December 2009 Tubac Villager

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Pg 4 Events Around Tubac New Tubac Shop

Pg 6 The Wild Rose

by Kathleen Vandervoet New Tubac Shop

Pg 8 I ♼ Sweet Stuff

by Carol St. John Personalities from Tubac's Past

Pg 10 Charles Debrille Poston

by Shaw Kinsley Santa Cruz

Pg 12 County Update

by Kathleen Vandervoet Pg 14 The Virgin of Guadalupe

by Cathy Giesy The story of

Pg 16 Juan Diego & Our Lady of Guadalupe

by Cathy Giesy Pg 18 TCA's Annual Home Tour

by Kathleen Vandervoet Pg 20 Thru Green Eyes

by Serge Manna & Robert Gay Pg 22 Christmas in Old Az

by Mary Bingham Pg 28 Borderlands Photographer

by Murray Bolesta Pg 29 Poetry Pg 30 Desert Rat

by Carol St. John Pg 31 Remnants from Ruthie Pg 32 Art Experience photos

by Murray Bolesta Pg 33 Tubac Map This monthly journal is made possible through the support of local advertisers, artists and writers... please visit their unique businesses and let them know where you saw their ad, art or article.

The Tubac Villager is a locally owned and independently operated journal, based in Tubac and published monthly to celebrate the art of living in Southern Arizona.

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December Circulation: 11,000. The Villager is made available at 180 Tucson locations, 400 Phoenix locations, and offered free of charge at locations in Tubac, Tumacacori, Carmen, Green Valley, Nogales, Rio Rico, Amado and Arivaca, Arizona.

Bruce Baughman Mary Bingham Joseph Birkett Murray Bolesta Robert Gay Cathy Geisy

Shaw Kinsley Serge Manna Ruthie Carol St. John Russell Thompson Kathleen Vandervoet

On the Cover:

"Wildflower" acrylic 20"x16"

by Bruce Baughman About the artist: Drawn to the brilliance made available and preserved in reverse painting where the viewer sees the vivid dynamics of paint through the back of a clear sheet of acrylic, Bruce Baughman first came in contact with the process while studying in Europe.

His medium has evolved from the first showings of his work in 1975 and his style has emerged from concentrating on landscapes and floral to a more abstract focus.

The Bruce Baughman Gallery, located in Tubac's La Entrada shopping plaza, offers a 1000 square feet of comfortable exhibition space to view the large, colorful and dynamic abstract pieces which seem to glow from within. There are also smaller works and prints of more representational pieces available. A digital display of some of his earlier work also cycles for visitors.

Often one can observe Baughman creating works with the interesting reverse process on site at the gallery.

Baughman first opened a gallery in Tubac in 2001 and moved to his current location in 2008.

Baughman also shows and works at his 1800 square foot gallery in the popular and historic art destination town of Saugatuk, Michigan part of the year, which he opened in 1996.

His work has been featured in many publications and television/film, and graced the cover of books and journals. Baughman exhibited at ArtExpo New York in 2002, where he was approached by the Chinese Government to teach and lecture about his artwork. He has also exhibited in one man shows in galleries in Lucerne, Zurich, Madrid, Berlin and Vienna, along with showings in Key West, Scottsdale, New Haven, Naples, Boca Raton, Douglas, MI and Wellesley, MA. With an extensive list of corporate and private clients in China, Japan, England, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Yugoslavia.

Baughman recently was awarded a Merit of Honor at the Tubac Center of the Arts for a piece currently showing.

Visit the Bruce Baughman Studio Gallery in Tubac in La Entrada shopping Plaza.

Call 520-398-3098 for more information or view the artist's website at www.brucebaughmangallery.com

Artwork by Bruce Baughman

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Be sure to stop by and enjoy the festive displays at Galleria Tubac.

This season marks 15 years that Galleria Tubac has been showcasing its Year-Round Christmas Gallery at 31 Tubac Road.

For info call: 398-9088

FRIDAYS - BECKY REYES LIVE 5:30pm at Stockman's Grill at the Amado Territory Ranch, I-19 exit 48. 520-398-2651.

ONGOING NOW THROUGH JAN 3RD - THE HOLIDAY ARTISAN MARKET along with the 40TH ANNUAL MEMBERS' JURIED EXHIBIT and the LITTLE TREASURES EXHIBIT at the Tubac Center of the Arts, 9 Plaza Road. Hundreds of unique, handcrafted gifts and fine art. 520-398-2371. tubacarts.org.

SHOWING NOW THROUGH FEBRUARY – TUBAC ARTIST BOBB VANN on exhibit at the law firm of Mesch, Clark & Rothschild, downtown Tucson at 259 N. Meyer Avenue. Call 520-624-8886 to schedule an appointment.

MONDAYS - CHILDREN'S STORY HOUR at TJ's Tortuga Books & Coffee Beans in the Mercado de Baca at 10am. 520-398-8109.

THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS - LIVE MUSIC at Stables Ranch Grille in the Tubac Golf Resort. At 6pm. 520-3982678.

FRIDAYS - MUSIC JAM at Old Tubac Inn. 398-3161.

