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By Deni J. Seymour

houghts of the wilder part of the West typically conjure Apaches as the most formidable warriors in the region. The nineteenth century Apache are attributed with a fighting style and tactics so effective that they resisted enemy aggression and remained free longer than any other American tribe. Yet, in some of the earliest regional historical documents, the Sobaipuri O'odham, not the Apache, are portrayed as the fiercest fighters in the southern portion of the American Southwest. The Yaqui and Seri to the south were quite formidable as well.

See Apaches, page 34

RANCH-RAISED KIDS

The Players

By Patti Daley; Photos by Seth Joel.

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Ranch kids are different. They grow up with purpose.

Responsibilities. Pride in tradition and a love for the land they live on.

“They look you in the eye,” says Seth Joel, a photographer from New York. “L.A. kids don’t do that.”

“Respect for the family is tremendous,” says Charlie Holland, a native of England. “They understand hard work.”

That’s what the two learned while photographing and interviewing kids and their families across rural Arizona for their newly released book Ranch-Raised Kids.

See Ranch-Raised Kids, page 32

Globetrotting Off the Beaten Path

By Thea W. Wilshire

Many people in Arizona will say they have “driven through” the Globe-Miami area. This usually means they were on Highway 60 heading somewhere else, stopped long enough for a brief pit stop at a gas station or fast food restaurant, and missed all the great aspects of our community.

Because the Globe-Miami area is about 90 miles from everywhere (Phoenix = 88 miles, Safford = 78 miles, Show Low = 88 miles, Payson = 81 miles, and Tucson = 104 miles), this makes it a perfect place to break up a long drive and enjoy some quick adventures. If you have 1, 2 or 4 hours you’re willing to invest, here are some worth-the-stop and notto-be-missed gems. For activities, I will try to list some recommended “visiting times” so you can plan based on your interests and availability.

Also, addresses will be in Globe unless otherwise noted.

The views from the top of Round Mountain Park make it a favorite hike for locals and visitors alike. Photo by Jenn Walker

See Off the Beaten Path, page 30

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The Sharpshooter & The Sheriff nieces. John went with somebody else.

“I was putting these three girls to bed and feeling sorry for myself,” Claudia remembers, “when the doorbell rang.”

It was John.

“Her hair was up in curlers and she was beautiful,” he says.

He gave her a kiss. And left.

By Patti Daley

rom the trails of Hell’s Hole to the halls of power, John and Claudia Sue Armer have traveled a few switchbacks together.

“We have been such a good team in so many of our efforts,” says John, a former police chief and three-term sheriff of Gila County. “We each have our outlooks.”

Those outlooks come through in the tales they tell about their adventures in love.

“Once I shot a bear...” Claudia begins.

John interrupts to question her, “You realize you’re about to confess to a crime?”

Apparently, it wasn’t bear season, but when a big one got too close to her children, Claudia ran for her shotgun.

She hit the bear with her first shot, and then shot it again.

John corroborates with a nod, pride in his smile.

The Beginning It was December 14, 1960. The fight for U.S. civil rights was raging; there was war in Viet Nam. The Pill was on the market and Chubby Checker was singing The Twist.

In Globe, two high school juniors were at the Busy Boy (now Dairy Queen)

The Admiration

John and Claudia at the cabin, Fall of 2018. Photo by Patti Daley

having a Coke. John Armer, a football player and student officer, was quite a catch. Born and raised in Globe, all the girls knew him. Many liked him.

Claudia Sue Grace was the new girl in town. She grew up in Prescott, with a wonderful family. Until her parents got divorced and blew it all apart. She moved to Globe to live with her sister and three

nieces. She didn’t know John Armer.

“Well, he knows you,” said Alene Cline, “and he wants to meet you.”

“I was immediately smitten,” John recalls. “She was very straight and tall and had a good air and manner about her, easy to talk to.”

He invited Claudia to a New Year’s Eve party, but she was busy, babysitting her

They were pretty much together after that. Pretty much.

“We had these little spats,” Claudia says. “It was usually my fault as much as his.”

John sighs. He knew early on that she was the one.

“I admired her so much,” he says.

Still does.

“She had such poise,” John recalls. “I knew she was smart, but didn’t know how smart until the later years. Really bright.”

“He had wonderful eyes,” Claudia says; she remembers her attraction to his strength and maturity.

One day, Claudia watched as John jumped up to take the trash out for his mother.

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ON THE COVER How Apaches Became Formidable Warriors Ranch-Raised Kids Globetrotting Off The Beaten Path 3 The Sharpshooter & The Sheriff 6 Constructing Simply Sarah 10 2019 Events Calendar

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16 Quilting in Copper Country 15 Globe-Miami Visitor's Guide 21 Law & Order 21 Lunar New Year 22 Transforming the Third Floor Thru Theater 24 Crossword Puzzle 26 Lock Your Fuse Box

13 The Superior Home and Building Tour

26 Ask A Geologist

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22 Globe-Miami Real Estate Pages

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This Armer reunion took place at the ranch and included four generations.

Sharpshooter and Sheriff, continued from page 3 “There’s a guy with quality,” she thought.

“I was well-trained,” John smiles.

Claudia knew the score. “He was always thoughtful to his mother.”

When they graduated from high school in 1963, the couple marched side by side.

A year later, they were married.

After a church wedding and country club reception, John and Claudia honeymooned at Valley Ho in Phoenix.

Room 18. A steak dinner seemed in order.

“But steaks were seven dollars,” Claudia recalls, “so we decided to have a grilled cheese sandwich delivered to the room.”

The Marriage “We have never had financial issues because we got married when we were young and poor,” says Claudia.

“Everything we have, we got together.”

They took eighteen-credit course loads at the University of Arizona and worked summer jobs. They lived in a World War II quonset hut on campus. The rent was $33.

“There was a door on each side,” describes Claudia. “Plywood partitions between families.”

With graduation approaching, their future looked bright. Claudia had a teaching job lined up for the fall. John had enrolled in law school.

Then, in February 1967, his dad died.

The family ranch was deep in debt; his mother risked losing it all.

“I was going back and forth, keeping things going,” John says.

When school was out, the couple moved to the ranch full-time. By John’s side, Claudia quickly became proficient at riding and ranching duties. Up on a horse before sunrise, they rotated cattle, by horseback, between the lake for the winter grasses and the mountains in the summer.

“Best two years of our life,” says John.

“We depended on each other for so much.”

“I loved it,” Claudia said. “It felt like home.”

Early in their marriage, while at the ranch, Claudia shot a black bear that came too close to her children. Courtesy Photo.

The Ranch It’s December 14, 2018. John and Claudia are driving back to the ranch.

There’s a window that needs to be fixed.

As they pass Roosevelt Lake on the left, John spots a crown saguaro off to the right.

They’ve done a lot of hiking out here.

A mile high, they turn off the road, navigate three private gates, and arrive at their ranch – fifty-five acres of pine, juniper, manzanita, and oak.

“We consider this our cathedral in the woods and our spiritual base,” writes Claudia in a family reunion letter.

When they’re at the ranch, they live in a four-room cabin. First built in 1870, it’s crowded with comforts of an earlier time.

The walls are insulated with newspapers.

The floor is hand-hewn pine. There is no electricity; the lamps burn propane.

Outside, there’s a bunkhouse, shower room, chicken coop, and quaint twoseater outhouse. Past the blacksmith shop, still in use, is the newest building.

“The barn,” as they call it, is 1600 square feet of guest space, with a garage full of toys and memorabilia.

The upstairs is graced with art from their travels and a cedar chest they bought Sharpshooter and Sheriff, Continued on page 25

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The story behind the signature shop

Sarah at work on the Gila Bank Building where she would open her first shop in 1992.

Sarah at her shop on Broad Street, 386 N Broad, which has been home for 12 years. She closed her doors at this location in December to get ready to move into a new location further down the street. In March she will re-open in her new location at 661 N. Broad.

Photos and story by Linda Gross

s a college student home for the summer, Sarah Bernstein needed a job. She went after the only thing that appealed to her: working for Northwoods Outfitters. Sarah had worked retail in the past, and her background as an artist meant she had a flair for display. Plus, she had grown up on cross country and downhill skis.

It was a perfect fit, but for one thing. The store wasn’t hiring.

She walked in anyway and asked to speak to the manager. She said that of anything she could spend her time doing that summer, working for them was at the top of her list.

“I think if you hire me, you won’t regret it,” she said with simple honesty – a directness that has never left her.

She got the job.

It would be the same after she graduated from college, when she followed her boyfriend to the White Mountains in Arizona. He had landed a job heading up the special education department in Cibecue, and Sarah was asked if she wanted to teach art at the school.

Although there was little to start with and she would have to make up the curriculum as she went along, she happily said yes. Sarah taught in Cibecue for three years, living in a pink house across from the playground. Life revolved around the school and school was always in session.

On the rare weekends she drove to Globe or Show

Low, she says she preferred Globe because of its diversity – both in the people she met and the architecture of its buildings. When it came time to move on, Globe was a natural choice. Sarah easily picked up work remodeling old houses. Eventually she worked for Michael Day, who had purchased the old Gila Bank building years earlier and was working on its restoration. The pair would marry before the project was complete.

“I don’t want to say I stripped for my ex-husband, but I worked on door jambs, floors, baseboard trim, the staircase, as well as concrete and acid staining,” Sarah laughs.

Giving life to old buildings became a life’s work for Sarah.

“It’s amazing the rate at which things deteriorate when they are not cared for,” she says.

“It’s never enough to clean something up,” she adds.

“You also have to repair or replace the mechanical, to fix the structural, to be mindful of upgrades without demeaning the original character.”

“The turning point,” she says, “is breathing life into something.”

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Simply Sarah In 1996, that 'something' was Simply Sarah.

To say Simply Sarah is a clothing boutique is to miss its essence. Sarah says she chose the name because it did not easily fit a definition. The name gave her leeway to express herself through the things she felt merited a place within its walls.

At first, those walls were the Gila Valley Bank & Trust Building on Broad Street. In its prime, the bank building was the talk of the town. Copper mining was king in Arizona, and Globe was heralded as the Queen of Copper.

Reputed to have been designed by the Chicago firm of Adler and Sullivan, the bank building was exquisite in both form and details and one of Globe’s true architectural treasures.

After a chapter-change and a remarriage, Sarah moved the store just up the street at 386 Broad, which has provided a fitting setting for Simply Sarah for the last 12 years: light pours in through the street-facing windows, and a high ceiling gives the store an airy feeling.

Cultivating beauty in a multitude of mediums was an early mantra for Sarah.

This has remained a signature of the store. From cookware to clothing and a cornucopia of items in between, every item is there by design. It’s there because it represents beauty that comes as a result of good design, quality materials, and careful workmanship. It’s also there because of a fourth element: story.

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From copper cookware to flour milled in Minnesota, there is always something for those who love to spend time in the kitchen. Sarah keeps the store fresh by always changing out product lines and rarely represents anything for long.

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Sarah's garden at her home in Globe.

