Celebrating the Art of Living in Southern Arizona
Aug/Sept 2009 Vol. IIII No. 9
August/September 2009 Tubac Villager
This month's Artwork, Aliso Springs, Tubac, oil 20x24, is by Tubac artist, David Simons.
by Joseph Birkett
Pg 4 Santa Cruz County Update by Kathleen Vandervoet Pg 6 Event Calendar Southern AZ History
Pg 8 Elephant Head by Mary Bingham Grady Garth Powell
Pg 12 A Cowboy's Memories by Hattie Wilson 10 Fun Things to do Around Tubac
Pg 14 When Your Grandkids Visit by Carole Thrasher Pg 15 Tubac's Ronald Morriss Park by Kathleen Vandervoet Exploring the Southwest
Pg 16 By the Trail Less Traveled by Roseann Hanson
Pg 20 Letter from Africa by Tim Vandervoet
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David has an excellent online gallery where you can see many of his works which includes new paintings and some commissioned and previously sold pieces displayed: www.davidsimonsfineart.com
"I consider myself a tonalist, rather than a colorist. I like to explore the subtle ways that light affects the landscape. I also enjoy color, but the value relationships in a landscape are what interest me most. Another quality that I like to emphasize in my work is the abstract nature of the landscapes that surround us. Painting for me is a meditative experience--essential to my well-being, and a necessary part of my life. Painting also brings me great joy, and, I hope, uplifts the hearts of those who view my work." ~ David Simons
You can also view David's work at the Tubac Center of the Arts through August 30.
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David's work is also shown at the Max Gallery in Tucson and Rich Design Gallery in Colorado Springs, CO.
Pg 21 The Green July Beetle by Carl Olson Pg 22 We Have to Save the World by Carol St. John
Biography
David Simons was born in Ontario, Canada in 1951. In 1984 he moved to Haifa, Israel to work as a construction supervisor on major projects at the Baha‘i World Centre. It was in Israel that he began painting, at the age of 33.
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Olivia Cabot of Hugh Cabot Studios and Gallery in Old Town, Tubac has several times made a point to compliment David Simon's brushwork to me in our conversations about art. If you have ever had a conversation about art with Olivia, you will know that this is indeed high-praise. If you have not had a conversation about art with Olivia, you really must.
It is of course best to view paintings in person. Locally, David Simon's work is represented by the Karin Newby Gallery, located in the Mercado de Baca Shopping Plaza in Tubac, just over the footbridge, next to Shelby's Bistro.
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Pg 18 Monsoon Skies by Murray Bolesta
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avid's paintings conjure in me an appreciation for the possibilities of visual adventure here in Southern Arizona. For, within the vast and ever-changing light of our landscape, encompassed in craggy mountains and sweeping bajadas, there lay countless subtleties which sustain a sense of novelty in the familiar reminding me of the way shadows will momentarily fall on a mountain you've watched for decades to suddenly reveal a new dimension or perhaps a whole new mountain will pop into view to never leave, nd even when the light fades to makes a silhouette of the skyline, you remember that somewhere in that darkness, those mountains are coming at you as much as riding along side. Which of course keeps things fresh, and David's work really captures that for me.
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Above: "Arizona Light" oil 20"x 24" Below: "Rider" oil 20"x 16"
David is a self-taught artist. Having started as a watercolorist, he now prefers painting in oil. He is primarily a landscape artist but also enjoys still life and portrait painting. David Simons has lived in Tubac, Arizona since 1993.
His work has won acclaim in the southwestern United States and is collected internationally. David is a member of Oil Painters of America. He is also a distinguished Artist Member of the Tucson Plein Air Painters’ Society, and one of the founding members of PASSA (Plein Air Painters’ Society of Southern AZ). He is also a member of the American Impressionist Society.
This is a two-month issue covering August and September 2009. Please look for the Tubac Villager's new October issue, to be on the stands October 1. The Tubac Villager is also available online at www.TubacVillager.com. Which will be including new content and old archives for Fall. Keep checking back for new additions. The Tubac Villager Event Calender is available for your business or organization to submit information for your local event. Events should be available to the public and free unless not-for-profit. Advertising supporters of the Tubac Villager are invited to contribute their for-profit events and images for additional promotion. Brevity is the soul of wit. Please note the next DEADLINE for advertising and articles for the OCTOBER 2009 issue is September 18th. Call or visit our website for more information. 520-398-3980 www.tubacvillager.com
Mary Bingham Joseph Birkett Murray Bolesta Jonathan Hanson Roseann Hanson Jared Newton Carl Olson
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Fire district taxes rising
Property taxes for residents of the Tubac Fire District are rising under a budget adopted by the five-member board on July 8. That’s due to repayments for the bond election to pay for construction projects approved in November 2008. The tax rate that funds daily operations remains the same, at $2.64 per $100 of assessed valuation. Tacked onto that is the bond repayment of $0.73 per $100 of assessed valuation, for a total rate of $3.37. The fire district is building two stations in Rio Rico during the upcoming 12 months. The entire north portion of Rio Rico is inside the boundaries of the Tubac Fire District. The five-member board of the Tubac Fire District voted July 8 at a public meeting to adopt a new budget of $11.3 million for the fiscal year that runs July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010. That’s up significantly from last year’s budget of $5.83 million because it includes $6 million from a bond approved by voters to build a total of three fire stations. The total assessed valuation within the district’s boundaries is $130,200,082, according to budget documents. The fire district has 30 full time firefighters/emergency
medical responders, which includes administrators, and four full time civilian staff support. There are 19 part time reserve members, Fire Chief Kevin Keeley said. The new budget includes 3 percent raises for employees. Keeley anticipates adding three new firefighters in January but plans to keep a watch on the updated assessed valuation before a final decision, he said.
Planning commission adds member
From District 1, Supervisor Manuel Ruiz’s district, members are Nanci Pottinger, Wendy Stover and Marcelino Varona. From District 2, Rudy Molera’s district, members are Bill Cox, David Gutfahr and Billy Padilla. Members are not paid, and the commission normally meets at 2 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at the county complex in Nogales. Meetings are open to the public.
School district adds administration building
Tubac has two residents serving on the Santa Cruz County Planning and Zoning Commission. Lil Hunsacker of Tubac is chairman of the Santa Cruz County Planning and Zoning Commission.
A new administration building will replace a small modular facility in the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District No. 35 (Rio Rico and Tubac).
Kim Etherington, administrative assistant for the Tubac Chamber of Commerce since 2004, was appointed to the commission on July 22 to fill a vacancy. She was nominated by John Maynard, supervisor for District 3. Sheila Daguson is the other District 3 representative.
A contract for the 6,192-square-foot building was awarded July 6 to the low bidder and construction was to start in late July on Rio Rico property already owned by the district.
Etherington’s term runs just to September and is to finish the term of her predecessor, who resigned. Maynard said he will recommend her for a new term at that time. The commission has nine members, three each from the three county supervisors’ district.
The district administration building and its parking lot will cost $914,500, said project manager Liz Rullo, who works for Arcatas. Camwest Group, Inc., of Tucson was the low bidder among 18 bids that were submitted, said District 35 Superintendent Dan Fontes. Funding comes from the sale of bonds approved by voters in 2007.
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School tax rate unknown
When the governing board of the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District No. 35 met on July 6 to approve the budget for the fiscal year, a lack of information from state sources meant they could not determine the property tax rate. The board approved a budget of $18,877,055. The teaching staff was reduced by 13 in board action taken on April 2, District 35 Superintendent Dan Fontes said. He said new teachers have been hired, but only to replace those who have resigned. Business Manager Isela Brown said she expects to develop a more detailed budget as soon as financial information is released at the state level. She hopes to present that to the governing board by Sept. 15. Tuesday, Aug. 4, was the first day of classes for students, and school will end Friday, May 21, 2010.
County budget at $111 million
At a July 15 meeting, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a tentative budget of $111,542,792 for the fiscal year of July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010. The final budget is to be approved following a public hearing at a meeting scheduled Wednesday, Aug. 12, at 10:30 a.m. at the Santa Cruz County complex in Nogales.
The primary property tax rate is proposed to drop from $3.0142 per $100 of assessed valuation to $2.8956. The budget approved a year ago was for $69.3 million. However, St. John said she had neglected to include approximately $40 million for the construction of a new county jail. The supervisors were later notified of that. This year’s budget does incorporate the jail construction funds. She said about $17 million of the work has been completed with another $40 million to be paid out. For information, contact St. John at (520) 375-7820.
Delays continue for immigration checkpoint
The number of delays to the planned upgrades for the Border Patrol’s immigration checkpoint on Interstate 19 between Tubac and Amado are puzzling. It’s unclear why the agency’s design engineers didn’t anticipate the many requirements when it was announced a year ago that work would start almost immediately. Because numerous area residents and business owners oppose the checkpoint and question its effectiveness and whether there will be benefits equal to the cost of improvements, the setbacks have not caused disappointment in the surrounding community.
In July the Border Patrol announced that still another delay had become apparent and that the date for completion of the interim facility is now approximately May 2010. Five representatives from the Border Patrol attended the July 15 monthly meeting of the Tubac Chamber of Commerce. John Fitzpatrick, division chief of operations for the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, and other Border Patrol officials spoke about the need for the checkpoint improvements to reduce the number of smuggled humans and smuggled drugs. There was also a presentation by the Coalition for a Safe and Secure Border, which endorses more spending on Border Patrol resources but opposes the permanent checkpoint. The next step is a $1.5 million interim facility. For that, the northbound highway will be widened from two to three lanes and several modular buildings will be brought in with Internet and computer connections and an area in which suspects can be detained, and the East Frontage Road will be modified. A metalframed shade canopy spanning the three lanes will be installed. Fitzgerald said the agency is still committed to its plan to build a $27 million permanent facility with multiple buildings and six lanes, which will operate 24 hours a day. (Contact Kathleen Vandervoet at kathleenvan@msn.com.)
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- Outdoor Fitness Boot Camp at the Tubac Golf Resort. For more info call 520-860-0541 or email kristinav@stockfitnesstubac.com. saTuRdays - Free art Workshops at the Tubac Community Center in the senior lunch room. A group of local artists gather weekly from 9 am to noon to draw from a live model and anyone interested is invited to join. We all take turns to model, or if we have a volunteer they take home at least one portrait of themselves done by our artists. There is a range of skill levels and beginners are always welcome, and the artists help anyone who requests it. Bring newsprint and charcoal sticks. For more information about the workshop or to volunteer as a model call (520) 398-2122. - Classic songs with Becky Reyes at Stables Ranch Grille at the Tubac Golf Resort. WeekeNds in august - Tubac Center of the arts suMMeR GaLLeRy featuring the works of 19 acclaimed artists, refreshments, demonstrations and more (see below for details). For more info call (520) 398-2371.
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Thurs, aug 6th - deanna Thibault and sylvia Herrera demonstrating painting at the Tubac Center of the Arts SUMMER GALLERY. For more info call (520) 398-2371. Thurs, aug 6th - sustainable santa Cruz Meeting at 5:30pm at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Rd. Attend and help establish the partnerships that will be the basis for this critical effort, to bring a unified and comprehensive transition to our communities. Be part of the planning of educational events to support sustainable living practices, and to hear from environmental groups that study the I-19 corridor and Santa Cruz watershed. Fri, aug 7th, 5-8pmish~ FIRsT FRIday w/Chef Art's Fish & Chips, 2-for1 Margaritas and Live Music by Eduardo Valencia at Wisdom's Cafe in Tumacacori. (Reservations recommended)) 398-2397. Premiering Fri, aug 7th - Prepare yourself for a night filled with music, comedy-drama, and air raid sirens when you come to see the de anza Players perform C.P. Taylor’s and a Nightingale sang on August 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 2009, at 7:00pm at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W. Continental Road, Green Valley, Arizona. This humorous play set in 1940’s England during World War II will have you smiling as the Stott family deals with the adult issues that a war foists upon them. With this play, Taylor crafted a tale of a truly dysfunctional English family. Helen Stott, a girl with “one leg shorter than the other,” deals with a sister, Joyce, who cannot make up her mind if she loves the man she eventually marries, Eric, who is going off to war; a mother, Peggy, obsessed with the church and her religion; a father, George, who tries to escape from the realities of his life through his music; a grandfather, Andie, who desperately attempts to exert his independence at the expense of the rest of the family; and a boyfriend, Norman, who tends to be wishy-washy with her. Tickets can be purchased at the Community Performing Arts Center in Green Valley,(520) 399-1750; the Green Valley/Sahuarita Chamber of Commerce,(520) 6257575; Alexander’s on Morley Ave. in Nogales, (520) 287-5103; Nonna Vivi’s Pizzeria in the Rio Rico Plaza, (520) 313-0071; Adult tickets are $18 at the door, $15 in advance; senior tickets are $15 at the door, $12 in advance; student tickets are $12 at the door, $9 in advance. sat, aug 8th - Manny Herrera, professional singer with a 30 year, crowd pleasing career, will be performing from 1-3pm at the Tubac Center of the Arts SUMMER GALLERY. For more info call 520-398-2371. sat, aug 8th - deanna Thibault showing watermedia, collage and sealing work for hanging from 1:30-4:00pm at the Tubac Center of the Arts SUMMER GALLERY. For more info call 520-398-2371.