SATURDAYS - LIVE MUSIC BY ANGEL PEREZ 5:30pm at Stockman's Grill at the Amado Territory Ranch, I-19 exit 48.

520-398-2651.

SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYS – VISIT SONOITA CREEK STATE NATURAL AREA for birds walks, pontoon boat rides, hikes, history, children's programs - nature, science, serenity, exercise and fun! The most popular activities are the guided bird walks and the pontoon boat tours. Boat tours Sats & Suns, cost $3 per person. The Sat evening Twilight Boat Tour is known for views of the water surface and hillsides.

Reserve boat tour seats (520) 287-2791. Permit is required to enter Sonoita Creek State Natural Area, & are available at the gatehouse in Patagonia Lake State Park or (520) 287-6965. Fee $8 per vehicle. Thirty permits are available each day. More than 21 miles of trails and three backcountry campsites.

THURS, DEC 3RD - TUBAC THURSDAY MORNING BREAKFAST FORUM presents Cynthia Lester speaking ON BEING A NATURAL INTUITIVE at 9am. Cynthia Lester was born with intuitive gifts and is an internationally celebrated counselor and teacher giving lectures and workshops around the world. Forum meets at Plaza de Anza - Artist's Palate Restaurant, 40 Avenida Goya, Tubac.Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance at 398-3333 or at the door. LIMITED SEATING. Admission includes a full sit down breakfast. http:// tubacbreakfastforum.wordpress.com/ THURS, DEC 3RD - JOEL BLUMENTHAL, an expert on herbs, will speak to the Patagonia Woman's Club at 2pm in Cady Hall next to the Patagonia Library on Duquesne Ave. Ms. Blumenthal came from New York via Phoenix to retire in Sonoita where she began growing herbs twelve years ago. Her hobby evolved into a small business. She will share her vast knowledge of the uses and benefits of herbs, and focus on those herbs which grow well in this area.

THURS, DEC 3RD - OPEN HOUSE AT THE SPA at the Tubac Golf Resort from 3 to 6pm. 520-398-3522.

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Sat & Sun, Dec 5th & 6th - The 39th Annual Tumacácori Fiesta at the Tumacácori National Historical Park FRI, DEC 4TH - FIRST FRIDAY WITH LIVE MUSIC BY EDUARDO VALENCIA at Wisdom's Cafe in Tumacacori. 5 to 8ish. 520-398-2397.

FRI & SAT, DEC 4TH & 5TH – THE ANNUAL HOLIDAY ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR sponsored by the Green Valley Lapidary and Silversmith Club from 9am to 5pm at the West Social Center located at 1111 Via Arcos Iris, Green Valley. Featuring one-of-a-kind silver and stone jewelry. Also available will be a good selection of hand-made dichroic glass pendants, pottery, wood carvings, fabric purses and jackets, and other useful and beautiful gift ideas. For more info contact Judy Jensen at 3004902 or email gvartfair@live.com.

FRI & SAT, DEC 4TH & 5TH - LUMINARIA NIGHTS~FIESTA DE NAVIDAD from sunset - 9pm. This 25-year tradition is Tubac’s annual celebration of the holiday season. The Village streets will be lined with thousands of traditional candle luminarias. Enjoy complimentary refreshments and discover great gift ideas in Tubac’s more than 100 galleries, shops and artist studios. The shops and galleries will have extended hours from 10am in the morning until 9pm in the evening.

There will be holiday music and caroling, and Santa Claus will visit the Village both nights. Visitors are advised to wear comfortable walking shoes and to bring a flashlight. Luminaria Nights~Fiesta de Navidad is sponsored by the Tubac Chamber of Commerce. Admission is free. For more information, contact the Tubac Chamber of Commerce, 520-398-2704, www. tubacaz.com.

SAT, DEC 5TH – THE FIRST ANNUAL FRIENDS OF BUENOS AIRES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE GRASSLANDS FAIR at the refuge headquarters near Sasabe, AZ. A celebration of Wild Grassland with exhibits, wildlife demonstrations, talks. Food, craft and gift shopping all day. Music from South America. For more information go to friendsofbanwr.org or email fobanwr@ gmail.com.

SAT, DEC 5TH – FREE E-WASTE RECYCLING EVENT Recycle your unwanted TVs, computers, monitors, printers, batteries, chargers, cell phones, VCRs, CD and DVD players, fax machines, small appliances, cables and cords. At Fresh Produce Association of the Americas, 590 East Frontage Road (I-19 in Nogales) from 10am to 2pm. For more info call (602)476-7533.

SAT, DEC 5TH – SASHA WISDOM & VIOLIN FRIENDS at the Tumacacori Fiesta at the Mission at noon.

SAT, DEC 5TH - WILFIRE plays at the Old Tubac Inn at 7pm.

Hot Classic Rock. 398-3161.

SAT & SUN, DEC 5TH & 6TH - THE 39TH ANNUAL TUMACÁCORI FIESTA - free to the public from 10am to 5pm, at Tumacácori National Historical Park. A celebration of all the cultures which have lived in and influenced the historical Santa Cruz Valley. The two-day event will feature Native American, Mexican, and Southwest food, crafts and performances.