“You bloom where you are planted.” ~ Sarah

Sarah represents Fair Trade products from around the world.

Simply Sarah, continued from page 7 Sarah believes the merit of any item is not only a function of the beauty apparent in the final product –it’s also in the way an object embodies the story of the people who created it and brought it to market. These stories play an important role in how Sarah makes her final selections when she decides what to represent in her store.

“What’s that saying about how shining the light on someone else also illuminates your own?” she asks.

When you do what you believe in and do what you love, it works out that people can see you are genuine in your intent. And being genuine is a trait Sarah values in the products she represents and in the relationships she builds.

Like the family she discovered during a trade show that has been making French copper cookware for over 150 years. Or the young woman who started a cottage industry for women in Pakistan producing handembroidered textiles.

Or Sarah’s decades-long relationship with fashion designer April Cornell. Sarah has represented Cornell almost from the beginning and has visited the April Cornell factory in New Delhi.

“How we support each other’s stories and recognize their value has its own rewards,” Sarah says. “When the story itself is authentic and from the heart, it resonates.”

Paintings by Carrie Curley, an emerging self-taught artist from San Carlos, adorn the walls of Simply Sarah.

Sarah herself owns several pieces, and is a patron of Carrie’s work.

“I see her talent and I want her to continue to paint and blossom, and be a role model not only for young Apaches, but for everyone. But it’s hard to do that if people don’t support you,” says Sarah .

In conversations with Sarah, the notions of blooming and blossoming often come to mind – perhaps because of her interests in gardening, artistic creation, and the nurturing of life and art. To Sarah’s mind, you must decide to bloom. You don’t wait for the conditions to be right – you make them happen.

In addition to global artists and vendors Sarah finds treasures through trade shows and her travels. A lot of what the store showcases represents the concept of Fair Trade: the idea that giving space to artisanal products

helps out people around the world, when it’s done with care and consideration for the makers. Sarah points to hand-crocheted necklaces from Turkey, silk buttons from Morocco, and an intricately embroidered dress from Pakistan. All were done by hand, and the sale of these items allowed the craftspeople to earn a fair wage while living at home or in their village.

Sarah finds satisfaction in supporting these artisans. She also finds joy in supporting her customers.

She and her shop have become a part of life’s many points of celebration.

Happiness “I do what makes me happy. If I choose wisely, and it puts a smile on my face, and I see merit in it, I feel others will too.”

The warehouse which will soon be home to a new, and expanded, Simply Sarah.

Ken and Sarah Bernstein.

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WINTER 2019 Simply Sarah, continued from page 8 Sarah married Ken Bernstein in 2004. She smiles and calls him the brightest jewel in her crown. Bernstein, who stands at 6 feet 5, owns Bird Seismic, which operates across the United States and overseas. Whereas you could say Sarah’s business is made of pearls and silk, her husband’s is defined by seismic cable and massive trucks.

Sarah explaining the clearstory space which will greet There is never a time when customers as they walk in. the two are not dealing with business – his or hers – and they do it all together. “In our household there is no such thing as a ‘he’ role or ‘she’ role,” she says.

Sarah has driven trucks and trailers, coordinated field support and met shipments as needed; once having to unload 1,200 pounds of seismic cable off the back of a semi without a forklift. She made do with a pry bar and true grit. All the while dressed for the shop and over Sarah in the Bird Seismic warehouse. her lunch hour.

This winter, Sarah will be moving her shop to what many here know as the old APS warehouse at the south end of Broad Street. Built in the early 1900’s, the two story brick warehouse has looked abandoned for years, serving mostly as storage for previous owners.

She and Ken purchased the building years ago to house Bird Seismic trucks and equipment.

“We always saw the potential of the property to house both businesses and give us a chance to spend more time together,” Sarah says. “To have a cup of tea, maybe!”

The proximity will make receiving shipments for Bird Seismic easier, and simplify tracking the myriad details the couple has to juggle for both businesses.

For its new role as Simply Sarah, the warehouse is getting new windows, entry doors, insulation, and mechanical while retaining its industrial look and feel. Ever mindful of what the building’s history, Sarah is making sure the new space will retain its original character.

The new space will more than double the space Sarah has occupied for over a decade, and the large, fenced parking lot will offer customers easy parking. It will also give Sarah a chance to landscape the grounds. Both of these features were in short supply at the old shop, and the possibilities put a smile on her face.

Looking to the future, I ask Sarah if she ever questions the things that brought her to Globe in the first place.

“It’s a ‘coulda, shoulda, might of’ for me,” Sarah says.

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Five Tools for Building a Good Life #1 Start with good bones. Find something worthy of investing your time in. Something that you can build on. With old buildings, that means framework. For Simply Sarah, that means being authentic from the start and representing real value.

#2 Listen. If you’re renovating an old building, listen to what the building is trying to tell you. Maybe you have an idea, but it doesn’t fit with the building’s story.

If you’re in retail sales, listen to your customers. An amazing thing happens when you listen: The story evolves. You learn what to retain and what to re-create.

The end result will be something that everyone can feel: authentic in nature, and sincere in expression.

#3 Get the foundations right. If it’s a building, get the mechanical up to snuff. The framework has to be solid, and the heating has to work. No amount of paint or pretty is going to compensate for lack of a good foundation.

Something true in life and business as well.

#4 Respect the process. Don’t make changes just because you can. Be mindful in the decisions you make. Life is a dance, not a race to a destination.

#5 It’s quality tradesmen who make the difference. After a years of restoring old buildings, Sarah knows a good deal about how to coax old bones into new visions. But when she’s working with contractors, she still defers to their knowledge and expertise. She tells them, “Here is what I see happening – but if I’m missing something, you tell me. I am not here to be right, but to make it right.”

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‘19 Annual Gila County Gem & Mineral Show

Citizen of the Year Dinner and Art Auction

When: January 11–13: Friday and Saturday 9–5, Sunday 10–4 Where: Gila County Fairgrounds Cost: Donation of $3 per person or $5 per couple. Students and children free.

There will be more than 40 displays, numerous vendors displaying their wares and products, and interesting demonstrations. Lapidary equipment, jewelry, books, mineral specimens, copper art, and much more will be offered. For more information, contact Jodi Brewster, jodibrewster66@gmail com, call (623) 810-9780, or visit www.gilagem.org.

When: Friday, January 18, 5:30–9 p.m.

Where: Dream Manor Inn Cost: $25 per person The Citizen of the Year and Kip Culver Awards will be announced.

After dinner, the Pinal Mountain Foundation for Higher Education will hold its annual art auction to benefit its scholarship program.

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Globe-Miami Community Concert Series: Acoustic Eidolon in Concert When: Thursday, January 17, 7 p.m.

Where: High Desert Middle School Cost: Season tickets are still available at $40, good for the next four concerts.

Just $10 per concert! Or tickets can be purchased at the door the night of the concert for $20.

When: Sun. January 20, 5:30-8 p.m.; Meets monthly. 3rd Sundays Where: Center for the Arts, 101 N. Broad Street, Globe Cost: $60/year/ $45 Students *See details pp 2 To kick off the year, we will be showing The Golden Door, a classic tale of coming to America about the forces that drive mass migration. The story follows Salvatore, a Sicilian peasant, who sells everything to make the transAtlantic passage with his two sons and elderly mother. Beautifully filmed, it uses subtitles and the Sicilian language to tell this timeless story. This film captures the spirit and bravery of those who left their homeland hoping to find a new country of milk and honey.

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Events Calendar, continued from page 10 Meet Susan Taylor, Miss Indian World 2018–2019 When: January 26, 1 p.m.

Where: Bullion Plaza Museum This year’s winner comes from both the White Mountain Apache Tribe and Walker River Paiute Nation. She is a graduate of the U of A with a degree in political science with an emphasis in law and public policy.

Miami Hardscrabble Lecture Series When: Wednesday, February 20, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free Local business owner Ken Bernstein of Bird Seismic will discuss seismic geology and its role in discovering what lies beneath our feet.

Globe-Miami Community Concert Series: Brothers Four in Concert

Superior Home Tour and Antique Show

When: Thursday, February 28, 7 p.m.

Where: High Desert Middle School Cost: Included for season ticket holders, or $20 at the door.

When: January 26 and 27 Where: Main Street, Superior Cost: $15 per person ($13 if prepaid online). Tickets are good for both days.

Home and Building Tour, history lectures, Mata Ortiz demonstration, food booths, and more. See pp 13 for complete schedule. Admission includes 2-for-1 passes to the Renaissance Festival and Boyce Thompson Arboretum to be used at a later date.

Power Brothers Shootout 101st Anniversary When: Saturday, February 9, 4–6 p.m.

Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free Historian and author Heidi Osselaer will discuss her book Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight: Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918. Osselaer, who teaches history at ASU, has also written about women in Arizona politics.

Globe Miami Times Film Club When: Sun. Feb. 17, 5:30–8 p.m. ; Meets monthly. 3rd Sundays Where: Center for the Arts, 101 N. Broad Street, Globe Cost: $60/year/ $45 Students *See details pp 2 In recognition of the Chinese New Year, we will be showcasing A Thousand Pieces of Gold, an inspiring story of a young Mongolian girl in the late 1800s who was sold by her father to pay for seeds. She was taken to America and sold to a Chinese businessman in Oregon. Refusing to be a prostitute, she was put to work cooking and scrubbing floors. She would go on to rise above her station and make a life on the Western frontier. The story is based on Polly Bemis, a Chinese American pioneer who lived in Idaho in the late 19th and early 20th century during the time of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

When: Friday, March 1, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free Dee Hunt, with the Gila County Historical Museum, will discuss women’s role in Arizona history as part of Women’s History Month.

Intertribal Pow-Wow When: Saturday and Sunday, March 2 & 3 Where: Apache Gold Casino Cost: $5 daily admission The Apache Gold Pow-Wow features dancers of all Nations who come to compete in a variety of dance styles and drumming during this two-day event. Each day includes the Grand Entry when all dancers enter the pavilion and more than 200 dancers circle the arena to the sounds of drums. Times of the Grand Entry: Saturday, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Sunday, 12 p.m and 6 p.m.

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Launch of Rafting Season When: Beginning of March Where: Salt River Cost: Half-day trips start at $119/pp The Salt River, with its striking cliffs and scenery, has often been referred to as the mini-Grand Canyon. Located just 40 minutes north of Globe, it is known for its Class 3 and 4 rapids. Several companies come in each year to work the river, and most offer a selection of half-day, full-day, and multi-day adventures. Check out one of these sites and book your adventure this spring: www.inaraft.com, www.coloradorafting. net, www.saltriverraftingarizona.com, www.go-arizona.com.

Pieces of Friendship Quilt Show When: March 1–30 Where: Cobre Valley Center for the Arts Cost: Free The Copper Country Quilters of Globe, a chapter of the Arizona Quilters Guild, is hosting their annual Pieces of Friendship Quilt Show. Entry forms are available at Julie’s Sewing Corner in Miami, Hill Street Mall in Globe, the CVCA, and the Chamber.