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sat, aug 8th - FRee Presentation - Join us in our journey and learn about life enriching solutions in healing mind, body and spirit. Learn about the "Power of Art, Reiki - Natural Healing, Herbs for Self Care, Chakra Acupuncture, Chakra Tuning and Balancing and Integral QiGong. Presenters: Linda Crawford, Cathie Jo, Jacqui Smith, Kathleen Kellerman, Crystal Johnson and Suzanne Schinkel. 6:00 - 7:30pm at the Green Valley Village (Mall) Suite 16. Seating is limited. Please Call 520-429-5955 or 520245-8449. sat, aug 8th - C.P. Taylor’s and a Nightingale sang at 7:00pm at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W. Continental Road, Green Valley. Tickets can be purchased at the Community Performing Arts Center in Green Valley,(520) 399-1750. Adult tickets are $18 at the door, $15 in advance; senior tickets are $15 at the door, $12 in advance; student tickets are $12 at the door, $9 in advance. sat, aug 8th, 7:30 PM – FILM, “Blue Gold: World Water Wars”. Following numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools, “Blue Gold: World Water Wars” is divided into three narrative sections, and crafted from standard documentary ingredients: interviews, archival and contemporary footage, and compelling graphics. Its point is simple; we've a finite amount of water and an ever-growing population. 90 min., Recommended ages 12 & up; $5. This August and September, Global Change Multi-Media nonprofit presents exciting, entertaining, educational, and cultural events for the whole family. *These events are fund-raisers with proceeds to benefit teen & young adult rehabilitation programs and Avalon Gardens internships of Global Community Communications Alliance 501(c)(3). All events take place at the Tubac Plaza Main Stage next to the Out Of The Way Galleria at 29 Tubac Plaza (in case of rain, events will be indoors at 26 Tubac Plaza, across the street from the Out Of The Way Galleria). Please call 520-3982542 and sign up on the email list to be kept informed as shows are added. Tues, aug 11th - Michael arthur Jayme showing the use of pastels at the Tubac Center of the Arts SUMMER GALLERY from 11am to 4pm. For more info call 520-398-2371. Tues, aug 11th - FRee Presentation - Join us in our journey and learn about life enriching solutions in healing mind, body and spirit. Learn about the "Power of Art, Reiki - Natural Healing, Herbs for Self Care, Chakra Acupuncture, Chakra Tuning and Balancing and Integral QiGong.
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Presenters: Linda Crawford, Cathie Jo, Jacqui Smith, Kathleen Kellerman, Crystal Johnson and Suzanne Schinkel. 6:00 - 7:30pm at the Green Valley Village (Mall) Suite 16. Seating is limited. Please Call 520-4295955 or 520-245-8449. Wed, aug 12th, 5-8pmish ~ BBQ NIGHT ~ a newer Wisdom's tradition featuring Chef Art's incredible Slow Smoked Ribs, Brisket & Pulled Pork plus Live Music at Wisdom's Cafe in Tumacacori. (Reservations recommended) 398-2397. Wed, aug 12th - C.P. Taylor’s and a Nightingale sang at 7:00pm at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W. Continental Road, Green Valley. Tickets can be purchased at the Community Performing Arts Center in Green Valley,(520) 399-1750. Adult tickets are $18 at the door, $15 in advance; senior tickets are $15 at the door, $12 in advance; student tickets are $12 at the door, $9 in advance. Fri, aug 14th, 5-8pmish ~ LIVe MusIC at Wisdom's Cafe in Tumacacori. 398-2397. Fri, aug 14th, 7:30 PM – FILM, “all Jacked up”. How jacked up do our kids have to get before they notice what we’re doing to them? “All Jacked Up” is an angst-driven portrait of four teenagers who discover the truth about their obsessive, addictive, and emotion-fueled eating habits. These teens are challenged to come to grips with their harmful lifestyles and what their unhealthy future holds. This frank and witty look at what’s really going on inside the bodies, hearts and minds of the teen generation is a wake up call for them to stand up and demand change. 110 min.; Recommended ages 12 & up; $5. At the Tubac Plaza Main Stage next to the Out Of The Way Galleria at 29 Tubac Plaza (in case of rain, events will be indoors at 26 Tubac Plaza, across the street from the Out Of The Way Galleria). Please call 520-398-2542 and sign up on the email list to be kept informed as shows are added. Fri & sat, aug 14th & 15th - C.P. Taylor’s and a Nightingale sang at 7:00pm at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W. Continental Road, Green Valley. Tickets can be purchased at the Community Performing Arts Center in Green Valley,(520) 399-1750. Adult tickets are $18 at the door, $15 in advance; senior tickets are $15 at the door, $12 in advance; student tickets are $12 at the door, $9 in advance.
Fri, aug 21st, 5-8pmish ~ MONsOON PaTIO PaRTy ~ join us for a special menu featuring Shrimp Stir Fry, Chicken Teryaki Skewers, Tender Beef w/ broccoli, Fried Rice, Egg Rolls & Asian Noodle Stir Fry. Live Music by Amber Norgaard (RESERVATIONS REQUIRED ONLY FOR THE SPECIAL MENU) at Wisdom's Cafe in Tumacacori. 398-2397. Fri, aug 21st - 7:30 PM – FILM, “edgar Cayce: The Beautiful dreamer”. Edgar Cayce (1877 - 1945), was dubbed "the Sleeping Prophet" and "the Father of Holistic Medicine" because he was able to bring forth incredible information from a deep, self-induced trance. Winner, "Most Thought-provoking Documentary", Sedona International Film Festival, 2005. "It is the best film ever made on my father." ~Edgar Evans Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son. 90 min.; All ages ; $5. At the Tubac Plaza Main Stage next to the Out Of The Way Galleria at 29 Tubac Plaza (in case of rain, events will be indoors at 26 Tubac Plaza, across the street from the Out Of The Way Galleria). Please call 520-398-2542 and sign up on the email list to be kept informed as shows are added. sat, aug 22nd - Manny Herrera, professional singer with a 30 year, crowd pleasing career, will be performing from 1-3pm at the Tubac Center of the Arts SUMMER GALLERY. For more info call 520-398-2371. sat, aug 22nd - 7:00PM - CONCeRT, “The Titan Valley Warheads” from Tucson. The nuclear weapons system they were named after is long gone, but the Titan Valley Warheads live on as Tucson's premier Western swing/bluegrass band. Known for their tight harmonies and instrumental skills the Titan Valley Warheads won the prestigious "Best Band" award at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and have been voted "Best Bluegrass Band" by the Tucson Area Music Awards. All ages; Admission: Ages 12 & up, $15 adv; $18 day of show – Ages 6 to 11, $7.50 adv; $9 day of show – Ages 5 & under FREE. At the Tubac Plaza Main Stage next to the Out Of The Way Galleria at 29 Tubac Plaza (in case of rain, events will be indoors at 26 Tubac Plaza, across the street from the Out Of The Way Galleria). Please call 520-398-2542 and sign up on the email list to be kept informed as shows are added. sun, aug 23rd - Tubac musician, Gary Isaacson will be playing the “soft rock” classics on acoustic guitar from 1-4pm at the Tubac Center of the Arts SUMMER GALLERY. For more info call 520-398-2371.
sat, aug 15th - Rebecca O'day working with recycled-found object-trash collaging, “Resurrection art” at the Tubac Center of the Arts SUMMER GALLERY. For more info call 520-398-2371.
Tues, aug 25th - Michael arthur Jayme showing the use of pastels at the Tubac Center of the Arts SUMMER GALLERY from 11am to 4pm. For more info call 520398-2371.
sun, aug 16th - Tubac musician, Gary Isaacson will be playing the “soft rock” classics on acoustic guitar from 1-4pm at the Tubac Center of the Arts SUMMER GALLERY. For more info call 520-398-2371.
Thurs & Fri, aug 27th & 28th - Magic Land Realty & Investments, LLC is providing a series of free seminars to the public on two key topics for today’s times. The first topic is on The First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit, including a discussion on how the new $8,000 tax credit can benefit individuals currently renting properties. Information covered in this segment will include special financing packages and potential tax benefits that may enable renters to own their own home or condominium. The second topic, Your Way Home Program, is a loan program designed to benefit buyers who are interested in acquiring foreclosed bank owned properties. This program provides 22% of the total purchase price on a grant basis. At the Magic Land Realty office location at 26 Tubac Road, Suite #A-1. Thurs at 6pm, Fri at 3pm. For reservations or more information, call (520) 4036271 or register by email at info@magiclandrealty.com.
Mon & Tues, aug 17th & 18th - auditions for The Laramie Project will be held at 6:30pm at the Community Performing Arts Center rehearsal hall, 1250 W. Continental Road in Green Valley. Performance dates are October 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th . The play covers the year from Matthew Shepard’s death to the trial of two young Laramie men. The Laramie Project is a docudrama addressing a provocative reality: hate crimes. The playwrights interviewed over 200 people in the year following Matthew Shepard’s death, then edited the work down to 75 voices. The playwrights created a balanced portrayal of how this community coped with the event and their healing process. Many voices and viewpoints are represented. Each of the actors will play multiple roles. Scripts are now available for review. Call DD Jay 777-4478 or visit www.scshoestringplayers.com Tues, aug 18th - Michael arthur Jayme showing the use of pastels at the Tubac Center of the Arts SUMMER GALLERY from 11am to 4pm. For more info call 520398-2371. Thurs, aug 20th - sustainable santa Cruz Meeting at 5:30pm at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Rd. Working to build a resilient community in the face of future challenges - peak oil, climate change, and the economy.
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as Elephant Head has many faces it JfromustalsoTucson has had many names. Driving south on I-19, it is hard not to be
intrigued and curious about the massive monolith of the Santa Cruz River Valley. It appears to be nestled in the womb of the Santa Rita Mountains from the northern approach, while from Amado, the huge peak of granite towers over the landscape, presenting its face in full glory. However, the vista from the southern approach through Nogales, Rio Rico, Tumacácori, Carmen and Tubac is just plain awesome. Elephant Head sails out from the fortress of the Santa Ritas like a grand ship of the desert. Of course, Elephant Head is the peak's latest name. It has had many names over the centuries given by various latecomers.
Long gone are the names given to it by the Hohokam, Sobáipuri, Pima, Tohono O'odham and Apache. Was it perhaps a sacred mountain in earlier days — the site of holy sacrifices? Or could it have been the place of violent death for tribal enemies? The truth to the stories of Indians taking captives to the peak and throwing them off is given some credence with the account of the 1860 kidnapping of Larcena Pennington Page in Madera Canyon. Larcena told of her capturers, member of the Tonto Apache tribe, stabbing her, striping her of her clothing, throwing her off the trail into a ravine high atop the Santa Ritas, then stoning her as she lay unconscious. Firsthand accounts of similar incidences associated with Elephant Head may exist, but have yet to be uncovered by this writer.
ElEphant hEad or ElEphant hEad ButtE
The head of an elephant on the face of the monolith is very easy to see from Amado. While the entire left side of an elephant climbing up into the Santa Rita Mountains appears best from the Green Valley approach. With head held high, and trunk curling downward on the backside of the formation, one front leg and sometimes one hind leg can be seen when the shadows are just right.
the hardships and continual challenges the emigrants encountered as they crossed our vast continent.
Many versions of the term "I've seen the elephant" abound. One of the earliest appeared in Olive Newell's book, Tail of the Elephant: The Emigrant Experience on the Truckee Route of the California Trail, 18441852.