Fifty booths, representing a wide variety of local non-profit historical, cultural and religious organizations, will provide food, handcrafts, and information. On the main stage, there will be all-day, continuous free entertainment, featuring a multicultural variety of dance and music groups, as well as all-day demonstrations of paper flower making, living history enactors, rawhide braiding, leatherworking, and tortilla making. For the children, there will be piñatas and hands on traditional crafts. Guided tours of the mission will be available both days, as well as guided walks to the Santa

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THURSDAY, DEC. 24 Celebrate Christmas & IreneÕ s SATURDAY, DEC 5 - Fiesta b-day w/Live Music - make Tumacacori & Luminaria Nights your reservations NOW!! celebration with live music with David (520) 398-2397 Bixt, 6-9ish

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New Places in Tubac

‘Playful’ Gifts & Cards at Tubac's New

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It’s not often that a shopper is surprised by the unexpected design features of items in a gift store. But that’s what happens when visiting The Wild Rose cards and gifts, a new business located between Heirlooms Old World Imports and the Tubac Center of the Arts.

The pear green color on the walls sets the tone for a fun experience. One long wall is filled with greeting cards while shelves and tables display unusual gift items. For example, small granite rocks are used to decorate the stem of a wine glass or the end of a wine bottle stopper.

Gourmet chocolates from a premium supplier, Portland, Ore.-based Moonstruck Chocolates, are handcrafted, hand-decorated and hand-packaged, and have a nationwide following.

Shawls are popular to add flair to clothing and for warmth. The Wild Rose offers the “shoul,” similar to a shawl. The feather-weight wrap is designed so it won’t slip off shoulders and is great to slide on in an air-conditioned restaurant, movie theater or on an airplane. One style is all acrylic while another is a blend of cashmere and acrylic. “It will roll up and because it’s not bulky you can keep it in your purse all the time,” owner Paula Wilson said.

Paula and Lincoln Wilson opened the shop, which has a connecting door to Heirlooms, in early November. The space previously housed rugs but Lincoln created a special showing of tribal pieces last spring, Paula said.

“We cleaned out the east gallery and moved all the rugs into the main part of the store,” she said. When the special show was over, they realized they could do something else with the space.

In deciding how to stock the store, she admits she was a bit daunted because she wanted to find items that are different but that will bring “a smile and joy to the heart.”

“Literally, on a walk, it came to me. I think of myself as a communicator but I don’t necessarily communicate well. I have difficulty writing. I decided, ‘I want to do a card shop that speaks for me,’” Paula said.

She’s enjoyed meeting the suppliers. “Part of it is the people you meet who do these things.” Displaying a stainless steel wine bottle stopper with a rock, she explained the line is made by a couple “who pick each rock from the ocean and replace it with a rock from a quarry.”

Lincoln and Paula moved to Tubac in 1998 and took over Old World Imports in 2000 from his father, Walter. Lincoln said The Wild Rose “is Paula’s vision and creation.”

Metal and glass light catchers are displayed in front of a window. They’re hand-crafted and each one is different.

A colorful small mobile of glass is crafted by a Boston artisan who lives in Tubac in the winters.

Monday Mornings: ChildrenÕ s Story Hour at 10:00 a.m.

Friday-Saturday - Dec 4th & 5th: Luminaria Nights in Tubac (Refreshments) Open til 9 PM Saturday and Sunday Dec 12-13th: Copperplate Etching Demonstration

by Nicholas Wilson, Wildlife Artist Saturday - Dec 19th: Book Signing – The New Adobe Home by authors Michael Bryne & Dottie Larson (1:00-5:00 PM) Fireside Chat: Michael Bryne and Dottie Larson, authors, The New Adobe Home, discuss stunning composition, architectural enhancement, art, furnishings, space, gardens, history and a sense of place Ð 5: 30 to 6:30 PM

Enjoy the Spirit of Christmas Every Day in our Year Round Christmas Gallery

Sunday – Dec 20th: Book Signing – Kitty Humbug’s Christmas Tail by Diana Madaras, award winning Arizona artist/author (1:00 to 4:00 PM) Kitty Humbug is the funniest cat youÕ ll ever see!

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Above, left - The Wilson's new shop, The Wild Rose is located at 9 Hesselbarth Lane with a door there, and another door through their Heirlooms Old World Imports with the main entrance on Plaza Road. Handicapped access available on the building's west side.

Right - Paula Wilson invites you to puruse her personally selected holiday items.

Paula’s daughter, Reagen Huey, is also working in the shop. “I’m very fortunate to have had my daughter come. Her love is literally coming up with ideas and setting up. She has set up and organized a couple of businesses. “

The shop displays Derin bags that are well-made, lightweight and durable. “They make wonderful travel bags,” she said. A silver “mini ‘mergency” bag stocks 16 items in a tiny package of about 4 inches by 3 inches.