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Globe Miami Times Film Club

31st Apache Leap Mining Festival

When: Sun. March 17, 5:30–8 p.m. ; Meets monthly. 3rd Sundays Where: Center for the Arts, 101 N. Broad Street, Globe Cost: $60/year/ $45 Students *See details pp 2 The Molly Maguires, an eloquent and neglected film about the 19th-century militant organization formed by Pennsylvania Irish immigrant coal miners, does justice to their complex role in American labor history.

When: March 15th thru 17th; Fri 5pm-11pm, Sat 10am-11pm, Sun 11am-5pm Where: Main Street, Superior Cost: Free The mining competition is the main attraction on Saturday, but the three day event includes a carnival, parade, live music, chihuahua races and a street dance. Plus Westland Resources will present "History of the Smelter," a fascinating show describing the processes of mining in the past.

First Friday Lecture Series: “Stalking the Lieutenant: The Juh–Cushing Ambush” When: March 20, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free For 30 years, Deni Seymour, Ph.D., has studied the ancestral Apaches, Sobaipuri O’odhams, and lesser-known mobile groups. Her research on the JuhCushing ambush describes how the most experienced Indian fighter of that time, Howard Cushing of the 3rd Calvary, was outwitted and outmaneuvered by the superior leadership and skills of Juh, a Nednhi Apache, and 165 warriors.

Globe-Miami Community Concert Series: Café Flutes in Concert When: Saturday, March 30, 7 p.m.

Where: High Desert Middle School Cost: Included for season ticket holders, or $20 at the door

Ice Cream.

You Want It. We Got It.

First Friday Lecture Series: Local mining history with Jay Spehar When: Friday, April 5, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free

35th Globe Home and Building Tour When: April 6 and 7, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Where: Begins at the train depot in Globe Cost: $20 per person The annual tour featuring the historic homes and buildings of Globe begins at the train depot, where shuttles will be available to take visitors to each stop. A pancake breakfast and chili luncheon will also be offered during the tour. And be sure to stop at the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts in downtown Globe for art exhibits and Globe’s annual quilt show. Admission includes tour, artists, entertainment, and more, plus a copper commemorative ticket. Contact the Globe Chamber at (928) 425-4495.

Hardscrabble Lecture Series When: Wednesday, April 17, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free Shaku Nair of the University of Arizona will talk about the U of A pollinator program.

Globe Miami Times Film Club

Open Monday-Saturday Historic Downtown Globe 226 N Broad • Globe, AZ 85501 928-425-2445

FUDGE ~ ICE CREAM ~ GIFTS

When: Sun. April 21, 5:30–8:00 p.m. ; Meets monthly. 3rd Sundays Where: Center for the Arts, 101 N. Broad Street, Globe Cost: $60/year/ $45 Students *See details pp 2 The Green Card is a love story about a French national who enters into a marriage of convenience to stay in the United States and then actually falls in love.

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The Superior Chamber of Commerce Presents

The Superior Home and Building Tour – January 26 & 27, 2019 Unlike other home tours, Superior has old, new, and everything in between. We can renovate just about anything, often using recycled and repurposed materials. The tour will include the old red-brick high school, circa 1926, now a splendid private home. The magnificent Magma Hotel, circa 1912, has been totally renovated and now appears on the National Historic Registry. Another show-stopper is the Element 29 apartment building, originally built as La Olla Auto Court in the 1940s.

The annual Antique Show will take place the same weekend at the Magma Club, circa 1915. Events include a pancake breakfast both days, a mid-morning guided hike to the old Queen Creek tunnel on Saturday, and the famous Mata Ortiz potters crafting their exquisite wares. Wyatt Earp – a descendent of the legendary Wyatt Earp – will perform, and Steve Germick will share stories about Mattie Earp, Wyatt’s common-law wife, buried in Superior.

The quaint little Town of Superior is tucked between Picket Post Mountain and the Apache Leap Mountain on US 60, just 30 minutes east of Apache Junction. It’s a beautiful drive, surrounded by the Tonto National Forest. Join us as we “Rebuild Superior” into the town it deserves to be. The tour begins at the Chamber of Commerce, 165 W. Main St. Tickets, good for both days, are $15 ($13 prepaid online). Bonus: Each ticket holder will receive a 2-for-1 pass to the Renaissance Festival and the world-renowned Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Contact the Superior Chamber of Commerce for more information at (520) 689-0200 or visit www.superiorarizonachamber.org.

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Annual Christmas Program at Center for the Arts December 1

This year's performances included many 'surprise' numbers selected by both audience and performers.

Nja One, Lori Smith, Kathleen Mercer, Laura Stennerson and Libby Rooney performed 'Santa Baby.'

Elizabeth Eaton, Carla Vance, Debbie Yerkovich and Thea Wilshire

Paul and Amanda Wolterbeck with Joanne Zach

Linda Gustafson, Joe Sanchez, Tim Gonzales, Denise Curry, Nolan Frost, Kathleen Mercer, Keith Gustafson, Caleb King

Annual Christmas Mixer

December 4

Bob Zach and Thea Wilshire

Out And About

Gila County Supervisor, Tim Humphrey Bullion Plaza’s Tom Foster, with Rob Eastlick, and GMT publisher Linda Gross at the grand opening of the new Cobre Phyliss Haddon enjoying an evening under the stars for CVRCs grand opening.

Valley Recreation Center.

Johnyd Flores (Event Host) with David Abbott (AzSilverBelt Editor) sporting an award winning beard.

2018 Battle of the Beards.

Tanner and Wendy Hunsaker.

Eileen Harbinson, Nicole Gregory and Suzanne Cecil and Judith Barton with Leslie Parker and Lederman at the Bernsteins' annual holiday daughter, Evelyn bundled up at the Bernstein's. fundraiser at their home.

Ester and Tony Sanchez, Carmen Slough and Aurora Wallace stopped by Molly Cornwell's new copper shop in Miami for an open house.

Rains forced many inside for the Health Fair this year, but CVRMCs Evelyn Vargas and the crew of PHI found it dry under this tent.

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December 8th ~ Historic Train Depot

FFA Convention

November 8 ~ Indianpolis, Indiana

From left to right, top to bottom: Justen Ollendick, FFA Advisor Mike 'Mac' MacLean, Michael MacLean, Cooper Wilson, Michael Patnaude, Kyler Heimer, Karen Donaldson - Webb, Janet Cline, Tristan Burns, Isaac Webb, Arielle O'Connor, Laura Dalton, Jace O'Connor, Taite Thompson. Not pictures but attending were Madelyn Belling, Allicia Woodring and Krislyn Alford

Each year the Depot is transformed into Santa’s workshop where local children meet elves, pick out a new book and get to ride on the Read-On express (bus).

Over 1,500 family members were served this year thanks to a host of volunteers.

Read-On Globe/Miami is a non-profit collaboration of more than 40 local organizations promoting childhood literacy.

The Society Page

Annual Read On Express

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Total Board Awards December 15th Arizona School Board recognizes GUSD Governing Board.

The governing board for Globe Unified School District received the Total Board Award this fall from the Arizona School Board Association. The award recognizes governing boards on which at least a quorum of members has attained the level of Certificate of Boardsmanship. Pictured left to right is Frankie DalMolin (President), Judy Moorhead (member), Jacque Cline Sanders (member), Anna Harmon-James (clerk) and Jerry Jennex (Ex-officio member/Superintendent). Not pictured: Roberta Hunter-Patton (member).

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QUILTING IN COPPER COUNTRY

By Linda Gross

“I remember my grandma making quilts all by hand,” Darlene Martin says. “I always wanted to quilt.”

Martin started quilting early. When she was sick, her mother had her make a postage stamp quilt. Martin went on to become an Arizona Quilter Hall of Fame award winner at the county fair.

For Ann Foster, the beginning was taking a community college class with her mother, who was a quilter.

“Things were a lot different then,” she remembers. There were no rotary cutters or acrylic templates. “We used paper patterns and scissors with a ruler!”

Martin and Foster are members of Copper Country Quilters, a local group that started in the early 1980s, thanks to founder Lynn Haak.

This year will see the 29th annual presentation of CCQ’s quilt show, “Pieces of Friendship,” at Cobre Valley Center for the Arts. Quilts will be hung throughout the center – including upstairs and on the bannisters – during the show, which will run from March 2-30, including the Home Tour weekend of April 6 and 7. The guild welcomes entries from the local community – you don’t have to be a member to enter. Entry forms will be available in January from any guild member or at CVCA, Hill Street Mall, and Julie’s Sewing Center in Miami.

Copper Country Quilters is active with state quilting organizations. It was one of the first chapters in the state to be chartered under the umbrella of Arizona Quilters Guild.

The quilt room at CVCA is dedicated to the memory of Linda McDowell, who served as president of Arizona Quilters Guild in 2002-03.

Copper Country Quilters has thirty members now and is always looking for new friends and members. The guild meets in the First Christian Church on Broad Street on the second, third and fourth Mondays of every month, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The third meeting of each month is dedicated to working on community service projects. The guild has provided quilts to Heritage, Haven, Horizon Human Services, and other local organizations. They have also provided comfort items to DPS and the hospital auxiliary.

The meeting on the first Monday is dedicated to business, with a technique demo or small project afterward. During the second meeting, the members schedule work sessions or invite teachers from across the state and the country to come in for classes.

CCQ member Jan Pederson got her start in quilting by taking classes at Johnny’s Country Corner with Janice McInturf. She joined the guild in the mid 1990s.

“And my quilting life has never been the same,” she says. “I found a family in my quilting sisters at Copper Country Quilters.”

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January 20th: Italian The Golden Door

Annual Member's Meeting & Board Elections January 25th • 5:30 p.m.

Third Floor Theater Refreshments provided.

Attention: Elections for the Board are held at this meeting and we encourage all members to attend.

If you want to make a difference and help steer the future of the CVCA, we invite you to become a Board member! We are looking for people with passion for the Arts and our Community!

February 17th: Chinese A Thousand Pieces of Gold March 17th: Irish The Molly Maguires See pp 2 for complete details.

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April 6th • 6-9 p.m.

Brought to you by the Globe Downtown Association/ Historic Globe Main Street Program, with an all-new story line-up for 2018. Enjoy a 90 minute+/- historical walking tour of a portion of Globe's oldest cemetery, depicting an Old West time period gone by. Tickets include a cemetery keepsake map and a shuttle to both the historic Globe cemetery & "Jailyard Cantina" from historic downtown Globe.

Pieces of Friendship Annual Quilt Show

Celebrating 28 years of Quilting March 2 – April 6

Reception and Awards Ceremony March 28th • 5-7 p.m.

Hosted by the County Country Quilters

Annual Easter Parade in Historic Downtown Globe April 20th • 9:30 a.m.

The “Easter Parade” is based on the classic holiday movie and song with the old tradition of taking a stroll to welcome in Spring. Think hats, parasols, finery and fun. Dress yourself or your pet to impress for this walking parade/stroll down our historic main street. Check-in and raffle basket entry is between 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the historic train depot museum, 230 S. Broad Street.