Seeing the image of an elephant in the big peak, may date back to forty-eighters and forty-niners of the California Gold Rush era. "I've seen the elephant," was an expression used by emigrants crossing the plains and possibly the southern trails as well. Seeing the elephant was an acknowledgement of
A farmer wished to see the circus, but to pay the entrance fee he had first to market his wagon load of produce. As he entered town, [he] met the circus cavalcade led by a magnificent elephant. This gigantic and strange animal so terrified his horse that it reared and bolted, overturning the wagon, breaking the
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wheel, harness and shaft and throwing the farmer into the ditch. Emerging from the spilt milk, broken eggs and crushed vegetables, himself bruised and dazed, he was greeted with sympathy from bystanders. But he only shrugged and grinned, ‘At least I got to see the elephant.’
Elephant Head as a name was probably first attached to the peak around 1910 when the Elephant Head group of mining claims was located. The Elephant Head post office was established on July 10, 1914 with Henry W. Williams as Postmaster. Prior to that, Elephant Head was considered part of the Pete Mountain formation. (More on Pete Mountain a little later.) Who among the miners and speculators first saw the elephant and named the mine for the vision is not yet known, but perhaps the answer will turn up in a dusty archive somewhere.
WaldEck pEak
Byrd Granger in her updated version of Will C. Barnes' Arizona Place Names notes the following alternate names for Elephant Head. "Diablo Mountain appears as Mount Waldeck Peak on the GLO Field notes for 1905. It is conjectured that Waldeck (or Walldeck) may have been a member of the surveying crew." Could she be right in her assumption?
The referenced 1905 survey and GLO Field notes were for the controversial Baca Float No. 3 Land Grant, ordered by the Surveyor General of Arizona. Phillip Contzen, a well-known and highly respected Arizona surveyor was given the assignment. In mapping the lower area of the Santa Rita Mountains, he referred to Elephant Head as Waldeck Peak. No surveyors named Waldeck turn up in Arizona for the period in question, however, a quick Google search brings up the fact that there is a town in Germany named Waldeck. Could there be a connection?
Sure enough, Contzen's father, Frederich better known as "Fritz," was born in Stormbruch, Waldeck in present-day Germany. An early Arizona Territorial pioneer, Fritz came to Arizona in 1855. He was a member of Major William H. Emory's U. S. Boundary Commission surveying and locating the border between the U.S. and Mexico after the Gadsden Purchase of 1853. Upon completing their duties, the survey team was dismissed in the general area of what is now Nogales. The senior Contzen decided to remain in Arizona and soon established a ranch and stage stop at Punta de Agua (point of water) near Mission San Xavier del Bac. It is now easy to surmise that son Phillip named the monolith, for his father's place of birth — Waldeck. Fritz was still living in 1905, but by the time of his passing in 1909, the battle for Baca Float No. 3 was raging in the courts, and Contzen's survey and field notes were never filed or approve. Thus the name Waldeck never officially came into use. pEtE Mountain
Pete Mountain or Old Pete Mountain was the name given to the peak behind Elephant Head, and originally included Elephant Head itself. Barnes identifies the source of the name as being Peter Gabriel, a Prussian immigrant who mined in the area for a short period of time. The earliest map reference to "Old Pete Mountain" that I could find is found on the 1893 Official Map of Pima County by George J. Roskruge, Pima County Surveyor. The Gabriel family arrived in the U.S. in 1848, when little Pete was nine and settled in Wisconsin. Eleven years later, Gabriel served
with Colonel Frederick W. Landers's expedition from 1859 to 1860 establishing the Lander Road for the California/Oregon emigrants. He joined another survey expedition that same year, a job that lasted until 1864.
1870 Census records show that Gabriel was prospecting in the Prescott area. Probably not having a great deal of success, he headed south to Florence. From 1879 to 1882 Garbriel was elected Sheriff of Pinal County and then again from 1885-1886. In between Gabriel served as a Deputy United States Marshal. Today, Gabriel is primarily remembered for his historic 1888 shootout with his former deputy, Josephus Phy in a Florence saloon. Both men were running for the office of sheriff against the incumbent, Jere Fryer.
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Historian Larry Ball notes Gabriel had fired Phy two years earlier and Phy began to make a list of grievances against his old boss. When a local journalist wrote that it appeared Gabriel would win, Phy stormed into the saloon where Gabriel was drinking and opened fire on him. Gabriel returned his fire. Both men went out into the street to finish the fight receiving many wounds. Phy would die that night, May 31, 1888. Gabriel survived, but had nightmares for the rest of his life according to Ball. Strangely, I have been unable to find confirmation of Gabriel serving as a peace officer in Pima County. Contemporary pioneers and historians writing about Pima County make no mention of Gabriel. So if Elephant Head wasn't named for Gabriel, who would be the most likely candidate. My guess would have to be Pete Kitchen. Kitchen's first ranch was located on Sopóri Creek in the shadow of Elephant Head. Kitchen's neighbors were William Kirkland at Canoa and Elias Brevoort at Reventon.
picacho dEl diaBlo/ diaBlo Mountain
Picacho del Diablo, (Devil's Peak or Peak of the Devil), was the name given to the prominent outcrop by the Spanish and Mexican colonists. A few other name variations reflecting mixed languages such as Diablo Mountain and Diabilto Mountain were also used as Americans settled in the valley. Early maps of Arizona rarely note more than the names of mountain ranges. But the name Picacho del Diablo was still in common use in 1861 when Sylvester Mowry's mining engineer, F. Beirtu, drew a map in his diary of the various ranches and settlements in the Santa Cruz River Valley and referenced only one single peak, Picacho del Diablo.
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Richmond Jones, Jr., who would meet an untimely death at the hands of the Apaches that same year, simply called the peak “Sugarloaf,” probably never having heard the Spanish name. While Richard J. Hinton in his Handbook to Arizona, 1877 also identified it as Picacho del Diablo. And once again in 1880 E.A. Echoff and P. Riecker labeled the peak as Picacho del Diablo on the Official Map of the Territory of Arizona.
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Cerro de los Muertos (Hill of the Dead) was the way Arizona pioneer Joseph King referred to Elephant Head. My good friend R. Joe King ( Joe King, IV) remembers his grandfather ( Joe King, II) talking about Elephant head as Cerro de los Muertos. King, II told King, IV that the family never traveled the road at the foot of the Santa Ritas in the early morning or early evening. It was considered unsafe to travel at these times due to Apache raiding. ...continued on page 11
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Left: “Build Your Own Galileoscope,” at Kitt Peak’s downtown offices in the National Optical Astronomy Observatory building on the University of Arizona campus, Saturday, August 29th.
Center: "2 Duos" Concert from Germany & Scotland at the Tubac Plaza Main Stage, Sunday, August 30th. Many things are happening through Oct. on the Main Stage!
sat, aug 29th - Celebrate the International year of astronomy 2009 by participating in “Build your Own Galileoscope,” a special public program offering at Kitt Peak’s downtown offices in the National Optical Astronomy Observatory building on the University of Arizona campus, 950 N Cherry Ave. Tucson. 6 – 9 pm. Reservations are necessary and must be made before Aug 24 at 520 318-8726. Follow in the footsteps of Galileo Galilei! Kitt Peak will unveil the new Galileoscope (specially developed for the 400th anniversary of the invention of the telescope) with activities, information, and educational fun. Build your own telescope and take it home. Observation of the Moon and Jupiter will also be featured (weather permitting). Admission prices include one Galileoscope Kit per family group. For Kitt Peak members, the fee is $45 for the first person and $25 for additional people. For non-members the cost is $50 for the first person and $30 for additional people. For more information, or to register on-line before August 24 for this program, please see http://www.noao.edu/outreach/kpvc/galileoscope. php. The Kitt Peak National Observatory Visitor Center is open to the public daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is no fee for admission to the visitor center; three daily docent-led tours of the major telescopes are offered for a fee. Each tour lasts approximately one hour. The popular Nightly Observing Program will open again on September 1. It has been closed for the monsoon weather. Reservations are currently being accepted by calling 318-8726.
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Right: Celebrate the opening of the NEW Tubac Buddhist Meditation Center, with guest speaker Dr. Dean Pielstick. Friday, October 2nd. Tues, sept 1st - The Blues Redeemers at 7pm at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W Continental, Green Valley. Blues and Boogie Woogie piano master Arthur Migliazza and English blues harmonica sensation Tom Wallbank lead a foot stomping blues quartet. Tickets $12 at the door. www.performingartscenter.org for more info, or call 520-399-1750. Thurs, sept 3rd - sustainable santa Cruz Meeting at 5:30pm at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Rd. Attend and help establish the partnerships that will be the basis for this critical effort, to bring a unified and comprehensive transition to our communities. Be part of the planning of educational events to support sustainable living practices, and to hear from environmental groups that study the I-19 corridor and Santa Cruz watershed. Fri, sept 4th, 5-8pmish ~ FIRsT FRIday w/Chef Art's Fish & Chips, 2-for-1 Margaritas & Live Music (RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED) at Wisdom's Cafe in Tumacacori. 398-2397. sat, sept 12th - Fire in the Canyon: How a sky Island ecosystem Responds to Fire with Leaders - Russ Babiak and Dan Austin, Ph.D. The irony of the recent wildfire in Brown Canyon is that it occurred only days after a long prepared for prescribed burn that was cancelled due to unfavorable conditions. Russ Babiak will tell us about the wildfire and its consequences as well as discuss the philosophy and logistics of prescribed burns. With botanist Dan Austin, he will also lead a walk in the canyon to highlight the affects and promise of the burn. For additional information about Brown Canyon, the workshops, walks, and its leaders, please visit the Friends of BANWR Web site at www.friendsofbanwr.org
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The senior Joseph King, arrived in Arizona in 1864 and would make his home in the Tumacácori Mission for several months. He built an adobe home across the river from the mission, and in early 1871 was seriously wounded in an apache raid on his home. He was reported as dead in some eastern newspapers but fortunately survived. Although King, II claimed his father was shot in his backside, newspaper accounts note he was shot in the groin. King would recover, marry and father three fine sons, Manuel, José ( Joe) and Jésus Santiago. His good neighbor and friend, Leslie B Wooster, was not so lucky a couple of months later. On March 20, 1871, Wooster, his wife and unborn baby were brutally murdered, and his wife's niece was kidnapped. The raid would trigger the Camp Grant massacre.
MaMa Maria
Long time Tubac resident, the late John Elías, son of Juan B. Elías and Margarita Redondo was born in 1911 and knew Elephant Head by a different name. A descendant of one of the area's oldest families, his widow Mrs. Bernadine Hiler Elías, recounted the following story in an oral history located at the Tubac Historical Society:
John told me that when he was a little boy living on the Soporí Ranch, his grandmother was there and his mother of course, and whenever he was naughty, he was told about the big Elephant Head rock over there. They said, 'That is
Momma María and she is watching you.' And he could look out at that bluff and see the face of a woman with a shawl across her head. And even today, if you look out there from the Soporí Ranch area, and look at that bluff, you can see it is a figure of a woman with a shawl over her head. He said, 'I never liked her very much because she always told my mother what I had done that was naughty--because she always watched me.'
ElEphant shrinE
Atop the peak of Elephant Head is a little shrine. Over the years, hikers have made their way to the top and left little elephants of varying sizes, colors and artistic merit. If you make it to the top, you can truly say, I have seen the elephant. SourceS:
- Ball, Larry D., Desert Lawmen: The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona, 1846-1912. Albuquerque: university of New Mexico Press, 1992. - Granger, Byrd H., Will c. Barnes' Arizona Place Names. Tucson: The university of Arizona Press, 1960, 1985. - Hayden Arizona Pioneer Biographical essays: "Contzen, Frederick (Fritz)" and "Gabriel, J. P." http:// www.asu.edu/lib/archives/azbio/azbio.htm
- Hinton, richard J., Handbook to Arizona, 1877. Glorieta, NM: The rio Grande Press, Inc., 1970. - King, r. Joe & Bingham, Mary, "Elephant Head: From Proboscis to the Tail of the Tale." unpublished article, 2007. - Mcclintock, James H., Arizona, Prehistoric, Aboriginal, Pioneer, Modern: the Nation's Youngest commonwealth Within a Land of Ancient culture. chicago: S.J. clarke Pub. co., 1916. - Newell, olive, Tail of the elephant: The emigrant experience on the Truckee route of the california Trail, 1844-1852 (California Sesquicentennial Publication). Nevada city, NV: Nevada county Historical Society, 1997. - Schrader, Frank c., Mineral Deposits of the Santa rita and Patagonia Mountains Arizona. Washington D.c.: Government Printing office, 1915. - The Pacific Reporter, Vol. 185. St. Paul: West Publishing co., 1920. �
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A Cowboy's Memories of Working on the Movie "Arizona" Back in 1939 the set of Old Tucson was built for the movie "Arizona" starring William Holden and Jean Arthur. Among the cowboys hired to train the ox teams pulling the wagons used in the movie was Grady Garth Powell.
and retired from a job as cattle inspector on the line for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. It had been 40 years ago, in the summer of 1939, when he worked on the movie "Arizona." He was hired to train oxen brought up from Mexico. About 60 of them had been trained to work with the yoke tied to their horns. These had to be re-trained to accept a yoke on their neck and there were 40 more that had never been broken.