There’s a children’s corner that has activities parents or grandparents can do with kids, she said. Yummy Dough, play dough that can be shaped, baked and eaten, is among the offerings. PB loco is all-natural peanut butter that is gluten-free and she stocks flavors such as dark chocolate duo, white chocolate raspberry and caramel apple.

“My all-time favorite,” she said, is the line of items formed from old vinyl LP records. She said the person who developed them took his own record collection and found a way to make bowls or platters from them with a transparent seal across the spindle hole in the middle. Called Vintage Vinyl Design, they can be used to serve dry foods but not liquids.

Lincoln is proud of the shop too. “It seems like it’s lighter here. It’s whimsical and playful.”

The Wild Rose address is 9 Hesselbarth Lane with a door there, and another door through Heirlooms.

The shop is open seven days a week.

For information, call (520) 398-9780.

New products arrive frequently. The Wild Rose and its one-of-a-kind items and gifts for all occasions are certain to find a soft spot with most shoppers as the store blossoms toward its new future.

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(Reach the writer at kathleenvan@msn.com)

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New Places in Tubac

by Carol St. John Sweet Stuff is a new shop in the village. It is tucked into a courtyard on the north side of Camino Otero, (#6) and although it sounds like a candy store it has more to do with a potpourri of specialties. Cheryl Todd has surrounded herself with the things she loves and hopes her patrons will too.

As I walked in her doors, I realized this was not going to be a typical store. It is a sensual treat, with soft scented air, gentle Brazilian music playing, a lovely welcoming proprietress and unique items that appeal to the palette, the touch, the ear and the imagination.

The store is like a mini-department store.

There are little treasures to be found in its four corners and they range from organic

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mascaras and lipsticks, to gourmet sorbets.

Have you ever seen those molded sorbets that come in the skins of the fruits they represent? Beautiful, healthy and delicious?

Like everything in Cheryl’s shop, they represent a unique offering.

I tasted her chili-orange-walnut chocolates, dark, silky and rich. I smelled the Silkenly Tea, a fruity gourmet tea unlike any I have encountered. I stayed away from the almond nut cashew crunches.

This is a store that mirrors its owner. It is a soft place, uncluttered, relaxed, and deliberately organic. A place you have to study before you get it. The jewelry, although

not extensive is elegant. Her favorite piece is a stunning amethyst and silver necklace, but it may be gone by the time this writing appears. The clothes are soft and flowing, made of bamboo and cotton, in earthy tones and designed to move. It is a collection that will work well for Yoga, Pilates and beyond.

Cheryl is a former ballerina, so her sensitivity to the body is natural. She performed with the Cleveland Ballet Company in Ohio, and the Rocky Mountain Ballet Company in Colorado Springs. This was before she became a psychotherapist and spent twenty years in the healing industry. Her husband, Jim Todd,

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Sweet Stuff is open seven days a week. Eleven to five on weekdays, and one to five on Sundays. It is indeed an interesting place with an offering of items that would make unusual gifts or add to your own treasure trove. It

is fun to see what a person chooses to buy and sell just because they love the item, kind of like looking inside another person, and discovering where your tastes and affinities meet.

Be sure to stop in and say hi to Cheryl and feel free to browse and touch, smell, hear and taste all the lovely offerings her new store has waiting to share.

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The Todds came to Santa Cruz County over three years ago and chose to live on a mountaintop in Rio Rico. After three years of living where the eagles fly, Cheryl decided to leave her nest and return to community life. With friends like Roberta Rogers, Melissa Murray and the Munger family, she discovered opportunities awaited her in Tubac. After meeting the village’s creative people and loving the artiness of the place, she began to participate in its life.

Cheryl’s journey has always included the arts.

As the daughter of a pianist, music was in her veins. She is naturally endowed with a lovely voice and limbs that move easily. In fact, she is going to bring dance to Tubac by offering to bring other dancers back to the bar at Crista’s salon this winter. Watch for her ad.

She’ll call her classes Usedta Dance.

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Charles Debrille Poston

by Shaw Kinsley

Of the large historical personalities that

have left their stamp on Tubac, Charles Poston is the first American to do so.

Francisco Eusebio Kino, the indefatigable Jesuit missionary, was a native of the Tyrol in modern Austria, and Juan Bautista de Anza was born in Fronteras, Sonora, to a military family of Basque descent. Poston was born in Kentucky in 1825 and came West with the Gold Rush. In San Francisco he became aware of the pending Gadsden Purchase and made his first trip here in 1854, sailing from San Francisco to Guaymas in December, 1853, in an ill-fated voyage that involved a sunken ship, an arrest in Alamos, and an overland trek through Sonora to what he hoped would be his ‘promised land.’

His first impressions of the Gadsden lands were favorable, and he set about raising partners and capital for what ultimately became the Sonora Exploring and Mining Company. On his way back to California, Poston with his friend and travelling partner Henry Ehrenberg is credited with the initial town survey of Yuma. It was there that he met and befriended Maj. Samuel Heintzelman, the founder and commander of Yuma’s military post. Sailing again from San Francisco, this time to Nicaragua to cross the isthmus and board another ship for New York, Poston failed to attract investors there for his southern Arizona scheme. Presumably dispirited, he left New York for Cincinnati for a visit home in Kentucky. In one of history’s happy coincidences, Poston was astonished to find that Heintzelman had been transferred from Yuma and was now stationed at Newport Barracks, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River.