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Artist Reception: January 12th, 5-7pm Using resin, dyes and pigments, Ms. Henson creates vividly surreal artscapes.

February: A Love Story in 365 Days

Every day for 365 days, muralist Renick Stevenson created a piece of art for his wife Laura Jane. Some pieces are colorful, some plain but each piece documents his feelings in a beautiful and unique way.

This collection is for every romantic at heart. Watch this love story unfold.

March: Mixed Media Art by Nja One Nja One is a clothing designer, performer, playwright, illustrator and art therapist. She will be presenting a one-woman show of her work in a multitude of mediums. Currently, Nja One is serving as an adjunct professor for Gila Community College and has her own gallery in Globe, called The Art of Nja One Gallery, in Globe.

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Explore our gift shop representing a wide array of our local artisans. And we do lay away!

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LAW AND ORDER

Lanterns in George Town, Malaysia.

Photo by Patricia Sanders

When China celebrates its New Year in February, they’ll usher in the Year of the Pig. According to Chinese astrology, people born in a Pig year tend to be honest, straightforward and patient. They have a pure heart, are never suspicious, and feel goodwill toward everyone. Pig years occur every 12 years, so you are a Pig person if you were born in 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, or 2007. Famous Pigs include Henry Ford, Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton, Lucille Ball, and Steven Spielberg.

To ring in the new year, the 29th Annual Chinese Culture and Cuisine Festival will take place in Phoenix on February 8, 9, and 10. The festival will feature martial arts demonstrations, dragon and lion dances, musical performances, and a mahjong table where the uninitiated can learn to play this centuries-old game.

While most Americans use the first day of the new year to start a diet, make a clean sweep of bad habits, or compose a bucket list of must-do adventures, the Chinese are equally enamored with the things one must not do on the first day of the new year. Here are the top 7 items you should not do on the Chinese New Year or risk the consequences!

Don’t scold or argue with others. This breeds unhappiness in your day – and in the year to come. The ancient saying goes, “If you are arguing on the first day, you will argue for the rest of the year.”

Don’t use sharp objects, including scissors, knives, or needles.

Using these things on the first day of the year is like cutting your wealth away.

Sweeping on New Year’s Eve is good, because you are sweeping out all the bad luck from the current year, along with the rubbish. But sweeping on New Year’s Day is bad, because then you are sweeping out the good luck you’ve accrued.

Don’t eat meat on the first and fifteenth day of the new year. This has something to do with scientific research, the full moon, and the body’s gravitational forces affecting the stomach.

Don’t cut your hair on the first day of the year. This represents cutting your life short.

When it comes to numbers, there are lucky and unlucky numbers in every culture. We found one bit of advice here that seems to work for all: Pairs are considered lucky, but the number four is not. Conclusion: Double-dating is not a good idea.

Color is also important if one is superstitious, so know that red is auspicious and good to use in every part of your home and on your person, while white and black are associated with funerals and should therefore be avoided.

Pinal Creek flows with booze as drunk fish celebrate the spoils of prohibition.

Bisbee Review: December 18, 1919 Fishes in Pinal Creek near Globe got a hilarious “jag” on the other day, the like of which they had never experienced before.

The red letter day in the annals of finny history came about when Judge Sawtelle ordered 75 barrels of good grape wine and a few barrels of grape mash to be destroyed immediately.

The grape wine ranging in alcohol content from 1 to 11 percent involved 57 varieties of wine including claret, sour wines, and sweet wines which had been seized by federal marshals during a raid made on the cellars and sub-cellars of the Slavonian colony living in Globe.

The fish have local government officials in the city of Globe to thank for their good fortune, as war-time prohibition was held up these gentlemen.

When the Slavonian defendants were brought into federal court at Globe for the trial, the case had to be postponed until the supreme court could rule on the constitutionality of war-time prohibition. The barrels of wine had no such stay of judgement day and Judge Sawtell ordered United States marshal Joe Dillion to pour the liquor in the creek.

And that is how the fish got drunk on Slavonian wine on a cold December day in 1919.

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THE PLAYERS Transforming the Third Floor thru Theater

By Patti Daley

n 1984, a small band of artists conspired to save the 1910 courthouse in the center of Globe, and turn it into the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts (CVCA).

On the third floor of that grand old building at 101 N. Broad St., art comes to life in the heart of the Copper Cities Community Players.

“We’re a community theater group,” says Diana Montgomery. She’s been running the back office for the past twenty-some years. “We put on plays. All the money that we raise goes back into the third floor.”

Players come from all walks of life.

Miners and mothers, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer. By night they become actors and singers, set designers, costume makers, directors, producers – even, if needed, pastie bakers.

“We are all volunteers,” says Diana.

“All of the actors, all of the sound people, the light people, the behind-the-stage people, the costume people, the makeup people, everybody is a volunteer.”

The crew shares a clear sense of purpose: to restore the third floor, do good theater and encourage people from all walks of life to engage with the arts.

In 1982, the Players incorporated and made an agreement with CVCA to restore the third floor and put on plays there.

From 1982 to 1990, before the third floor was ready to be used, they put on shows in the YMCA, schools, clubs, and churches around town.

Plays are selected by the Player board, which is also responsible for setting the budget and choosing the director. The current board president is G. Willy Thomas. The members include Diana Montgomery, Dave Rogers, Linda Gustafson, Margaret Brantley, Paul Tunis, Jason Marr and Jo Nell Brantley.

Willy and Jason also serve on the CVCA board, representing the Players.

All board members are involved in every production. Nobody is “at large.”

“I’m just an actor,” says Jo Nell Brantley. Dave Rogers disagrees.

“If there’s anything that has anything to do with the theater, she’s done it,” he says. “She produces, directs, does hair...”

Restoration of the Governors Room on the third floor marked was completed in _______.

It now serves as a community/reception space for productions and events.

Photo by LCGross

Restoration of the Governor's Room on the third floor was a major milestone and created a community/reception space for productions and community events. Photo by LC Gross

As a kid, Jo Nell wrote plays, and in fourth grade, when Mr. Decker started musical theater at the high school, shows like Li’l Abner and Bye-bye Birdie, Jo Nell says she “just fell in love with it.”

Jo Nell’s been an active member of the Players, CVCA, and the Downtown Association for over three decades. She is one of the people who saw both the value in preserving history and the need for live theater in a small town.

“Hundreds of people have bought into that idea,” says Jo Nell. “Talented, intelligent people that work really hard to make a dream come true.”

Restore the Third Floor “Everything we do gets approved by the Center,” Jo Nell explains, noting that the aim of CVCA is not to modernize the building but “to bring it back.”

To get the third floor ready for theater, the Players made a list of the projects that needed to be done.

“We put them into categories – easy, medium, and big,” Jo Nell explains.

“Then people just started taking things on.”

First, they cleared the courthouse.

Then they built a stage. Next, they got some lighting and borrowed chairs.

In 1986, the Players presented Twain by the Tail in the newly restored Old Courthouse Theater. The fire marshal shut it down.

In early 1987, they began raising money for a fire escape and sprinkler system, and in 1990, returned to the third floor.

The first Christmas show was performed in 1992, with rented tuxedos and no heat.

“A hundred people came bundled in coats and paid to see the show,” Jo Nell remembers, still surprised. “We used the money to buy heaters for the third floor and redo the gas lines.”

Jo Nell Brantley in her role as director.

Photo by LCGross

Electrical has been an ongoing problem. When long fluorescent lights crashed down from a rotting ceiling and exploded onto tables of borrowed china, the Governor’s Room became a priority.

Then there was the elevator.

For decades the third floor was not accessible to many who could not climb the stairs, limiting access and use of the floor. It was Kip Culver, the Center Director from 2006-2015, who spearheaded the efforts spanning ten years to add an elevator to the Center.

“It was such a project!” Diana remembers how the community came together in 2015, behind Kip Culver’s leadership, to install the elevator.

“And it wasn’t just the Players,” she continues. “It was the entire Center, the community... everybody came together for the elevator.”

Diana’s mother loved the theater, too, but couldn’t navigate the stairs to attend. Diana says, “Having her be able to use the elevator and see a couple of productions before she passed away was special.”

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Do Good Theater.

Every year, the Players produce spring, fall, and Christmas programs.

The holiday program has become an annual event for many Globe residents, and more than 50 people help put it on.

“We try to put on good shows,” says Dave. He helps out with sound and sets, and also directs. Comedies are popular, including plays by Noel Coward and Neil Simon.

“Everyone has fun doing it,” he says, “and the audience has fun coming out to see the show.”

There is one production that stands out over the years.

Justa Café, an original musical, tells the tale of a small town tearing down old buildings to keep up with the new.

Centered around the life of the real Justa Cafe (now the Copper Bistro), it was written by Kip Culver with original songs by local attorney Tom Thompson and music by J.B. Wright. The stories and inspiration for the script came from many locals who both contributed to the script and production. First written and performed in 2007, it was brought back in 2015 to honor the memory of Kip Culver.

Gina Miranda hams it up with her co-star, Rudy Amador, after the play, Just A Tenor where the two played a warring husband and wife. Photo by LCGross

Encourage people from all walks of life to engage with the arts.

Janet Trimble, one of the newest Players, is a part-time bookkeeper and “Got Barre” instructor. Raised on an Air Force base, she learned early that if she wanted to “be happy with where she was at,” she had to put forth some effort.

Seeking guitar lessons, she ran into Linda Gustafson, who invited her to play at the Christmas show.

Janet wasn’t sure, “Well, I can’t really play... or sing.”

“Of course you can,” Linda responded.

“Just come on and do it.”

“And because she said I could, I did,” says Janet. “It was a wonderful experience.”

At 46, Gina Miranda thought she was too “old and inexperienced” for the Players, but acting was something she had always wanted to do. When her son was old enough to stay home alone, she auditioned for The Addams Family, and landed a role – as an ancestor.

“I was getting home late. I still had to get up to go to work the next day. My eyes were bloodshot. I was so tired, but I had a smile on my face the whole time because I just loved it.”

She’s been in almost every production since. In 2015, she sang her first solo in 30 years.

“What I do is a small part,” Gina says, referring to the greater community she has a role in. “A small town relies a lot on volunteerism to get things done.”

People from the Center, she’s noticed, are involved with almost anything that gets done in this town. “People will just show up and roll up their sleeves and help out,” she says.

It’s one of the things Janet likes about a small town. “If you do something, you can make a difference.”

Diana Montgomery met Jo Nell Brantley at work.

“She is a force to be reckoned with,” Diana says of Jo Nell, office manager of a downtown law firm, “and she wants to get people involved in things.”

“Come on, you’ll have fun,” Jo Nell would say. Then say again.

Diana had always found it energizing and exciting to be around the theater.

“Okay,” she says, “let’s give it a shot.”

“Why not?”

It’s been the opening line to many great experiences.

“You get sucked in,” Diana says.

“Because it is fun. And what makes it fun is the people that are involved in it.”

Nancy MacKay, a retired mining engineer, is one of those people. Another longtime member of both CVCA and the Players, she holds the role of stage manager. From opening night on, she runs the show.