He was in his 20s then and remembered, "They fed us our lunch and paid us cash every day. They give us six dollars and fifty cents a day. That was big wages in those days."
Garth and a fellow named Henry Spurlock were in charge of the 40 that had not been broken. He remembered, "Henry and I were about the same age. We were big, young sprouts, I guess you'd call us that. We wasn't very old. I was 25 and he was about 25, and they put us in with those 40 head of oxen, roping them."
One of his jobs was to drive a team of 20 oxen pulling an ore wagon for what he called, "The big shots that come out of Hollywood to see those ox teams pulling this wagon." During a taped interview made years later he told me, "There was four of us - they called us drovers - out there waiting with bull whips standing ready to start moving as soon as these limousines came. There was four limousines brought 'em out and a fellow on a motorcycle came ahead to alert us all to get ready and when he come over the hill we started popping whips and started that ox team so when the big shots drove up over this little hill, here come that ox team pulling that ore wagon. It was a sight to be seen."
He said they set about breaking the oxen using two juniper posts set in the ground. The heads of each pair were tied to one post and their tails to the other. The tails had to be tied together so the two couldn't turn around. He explained, "We had to get the teams together perfectly, tie their tails together and get the yokes on them."
Then they could be taught to work together as a team. Garth said, "I have, you know, the two of us had quite a chore. We had three helpers but most of the time they're setting on the stand. They
Garth said, "It was the biggest ox team that's ever been hooked up."
By the time Garth Powell was being interviewed in 1979 he was in his mid-60s
wouldn't get off in there with us."
The two cowboys learned how to slow down the teams from a man Garth described as, "An old timer - must have been 80 years old - that had drove teams back years ago, he suggested attaching 20foot long chains to the yoke of each pair to slow them down."
Garth said, "We'd have four or five teams yoked together in a corral. You'd go in the corral and there'd be a team standing in this corner and a team standing over there a little ways."
The next day the drovers, including Garth, would come and get a team. He said, "By this time they were half broke. All we had to do was teach them to go in a straight line. It was usually two men to a team but there were so many different things for us to do, it got to be one man. He carried a black snake - one of those bull whips and a prod stick. You didn't have to prod them much when you was teaching them Gee and Haw - Gee to turn right and Haw to turn left - because these oxen were very lazy." Garth with the others practiced running the teams in and out of the Old Tucson movie set. He remembered, "We hooked them to these big ore wagons. They had these roads mapped out and graded out for the picture and we had to go through town time after time after time,
getting those animals used to that town so when they started making the picture these animals knew the route they were supposed to take."
Garth and his partner did not appear in the picture since they were too young to have the heavy beards required by the extras and he didn't see any of the actors but he did watch the trained horses perform. He remembered, "One of them was a big pinto stud, black and white paint, and he was the most well-mannered horse I ever saw. The trainer would stand out there and make his motions and that horse never took his eye off him. He went through all his tricks without a word being said." Garth added, "They kept him like a baby, covered him with a blanket," and described the horse as, "brushed until he shined like new money."
One other memory of that summer was the painting of the desert for the movie which was in Technicolor. He said, "They had a crew that did nothing but spray the brush, sometimes put false arms on the saguaros. Everything had to be perfect for the director of this picture. It was beautiful just to ride through the desert. That time of the year some things were dead, brown colored, but they sprayed everything till it looked like the spring of the year."
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Tubac Villager He concluded, "It cost a lot of money to make that picture."
The movie "Arizona" had been contracted to England as a serial but Garth said when war broke out in Europe that contract was cancelled and the movie was premiered that fall in Tucson. Since then it has become an American classic.
Garth remembered, "It was so hot that summer, we couldn't work only until 11 o'clock with those ox teams." Because of that when watching the movie in a theater, he told me, "Men working in this picture, knowing how hot it was when they made it, they'd set there and sweat looking at the picture." Before working on "Arizona" Garth worked on the Baca Float Ranch which once took in what is now Rio Rico and part of Tubac. It was 12 miles square, made up of 144 sections. The ranch required 35 cowboys and Garth said, "Whenever there was a roundup, they'd have 60 cowboys and a chuck wagon. Most people don't know what a chuck wagon is. You had a team of mules and you had all your groceries in a box at the back, sort of like a cabinet. That had your flour, your sugar, your large cans and then there was knives, forks and spoons and boxes for tin plates. That's the way we spent two to three months at a time on a roundup." A few years before this, in 1938, Garth married to Pearl Wisdom, sister of John and Howard Wisdom. When they were newlyweds he and Pearl worked together briefly on the Float, camping out, while hooking up pumps to fill the twin tanks at each of the watering places for cattle. This
was during the two or three months of the year when the wind was not strong enough to move the windmills. Later while working on the Float he was assigned a camp near what is now Lake Patagonia where he said, "We had 2300 two-year-old Herefords heifers and my job was to keep all bulls from those heifers. They didn't want to breed them. " At that particular time the Baca Float was a ranch for breeding cattle. At other times it was a feeding ranch with underfed cattle brought in from Mexico were fattened up for the U. S. market. In 1940 Garth took part in a roundup of cattle on the Baca Float when Dink Parker was leasing it. During that roundup he remembered 15,000 cattle were gathered. He told me, "We had to dehorn all the big bulls. We didn't have no chute so we had to head and heel those bulls." That meant two men on horseback, one with a taught rope, holding the bull's legs, the other with a rope holding its head. This was while the bull lay on the ground. For these bulls three men were needed, two holding him and the third on top. During this roundup they did not have the conventional dehorner and the man on the top was sawing off eight inches of horn so the bulls wouldn't tear each other apart in the freight cars on their way to market. At one time Garth was a line rider. That was in 1947 when the hoof and mouth disease infected cattle in Mexico. Like every other line rider he was assigned a 17-mile stretch of the barbed wire fence separating this country from Mexico. His job was to keep Mexican cattle from
breaking through the fence and entering the United States, killing them if he had to.
These are some of Garth's memories recorded during two interviews back in 1979. While being interviewed he was in a wheel chair and I don't remember him mentioning why. He died a few months later. The trailer where he and Pearl lived stands deserted on the East Frontage road along the Old Nogales Highway north of Tumacacori. Whenever I pass by I think of how he enjoyed cowboying and how well Grady Garth Powell played the part. Ê �
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Wisdom's cafe in Tumacacori has been owned and operated by the Wisdom family for 3 generations. currently, husband and wife, cliff and celeste Wisdom run the family business. I asked celeste to describe Pearl, her words follow. ~editor "Cliff's grandfather, Howard (the one who started Wisdom's,) was Pearl's brother. Aunt Pearl lived next door to Cliff and me here in Tumacacori until she died a couple of years ago. She was outside everyday working in the yard with a hoe or a shovel until just before she died. I really loved her so much! Her daughter moved to Idaho a little over a year ago. I didn't have enough time to track her down to scan pictures, which is really unfortunate because he was a really gorgeous young man from what I remember seeing on Pearl's walls! " ~Celeste
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“How can we entertain our grandkids when they visit us in Tubac? There’s no ocean, lake, puttputt golf or even a local swimming pool!” Never fear! There’s a great variety of activities and the quiet, cooler monsoon season with no lines at destinations is the perfect time for a visit. My husband and I are “snow birds” from Nebraska who just spent a delightful week in Tubac with grandson Ty (6) and granddaughter Rudi (8). We learned two new rules --- “hundreds of years ago” will cover most history and this generation of grandchildren raised on Spiderman, X Men and Hannah Montana, don’t have a clue about “Cowboys and Indians.”
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Patagonia State Park has a hidden gem of a beach for young grandchildren and a roped off designated swimming area as part of its 265 acre lake. The park is a short trip of less than 35 miles from Tubac (half interstate 19, half scenic highway 82). Fishing anyone? Small boats and canoes are also available for rent at the marina.
Directly adjacent to the swimming beach are shady picnic tables and grills. Bring a picnic, comfortable chair, good book, water toys and a small container for all the snails and small clam shells that will be inevitably be collected. A scenic shoreline and a variety of birds to keep any birder happy makes you wonder “who needs an ocean?”
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Surprisingly, a favorite for our grandkids. Forget trying to remember all the complex history of our area and you’ll just enjoy the newly renovated museum, movie and church through their eyes. For example--we are dismayed that so many items are missing from the church, but they think it’s exciting that the empty places are the result of treasure hunters! Compare the painting that depicts the original inside of the church with the now empty spot and have fun trying to figure out “what is the missing object?” Don’t miss the graveyard—a highlight for kids.
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I n d I a n Ta c o s can be had spicy, plain, just cheese or made into funnel cakes with sugar—all so messy but so good it’s worth it! Be smart and bring handy wipes and your own lawn chairs to put under a Ramada. The Indian tacos are cooked over a wood fire and made by real Indian families under a Ramada adjacent to the parking area. One of our partially
finished tacos ended up in the dirt. This provided our lunch entertainment as pigeons (including a fat one-legged one) and small birds competed for crumbs. The one-legged pigeon won.
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Be sure to bring your camera to the outdoor sculpture garden of the Karin Newby Art Gallery. The sculpture garden includes a sculpture of “life sized” children playing “Ring Around the Rosie.” Titled, “Circle of Life Peace,” it has a perfect, empty spot in the ring where your grandkids can hold hands and complete the circle. Good time for “hamming it up!” Kids and adults of all ages (myself included) are also fascinated with the ever moving and hypnotic sculptures (“windmills”) of Mark White. The outside entrance to the sculpture garden is always open and available to the public at no charge.
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Cooler mornings are the right time for travel and tours, but relaxing on the back patio in the afternoon, watching the kid’s imagination at work can be the best part of the day. We might not have putt, putt golf in Tubac, but one thing we do have is—rocks! Finding “pretty rocks” is a passion with most children and you might as well make your life easier and put a designated “treasure basket” by the back door. Who can find the first lizard of the day is another continuing contest. Hummingbirds kept us entertained with their fierce battles and chases. Make sure that your feeder is close to your outdoor seating area even if you have to use a “Sheppard’s Hook”. What makes it fun for kids of course is a CONTEST! Who has the most patience, can move the slowest and stand the stillest? The object is to eventually be able to hold the feeder while the hummingbirds feed. Eventually, the birds became so used to all of us that they even tried to pull out strands of Rudi’s golden blonde hair for their nests. Never underestimate the fun of flowing water for a small boy or girl. If you don’t have a water feature in your yard, now may be the time to get a small fountain or pool. Even a garden hose and miscellaneous tubs and pans will do. Hours were spent arranging and rearranging rocks around our small two foot pool and playing with the water spouting out of a pottery frog.
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A good way for grandparents to recuperate and a great idea for rainy monsoon afternoons. The Oasis in Nogales and Desert Cinema in Green Valley have early afternoon movies suitable for kids. Check the times for all movies and if you’re lucky---one adult can go with the kids and the other can take in an adult movie at the same time.
Our vacation week with the grandkids also included visits to Kartchner Caverns, Saguaro National Monument and the Desert Museum. We all highly recommend you make the effort include them in your activities. Be assured that your grandkids will be begging to come back and we’re already thinking about another list of “Ten Things."