It was Heintzelman who found the investors and capital for Poston, raising over a million dollars for the venture in Cincinnati and recruiting William Wrightson, Horace Grosvenor, and Phocion Way, among others.

Poston led a wagon train laden with men, supplies, and equipment out of San Antonio on May 1, 1856, and finally reached Tubac in September. They took over the old Spanish presidio recently abandoned by the Mexican garrison, and set about fixing up the headquarters, opening mines, and building a smelting facility. Poston was given the authority to act as alcalde or syndic under the government of New Mexico. This gave him civic, paternal, and even religious authority. Many people were married in Tubac by Poston, since he didn’t charge a fee and even threw in a turkey dinner for the newlyweds. He also baptized many infants. When this came to the attention of Bishop Lamy in Santa Fe, the bishop sent Fr. Mashboef to sort things out, and there were

extensive negotiations to satisfy everyone involved. Poston also printed a form of currency on the Cincinnati-made Washington press that had been sent to Tubac. Depictions of different animals indicated the denominations of these boletas, which were bits of pasteboard about the size of a calling card.

Poston’s mines were producing handsomely as early as 1857 and continued to prosper until the nation was torn asunder by the Civil War in 1861. The troops stationed in Arizona were called East, and Poston’s dreams of unbounded prosperity “vanished like a shadow.” Many of his employees were killed including his brother John, who was murdered at the Heintzelman mine near Arivaca by Mexican outlaws.

Superimposed on the breakdown in law and order, the Apaches carried out a series of attacks that nearly depopulated the area completely.

Poston and his mining engineer Raphael Pumpelly barely escaped with their lives, a story thrillingly recounted in Pumpelly’s Reminiscences (Henry A. Holt, New York :1918).

Poston made his way to Washington where he successfully negotiated the governmental maze to get the Territory of Arizona created. Poston’s skills as bon-vivant, gastronome, and host served Arizona well when he organized an oyster dinner for outgoing members of the 37th Congress of the United States. The simple two-page legislation he proposed to create the Territory of Arizona provided a number of official territorial jobs.

The lawmakers, all of whom had not been reelected for their districts, saw a good thing at once, and passed it. The Organic Act, as it was known, was signed into law by President Lincoln in 1863. Poston was made Indian Agent, a post he filled constructively by helping pass legislation for funds to irrigate Indians lands. A year later Poston was elected territorial delegate in July, 1864, and became the first man to represent Arizona in the Congress of the United States.

After serving out his term as territorial delegate (a post he found frustratingly ineffective and boring), Poston spent a decade travelling the world, beginning with the fulfillment of his desire to see the “splendor and havoc” of Asia.

He went with his old friend J. Ross Browne, who’d been appointed Minister to China.

Poston had wrangled the honorary position of “Bearer of Dispatches for the Chinese Embassy to the Emperor of China.” Another year, he travelled to India where he became acquainted with the Zoroastrian religion and the sun worship of the Parsi community on the sub-continent. Poston attempted to develop a sun cult in Arizona, envisioning a temple to the sun on a flat-topped butte 3 miles northwest of Florence.

In Bombay, Poston was presented with a costume of the order of Sun Worshippers of Asia by the high priest, Sir Jamsetteje Jeejeeboy, and he

wore it in the United States when he lectured on Zoroastrianism. His sun cult failed to catch hold, and all of the funds raised were spent in the construction of a road to the top of his butte. No other monies flowed in, the temple was never built, and the undertaking came to be known as ‘Poston’s Folly.’

After his failure as a high priest in the Order of the Sun, Poston ran into difficulties supporting himself. The Arizona Legislature granted him a pension in 1899, and Poston spent his last years in Phoenix, where he died on June 24, 1902. He was first buried in a Phoenix cemetery, but the Daughters of the American Revolution in cooperation with the governor and other people arranged for his body to be exhumed and reburied atop Poston’s Butte beneath a “simple but dignified” pyramid of native stone in 1925. This monument catches the sun’s first rays and reflects its last glimmers, providing a perfect resting place for one of Tubac’s biggest personalities. �

Actress/w r iter/teacher Polly Schlitz and Shaw Kinsley have collaborated in creating: A Charles Poston Christmas which tells the story of Poston’s journey to Tubac and the Christmas he celebrated here in 1856. Christmas stories by other writers are woven into the production which will run for 6 performances beginning December 11.

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Monthly water bills rising for many

Water bills are rising an average of 17 percent this month for customers of Arizona American Water Co. The average residential use is 11,797 gallons a month for which the charge had been $50.04. Now that will increase to $57.89 a month, about 30 cents more a day.

The Arizona Corporation Commission voted on Nov. 20 to allow the increase, which was much lower than requested a year ago. In November 2008, Arizona American mailed letters to its customers to explain they would file a request for an increase that could have been 72.7 percent.

Several Tubac residents began to research and study the issue, gathering information to help mitigate the cost. Marshall Magruder of Tubac was an intervenor in the case and attended hearings to testify.