As a little tradition, on the last night, she and her assistant try to “screw up” the action on stage, just to see how the actors will respond. A big bug in a basket of fruit, dirty pictures on playing cards.

“Over the years, we’ve done lots of things,” Nancy recalls with a smile. “It was fun.”

Not everyone enjoyed the onstage antics. One father was quite upset about a scene in Moon Over Buffalo.

A young couple want to kiss, and almost get there, when a telephone rings and interrupts them.

Diana Montgomery has handled the back office for the Players for over two decades. Photo by LCGross

“Let’s not ring the phone for a while,” Nancy decided, with her assistant.

In the early eighties, Nancy moved to Globe to work as a mining engineer.

“At first, I didn’t much care for it,” she recalls. Then she joined CVCA, and then she joined the Players. “Once I got involved with these people, all these different people, I liked it more. I knew more people.”

“It’s people from all walks of life,” says Jo Nell.

“People across all the different ages,” Nancy adds.

People, of course, don’t always get along.

“No matter what you do, you will have problems you have to overcome,” says Jo Nell. Somehow, she observes, they always seem able to recover and keep on going.

“If you put in hours of your life,” she says, “you want it to work.”

“Maybe that’s what has made it, and what will make it survive,” Jo Nell surmises of the work on the third floor. “That it was done by people that gave their time and their love to make it happen.”

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Stage manager, Nancy MacKay has been keeping cast and crew on their marks for nearly 30 years. Here she pours over a script during rehearsal. Photo by LCGross.

Welcoming New Members “A lot of people come and go,” Diana says. “New people are the lifeblood of the organization.”

The Players will hold open auditions in February. Anyone who wants to do anything related to the theater is encouraged to attend.

“If you want to act, come to the open call,” says Dave. “If you want to be backstage, also come to the call.”

“We don’t charge dues,” Jo Nell says.

“You just have to volunteer.”

What’s Next?

There’s talk of tackling Noises Off!, this spring. The 1982 play that has been called “the funniest farce ever written.”

According to Jo Nell, The Players have wanted to do this play for many years, but the set design is challenging. For the play to work, the set has to be safe for the actors while giving an impression that is all in peril. Added to that, the play-within-a-play means timing is everything.

“It will be challenging, but a lot of fun,”says Nancy. n

It takes a lot of stage work to put on a play and everyone pitches in. Bill Roten, Willy Brantley and Jason Marr get the set of Just A Tenor ready for prime time. Photo by LCGross

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WINTER 2019 Kim Stone

There is a lot of technology working in harmony inside your home to keep its inhabitants safe and secure. But it’s easy to forget that none of it will work if someone cuts off the power because you didn’t lock your fusebox with a simple padlock.

Many of us have newfangled smart home devices in our homes, including sophisticated cameras and security systems. With all this, the prospect of feeling more secure when we’re home and away has never been more satisfying.

But it all breaks down when the power goes out.

LOCK YOUR FUSE BOX Without a reliable source of electricity, these gadgets and the wireless network that connects them—usually your home’s Wi-Fi network—all go dark.

Your main alarm panel may still work if it has a working backup battery. But the rest of your smart home will be offline.

A power outage is the perfect distraction.

We’re all accustomed to intermittent power outages.

They create a confusing and disorienting experience,

particularly at night.

Your smart phone has a light, but where is it? You know you have candles somewhere, if you could only remember where you put the matches. When was the last time you checked the batteries in your flashlight in the kitchen drawer?

To make matters worse, you’re stumbling around looking for these things in pitch darkness. Then your mind flashes to a half dozen movies you’ve seen where bad things happen when the lights go out.

This sort of intentional distraction is front and center in a home invader’s playbook.

With a malevolent flick of a human wrist on the main breaker in the fuse box or breaker box outside your house, your home is thrust into the 19th century. A would-be house invader can cut your power as easy as flushing a toilet.

Buy a padlock, for heaven’s sake!

The low-tech solution to prevent this from happening is to lock your fuse box. A no-brainer, right? But it’s hardly ever done.

What you need is a padlock that will take more than casual effort by someone with the right tool to cut through. It doesn’t

have to be fancy or expensive. All fuse boxes are manufactured with a stout metal tab designed to be used with a padlock to lock the door closed.

Keep it locked at all times, but don’t forget where you put the key. If you lose it, you’ll be as confounded as the thief if you need to un-trip a breaker.

With a relatively small investment at your local hardware store or online, an inexpensive padlock outside will protect the much larger investment you have inside.

Who wouldn’t want to spend so little to accomplish so much?

Even better, invest in a more durable padlock that is better able to resist a stout set of bolt cutters. They’re more expensive, but it could be worth the peace of mind.

With thousands of dollars sunk into their smart home and security equipment, this is something that every homeowner should be thinking about.

So spread this advice around to your friends and neighbors. Padlocks are a perfect gift for people who think they have everything.

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WINTER 2019 Sharpshooter and Sheriff, continued from page 5 when they got married. It holds baby clothes, her honeymoon nightgown, and the Pendleton blankets they received as wedding gifts and are “saving for later.”

“Neither of us is good at getting rid of anything,” Claudia laughs.

John and Claudia began building the house in 1999.

“We’re both very particular about things,” notes Claudia, “so we do quality work together.”

Their work has also brought many people together, for birthday parties, family reunions, equine therapy, and John’s annual “hunt.”

In the fall of 1997, their daughter was married at the ranch. Two hundred and fifty guests came to celebrate. One hundred and twenty-five spent the night.

The Children Claudia assumed they’d have children, and she was willing to wait.

“I had this passion that I was going to be educated and be able to take care of myself,” she says.

Once finished with college, they were busy with the ranch. When it sold, they went to work in the valley.

There was a year in Chicago, and by then their friends who had kids were getting divorced.

When Claudia learned she was pregnant, she was told she would likely lose the baby. She waited eight months before making a nursery.

“And then she was born,” Claudia says of their daughter, Heather, “and she was the perfect child.”

Less than three years later, Ben was born. Two was enough. So after enduring first-generation birth control for eleven years, Claudia asked John to take charge, and he did.

She took a year off to stay home with the kids. Then another. It would be twelve years before she returned to her career.

“We waited so long to have kids,” she says, “I really wanted to be in their lives.”

“We have been such a good team in so many of our efforts,” says John, a former police chief and three-term sheriff of Gila County. “We each have our outlooks.” Courtesy Photo

The Leading Man John served twenty-one years with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office and retired at age 44. Ahead of his time, he took care of the children, now schoolaged, while Claudia returned to work.

“He was a big hit,” Claudia says of John’s role as stay-at-home dad. “He started baking bread and passing out buns to his neighbors and stuff.”

Some things, they found, are great for a while.

“It kind of loses its shine,” Claudia explains. “Both with the stay-at-home person and the ones who thought it was cool.”

With Claudia’s encouragement, John ran for sheriff of Maricopa County in 1992.

He was advised that if he wanted to win, he ought to run as a Republican.

“I’ve been a Democrat all my life,” John said, “so I’ll run as a Democrat.”

He won the primary but lost to Joe Arpaio in the general election.

“Things work out when you stand by your values,” John asserts, but it was a hard loss. For both of them.

When they were invited to Bill Clinton’s inauguration in Washington D.C., Claudia was excited, but John didn’t want to go.

“I didn’t think I was invited,” John corrected. “Someone had to stay home with the kids.”

Claudia went without him.

John’s final campaign for Gila County Sheriff in 2014 included an election night party at the American Legion in Globe.

He would retire in 2016. Photo by LCGross.

“It was a major thrill,” she says, “tainted by the fact that John was such an ass about it.”

She saw the inside of the Superior Courthouse, Sandra Day O’Connor’s private office, and Barbra Streisand in a rare live performance.

“He resented me going,” says Claudia, “and I resented that he couldn’t find joy in my experience.”

“She is strong-willed,” John asserts, and admits he is too.

The discord usually resolves in “a day or two.” Sometimes it takes longer.

His Leading Lady John returned to employment in 1995 as the new chief of police in Globe.

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Claudia, by then a full-time counselor, stayed in Phoenix with their teen-aged children. Despite challenges, it was a good time in their relationship.

“It was like dating all over again,” says John. In May 2000, Claudia retired and joined John in Globe.

“Nobody knew me as anyone other than the chief’s wife,” Claudia laments, but John assures her otherwise.

A teacher for six years and counselor for twenty-four, Claudia’s career integrated cooperative education, gender equity training, and crisis intervention.

She helped students see the potential of their lives.

She still reaps the rewards. She recently learned that the student who “jumped out” of a gang to go to college, is now teaching at one.

“Friends. Relationships. Human behavior. That’s what fascinates me,” Claudia says.

John served as chief of police for five and a half years.

Then he ran for sheriff. Again, with Claudia’s support on the ground and in spirit. This time they won. Three terms.

“He has a good mind, and he knows what to do,” Claudia says. “I think he enjoys a very good reputation.”

The Conviction In 2014, the Armers vacationed in Hawaii with their kids and grandkids.

Celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary, they stayed in a “wonderful room on the ocean.”

They also revisited Room 18 at the Valley Ho. Instead of grilled cheese sandwiches, they drank free champagne and dined on dessert.

At home in downtown Globe, the pleasures are simple. A fire with some wine and cheese.

“We still enjoy each other’s company,” John says.

Claudia turns and looks at her husband of fifty-four years.

“We do, huh?” she says.

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Story by Mary Hysong, photos by LCGross

rrr! It’s cold outside, and gardening is probably the farthest thing from your mind this time of year. January is, however, the perfect time of year to be thinking about your garden.

It’s also a good time for some cold-weather garden tasks.

Planning. In December, I make general garden plans, check over my seed stocks and order any seeds I need. After New Year’s, I make more detailed plans. I use a large calendar to write in the first dates to plant vegetable, flower and herb seeds in the spring, as well as the latest dates to plant them toward fall.

Pruning. Since January is usually the coldest part of our winters, it’s a good time to prune fruit trees and grape vines. To learn how, visit the library or YouTube.

Cleanup & composting. January is a good time to clean up in the garden if you didn’t get to everything in the fall. Be sure to start a compost pile with all of the weeds and leaves you rake up. Mix them with some manure (any kind is good, check with friends that keep horses, chickens, rabbits or other livestock if you don’t have any). Again, you can learn more about this from books or the Internet.

A peek inside one of the many raised bed gardens

By Patti Daley

Cooler temps, a slower pace and greater community character make Globe-Miami a desirable place to live. And the secret is getting out.

Total real estate sales for the region topped $20 million in 2016, with local homebuyers leading the surge, followed by investors, retirees, and rotational professionals.

“About 40 to 50 percent of home sales are going to first-time homebuyers,” says Eric DuFriend, an associate broker with Oak Realty in Globe. “[They’re] often taking advantage of the USDA loans for rural housing,”

A Love Story

Growing Green in Globe-Miami Winter Teas for What Ails You The Wild and Wooly Wash Love Story: Ester & Tony Sanchez Pinal Cemetary throughout Mary Hysong’s property reveals rows of health book chop coming out of the ground.