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The Ronald R. Morriss Park is located at the far east end of the Tubac Village, near the Santa Cruz River. Park photos by Joseph Birkett. Above right, Katie Munger, left, and Paula Beemer, discuss plans for an Aug. 13 meeting to develop improvements at the Ronald R. Morriss Park in Tubac. Photo by Kathleen Vandervoet by Kathleen Vandervoet Parks are among the government services that seem to be losing support as the economy tightens and tax revenue plummets. But a group of Tubac residents hopes to accomplish a park upgrade to provide more play opportunities for young children and activities for entire families. Playground equipment, shaded areas, walking paths, and a trail connection with the Anza Trail along the Santa Cruz River are a few of the ideas. Also being considered are lighting, fencing, toddler swings, art sculptures, and additional tables and benches. There are two Tubac parks owned by Santa Cruz County: one is the Ronald R. Morriss Park on the west bank of the Santa Cruz River, south of Calle Iglesia; and the other is at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Rd. The Ronald R. Morriss Park has a baseball field with a backstop and small bleachers. There is a small playground area with aging toys. Other modest amenities are three shaded picnic benches and a restroom building. Still in the formation stage, the group, informally headed by Katie Munger and Paula Beemer, has held three meetings open to anyone interested. The next meeting is Thursday, Aug. 13, at 6 p.m. at the Tubac Community Center. The 15 people in attendance at a July 22 meeting agreed that it made sense at this time to focus on improvements at the Ronald R. Morriss Park. And they received some good news. An architect friend of group participant Celeste Wisdom has agreed to begin work on a
master plan for the improvements. Earl Yousey, based in Tucson, said he would “be willing to volunteer in the early phases” for the fledgling organization. Beemer told those at the meeting that she wants to have the group recognized as a non-profit educational organization with the Arizona Corporation Commission and the Internal Revenue Service. However, she said she was worried about the cost, and also about the length of time to receive the needed recognition. Herb Wisdom, an owner of Wisdom’s restaurant in Tumacácori, said the group could operate for the time being under the sponsorship of his non-profit Si Señor baseball team. Celeste Wisdom encouraged the others to apply for a grant from the White Elephant Thrift Shop in Green Valley. Teresa Morales De Phillips, regional coordinator for “First Things First,” a partnership throughout Arizona to help preschool children with health and education programs, said there might be grant money available for playground improvements.
the group included whether the restroom building could be open longer, such as in the morning and evening when temperatures are cooler. Now, it is unlocked only from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Some people have noticed a sewage type smell at times when they’re at the park, which is north of the sewage treatment facility serving the Barrio de Tubac and it was suggested that talks be started about options to remove the smell. It was agreed that at the Aug. 13 meeting, the group will begin planning a fundraiser barbecue to be held in early November, along with progress reports on the other topics.
Contacted after the meeting, County Supervisor John Maynard, in whose district the park is located, said, “I think it’s great that they’re doing that. I’ll help any way I can. Parks are as needed as any other function the county provides. Parks are an integral part of the quality of life in Santa Cruz County.”
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In addition, she said the Santa Cruz Community Foundation based in Nogales provides technical assistance to start-ups, and encouraged Beemer to call for help. Munger said she had spoken several times with Mary Dahl, Santa Cruz County’s Community Development Director, about the interest in improving the park. Dahl said that having a master plan is an important step to guide progress, Munger said. Some questions that arose from others in
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The day promised to be hot, pushing big white clouds up the flanks of the Santa Ritas before us as we crossed the foot-deep Santa Cruz River in mid-morning and rolled east from Amado on Amado-Montosa Road (which becomes Forest Service Road 184). At a windmill a few miles in, we stopped to admire the views of the Santa Ritas in the east, dominated by the 8,550-foot Mt. Hopkis and its Smithsonian-Harvard Astrophysical Observatory; the impressive Phelps Dodge copper mine in the Sierrita Mountains to the northwest; the jagged Coyote Mountains and Baboquivari Peak to the west; and closer in, to the southwest, the Tumacacori Highlands. Four miles from the river we hit the paved Mt. Hopkins Road, took a right and then another right just a scant mile farther east, onto Bull Springs Road, which used to be passable by most highclearance cars but washouts now necessitate the help of four-wheel-drive. Summer rains had brought out tropical greenery: ocotillos were in full leaf, and an impressivelooking nettle called “mala mujer” (bad woman) lined the roads and provided nectar to scores of pale yellow-green cabbage butterflies. Bull Springs Road meanders up and over and around the foothills of the Santa Ritas, with the pyramidal Mt. Hopkins peering down at us most of the drive. Rains had been good, and puddles yielded animal tracks from the shyer creatures of the desert: coyotes, foxes, white-tail deer, and the occasional roadrunner.
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At Cottonwood Canyon, about five miles down Bull Springs Road, we slowed to watch as two red-tailed hawks circled up from the creek, one of them clutching what appeared to be a baby quail. A white-tail doe stood placidly in the creek bed, licking a rock for its mineral salts; her companion, hidden for a few minutes in a thicket, took exception to the noise of our A/C compressor kicking on, and bolted up the ridge.
Our plan was to have a late lunch in Patagonia, and spend the afternoon exploring the art galleries and bookstore. But the road was in worse condition than we had remembered from a late-90s trip, so we munched on some emergency rations (chocolate chip cookies and Coke) and carried on, passing more tropical plant profusion: flame flower, coral bean, wild cotton, trumpet flower, and screw-bean mesquite. At a bubbly little creek in Bond Canyon the soapberry trees were blooming, attended by riotous insect activity. Myriad cabbage butterflies danced around the occasional queen, dodging wasps and beetles. A molting male Cooper’s hawk gave us the cold shoulder from one of the trees, while high above a Swainson’s hawk drifted on the ever-increasing thermals. Thunder began to rumble.
Eighteen miles and nearly four hours after we left Amado, we came to the main road of Salero Ranch, once a large working ranch in Arizona Territory and now a “ranchette” development owned by a Scottsdale developer (with very little building as-yet). We stopped to look at an impressive adobe ruin, standing testament to the hundreds of people who once lived in this rugged country eeking out a living as miners and ranchers. But today, we saw no other humans. It was just us, the hawks, and the butterflies.
We made up lots of time on the well-maintained Salero Ranch Road, reaching Sonoita Creek at Blue Heaven Road (which provides access to the famous Nature Conservancy Sonoita Creek Preserve) at just after 2 pm. Ten minutes later we were happily enjoying a couple of Tecates and a dish of toritos (“little bulls”) at Mercedes’ Cafe on Highway 82. These delectable treats are jalapenos stuffed with limesprinkled shrimp and queso seco, wrapped in bacon, and deep-fried. We walked over to the galleries and shops on McKowen Avenue (the ‘other’ main street, which runs parallel to Highway 82), past the old train station. We said hello to Ann Caston at her delightful Mariposa Books, and then browsed the current show at the adjacent Metamorphosis Art Gallery, where we ran into a friendly photographer whose work was in the show - something that is highly likely to happen in a town the size of Patagonia. Because it was summer season when we visited, a number of the galleries were closed - such as the venerable Mesquite Grove Gallery, whose namesake shade tree is well over 100 years old.
The wind was picking up, and as we got back into the Jeep, I heard a ruckus and looked up to see three Cassin’s kingbirds mobbing a zone-tailed hawk, which piped irritably as it flew across the main square. Just as I stepped into the truck, a ferocious summer squall began to pummel the earth, whipping the trees and sending all the tourists running for cover. A perfect end to a southern Arizona summer adventure.
Roseann Hanson has worked around the globe for more than 25 years as a guide, journalist, and conservation program director; she owns ConserVentures, LLC, a conservation and adventure travel consultancy. Her work has taken her from the deep backcountry of Mexico's Sierra Madre to Ethiopia's Omo Valley, and from Arctic Canada to the plains of the Serengeti. Whether leading birdwatching tours, guiding 4WD adventure safaris, or teaching wildlife tracking for conservation groups, she enjoys integrating conservation, science, outdoor skills, and cultural awareness into her work. When not traveling, she works from her off-the-grid solar home with her husband Jonathan in a remote corner of the the Sonoran Desert southwest of Tucson, Arizona. Before taking up international conservation work, she sold her silverwork and lapidary creations in Tubac, at the Renee Taylor Gallery. www.jandrhanson.com; roseann@jandrhanson.com
Four-wheel-drive Tips
Always engage your four-wheeldrive any time you are on a road where you might lose traction and spin your wheels; this causes erosion, which causes a cascadeeffect of damage to the landscape and local creeks. When you come to a wash-out where there are lots of deep ruts running the same way as the road, keep your tires on the tops of the ruts, rather than inside them, so you don’t drag or damage your vehicle’s running gear or transfer case.
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Likewise, drive your tires over rocks rather than straddle them between the tires if they look taller than your differential. “Low and slow”is the rule; don’t gun it and try to bash and muscle your way up or over a tough section. Put your transmission (which should already be in 4WD) in low range, shift into first, engage the clutch (if a manual), and let the torque pull you along. Keep your foot off the clutch as much as possible, and only feather the gas if needed. There is no such thing as an “offroad” vehicle; always stay on existing, legal (marked) roads; if you see what looks like just a single set of tire tracks heading off somewhere, and it’s not marked on your map or with a sign, don’t drive on it. In ranch country, leave the gates the way you find them (unless there is a sign on the gate obviously advising users to its status, for cattle management).
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Although our Jeep came from the factory with some nice options that make it extra-capable on tough roads (BF Goodrich Mud-Terrains, front and rear locking differentials, electronic sway-bar disconnect, and a few other goodies), any fourwheel-drive with high clearance can easily traverse Bull Springs Road to Patagonia. The road is not highly ‘technical’ but here are some tips if you don’t have a lot of experience with four-wheel-drives:
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Since Salero ranch was developed, the only public access to Patagonia via the “back way” is on Forest Service roads out of Amado. From Tubac, take I-19 north to Arivaca Junction, and take the east-side frontage road south to Amado. Turn east onto Amado-Montosa road, which crosses the river and then doglegs a couple times; you’ll pass Montosa canyon ranch and rex ranch, where the road climbs and curves up onto the Santa rita bajada. Follow this road (Forest road 184) four miles past rex ranch, where it tees onto Mt. Hopkins road. Turn right and go one mile to Bull Springs road (Forest road 143), on the right. Follow 143 to Salero ranch road; on older maps and the current Google map interfaces, there is one section that shows 143 on a higher track above the current road; keep following the most-used track (there are signs along the route for Fr 143). The total distance from the beginning of Forest road 184 (rex ranch) to Highway 82 at Sonoita creek is 30 miles. It took us about four hours, with stops for photography and exploring.
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Photo Captions: Upper left: Graceful sotol stalks against a painted sky. Upper Right: The texture of a monsoon sky over Madera Wash near Green Valley. Bottom left: Life is filled with shades of grey, is it not? Bottom right: A tough challenge portraying a monsoon mood surrounding historic Empire Ranch of Sonoita.
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Text and Photos by Murray Bolesta For me, the word monsoon evokes images of the Jewel in the Crown, colonial India, and David Niven in a pith helmet.
A term borrowed from the tropics, monsoon refers to a seasonal wind carrying moisture-laden air. Monsoon’s arrival in Arizona signals a second springtime, and brings down temperatures during months that otherwise would be less tolerable. The second springtime is what makes the Sonoran desert what it is: a lush, lively place with a riot of opportunities for nature photographers. While our great art center, Tubac, is on the extreme edge of the Sonoran desert, summertime storms here paint the skies with artful spectacle, at a higher elevation.
Monsoon in borderlands Arizona provides the most drama I’ve seen in any sky. The cliché of a desert sunset and its red/ orange/yellow hues are not needed to make the day: an afternoon of billowing thunderheads provides a visual feast. Multiple shades of grey amid stunning white and brilliant blue patches of clear sky create a roiling panorama sometimes best observed by lying flat on your back and looking straight up. Unless you’ve just moved from the northland, a full expanse of blue sky can actually get to be monotonous. Yes, it’s true: a photographer doesn’t need too much clear, featureless sky. However, plain blue is what he or she sees for most of the year (and the dust spots on the camera lens).
Waiting for storm-time for doing landscape shots is the way to go for you, the borderlands photographer. My friends Sam and Cass, recent arrivals to the Tucson area, came at the right time. Tagging along on my photo treks, seeking the best subjects to realize their goal of becoming nature photographers armed only with cell phone cameras, they wonder aloud where we should go for great monsoon photos. “You really don’t have to go anywhere” I say, “just wait for the afternoon and then look upwards.”
There is a difficulty, I warn, in capturing the scope and spectacle of monsoon skies in a small frame of film or a digital sensor. Further, what does one do with a picture of the sky? Usually, a reference point on land is included with a sky picture, even
if it’s not used as a central subject. This gives the viewer an anchor, or context, for the heavenly vastness that you’re trying to portray with the image.
One of the biggest challenges is contrast, extreme light and dark patches of an image. A camera lens sees the world differently from the human eye. The subtlety and intricacy of a cloud formation is often lost to the limitations of a camera lens struggling with high contrast.