He said he was pleased that Arizona American has agreed to add four tiers of charges in order to reward people who conserve water, although he originally proposed 10 tiers.

Arizona American also operates water companies in Agua Fria, Havasu, Mohave, Paradise Valley, Sun City West and Mohave.

In Tubac there are about 560 customer accounts.

Other Tubac residents are served by the Baca Float Water Co.

Chamber director Cullen resigning

Meanwhile, Cullen said, “I can move on feeling good about what we accomplished.”

Kim Etherington, the chamber’s administrative assistant, continues to work at the office.

Checkpoint work poised to start

Construction work on Interstate 19 just north of Tubac may cause traffic slowdowns but the work is scheduled to be completed in 90 days.

As of press deadline, no starting date was confirmed by the U.S. Border Patrol, which is having the work done to improve the temporary immigration and drug-smuggling checkpoint just north of the Chavez Siding interchange.

A Border Patrol spokesman said the work is to begin as soon as a required Arizona Department of Transportation encroachment permit is issued.

The timing of the $1.5 million project has been controversial and the agency was asked by business people in Tubac and Nogales to delay it until the summer but those requests were rebuffed.

The purpose of the work is to install a 150-foot wide metal canopy spanning the roadway to provide shelter from the sun and rain for agents, and to widen the interstate from two lanes to three lanes for about a half-mile distance.

New state park fees coming

Carol Cullen, executive director of the Tubac Chamber of Commerce for the past six years, submitted a letter of resignation on Nov. 20 to the chamber’s board of directors.

Entrance fees at the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park are slated to increase effective March 1, 2010.

The increases were approved for parks across the state at a Nov. 13 meeting of the Arizona State Parks board.

Cullen and her husband, Bruce Pheneger, are Tubac residents and she said they plan to remain in the community. She said she doesn’t have another job but is interested in pursuing one.

The fee increases are necessary to help balance the state park budget, a spokeswoman said.

Susan Walsh, board president, said Cullen agreed to work until Dec. 18. Walsh said she and the board members “are very sad to see her go. It will be very hard to fill her shoes.”

Cullen said she’s very proud of what she accomplished with the board of directors in the past six years.

One of those projects is culminating with a welcome center for tourists which will be opened in midDecember at the village entrance in an office in the Brasher Real Estate building, she said.

When asked why she was resigning, Cullen said, “I knew there would be a certain period of time when I could be an effective leader.”

She said there have been many challenges in the position and “the challenges you face and the frequency of the challenges will make a difference”

At Tubac, ages 14 and up will pay $4.00 instead of $3.00, while ages 7 to 13 will pay $2.00 instead of $1.00. The student program fee will be raised to $2.00 from $1.00. The group fees will be adjusted to reflect a $1.00 decrease from the regular entrance fee.

School chief’s contract approved

Dan Fontes, superintendent of the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District No. 35, will remain in his position until at least June 2011. The school board voted on Nov. 2 to approve a new one-year contract that begins next July 1. Fontes, a Tubac resident, has been superintendent since 2000.

He is anticipating retirement after June 2011. The board also approved an annual salary of $101,392, the same amount Fontes earns this year.

Among the employment benefits are health

insurance and dental coverage for Fontes and his dependents, long-term disability coverage, $20,000 in term life insurance, an $800 a month car allowance, and an annual cell phone allowance of $850.

Fontes said, “This community and district have been very good to me and my family. I hope I have served them well. I really want to help this district weather the current financial crisis which will probably continue well in to next year. Also, I really want to see some major projects in place before I leave. And hopefully, I can work with the governing board so that this district has a smooth transition as the next superintendent is selected.”

Voters support technology education

With 62.6 percent of the voters saying “yes,” the formation of a JTED, or Joint Technological Education District, was approved for the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District No. 35 (Rio Rico and Tubac). The district plans to join with the Pima County JTE.

The Nov. 3 election question drew 782 “yes” votes and 466 “no” votes. The unofficial results released by the Santa Cruz County Election Office show that 1,248 individuals cast their ballots.

A property tax increase of $5 per $100,000 of assessed valuation was approved by the vote to fund the additional programs. As well, District 35 will receive a portion of the state fund provided for JTED. The additional property tax will be charged beginning in November 2010. Fontes said, “We’ll be able to start planning right away for the fall semester.” He believes it may be possible for Rio Rico High School students to begin taking online classes soon.

The Pima JTED, which includes Sahuarita, most Tucson area high schools, Marana, Vail, Ajo and Indian Oasis/Baboquivari, was formed two years ago. Career path classes offered through JTED include agriculture, accounting, pharmacy, law enforcement, cosmetology, construction, fire safety, avionics and other fields.

Census slated for March

The U.S. Census Bureau will mail or deliver forms to every house in March 2010. Households should complete and mail back their forms upon receipt.

April 1, 2010, is Census Day, the official day of the population count.

Census works will visit households that do not return forms to take a count in person. Census workers can be identified by a census badge and bag.

For more information, visit 2010census.gov.