January Gardening, Continued on page 38

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Photo by Elizabeth Eaton

Arizona's Deadliest Fight Youth Theater

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Four Herbal Teas For Winter Health

By Patricia Sanders

Even Arizonans know that when the weather turns cool, it’s time to pull on warm clothes and start eating more hot foods and warming drinks – it’s a natural instinct that keeps us healthy. When I lived at Reevis Mountain School with Peter Bigfoot, I learned to use herbal teas as another, powerful way to protect my health and restore it when I got sick.

Every day, winter or summer, rain or shine, we brewed a huge pitcher of tea – our beverage for the day. Peter chose the herb each day, depending on factors like the weather, the season, and any health needs among the group. For winter, he selected teas that are warming to the body, boost the immune system, and support kidney function.

How a Tunnel and Dam Tamed Globe’s Wild and Wooly Wash Any visitor driving along the edge of downtown Globe on Highway 60 has to be struck by the steep slopes that the entire town seems to be clinging to. Not so apparent are the natural drainages—washes, gulches, and creeks—that funnel away the rains that can fall with frightening intensity, particularly during the monsoon season.

One of the most notorious of these drainages is McCormick Wash, a relatively benign-looking wash that snakes its way diagonally, from northeast to southwest, through the heart of Globe’s historic residential district and downtown. Its beginnings are further to the north, collecting rainfall that runs off the higher elevation hills and dales of the Copper Hills.

Tunnels, Continued on page 36 The stout concrete spillway that carries water 300 feet from the diversion dam to the entrance of the tunnel. Dog invited to show scale.

John Power

Deputies tasked with preventing a lynching kept watch over the large crowd filing into the courthouse hoping for a seat at the most talked-about trial in years. It was a warm May morning in 1918, and the courtroom was jammed with spectators eager to see brothers Tom and John Power and hired hand Tom Sisson, who were charged with the murder of Graham County Sheriff Frank McBride. A judge decided a fair trial was impossible in Graham County, where the killings took place, because so many violent threats had been made against the defendants, so he moved the proceedings to Clifton. Now a jury comprised mainly of miners from Clifton, Metcalf, and Morenci was to decide their fate. With hindsight it is easy to see the copper camp jurors were no less biased than residents of Graham County.

The press had feasted for months on the story of the February 10th gun battle between the Power family and lawmen. The Power brothers were wanted for draft evasion—slackers, as they were called during World War I. Sheriff McBride and Deputy U.S. Marshal Frank Haynes of Globe had led a four-man posse to arrest them where they lived deep in the Galiuro Mountains of Aravaipa Canyon.

erhaps the largest remodel to take place in Globe’s Downtown District in the last twenty years promises to infuse the area with a healthy vibe. The Hope Clinic, owned by Chad Campbell, P.A., and Holly Rooney, M.D., will triple the space of their current medical practice and add a healthy eatery and retail space downstairs and an expansive yoga/multipurpose room and offices upstairs.

Rooney says she and Campbell had been looking for a new space for nearly five years and considered buying land to build from scratch. But they didn’t find a place that met all their criteria until a large two-story brick building came up for sale in 2017.

Arizona's Deadliest Fight, Continued on page 32

Hope Clinic, Continued on page 33

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The Great Elevation: Real Estate in Globe-Miami Hope Clinic Expansion Love Story: Mary Testa and Levi P The Pinal Mountain Cabins Gryphon Ranch and Scottish Highland Cattle

Story and Photos by Kim Stone

Herbal Teas, Continued on page 35 Gomasio and the Reevis tea pitcher. Photo by Patricia Sanders

By Heidi Osselaer

Hope Clinic Brings A Healthy Vibe to Downtown

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Holly Rooney stands amid the construction underway for the new, expanded Hope Clinic moving into downtown Globe.

Story and photos by Linda Gross

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< Summer arken 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 Valquez, a Globe-Miami native, reminisces.

“We had so much fun.”

He was twelve when his father gave him his first guitar, a squareneck.

Today, almost 60 years later, Neto Valquez leads a band called Neto & Imagine, a five-man dance band that plays locally for family, fun and fundraising. They’ve been together as a group for less than six months, but between them have nearly 300 years of playing experience. Alongside Neto are Joe Sanchez on the keyboard, Luis Rodriguez on drums, Manny Gonzalez on bass, and Keith Gustafson on the saxophone.

Neto formed his first band in high

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school, Carbon Monoxide and the Exhaust Pipes. In the 1960s, he played Globe-Miami venues with the Valiants, in the 1970s, Oscar and the Rivieras.

He ‘retired’ from music for 25 years to work at the mine and raise a family with his wife, Sally. His music played on at family events and in 2005, he joined his son Ernie, and daughter, Tiffany, to perform as Neto & Family.

Youth Soccer

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, online communities and photography apps are making photography less expensive and creating creative communities for artists to grow and learn.

Always on the lookout for an interesting site to hold a photo shoot, Shane Baker, award-winning, Chandler-based photographer, stumbled into Miami, Arizona about a year ago. Miami is a photographer’s dream. Echoes of the past linger in deserted buildings, shabby-not-chic hundred-year-old houses are perched precariously on steep slopes, and stairways climb up the hillside to destinations unseen. Perfect settings for interesting photo shoots.

Bloom, Continued on page 36

Chef John Wong.

Photo by Jenn Walker

First stop is Grandma’s House of Antiques and Treasures at 123 N.

Treasure Hunting, Continued on page 28

The Great Pinal Creek Flood

Grandma’s House of Antiques and Treasures / Photo by Libby Rooney

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THE BRAINS & THE BRAWN

Miami's Miami's Roberto Reveles Reveles Roberto The Ravello Travel Bicycle Page 8

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By Patti Daley

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Photo by LCGross

Roberto Reveles, 86, is living democracy. A civil rights activist, his CV includes 24 years as a congressional aide and 12 years as a gold mine executive, three years as President of ACLU-Arizona, decades of volunteer service for numerous civic and cultural concerns, and leader of one of the largest marches in Arizona history.

He was born to Mexican immigrants in the rural mountain town of Miami, Arizona in 1932.

Reveles, or Bobby, as his childhood friends call him, grew up in a “pretty diverse” neighborhood of mostly Yugoslavian and Mexican families.

He attended the newly opened elementary school for Apache, Mexican and Mexican-American students. It was a beautiful building, now the Bullion Plaza Museum. Across the highway was a little building for the handful of African-American students, and up the hill, Inspiration Addition School, for the ‘light-skinned’ Americans.

Sharing a look that says it all.

Story and photos by Patti Daley

Young love. Hard work. Sweet success. And rodeo.

This is the love story of Leroy and Velma Tucker, lifelong ranchers. They have been married 69 years and held ranches in five states, and the adventure all started, and now ends up, on a peaceful 30 acres near Pinto Creek.

“I remember every raindrop that fell since we moved here,” says Leroy Tucker, 90, marveling at how they ended up with “the best ranch in the state,” Bar 11.

He was born in 1928 on Greenback Mountain. He can still see its peak from his kitchen window. The family ranch was small and tough, and the move closer to town was a good one for Leroy, then 16. It opened him up to rodeo, and through rodeo, to Velma.

Love Story: Thelma and Leroy Tucker Roberto Reveles: Champion of the People Filmmaking in Miami High School

and San Carlos Dominion Cutting Company Democracy is Alive!, Continued on page 29

70-Year Romance, Continued on page 24

Filmmaking Comes

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ALL ROADS LEAD TO GLOBEMIAMI

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Gila County is home to some of Arizona’s geological highlights, easily visible and accessible from the highways that cross it. These range from stacks of rocks representing a billion years of earth history, to cryptic gaps in the rock record where just as much time has gone missing. There’s the frozen “Mother Magma” with its massive porphyry copper deposits, and the rock-record of ancient and modern springs, marine fossil localities, and unusual cave formations. Over the next year, this column will take you on a geological tour of the county’s highways. This first installment follows US 60, starting from Superior, across the Pinal county line, up to the county seat in Globe.

Just at the northern edge of the town of Superior (milepost 228), roadcuts display the 1.1-billion-year-old dark greenish rocks known as diabase. These were injected into the earth’s crust during an episode of stretching (or extension). You can see evidence of this event as far away as the Iron Range country of Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

From here, you quickly climb through a succession of quartzites, limestones, and shales dipping steeply to the east.

These were deposited under shallow seas that covered the western U.S. from 542 to 250 million years ago, during the era known as the Paleozoic (“old life”). This is when the number and diversity of life forms really exploded on earth. Fossilized corals; funny creatures known as crinoids that were like upside-down starfish connected to the ocean floor by a long, segmented stem; and brachiopods, similar in appearance but unrelated to clams, can all be found in the limestones in roadcuts here.

The scattered holes, mine dumps, and black and red-stained rocks you see along the highway from Superior to the Queen Creek tunnel are evidence of mineralization in the Magma Mine. The Magma, famous for high-grade copper ores, was developed by Col. William Boyce Thompson. Thompson later donated land to the state of Arizona for an arboretum, located just west of Superior.

Mineralization in the Magma mine is in rocks that are older than the Apache Leap Tuff, which we’ll soon see.

By the time you reach the Queen Creek tunnel at mile 228.5, you have crossed a major “unconformity.” Here, roughly 230 million years of the rock record are missing: all of the Mesozoic or “middle life” era (which was dinosaur time), and a large part of the Tertiary era – when mammals, including us, appeared. You’re now entering Ask A Geologist, Continued on page 27

Answers to crossword puzzle on page 24

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AZ Creative Professionals, Continued on page 32

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In Miami

A Champion of the People

By Patti Daley

A Creative Community Comes Together

Beards and Buzz Cuts

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Opens On Broad John Wong traveled the world, learning how to cook from locals in southern Europe, East Asia and Oceania.

Now he’s bringing his adventure home as proprietor and head chef of Bloom, a sleek new restaurant and sushi bar in downtown Globe.

“The community has been supportive,” John says in regards to the popular response.

Bloom, at 365 N Broad Street, opened in May to five-star reviews on Facebook, and a lot of excitement amongst the locals.

On Friday afternoons, it’s packed with the business lunch crowd; on Saturday nights, a younger set.

Weekday evenings, locals and travelers enjoy a late meal.

Open Wednesday through Saturday, from 11am–10pm, Bloom offers a big taste of six Asian cuisines, a full menu of appetizers, entrees, sake (rice wine), and sushi.

Some folks wonder about sushi in Globe.

Antiquing in historic downtown Globe and Miami never fails to fill a weekend with adventure and surprise.

From vintage porcelain figurines to a carved oak rocking chair, a roaring 20s fringed flapper dress or a 1950s tin windup carousel toy, you never know what you might find. The people you meet and the historic buildings you’ll see only add to the richness of the experience.

Miami Ave., just off the highway as you turn into historic downtown Miami.

Built in 1912, it once housed Wilton’s Paint and Wallpaper. Now Sammy, the cat, sits proprietarily on the counter keeping an eye on his realm of treasures.