Also, monsoon clouds can completely blot out the desert sun, increasing the challenge of achieving a quality image in a way similar to taking pictures at dusk. “That’s where HDR comes in,” Cass informs me. “It’s how I get more out of my cell phone camera. Sam taught me all about it.” Sam nods modestly, and I muse, “Oh, no, we are entering the ‘At Risk of Getting Technical’ department.” What I know about HDR is that it’s old hat by now, it’s overused, and that it stands for the merging of three different technologies: the ‘High’, the ‘Dynamic’, and the ‘Range’ technologies. I admonish Cass: “No ‘faux-tography’ is allowed at Cactushuggers.”
Cass responds with, “Murray, you tell us that the medium is not important; the image is what matters.”
Cass is right, and her sentiment highlights the conflict implicit between the ‘no fauxtography’ maxim and the ‘medium-is-notimportant’ maxim. HDR and its offshoots result in a lot of artificial images, ones that are basically special-effects creations. But likewise, HDR, which is the blending of several images into one, can be used in moderation to produce a final image that is closer to what the human eye sees out in the world. In essence, HDR selects the best of each image and merges the result. I emphasize that it should be used in moderation. HDR is particularly useful during the high-contrast monsoon season.
Many images accompanying this article are examples of succumbing to Cass’s advice: attempts to use HDR to provide a realistic solution to challenging monsoon scenes. You, the borderlands photographer, may want to read more on the topic and the result can make your monsoon day.
Sam’s quick HDR introduction:
1) Use 3 or more images at different shutter speed exposures – one emphasizing the highlights (making the shadows darker), one for the shadows (making the highlights lighter), and one attempt at a medium image (it’s this version that you’re trying to improve using HDR). 2) Each photo must be at least one EV (exposure value) setting different from the last one. EV is a measure of combined exposure settings (shutter speed, aperture, and ISO light sensitivity) rolled into one figure, used in digital camera settings and photo editing software. 3) No motion in the subject - must be a static image.
4) No motion in the camera - there must be no change in camera position; use a tripod.
5) Important to consider: A quasi-HDR effect is possible using a single image if the photo is shot in camera-RAW format (available even on some cell phones). This makes it possible for an HDR-effect to be applied to a single image containing motion.
Murray Bolesta’s CactusHuggers Photography specializes in borderland images and supports the preservation of southern Arizona’s natural, rural, and cultural heritage. Murray’s home gallery in Green Valley can be visited by appointment and he can be reached at www.CactusHuggers.com.
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I sat in a midsize hardware store a couple weeks ago in Blantyre, a nondescript building that sits on the city’s twolane thoroughfare. Desks in the middle and walls stacked floor to ceiling with handmade shelves, it showcased some good genuine parts, but mostly a lot of mediocre ones. The owner was born and raised Malawian but East Indian by decent, and he spoke with only a slight accent.
woman and taken her name (changing his first). After regaling me with stories of hunting hippos and other wild game with machetes and varied instruments, his wife told me of what is was to be a good Muslim - and then they both passed out. Incidentally (as I believed at the time), he had won a defaulted contract to collect timber from a near-by national forest reserve.
I, the conspicuous fly on the wall that I was, chuckled to myself. Amused by the circumstances and the absurdity of my location in the world at that moment in time, I thought it was unique and something to be remembered.
As a result, we’re seeing more Chinese here in Malawi – funneling aide, taking up contracting bids, setting up shops (and more frequently, residence). Nothing about it can really be classified as good or bad, at least in my perspective. There are those who question Malawi or China’s political motives in these moves, but I don’t know that it matters. What is important is to see it for what it is - a new era and a different movement of people, money and resources. Not focusing on the Western hub, but between Africa and the East.
As he and I sat over a list of goods I needed for an infrastructure project putting together a quotation, a Chinese man in his 50’s came through the door. He strode to the counter and began a harangue in (what I can only assume was) Mandarin. The shopkeeper then had his say not only in pigeon English, but loud and broken pigeon English. And something passed between them – some tangible understanding or agreement where they both seemed to find the outcome acceptable. Its fair to say that the proprietor didn’t speak Mandarin and that the contractor didn’t speak English or Chichewa, but I believe a deal was made, or goods were promised to be delivered. But in truth, I don’t know.
But then the shopkeeper explained to me that multiple Chinese groups had won concessions for various projects throughout Malawi lately, and that he was supplying a number of them. As it turned out, the contractor that I ran into had recently won contracts to build outdoor markets in a few of the towns in the southern region of the country.
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Hearing this got me to thinking of a few other brief, but punctuating, moments I’ve had in Malawi where I ran into Chinese people who looked just as out of place as I do. One time in a run down bar in Bangula I met a man by the name of Liu Sharif. He had left the mainland, married a Tanzanian
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Despite the singularity of these encounters, I’m beginning to think that they aren’t necessarily coincidental. Not long ago Malawi became another country on the long list of those that no longer recognize Taiwan as an independent nation. It gave Taiwanese diplomats and programs 24 hours to leave the country, and then welcomed China in with arms wide open. Since independence in the mid 1960’s Malawi has always been an odd country in terms of world politics – embracing Taiwan, apartheid South Africa, and others that were so ostracized. But China is too big to ignore, and it has its own big development programs too, just like the West.
And for all the strangeness of it, this is moving to become the norm. Editor’s Note: Tim Vandervoet grew up in Tubac. After serving as a Peace Corps volunteer from 2006-2008, he is now operations manager for the Clinton Foundation in Malawi, Africa.)
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by Carl A. Olson, entomologist
Most people have heard the names May beetle or June bug, and have the impression of brown uninspiring beetles that fly to their porch lights in the summer, hit the doors and land upside down. Clumsy indeed. Names sometimes tell a lot about a critter and these names are indicative of the months we see the adults. People will look askance at me, though, when I tell them about the Green July Beetle, a common sight in Arizona now, but I’m just being accurate about its time of activity.
There are other names I use for this spectacular summer scarab beetle, Cotinis mutabilis. One that many of you may know is the fig beetle, because of their propensity to devour figs of all varieties. These beetles also love peaches, tree sap, and just about any other juicy, lush fruit one may try to grow in the yard that ripens now. What did these beetles do before we brought all these desserts into Arizona? They fed on prickly pear fruit. The beetle is large as desert insects go, maybe reaching an inch or two in length, with a rotund body, but catching your eye with its metallic green undersides, or the matte green with yellow-orange trimmings on top. If these colors don’t alert you to their presence, then as they fly past, the massive hum will cause most folks to do a double take.
Now I didn’t grow up in Arizona, but as a kid I delighted in catching big insects like horse flies, and tying a fine string around the body, thus creating a living kite for me to fly around. Kids all around the world have their favorite insects to do this with, and in Arizona I learned it was the fig beetle. Needless to say I had to try this, and discovered they seem to
fly in slow motion, making a scene like one of those invisible dog leashes. Creative entertainment for the young at heart. Why am I writing about this beetle? As the answer man for insect questions here at the University of Arizona, I am being made aware of the incredible population boom we are experiencing. When insects come out in numbers like I am seeing and hearing about, it awakens the public. I visited a caller from just off campus, and found her fig tree to have literally hundreds of these beetles picnicking in her backyard. A touch of the tree caused the back yard to sound like a drone plane was landing there. I imagine the clusters I saw on the ground, 20-40 individuals on a clutch of figs, had become so heavy they simply broke the branch and fell to the earth. In its immature stage, the fig beetles live as grubs, those creamy-colored C-shaped larvae people may dig up from time to time in the yard or garden. Well, this beetle may get into the soil, but a better place to look for them is in a compost pile, a great way for people to break down their organics and create useable soils. The adults will seek out these niches, lay eggs in the Fall, and their larvae will then become a key component in the process of decomposition. Thus if you are out turning your compost and see some large wormy creatures, leave them for they are working for you. How might you know for sure you have this beetle? Take the larva from the compost and put it on the ground. It will roll onto its back and sort of hunch itself away trying to find a place to burrow and hide. It doesn’t use its legs. Weird, indeed, but another one of those fun observations in nature.
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We have to save the world! Although it is too late for many species, there is still a glimmer of hope for ours. I believe we are worth saving. Look at the amazing feats we’ve accomplished--climbing the highest peaks, building bridges that span miles, creating the Panama Canal, going to the moon, unlocking the invisible, creating systems of order including math, music, religions, law and agriculture. We humans have the ability to predict and to remember;
we have the potential of deep thought and abstract problem solving. Unfortunately, our innovativeness and selfless instincts are matched by unbridled greed.
My husband and I drove through some of this country’s most magnificent forests last month. We stood small at the feet of the mighty and volatile Teton Mountains, marveled at the power of the Columbia River, studied the Bridal Falls of Yosemite and the rushing rivers of Utah and Idaho. Throughout our meanderings we listened intently to The World Without Us, a book on tape by Alan Weisman. Weisman is an investigative journalist, naturalist and scientist.
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Listening to his words was akin to dousing ourselves with ice water at every turn of the road. Weisman’s book is stunning and important. He did his homework and in so doing made us anxious, indeed alarmed, that the world as we know it is nearing collapse. We saw the antelope, bison, elk, large and small birds and fields of wild flowers that greeted us along the way in a more profound way. We felt in relationship with them and grateful for the safety net provided by the park services, even if they represent only a fraction of our natural resources. I contemplated the prescience behind the formation of state and national parks and appreciated that they came about largely because of certain people who recognized our country’s true treasures. One was the botanist and essayist, John Muir (1838-1914), who is sometimes referred to as the father of the environmental movement. His letters and insights were widely read and
his Sierra Club is more active today than ever. Photographer, Ansel Adams’ visions, in the late 19th and early twentieth century, corroborated on film what may have been considered too beautiful to believe in the romantic paintings of his contemporaries.
Thomas Moran of the Hudson River School was one such artist. He was obsessed with the phenomenon of the Yellowstone landscape, to such a degree he could be credited for contributing to its preservation. Two other artists of the Rocky Mountain School were Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Hill. Their paintings of the West had to influence those in Washington, D.C. Bills signed by Woodrow Wilson in 1916, Herbert Hoover in 1933 and later Franklin Roosevelt and President Wm. Clinton, all secured lands meant to be honored. I am sure that otherwise the tackiness and greed of human development would have prevailed. And now, we are still squabbling over whether a clean air bill will cost us too much or hurt our businesses. What is money compared to the critical endangerment of nature and therefore the world itself ? This world is precious and incredibly vulnerable. It doesn’t really need us to survive but it is we who bring to it our creativity, melodies, dance and art. It is our genomes we must consider, our children’s children and theirs as well. Are we willing to let humanity die over profit and politic? The devastation is now. Things are worse than scientists predicted twenty-five years ago. Extinctions are accelerating along with pollution and the constant contamination of the ocean. Did you know there is a swirling mass of plastic garbage larger than the state of Texas floating in the Pacific? This lethal scourge of contaminants is going to force our hand. We can’t be small now. It is not about blame or politic, it is about the very fact that we now know that it is not a world without end as I believed in my pious youth. Quite the contrary, it is a world with a likely end and a world we are helping to kill every day. It is a world intrinsically interconnected. It is up to every human being who understands the reality of human actions as a threat to life itself. We have to start down the road
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I try not to be angry about the waste and selfishness of ludicrously wealthy Americans who would trample the earth for one more deal. Take, for example, a man like Ron (Robber) Baron who wanted his Mc Mansion in the Hamptons and defied the environmental laws by destroying the dunes and precious breeding habitats on his property. He is without remorse, contending the dunes are nothing but piles of dirt. His travesty of the habitat was merely to create another monument to money in a neighborhood already showcasing the same.
It is good to remember that for every baddy there’s a goody. For example, as I read through a list of the names of Massachusetts’ Green Belt contributors, it read like a history book. The same families who helped build this country are still taking responsibility for its well-being. The Cabots, the Winthrops, the Wennigers, the Stewards, the Lorings and on and on. They are working to preserve land meant to sustain life. Hollywood personalities like Robert Redford and Ted Turner have added glamour to land preservation by contributing wide swaths of western land. These acts are not going to turn the world around but they are signs that some are aware and willing to point our fragile ship in the right direction. In Santa Cruz County we should be conserving water and grateful to those who carefullly farm our valley. The Lowe’s, the Haubrich’s, the Arivaca Organic Cooperatives and the Global Alliance Farm are dedicated to farming with a conscience. They invite you to participate by buying their produce. Farmers markets are springing up all over America. But still this is not enough.
It will take a worldwide revolution of consciousness to turn us around. Education for all, conservation for all, population control for all, sacrifice on a major scale. No one escapes this problem. We are in it together. It is the dark matter of our lives and it is huge in scope, but if we each do our piece perhaps we can appease Mother Nature and we may just be forgiven for squandering our riches. ~
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One of the many wonders
of our great desert is the monsoon rains, they seem to have skirted the issue this year in my part of Tubac, not so for many other areas, they’ve had a pounding, maybe August will be more true to form. Since I can’t expound on the monsoons, I’ll rave about my favorite desert animal, the javalina.
