sell locally.

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Globe-Miami Farmer’s Market Another group has been hard at work establishing the framework for a new - and improved - Farmer’s Market which is scheduled to launch this summer in downtown Globe. Yes, Globe has had a succession of Farmer’s Markets over the years with varying success, but this new evolution of a Farmer’s Market promises to kick off with all the right ingredients. It began with Laura Gottschalk, who was assigned to the community through the AmeriCorps VISTA Volunteer program to help launch a Farmer’s Market. She put in months of legwork to research the needs of the community and pulled together the many stakeholders who could help not only get the thing off the ground but sustain it over time.

Two of those stakeholders, Pat and Manuel Romero, who operate the Sunrise and Sunset Chili and Herb garden, have spent summers visiting Farmer’s Markets in several states and talking to market managers to find out what makes one successful and another not. It seems a key to many successful markets is an active board made up of people who are growers themselves...and a charming, but firm market manager who can effectively coordinate the needs of the vendors and buyers, enforce the rules and regulations set forth by the Board, and serve as part cheerleader, part principal for the enterprise.

That is where Paul Buck comes in.

The 6-ft soils specialist has a winning smile and a passion for home-grown, community projects having volunteered his time and talents for multiple projects over the years from laying brick pavers, painting old buildings, cleaning up trash along the roads and scouting locations for a community garden. Although he was willing to take on the role for free. They insisted on paying him 5% of the proceeds from the market.

He will earn it.

His role includes coordinating, marketing and managing...with some cajoling thrown in here and there. He is currently working closely with Laura Gottschalk and the Board to get everything in place for June.

“We want the emphasis on fresh garden produce grown in this area ,” says Buck. Although the Market will accept arts, crafts and baked goods as well, Buck makes it clear that the number one rule guiding this Farmer’s Market is “NO re-sale.

You have to grow it, make it, or bake it yourself.”

Vendors will be required to fill out an application which details what can and cannot be sold, who is required to have a business license or health department permit, how disputes will be handled, what items need to be juried before being accepted and the requirements of booths, etc. Thanks in large part to the research by Gottschalk and the previous experience of some Board members, the application leaves no stone unturned, including, for instance, a rule against “amplified music.”

No boom boxes.

“Music will be restricted to live performances only.....and must be approved prior to Market by the Market manager.”

The goal of the regulations is to establish a framework which will provide a good experience for both Vendors and Buyers.

This winter, the Board sponsored two Backyard Growing workshops with the first one held in Globe on January 29th, the weekend the temperatures dropped into the teens and pipes broke all over town. Laura Gottschalk still smiles about that event. “Honestly, I was thinking we might get 30 people,” she says. “But my

I just didn’t realize that many people in Globe were interested in gardening!” she says.

But Gottschalk is quick to point out the attendance wasn’t just Globe people. Jeffery Ferns who owns Triple C Coffee House in Superior, brought a group over from Superior who are interested in growing... and supporting the Globe-Miami Farmer’s Market.

He has offered his commercial kitchen to those in Superior who want to make items to sell this summer and she hopes all of this will encourage more crossmarketing between the sister communities.

Cayci Vucksanovich, who owns Matlock Gas and ran her own successful nursery/feed store business for nearly 15 years, is one of several Master Gardeners helping to spearhead the new market. In addition to serving on the Board and agreeing to participate weekly, Cayci said a real benefit of having the master gardeners on-hand during the market is their expertise. Cayci, who is also a well- known voice on KIKO radio where she hosts a weekly garden program and answers people’s questions about growing things in this area says the presence of Master Gardeners at the Farmer’s market this summer will make it easy for people to stop by and get answers to a host of questions people have about growing in this region.

There will be a Vendor Orientation barbecue on June 4th down at City Hall’s “Centennial Park” and potential vendors are invited to come down to meet the Board and fellow growers. Those interested in participating this year can pick up a registration form at the event, or download the form by going to: www. gmteconnect.com/businessdirectory/FarmersMarket.

The Farmer’s Market is scheduled to open on June 25th in downtown Globe, in front of City Hall.

Hours are 8 am-noon and the Market will run for 16 weeks through October 1. You can check out the latest information on the Market by visiting their facebook page: Globe-Miami Farmer’s Market, or logging on to www.gmteconnect.com, where they will be hosting a market page with updates, downloadable forms, and photos.

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The Secret of Success Seeing the bounty of fresh produce which comes out of Reevis Mountain School of Self-Reliance might lead you to believe that founder and chief architect, Peter Bigfoot has some special talent for growing big, beautiful produce. But spend just 15 minutes with him discussing his ‘secrets’ and you’ll discover it is just plain hard work.

And years and years of cultivating.

Since 1980, he has been expanding the capacity of the 13 acre ranch property to provide a self-sustaining harvest. Each year he hauls four dump truck loads from large dairies in Mesa, preferring cow manure over anything else and during the summer he says he uses up 15,000 to 20,000 gallons of water a day to maintain his oneacre garden and over 75 fruit and nut trees.

He competes with the local bird populations for the fruit harvest and has discovered that by rigging up a propane “gun” on a timer and cutting plastic feedbags into long snake-like strips he hangs in the trees, he can manage to scare them away long enough to get his fair share of the harvest.

This summer he will start off with asparagus which will be up in April, and move on to kale, collard greens, lettuce and arugala. Later there will be tomatoes, beans, cucumbers and sweet corn, plus fruits from the orchards, including apricots, pears, peaches and figs. For more information, visit www.reevismountain.org.

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