Open Thursday through Sunday, 10 to 5.

Neto & Imagine, Continued on page 38

BLOOM

Cynamon Strong with Arizona Creative Professionals. Photo by Rodrigo Izquierdo

By Libby Rooney

Cross Fit comes to Globe-Miami BLOOM opens on Broad Ravello BikesReady for CrossFit The Year of the Woman

Summer outdoor concert in Globe. Photo by LCGross

By Patti Daley

FALL 2018

Treasure Hunting in GlobeMiami

*A new column will feature explanations of the rock formations in the region by local geologist Richard Levelle and photographs

by Greg McKelvey.

The 18.5-million-year-old Apache Leap tuff at milepost 229, US 60, north of Superior overlies older mineralization.

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Superior to Globe

Shultze Granite near Top of the World

This is a deeply buried deposit – it starts at about a mile deep! It stretches to the south of the highway, completely invisible under the rolling, oak-studded topography the cliffs and hoodoos of the much younger Apache Leaf formed by the Apache Leap.

Tuff, ever popular with rock climbers. The Apache Leap The Resolution deposit is a porphyry deposit.

Tuff was erupted 18.5 million years ago from calderas Porphyries are variants of copper that occur along the in the Superstition Mountains, 30 miles to the east. It is borders of granite. These porphyries are associated part of a volcanic field that stretches from the Goldfields with most of the great copper deposits in Arizona Mountains, near Usery Pass, all the way to Top-of-theand the world. Discovery and development of these World, blanketing older rocks. deposits spurred the opening of the western U.S. and When you top out on the plateau behind Superior, central Arizona. at around milepost 230, you will notice two mine shaft Did you know that porphyry copper deposits – headframes over a white waste dump, visible just below as well as many other metal deposits – formed from water the ridge to the southeast. These are the number 9 and 10 “boiled off” from granitic magmas as they rose and cooled shafts of the Magma Mine. Number 9 accesses the deep in the earth? That’s right: they come from deep in the eastern part of the Magma vein system, and number earth’s crust, where granitic magmas are generated above 10 is designed to give access to the huge Resolution subduction zones. One subduction zone lay beneath copper deposit. The Resolution deposit was discovered Arizona from about 75 to 55 million years ago. Many by drilling from the bottom of the Magma mine in 1995. granitic magmas contain up to 3% water. As a blob of magma rises through the crust to shallower and shallower levels, the weight of the column of rocks above it becomes less and less. This means that the pressure on the magma body drops until, sometimes, the water in it separates violently (“boils off”) from the molten rock.

This is like what would happen if you took a can of your favorite carbonated beverage from sea level to the top of Mount Everest.

The dissolved carbon dioxide in your beverage – be it Coke, beer, or sparkling water – would View of the Magma Number 10 Shaft, accessing the deeply buried Resolution Deposit, near mile-post 230, US 60. separate from the liquid

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and collect at the top of the can. Eventually, it would explode.

When this happens with water in a magma, a couple of things take place almost simultaneously. First, valuable elements, such as sulfur, iron, copper, gold, and silver are much happier in hot water than in a molten silicate magma, so that’s where they go. Second, that explosive release of metal-charged fluid can fracture the wall-rocks surrounding the magma. The magma cools dramatically after the explosion, and this can cause fractures in the resulting granite itself. With further cooling, the dissolved elements in the water are deposited as quartz veins.

These often contain valuable concentrations of metals as sulfide minerals. Porphyry deposits occur in the fantastic igneous textures that can be seen on outcrops along the old trace of US 60, away from the traffic and noise of the new version.

At Top-of-the-World (mile 236), you enter the knobby rounded outcrops of the Schultze Granite and stay in them almost to the town of Miami. This is frozen “Mother Magma” for the copper deposits of Pinto Valley, Miami, Globe, and probably Resolution and Superior. When you drive by the colorful rock piles and historical mines around the edges of the Schultze Granite, imagine how its porphyry deposits formed 64 million years ago! Shiny fractures in the roadcuts are coated with muscovite.

The Old Dominion mine, just to the east of US 60, nearly to Globe (milepost 258), is another famous former copper producer, and it is hosted in the same rocks that you saw as you drove out of Superior up to the Queen Creek tunnel. It was a vein very similar to the Magma vein in Superior – almost its mirror image.

With that, we complete our 24-mile Superior to Globe drive. In the fourth dimension, it encompassed over a billion years of earth history – although some 230 million years have gone missing! It traversed an area with rich copper, silver, gold, and zinc deposits that contributed greatly to the opening and development of this part of Arizona. n

Headframe of Old Dominion Mine, major historical copper producer just north of Globe, near milepost 249.5, US 60.

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“The Nurdberger's Café in Globe has a fun and funky theme but serves up some serious burgers.” Azcentral ‘Arizona’s best burgers’ September 7, 2018. Courtesy Photo

First, every road leading to Globe-Miami is a gorgeous drive with amazing views and places to take pictures, so let yourself stop and enjoy. [In future articles, we will highlight recommended stops and sightseeing along each route into our area.]

When you get to Globe-Miami, you may be ready to eat. Globe is the self-proclaimed “Mexican food capital of Arizona” and has the most Mexican restaurants per capita of any community over 10,000 people in America. So, if you like Mexican food, this is the place to find it; however, we also have other excellent options.

If it is breakfast time, consider Vida e Caffe (153 S. Broad Street) for hand-brewed coffees and fresh baked goods, Copper Hen (157 W. Cedar Street) for excellent quiche and stuffed French toast, La Luz del Dia (304 N. Broad Street, look for the giant coffee cup sign) for affordable Mexican options, or Judy’s Cookhouse (5412 S. Russell Road, Miami) offering traditional American diner options.

If it is lunch or dinner, you have even more recommendations. I enjoy El Rey Reynosa (999 N. Broad Street, open Tuesday to Sunday) as it has friendly and fast service, affordable prices, serves a nice corn and flour tortilla chip mix with both hot and mild salsa, and is the best place in town for fajitas (insider’s tip: the lunch special is available at any time). I also send people to Bloom (365 N. Broad Street, open Wednesday to Saturday) for creative Asian fusion dishes and interesting “American-style” sushi (try the Viva Las Vegas roll), as well as the nicest evening outdoor dining in town with their new fire pit seating area.

The Copper Bistro (2118 E. Highway 60, open Monday to Saturday) serves half-pound burgers, as well as pasta and sandwiches. I also enjoy the more casual atmosphere of Nurdberger’s (420 Hill Street, open Monday to Saturday) for great hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, rice bowls, and hand-mixed shakes in fun flavors.

If you are traveling with dogs, these are the restaurants with outdoor seating areas that will accommodate your

pooch: Nurdberger's, Vida e Caffe, and Copper Hen (see info listed above); Los Robertos (340 S. Broad) or La Cochina de Casillas’s Burger House (812 Live Oak Street in Miami) for Mexican food, and Dairy Queen (1643 E. Ash) which offers a “pup cup” of ice cream for your dog. [Look for future articles highlighting Globe features for dog lovers.]

Once your appetite is satiated, let’s start adventuring in Miami. If it is the weekend, I highly recommend exploring Sullivan Street (located one block north of Highway 60) which has numerous antique stores, art galleries, restaurants, and my favorite old-time ice cream and soda store: Soda Pops (505 Sullivan Street, open 11 am to 5 pm Friday to Sunday). To feed your curiosity, Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum (150 N. Plaza Circle, open Thursday to Sunday 11 am to 3 pm) offers well-curated Western history, mining information, and memorabilia from the many political figures that have come from this area. It has no admission fee, but donations are accepted (plan on a 30 to 60 minutes stop).

In Globe, there are great options for history lovers, shoppers, and folks looking to stretch a bit and breathe some fresh air. I recommend starting by going as far back in time as you can at Besh ba Gowah (1324 S. Jesse Hayes Road), the city-run archeological park for the Salado Indians, who lived in the area in the 1200’s. Start with the short introductory video for an overview of the site, pop into the little museum to see artifacts excavated from the site, then explore the recreated pueblo. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, and free for children 12 and under. Plan on a 30-60 minutes visit.

Another interesting step back-in-time is the 1910 Gila County Sheriff’s Office and Jail (149 E. Oak Street).

Pre-schedule a tour or take a chance that a tour operator

The park includes a series of large signage displays documenting the history of the mine and surrounding area. Photo by LCGross.

will be available by checking in at the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts (next door to the jail). Again, I highly recommend watching the brief introductory video before looking at the artifacts, hearing the stories, and experiencing the eerie claustrophobic atmosphere of the old metal cages used as cells. Plan on a visit of 30-45 minutes. Also, if you have an interest in the paranormal, this site is allegedly very haunted.

If you want to stretch your legs and/or burn off a little energy for younger travelers, the Old Dominion Historic Mine Park is a must-stop (163 Murphy Street, just minutes off Highway 60). This free park offers a mining-themed playground with a 100’ zip line, life-sized mule climber, and mine tunnel for the kids; several miles of walking and/or biking trails; historic mining artifacts; a 9-hole disc golf course; and lots of educational signage covering the mining, geology, and history of the area. Plan on 30 minutes for a quick exercise stop and up to 2 hours if you want to read all the signs and see all the artifacts.

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Old Dominion: A favorite feature of the park includes a great playground for kids. Photo by Thea Wilshire

WINTER 2019 Off The Beaten Path, continued from page 30 Please note: there are no facilities past the entrance and very little shade, so plan to bring water and wear appropriate sun protection.

Another interesting stop for art and history lovers is the old Gila County Courthouse, now the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts (101 N. Broad Street). This beautiful building has been restored entirely by volunteers and features an amazing staircase with copper bannisters.

It has multiple floors showcasing local artists with paintings, handcrafts, fabric art, pottery, drama, music, dance, and other forms of expressive arts. There are no admission costs, art is for sale, and I would plan on a 20-40 minutes stop.

If you want to hike and love experiencing desert flora and fauna, I recommend a stop at Round Mountain Park (it’s a little tricky to find, so look for Denny’s Restaurant, then go northeast on South Street until it becomes a dirt road that ends at the park entrance). This free park offers several miles of trails, with lots of steep climbs for cardiovascular stimulation. If you go to the top of the West Trail, you will reach the flagpole summit with a 360-degree view of Globe (a great place to head after our rare snowstorms!). I love Boulder Canyon for its colorful rocks and interesting trail.

For kids, I highly recommend the shorter Bullseye Trail with lots of little caves and eroded rocks to climb and explore. While the Old Dominion Historic Mine Park is a reclaimed mine site with wide, mostly flat trails, Round Mountain is more natural with narrow trails on largely undisturbed desert. Plan on 30-45 minutes for Bullseye Trail and 45-75 minutes for most of the other trails. I strongly recommend you take a picture of the map at the visitor’s center for logistical purposes.

Also, if hiking with dogs during rattlesnake season, do not let your animals off leash unless they have received rattlesnake aversion training.