It was only about 300 years ago that peccaries or javalinas ambled into the desert regions of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico from South America, they’re thriving now in the Southwest desert. A full grown javalina is about two feet tall, three feet long and weighs between 40-50 pounds, newborns are called piglings and they are darling!
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Javalinas are nearsighted, they live in a world of scent and sound, they have a group scent, sort of mild skunky odor, not too bad, they travel in groups, three or four or 10 or more, they maintain a peaceful existence within the
When I first moved to the Tubac Trailer Tether those many years ago, I planted dozens of pansies in lovely pots and lined my outdoor steps, I had them everywhere. I had no idea the javalinas loved them for dessert, oh what a mess they made, same with birdfeed, I learned a lot.
They still enjoy a good wallow in the lovely dark earth behind my teeny, tiny place. They scrape out a resting area and bed down for awhile, the next morning the foot prints (so many) and the hollows in the earth look like a painting.
I don’t mind their ‘perfume’ after a visit, I just know the javalina and their piglings enchant me, I stand at the little fence between us and sometimes when they pass through I talk to them, sometimes they talk back, I love that the piglings are always under the mother, wasn’t this a lucky shot? This incredible amazing desert, I never cease to be amazed at the wonders I see every day, are we lucky or not? Don’t get me started, I’ll just have to rave about the monsoons in August when they come back…PuLeese…come back.
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Peaches and nectarines are so good right now, hope you try these easy peach desserts. PEACH COBBLER 2 c. fresh, sliced peaches ½ to ¾ c. sugar
2 tbl. flour 1 tbl. lemon juice 1 tbl. butter
Place peaches in pie pan, sprinkle with mixture of sugar and flour, then lemon juice, dot with butter. Place Cobble Top over all and bake in 425 degrees for 30 min.
COBBLER TOP 1 c. plus 1 tbl. flour 1 stick butter
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2 c. sliced fresh peaches 2 tbl. lemon juice ¼ c. sugar 3 tbl. cornstarch
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2 tsp. butter dash salt ¼ tsp. almond extract 1 9-inch baked pastry shell
Sprinkle peaches with lemon juice and sugar, let stand 1 hour. Drain, you’ll have nearly a cup of syrup. Add this to 3 tbl. cornstarch in small pan, cook till thick, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, add butter, salt and almond extract. Cool. Pour over peaches in pie shell, chill and serve with whipped cream.
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Willie Armijo, site manager at Tubac Community Center, just reported that there are nine swallows in the nests, one fell out, poor baby. There have been 13 thus far. Don’t forget to check them out when you go to the center, the nests are right above the windows of the library and another at end of building. Do you realize we’ve been waging war in our own homes for years? It’s the Tartar War… brushing our teeth! Just looked at the bird feeder at the back window, a cardinal was eating the grape lilly I had put out for the orioles, he finally had enough, but he surely had a hard time wiping his beak, even after a long drink of water, a first for me.
Tubac Villager Supporting Business Listings in alphabetical order
#15 CASA FINA De TuBAC B104 & B105 La entrada de Tubac (520) 398-8620 www.tubacvillager.com/casafina.html At Casa Fina you will find Full Window Treatment options, Design Services, Fantastic Furnishings, New & Exciting Accessories, Custom Bedding, Lamps & Lighting. We even offer luxurious candles. Anything you desire for your beautifully appointed, personality filled home, Casa Fina is your source! Come see us for a fun-filled & relaxing shopping experience. DOS SILOS MeXICAN CuISINe 65 Avenida de otero open Thurs - Sun 11am - 8pm (520) 398-3787 www.tubacgolfresort.com www.tubacvillager.com/dossilos.html Authentic Regional Mexican Cuisine with a blend of New World Ingredients. #40 HeIR LOOMS OLD WORLD IMPORTS 7 Plaza rd open 7 days, Tues - Sat 10-5, Sun - Mon 11-4 (520) 398-2369 www.tubacrugs.com www.tubacvillager.com/heirlooms.html For over 40 years, our family has hand selected the finest art and textiles from around the world. Visit our Tubac Gallery or call for our available services. #51 JANe’S ATTIC 8 Will rogers Lane, Tubac Plaza open Daily 11-4 (520) 398-9301 www.tubacvillager.com/janes.html Summertime is the best time to shop at Jane’s Attic. New items are arriving daily. We specialize in “gently used” items including clothing, jewelry, small furniture & decorator items. August: Open Daily from 11am to 4pm. September: Open Thursday through Sunday 11am to 4pm. #99 LA PALOMA De TuBAC 1 Presidio Dr., old Town open Daily 10am - 5pm (520) 398-9231 www.tubacvillager.com/lapaloma.html We have imported the finest quality Latin American folk art for over 30 years. At this point we have one of the best collections anywhere. Special thanks to our loyal customers for supporting us during good times and bad. This summer we are offering exceptional savings as your pay back. #67 MeTALMORPHOSIS 20 Tubac rd. (520) 398-9188 www.metalmorphosis.biz www.tubacvillager.com/ metalmorphosis.html MetalMorphosis offers a variety of many unique and distinctive southwestern and contemporary designs. The work is cut out of steel with a waterjet, bent to give dimensions, finished with a unique airbrush technique and clear coated with UV protective polyurethane. The artwork is suitable for indoors or outdoors. Shop today and save!
#1 - #7 PLAzA De ANzA (520) 398-8700 www.barriodetubac.com/plaza-de-anza www.tubacvillager.com/ plazadeanza.html Plaza de Anza North of Exit 34 in Tubac AZ, with mountain views and great places to cool off such as the Artist’s Palate Restaurant(#5), Café Presidio Restaurant(#3), Anza Marketplace Grocery(#1), Chef’s Table Restaurant(#2), Tubac Ranch Furniture(#4), Anza de Tubac property Management(#6), maintenance and cleaning services and Emmy’s Pilates Studio(#7). For more information call our offices at 398-8700. ReALTy eXeCuTIVeS, BILL MACK & SALLy ROBLING 2251 e Frontage rd. (520) 398-2770 OR 398-2222 www.tubac.com www.tubacvillager.com/ tubacteam.html #1 Agents in Tubac since 2005. Nobody Knows Tubac Real Estate better than the Tubac Real Estate Team. Virtual tours available at www.tubac.com. ReALTy eXeCuTIVeS, CHARLIe MeAKeR 2251 e Frontage rd. (520) 237-2414 www.tubacvillager.com/ charliemeaker.html It’s a buyer’s market! There are over 100 resale homes listed for sale in Tubac, at prices ranging from $89,050 to a cool $8 Million! The Owners are waiting anxiously for your offer! Give me a call, and I’ll help you find the home that’s just right for you! #78 SHeLBy’S BISTRO 19 Tubac rd., Mercado de Baca (520) 398-8075 www.tubacvillager.com/shelbys.html Located just over the footbridge in the Mercado de Baca shopping plaza, Shelby’s Bistro is celebrating its 12th year in Tubac. Our bistro was recently chosen as one of Arizona’s 25 best restaurants by Arizona Highways Magazine (April 09, vol 85, #4). STABLeS RANCH GRILLe 65 Avenida de otero open Daily 6:30am - 10pm (520) 398-2678 www.tubacgolfresort.com www.tubacvillager.com/stables.html Stables Ranch Grille evokes Tubac’s Spanish past in its cuisine and atmosphere. The restaurant, formerly stables for Spanish ranchers in the New World, is nestled below the Santa Rita Mountains and among lush cottonwoods on the Santa Cruz River. STOCKMAN’S GRILL I-19 exit 48, Amado Territory ranch open Tues - Sat 11-2 & 5-8 (520) 398-2651 www.tubacvillager.com/stockmans.html Conveniently located next to the Inn at Amado Territory Ranch, serving a full lunch and dinner menu, featuring: savory steaks, seafood, specialty entrées, Angus burgers, sandwiches, salads, and decadent desserts. Prime Rib on Friday and Saturday nights. Sunday Brunch served from 10:30am – 2pm. We’d love to cater your special event and the restaurant is available for private functions. "Southern Arizona's Favorite Steakhouse."
#75 TJ’S TORTuGA BOOKS & COFFee BeANS 19 Tubac rd., Mercado de Baca open Mon - Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5 (520) 398-8109 www.tubacvillager.com/tjs.html We have great new books for your summer reading. Starting in August: Childrens reading hour Mondays at 10am. #41 TuBAC CeNTeR OF THe ARTS 9 Plaza rd. (520) 398-2371 www.tubacarts.org www.tubacvillager.com/tca.html The Tubac Center of the Arts will open Summer Gallery during August to support area artists and all the businesses and galleries which remain open during the summer. TCA hopes to bring more visitors to enjoy Tubac’s great year round amenities and provide area residents with summertime fun. TuBAC GOLF ReSORT AND SPA 65 Avenida de otero (520) 398-2211 www.tubacgolfresort.com www.tubacvillager.com/tubacgolf.html Tubac Golf Resort & Spa nestled on the 500 acre historic Otero Ranch and ¼ mile from the village. The perfect place to stay while in the area with 98 luxurious rooms and suites, a world-class spa & salon, a wedding chapel, 27-holes of championship golf, 2 restaurants, meeting space, and shops. #52 TuBAC PLAzA MAIN STAGe at the out of The Way Galleria 29 Tubac Plaza (520) 398-2542 www.GlobalchangeMultiMedia.org www.tubacvillager.com/gcca.html Enjoy live music from around the world, independent films, and a variety of entertaining events presented by Global Change Multi-Media including the next Sacred Global CosmoPop Concert & EcoFest, Tubac/Tumacacori's biannual music and eco-festival weekend featuring Gabriel of Urantia’s eleven-piece Bright & Morning Star Band, October 23rd-25th! TuBAC PeRFORMANCe STuDIOS 2243 e Frontage road (520) 398-9170 www.tubacvillager.com/performance.html Offering Technique Acting Classes and drama workshops for children and adults. Taught by Polly Schlitz AEA/SAG Actress and veteran acting coach. 1st Weekend Workshop "Where the Wild Things Are" ages 4-12. Sat & Sun Aug 29th & 30th. #23 TuMACOOKeRy N102 & N103 La entrada de Tubac open daily 10 -5 (520) 398-9497 www.tumacookery.com www.tubacvillager.com/tumacookery.html TUMACOOKERY, Our Mission is Your Kitchen. Offering Gadgets, Cookware, Appliances, Spices, Gourmet Food, Coffee, Tea, Bar Tools, Knives, Sharpening and More. In the Shops at La Entrada de Tubac. Open 10-5 Daily, Throughout Summer. WISDOM’S CAFé 1931 e Frontage rd., Tumacacori open Mon - Sat 11-3 & 5-8 (520) 398-2397 www.wisdomscafe.com www.tubacvillager.com/wisdoms Delectable Mexican Food served by 3 generations of the Wisdom family using the freshest ingredients and locally grown produce whenever possible. Come see why we’ve been a local favorite and top tourist destination for 65 years.
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Stop by the Tubac Center of the Arts and check out the mosaic bench created by the kids of the 2009 TCA Summer Arts program. Each summer the Center imparts art fundamentals and creativity to area children. This year's program theme was portraiture and environmental consequences, culminating in the kid's performance of "Trasherella." Great Stuff!