(Reach the writer at kathleenvan@msn.com)

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by Cathy Giesy

The Virgin of Guadalupe is the patron Saint of Mexico, particularly of Indians and poor people. Her festival day is December 12, and throughout Mexico people will be paying homage to her on this special day. Thousands of people will make the pilgrimage to the Basilica de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe on Tepeyac Hill in Mexico City. Existing shrines will be freshened and renewed.

Celebrations, special masses, and ritual ceremonies will be held throughout Mexico in honor of the revered Guadalupe.

She is venerated not only throughout the country of Mexico but also in many parts of Latin America as well as in the United States. Her image is seen in many countries of Europe and in the Vatican. Even people who are not religious or are not even Catholic pay homage to the lady, La Guadalupana, as she is affectionately called, who has promised to give her love, compassion, aid, and protection.

Pray to her and she will hear your weeping, your sorrows, and remedy or heal all your afflictions and sufferings.

You can see her image painted on rocks and cliff sides throughout the country of Mexico and throughout Southern Arizona and other states bordering Mexico. You will see her on scarves, tee shirts, boot tops, jackets, hats, necklaces.

She is quite often found on tiles inset into the walls of people’s houses. You will find shrines dedicated to her in gardens or in living rooms. Many artists have rendered stylized images with special symbols embedded into the picture that have meanings to the artist and those who understand his or her personal implications. Traditionally she is seen surrounded by an aura of sun rays, roses, and suspended on a quarter moon held up by a small angel. She wears a robe decorated in stars and a gown strewn with flowers. When Juan Diego, the Indian who first saw her image in

1531, was officially declared a saint

by Pope John Paul II, the colors of her dress changed from pink and blue to red and green, the colors of the Mexican flag.

My husband, not a particular fan of the Virgin of Guadalupe, thinks she has become too commercialized. So it was only appropriate that my best friend, my Mexican sister from Hermosillo, gave us a statuette of Guadalupe for a housewarming gift wonderfully wrought in quartz and amethyst crystals. She, of course, has her own special nicho in our home.

The Lady of Guadalupe is quite controversial. Many books have been written about her that prove or disprove her story and that of Juan Diego, the humble Indian who is said to have first seen her image back in 1531 on Tepeyac Hill outside of Mexico City. The controversy can get quite emotional because of the strong following that she has and the religious implications- both

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Christian and pre-Christian. There is no proof that Juan Diego ever existed. Scholars have studied ancient documents to try to bring the mystery to light, or to rationalize the lack of documentation about him. There is no record of his birth. This is not unusual as many native people even today do not get “birth certificates”. The official record states that the church at Tlateloco was not built until 1535, 4 years after the apparition. However, many “missions” were built which were only ramadas or small shades in which to hold a mass or devotional instruction, which may have been the case at Tlateloco.

The Bishop Zumarraga was proclaimed the first Bishop of Mexico by the King of Spain in 1527, but at the time of the story of Juan Diego, he had not yet been officially consecrated as Bishop. Perhaps his sensitivity to political support and favors restricted his openness to write about an “Indian” being visited by a vision, as opposed to a peninsular Spaniard.

Thus, there is no mention of Juan Diego in any of the existing records of the bishop or his surrounding

servants, even though many records were kept of the life of the Bishop and his activities in the New World.

There is no official mention of Juan Diego or the miraculous visit of the Virgin of Guadalupe until 1647, 117 years later, when Miguel Sanchez published the story in Mexico based on oral tradition. The following year, another version of the story by Luis Laso de la Vega came out written in the Nahuatl language, obviously aimed at the indigenous population. Tepeyac Hill was the site of veneration of Tonantzin, the Aztec goddess of fertility, rain, and lunar cycles. It is thought that Guadalupe was an invention of the padres to “replace” Tonantzin, or at least make Christianity more acceptable to the Indians. Many symbols found in the picture of Guadalupe are also found in pictures of Aztec origin such as the quarter moon that holds her up, and some of the star configurations in her robe. Although the written version of the story in Nahuatl was meant as a vehicle to help convert the Indians, the “criollo”

population of the new world picked up the story and held it as a tool to foment their identity in New Spain. The criollos were people of pure Spanish blood who were born in the New World. They were considered less than perfect by the peninsulares, or people who were born on the Iberian Peninsula and moved to what is now Mexico. We can look at the situation today and realize there would be no genetic or physical difference between these people, but to the residents of Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there were great defaults in the people born in the new world. The Criollos resented the lack of opportunities available to them in government and in the clergy simply because they were born in Mexico.

Over the next hundred and fifty years, this resentment grew into the eventual war of independence in 1810, with the Virgin of Guadalupe on the revolutionary flag as the symbol of the liberation of Mexico.

Pictures of her before this period show her with a crown - after this period many pictures show her without a crown.