For shoppers, we have already mentioned the great antique shops

DonnabyDesign is one of several popular Sullivan Street shops in Miami. Located next door to Soda Pops a favorite ice cream and soda shop. Photo by LCGross.

along Sullivan Street in Miami. In Globe, I recommend several additional stores.

Simply Sarah’s (opening soon in its new location at) bills itself as a “lifestyle store” with high-end women’s boutique clothing, gifts, and kitchen items.

Depending on how gifted a shopper you are, I would plan on 30-60 minutes. The Pickle Barrel Trading Post (404 S. Broad Street) is open seven days a week and offers Old West shopping with a fantastic selection of Native American art, Sleeping Beauty turquoise, local and Southwest tourist items, copper splash, yard art, and vintage/antique collectables. Plan on 4590 minutes. For bargain hunters, the High Desert Humane Society Thrift Boutique Store (150 W. Mesquite) offers a wide selection of merchandise at basement prices that support a worthy cause. Allot 15-30 minutes shopping time.

The Globe-Miami area offers something for everyone willing to get off the highway. This brief overview allows an introduction to the community and may plant a seed for you to return again for a longer visit or possibly a move to this wonderful region.

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At the Flying UW, three generations of women work together on the ranch. From left, Jenny Meyer Cordrey, Sarah Meyer Cline, their mother Francie Meyer, Sarah Cline, and Audrey Cordrey.

“I want people to understand the work that we put in to provide beef to people.”

“It’s one of the most positive things I’ve been involved with.”

~ ACIF President Suzanne Menges about the publication of Ranch-Raised Kids

~ Cody Burgett of Rafter Cross Ranch

Ranch-Raised Kids, continued from page 1 Seth Joel and Charlie Holland, a husband–wife team based in Los Angeles, got the idea for Ranch-Raised Kids while shooting rodeos in the Southwest. The ranch kids, they noticed, were different.

“The children are so mature for their age,” Seth remarks.

Impressed by the manners of the children, the skills they brought forth,

The foundation was looking for ways to get their message across, and Suzanne saw the potential in the project.

“It celebrated the families and the children and our industry,” she says. “It was a win-win.”

“She saw that what we were doing was entirely neutral and apolitical,” Charlie adds, “and that if we worked together, we could publish the book in a timely fashion.”

With support from the ACIF, and one of their photos on the cover of ACIF’s catalog, Seth and Charlie went calling on Arizona ranching families. and the support from the community for their interests, Seth and Charlie were inspired to learn more.

They knew they needed a strategy for reaching the families.

“One thing that everybody values is their children,” Seth says.

They reached out to Suzanne Menges, president of Arizona Cattle Industry Foundation (ACIF), with the idea of telling the story of ranching through the eyes of the kids.

Ranch Visit: Flying UW Ranch, Pinal County They arrived at the Flying UW Ranch, to meet the Meyer family, with a flat tire.

“Instantly the kids got out all the tools they needed, jacked up the car, took off the tire, put a patch on it, and got it back on the car,” Seth reports. “They were like a pit crew.”

Astonished, he adds, “And, they seemed so happy to do us the favor!”

The Flying UW Ranch is owned by Walter and Francie Meyer. At age 70, Walter is still working the same ranch he was born on, one of two large ranches he and Francie own.

Two of their four daughters live on the ranch, with their children. Two of their granddaughters are featured in the Ranch-Raised Kids book.

Katie Meyer Cline said she was happy to participate because she felt aligned with the mission, and she agrees that ranch kids really are a lot farther along than other kids.

“They know more,” she asserts.

“They’ve experienced more.” She liked that the children were being honored in this way.

Her daughter, Sarah Cline, is a skilled ranch hand and acute observer of horses. Her niece, Audrey Cordrey, tracks detailed data on the cattle. Both girls are fifth-generation ranchers and have been helping out at the Flying UW Ranch since an early age.

“I still have a lot to learn,” says Sarah, 13, See Ranch-Raised Kids, page 33

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Ranch-Raised Kids, continued from page 32 “and I have to get better at the things I already know.”

Katie reports that the kids were a little embarrassed being photographed, because they’re not used to it, but they all appreciated the experience.

“Charlie talked to the kids a lot,” she says, “and Seth was fun to joke with.”

In some ways, Seth and Charlie observed, ranch kids are similar to teens anywhere.

“There are a lot of cell phones,” Seth declares, “and some great Instagrammers.”

Ranch kids love music and concerts.

They love clothes.

“When they dress for 4H and rodeo, they really go all out,” Charlie observes.

Ranch Visit: The Rafter Cross, Gila County Brandon Burgett, born and raised in Globe, is the manager of the Rafter Cross, 65 square miles of rugged backcountry between Roosevelt Lake and Two Bar Ridge in the Superstition Mountains.

He and his wife, Angelina, manage several ranching properties, including two of their own on the San Carlos reservation.

Their children, four sons and a daughter, work with them. They’re welltrained to make the right decisions, Seth and Charlie observed, and are allowed to voice an opinion.

“In this day and age, that is really exciting, to see kids have that kind of confidence,” Seth remarks.

Tristan Burgett, 22, works methodically; he focuses on safety concerns and the structural integrity of their water source.

Twins Cody and Cutter, 18, love the ranching life and are acquiring skills and certifications needed by 21st-century cattlemen.

“It is actually a career, and you have to take a while lifetime to learn what we have to do,” says Cutter.

The youngest Burgetts have other ambitions. Audra, 12, wants to be a

“Working on a ranch makes me a better person because it keeps me humble." ~ Audra Burgett

physical therapist. Luke, 17, has dreams of Hollywood and plans to earn an MBA. “You can’t give up on what you want to do,” he says. “You have to strive for it.”

Seth and Charlie are interested to see how the kids’ aspirations will play out in the future. They expect some will stay in ranching, some will stay in ranchingrelated fields, and some will drift away from the ranch.

“The remarkable thing about these kids,” says Charlie, “is that whatever they choose to do, they will take with them the determination, problem-solving skills, and habit of hard work that they have learned as children.”

The Book For Sale Ranch-Raised Kids is available for sale on the ACIF website. All profits go toward ACIF’s scholarship fund.

“It’s one of the most positive things I’ve been involved with,” says Suzanne Menges, “and I’m thrilled that it’s come to fruition after three years.”

Now she wants to get the book into the hands of schoolchildren, “so the next generation knows what ranching in Arizona looks like.”

The 100-page book has 50 color plates and was printed in Tucson.

“We started in Arizona,” Seth says. “We wanted to finish in Arizona.”

Proud of the effort, the co-authors feel the children featured in the book have presented themselves in a very professional way.

“They were able to be honest,” says Charlie. “I really admire that.”

To purchase the book, use the order form at www.azcattlemensassoc.org/foundation.

For more about the project, visit the RanchRaised Kids Facebook page: https://www. facebook.com/ranchraisedkids/.

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Apaches, continued from page 1 The Sobaipuri O’odham are the ancestors of the Wa:k O’odham, the riverdwelling irrigation farming O’odham who still reside at San Xavier del Bac (Wa:k), south of Tucson. In fact, Sobaipuri lived on all the major rivers of southeastern Arizona, including the Santa Cruz from its headwaters to just north of Tucson, all along the San Pedro, the Babocomari River, Sonoita Creek, Aravaipa Creek, and even a portion of the Gila River.

Indeed, their ancient name, s-o:bîma (s- awe be ma) or as we know it, Sobaipuri, derives from an O’odham word meaning “warlike,” “Apache-like,” or “being like Apaches, enemies,” that is, fierce fighters.

It may also be translated as “being many enemy” or “where there are many enemy,” perhaps referencing Sobaipuri settlements on the frontier with the enemy or their fierce fighting capabilities. This name s-o:bîma was not a self-reference, but rather is thought to have originated among the Tohono and Hia Ced O’odham, their desert dwelling cousins to the west in what are now the Gu Achi and Guvo districts of the Tohono O’odham Nation.

Jesuit Padre Eusebio Kino and his military escorts adopted this reference to these southeastern Akimel (River) O’odham in the 1690s, writing their hearing of the word in their journals as “Sobaipuri,” perhaps also utilizing an older dialect.

The desert terrain provided ample cover if you knew how to use it. Photo by Deni Seymore

The Sobaipuri’s reputation was widely known, even among Europeans.

Jesuit priests recorded their hard-won reputation. For example, in 1716 Padre Luís Velarde stated that “The Pimas are valiant and daring, as is proven by the wars which the Sobaipuris and the rest of the Northern tribes have maintained against the Apaches.” In 1764 Padre Juan Nentvig noted that “The most warlike of all the Pimas are commonly called Sobaipuris for having been born and raised on the border of the Apaches.”

The Sobaipuri and many other

Sonoran tribes practiced a deeply entrenched, widespread style of warfare.

In the mid 1700s Jesuit Padre Ignaz Pfefferkorn dedicated an entire chapter to describing the Sonoran Methods of Warfare. His description included the use of mountain side breastworks (trincheras), ambushes, concealed combat rather than fighting in the open, fading into the rugged rocky terrain, scalping, use of face paint and war headdresses, moving about without cumbersome field equipment that would impede movement, the prewar conference with tobacco, notification of distant participants by use of a counting device—all those things attributed to and characteristic of the later Apache.

A number of historical accounts reinforce the notion of the Sobaipuri as the region’s foremost fighters. None is more pertinent than an event that occurred in 1698, when 500 Apaches and their allies attacked an 80-person village on the San Pedro River. As a result of the battle, where neighboring O’odham warriors came to the aid of the small village, half the enemy died, while only five O’odham were killed. After this, the Apaches and their allies surrendered at El Paso and Janos presidios. They did so with the plea that the Spanish would go to war against and protect them against the mean Pima (that

Pima warrior

is, the San Pedro branch of the Sobaipuri O’odham). You can read about this event and its causes and consequences in A Fateful Day in 1698.

The Apaches that the American cavalry fought during the Apache Wars were a regional creation, embedded in a deeper history.

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WINTER 2019 Apaches, continued from page 34 they engaged with the Mexicans and Americans. This centuries-long training made them fearsome foes for the American Cavalry, even when weapons and technology were upgraded by their enemies.

Apaches in the south were the most seasoned, demonstrating specialized and proficient tactics, organization, and planning usually not attributed to the Apache by historians. Nowhere is this more apparent than the 1871 skirmish where Juh and his warriors tracked and then ambushed Lt. Howard B. Cushing and his detachment of Troop F of the 3rd US Cavalry.

The dominance of the Apache did not occur until the late 1700s as a result of a number of historical factors. By then many of the allied nations had melded into various bands of Apaches, which you can read about in the next column.

About the Author: For 30 years, Deni Seymour, Ph.D has studied the ancestral Apaches, Sobaipuri Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;odhams and lesser-known mobile groups. She will be a guest lecturer for Bullion Plazaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hardscrabble series on March 20th. Her lecture on the crushing blow to the U.S. Calvary at the hands of Nednhi Apache leader Juh describes how the most experienced Indian fighter of that time was out-witted and out-maneuvered by the superior leadership and skills of Juh and his warriors.

Apaches being taught to shoot. Unknown Source

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