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Tubac Center of the Arts S um m er G a l a Op en i n g photographs by Jared Newton
sat, sept 12th, 5-8pmish ~ MONsOON PaTIO PaRTy ~ see Chef Art in action on the patio grilling American-style Kobe Beef Burgers to perfection w/all the Fixings plus Live Music (RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED) at Wisdom's Cafe in Tumacacori. 398-2397. sun, sept 13th – Celebration of education! Come to beautiful Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm & Ranch in Tumacácori and celebrate Global Community Communications Schools for Children & Teens annual end of their school year Celebration of Education. Enjoy refreshments and a variety of creative displays and performances. Call (520) 603-9932 for more info. At Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm & Ranch in Tumacacori. Tues, sept 15th - Jeff Haskell and Julie anne perform at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W Continental, Green Valley at 7pm. Tickets $12 at the door. www. performingartscenter.org for more info, or call 520-399-1750. Thurs, sept 17th - sustainable santa Cruz Meeting at 5:30pm at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Rd. Working to build a resilient community in the face of future challenges - peak oil, climate change, and the economy. Fri, sept 18th, 5-8pmish ~ BBQ NIGHT ~ featuring Chef Art's delicious Slow Smoked Ribs, Brisket & Pulled Pork plus Live Music by Amber Norgaard (RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED) at Wisdom's Cafe in Tumacacori. 398-2397. Thurs, sept 24th - Retro Rockets perform at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W Continental, Green Valley at 7pm. Tucson's hottest 1960's rock and roll band. Tickets $12 at the door. www.performingartscenter.org for more info, or call 520-399-1750. sat, sept 26th - Local sustainability for eastern santa Cruz County at 1:30pm at Cady Hall, 342 Duquesne Ave. Patagonia. FOCUS on Public Health / Community & Social Services / Housing. saturday, september 26 ~ Tubac Fire department Golf Tournament with lunch to follow at Wisdom's. See our website for more information about this fantastic event! 398-2397. Thurs, Oct 1st - sustainable santa Cruz Meeting at 5:30pm at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Rd. Attend and help establish the partnerships that will be the basis for this critical effort, to bring a unified and comprehensive transition to our communities. Be part of the planning of educational events to support
sustainable living practices, and to hear from environmental groups that study the I-19 corridor and Santa Cruz watershed. Thurs, Oct 1st, 6:00PM – CONCeRT, “GiveWay” from Scotland: Four sisters from Scotland with beautiful vocals and Celtic fiddle, guitar, whistles, accordion, and drums. “GiveWay” have won awards at the acclaimed Scottish music festival “Celtic Connections” and the BBC Radio “2 Young Folk Awards”. They have performed on numerous radio/television shows and at a series of high profile venues including the main stage at Cambridge Folk Festival and Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall. “GiveWay” have toured extensively in the UK, Europe and the USA; and are now on tour with their latest release, “The Water is Wide”. $15 ages 12 & up; $7.50 ages 6-11; 5 & under - free. At the Tubac Plaza Main Stage next to the Out Of The Way Galleria at 29 Tubac Plaza. Fri, Oct 2nd, 5-8pmish ~ First Friday w/ Chef Art's Fish & Chips, 2-for-1 Margaritas & Live Music at Wisdom's Cafe in Tumacacori. 398-2397. Fri, Oct 2nd - Opening Reception for the New Tubac Buddhist Meditation Center at 2247 E Frontage Rd. Suite #2. The public reception is from 6:30-8pm. Its special guest will be Dr. Dean Pielstick, president of Dharmakirti College in Tucson. Everyone in the community is invited to come and tour the new meditation center, meet Dr. Pielstick, enjoy refreshments, and see old and new friends. The increased size of the new center will allow TBMC to accommodate its growth in membership as well as to offer more frequent special events such as Dharma talks from visiting teachers, meditation retreats, and workshops. The new location will help TBMC continue its mission to provide a community space for meditation, study and programs in the Buddhist tradition. All activities are open to individuals of all spiritual traditions. TBMC also serves as a resource of information about Buddhist teachings, retreats, and other activities in southern Arizona. The Tubac Buddhist Meditation Center was founded as a non-profit organization three years ago, but its roots in the community actually go back almost 20 years through The Empty Brush Sangha, which was located at Virginia Hall’s studio. TBMC has sponsored numerous programs and has hosted visiting American, Nepalese and Tibetan teachers. An important goal of the Center is to offer teachings and host teachers from all three major Buddhist traditions (Theravadan, Zen and Tibetan). Most importantly, TBMC offers a place for regular meditation and study. The Center welcomes both experienced meditators, as
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well as those who have wanted to learn to meditate but have never tried it before. Silent group meditation is held on Tuesdays and Fridays from 5:30 - 6:15pm. The Center also provides a Newcomer and Visitor Orientation on Tuesday from 5 - 5:30pm, when the basics of breath meditation are explained. Sunday’s program includes meditation, chanting, and group study and discussion from 7:45am10am with a break from 8:35-8:45am for those who wish to attend the first or second session only. For more information about the Tubac Buddhist Meditation Center‘s Opening Reception, the meditation schedule, and upcoming programs, log on to www. tubacmeditation.org or call 520-398-1108. sat & sun, Oct 3 & 4 - Moonlight Photo safari. Join award winning photographer and borderlands activist, Murray Bolesta for a weekend of nature photography. Through guided outings and the camera’s lens, explore Brown Canyon’s changing light and moods at sunrise, full moon and sunset. All skill levels welcome. For additional information about Brown Canyon, the workshops, walks, and its leaders, please visit the Friends of BANWR Web site at www.friendsofbanwr.org Thurs thru sat, Oct 8th - 10th - "The Laramie Project" performed by the Santa Cruz Shoestring Players. Thurs & Fri at 7pm, Sat at 2pm. $12 in advance, $15 at the door. At the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W Continental, Green Valley. www. performingartscenter.org for more info, or call 520-399-1750. sat & sun, Oct 10th & 11th - Baboquivari Plants – Food for Mind and soul. Botanist Dan Austin will give participants an overview of the rich and varied plants of Brown Canyon. Learn how individual plants fit into the wider ecosystem and how peoples like the Tohono O’odham have incorporated them into their culture. For additional information about Brown Canyon, the workshops, walks, and its leaders, please visit the Friends of BANWR Web site at www.friendsofbanwr.org Tues, Oct 13th - Gary Bonnet Band performsat the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W Continental, Green Valley at 7pm. www.performingartscenter.org for more info, or call 520-399-1750. Wed, Oct 14th - soul Groove performs at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W Continental, Green Valley at 7pm. "Dancing in the Seat." www.performingartscenter.org for more info, or call 520-399-1750. Fri thru sun, Oct 23rd - 25th - sacred Global CosmoPop Concert & eco-Fest at Avalon Gardens in Tumacacori. Concerts, films, speakers, organic gardening lectures,
camping, food and much more. Call 520-6039932 for more info. sat & sun, Oct 24th & 25th - Living with southern arizona Predators with Leaders - Wildlife Biologists, Cynthia Wolf and Sergio Avila. The region known as the Sky Islands of southeast Arizona merges tropical and temperate climates, where a wide diversity of plants, wildlife, and human cultures live. Due to the rich diversity of life and spaces, we are lucky to live amongst some of the most charismatic top predators in the world. Historically, Grizzly bears and Mexican-gray wolves roamed in this region, and wild jaguars have been recorded recently in the ArizonaSonora border region. In this workshop, with a citizen science perspective, we will learn about the life of the regional top predators, their prey and the space predators and humans share and call home. We will share the personal stories of experienced biologists working to study and protect predators in the region, while hiking and exploring one of the unique sky islands, the sacred Baboquivari Mountains. For additional information about Brown Canyon, the workshops, walks, and its leaders, please visit the Friends of BANWR Web site at www.friendsofbanwr.org Fri, Oct 30th deadLINe for applications - CaLL TO aRTIsTs -The Tubac Chamber of Commerce is accepting applications for the 2010 Tubac Festival of the arts. The dates for the annual fine arts and crafts festival are February 10-14, 2010. One of the most eclectic displays of art in the Southwest, the juried event is southern Arizona’s longest running art festival. Interested artists and craftspeople from around the country are invited to apply. Please contact the Tubac Chamber of Commerce for an application at 520-398-2704 or artfestival@tubacaz.com. * * * * * * * *
Help raise funds for the animals at the santa Cruz County Humane society shelter by donating your used items to BIG Reds THRIFT sHOP. Located at 232 e. Patagonia Highway, Nogales aZ 85621. Open Monday thru Friday 8am-5pm, saturday 8am-4pm, We will pick up items at your home or business Monday thru saturday..Just call us at 520-287-5654 or email us at info@santacruzhumanesociety. com to make arrangements.
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Facing Page, top: Approximately 600 people in all turned out for the Tubac center of The Arts Summer Gallery exhhibition. Facing, middle: Tubac artist David Simons discusses his painting, Retired, in The Gallery Shop. Facing, bottom left: Tubac artist Mike Hoeck with two watercolor pieces, Butterflies and Cactus. Facing, bottom: The Tubac center of The Arts. This page, top: Mike Taylor with Helios 1. Middle: Scarlett Taylor with her works Calla Lily and Sunflower. This page, bottom left: close-up of Helios 1 by areas artist, Mike Taylor. Bottom right: Tubac Artist Michael Jayme with his paintings.
Charlie Meaker, Celebrating 30 Years in Tubac! IT’S A BUYER’S MARKET!
There are over 100 resale homes listed for sale in Tubac, at prices ranging from $89,050 to a cool $8 Million!
Tubac Office, PO Box 1987, Tubac AZ 85646
Charlie Meaker
520-237-2414 The Owners are waiting anxiously for your offer! Give me a call, I’ll help you find the home that’s just right for you! I’m at your service.
F E AT U R E D H O M E S T H I S M O N T H 2207 EMBARCADERO WAY
FORECLOSURE – ON THE 7TH FAIRWAY AT TUBAC GOLF RESORT.
BANK-OWNED 3-BEDROOM TOWNHOME IN BARRIO DE TUBAC
Upgraded Dorn home – Sabino model – with great room plan, huge kitchen, lots of light. 2BR, 2-1/4 BA in the main house, plus a 1BR-1BA casita. Entertain on the patio or in the courtyard with outdoor fireplace and “stairway to the stars” on the roof walk. A perfect second home. Sold AS-IS, but the Bank will pay up to 2% of the purchase price toward buyer’s closing costs. CALL FOR THE LATEST PRICE!
Luxury 3 Bedroom-3 Bath townhome, the first home in Sentinel Hill. A former model, this home has many upgrades, including beautiful tile work, skywalk, etc. Amazing mountain views from the patio. However, all of the appliances, seven interior doors, and a few other items, such as interior doorknobs and toilet paper holders, have disappeared! The bank says sell it “as is”, but offers up to 2% of the purchase price toward buyer’s closing costs. CALL FOR THE LATEST PRICE!
59 KEATING CIRCLE
126 GEARY ROAD
CAMINO KENNEDY – FORTY ACRES at the north end of Tubac Foothills Ranch. Several great building sites. Views all around. Adjoins state land on the north. Can be split into three parcels. Electric at the lot line. Investment Potential! OFFERED AT $159,000. AMADO - 5 ACRES, Mountain Views - $125,000.
OTHER FINE HOMES! - Call for a showing! 6 TROCITO CT. - 3BR, Pool, Privacy, Palo Parado Est. $459,000 38 PIEDRA DR. 3BR ON 3Ac - A Total Remodel $499,000 508 POST WAY 1BR Townhome in Embarcadero* $ Call*
BANK-OWNED 2-STORY HOME IN BARRIO DE TUBAC
WESTERN RANCH-STYLE HOME WITH EVERYTHING – AND MORE!
This 3-bedroom, two-story home has a library AND an office, and TWO master bedrooms. Once a model, there are many, many upgrades – too many to even start to list here. Mountain views from almost every window; sky terrace, shaded patio, granite countertops, stainless appliances, two master bedrooms, corner lot. Sold “as-is”; CALL FOR THE BANK’S LATEST PRICE!
Three-bedroom, 3-bath main house PLUS two-room hilltop studio/ workshop. Shady porches on three sides, room to entertain, amazing mountain views AND a master bedroom suite that would make a queen envious! The list of wonderful things in this beautiful home goes on and on. Mere words cannot describe all this house has to offer – you have to go Look! Give me a call and you can see for yourself! REDUCED TO $449,000.
2251 PALO PARADO RD 4 BR, big yard, mountain views $325,000 156 ALISO SPRINGS RD 4 BR, 4 acres, what views! $575,000 *Foreclosure, bank-owned properties. Call for the latest price!
TUBAC HOME SALES - Resale home sales as reported by MLS - 6/3/090-07/27/09 ADDRESS
4 CERRO PELON LN 117 POWELL CT. 7 AVENIDA DE OTERO
AREA
WEST TUBAC BARRIO DE TUBAC COUNTRY CLUB
DESCRIPTION
2BR ON 4 ACRES - A COUNTRY ESTATE 3BR PATIO HOME, FORECLOSURE 2BR TOWNHOME, FULLY FURNISHED
SALES PRICE
$450,000 $245,000 $275,000
$ PER SQ. FT
DAYS ON MARKET
$123.09 $126.75 $183.33
143 277 589
NOTE: Each month, we will report on Home Sales, using MLS DATA. Questions or Comments? Call or e•mail!
If you’re thinking of listing your property, please give me a call. I will give you a free market analysis, work for you on open houses, if desired, and “spread the word” with advertising in all media and the internet.