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him to build a church dedicated to her at to prove her existence. She said, “ I will heal that site so she could attend to the needs of your uncle, and I will provide proof for you to the people there. A reluctant Juan went to take to the Bishop. Climb the hill and pick all Mexico City to call on Bishop Zumarraga, the roses you can find.” Well, roses were not but the hierarchy of attendees surrounding the native to Mexico, and it was winter....not the bishop made it difficult for Juan Diego to see time for flowers to bloom anyway. But Juan him. Finally he delivered his message to the Diego did as he was told, and sure enough the Bishop, who thanked him and sent him on his hill was covered with flowers. He picked all way. Juan trudged back home and found the that he could fit into his tilma, or serape used vision waiting for him by the road. He sadly to collect the harvest, and again fought his

by Cathy Giesy told his story and suggested there were other way in to see the Bishop. people more powerful than he who could get There are many versions of the story. Even the message across. But the Virgin asked him All of the servants laughed at him and tried to discredit his proof. But finally he was allowed the official versions that were printed in the to return the next day and try again. to see the Bishop, and as he opened up his middle 1600's vary in details. But the basic Again Juan approached the Bishop, after tilma to allow the flowers to fall to the floor, idea follows. telling his story again to all the attendees and the Bishop and all of his followers fell back in Juan Diego was a Nahua (Nahua is the servants, and explained the situation. This awe. Burned onto Juan’s tilma was the image language spoken by the Aztecs and imposed on time the Bishop said, well, you have told me of the virgin as you see her today in paintings the people they conquered) speaking native who this twice, but I need some proof. Juan was in churches all over Mexico. had recently converted to Christianity. He devastated - how do you prove a vision?

Eventually a church was built on Tepeyac Hill lived in the town of Cuauhtitlan, but attended services and instruction in Tlateloco, quite That night at home, he discovered his uncle in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Today a distance away. One day in December of was very ill and on the verge of death. Juan’s you can visit the third of such churches built 1531 on his way to the church, up on Tepeyac uncle asked him to get the priest. On the way in her honor, and it is huge. The image on the Hill he saw a vision of the Virgin Mary as to the church, Juan took a different road so tilma still miraculously remains in the church, Guadalupe. She looked just like the pictures he would not have to deal with the vision, but and daily thousands of people ride by it on a of her you see today. She asked Juan Diego she found him anyway. Juan told her that he moving ramp to venerate the Virgin and to to go to the new bishop of Mexico and tell had to help his uncle and did not have time pray. �

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Often the Guadalupe of Tepeyac is intertwined or confused with the Lady of Guadalupe of Caceres in Extremadura, Spain. Many of the first conquerors and explorers were from Extremadura, including Cortes, and she was the patron saint of explorers and navigators. She was a favorite of Father Kino who dedicated his first mission in La Paz, Baja California, to her. Later he dedicated other churches to her - possibly including the new world Guadalupe into the tradition.

Whether or not Juan Diego really lived, there is enough devotion to him and to Guadalupe that Juan Diego was beatified in 1990 and canonized into sainthood on July 31, 2002 by Pope John Paul II. Juan Diego is the first indigenous person from Mexico to become a saint, and he is the protector of indigenous peoples with his feast day on December 9. Many of the images of Guadalupe now include Saint Juan Diego. Some show the apparitions of the Virgin to him.

Some show a painting or statue of Saint Juan Diego with the picture of the Virgin imprinted on his serape.

Throughout the southwest US and all of Mexico, you will see people celebrating Juan Diego and the Virgin of Guadalupe from Dec 9 to Dec 12. On Dec 11, the Tarahumara gather in small villages in the mountains of the Sierra Madre to celebrate the Virgin with dances beginning in the late evening and continuing throughout the night. On Dec 12, the Matachines dance.

Matachines are religious dancers who are specifically assigned the duties of caring for the virgin. At Cusarare in the Sierra

Tarahumara, we witnessed that many of the matachine dancers are now women, a duty previously assigned only to men.

Their colorful streamers swirl in the sunlight as they perform their ritual steps during the ceremonies. In Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, a town with people from all over Mexico, Matachine dancers gather to celebrate the special days in December devoted to Juan Diego and Guadalupe.

The dancers there wear red costumes characterized by rattles made of carrizo reeds and tall hats. In Tucson, the Matachine

dancers of the Yaqui people are dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

I was first introduced to her in 1968 in Tucson when Ted DeGrazia invited me and a friend to carry the statue of Guadalupe in a procession into the chapel he had dedicated to her at his studio. Several Yaqui people who worked with him participated in the procession and it was a great honor to be a part of the ceremonies.

Whether the story of Juan Diego is fact or not, the Virgin of Guadalupe has become an intrinsic and powerful part of the Mexican culture, and in one form or another, she will probably be so as long as the Mexican culture continues to evolve.

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Tubac resident Cathy Giesy and her husband Marshal Giesy operate Fiesta Tours, their touring company which offers tours and educational adventures through Mexcio and Cetral and South America.

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by Kathleen Vandervoet Curiosity about the homes of others frequently means that many people enjoy home tours benefitting a good cause. For the eighth year, the Tubac Center of the Arts Home Tour will welcome visitors to six distinctive and beautiful homes.

Several have awe-inspiring hilltop views while one is on a golf course and another was a party spot for Hollywood celebrities. On this tour, for the first time the Agua Linda Ranch owned by Regina Loew, will open the doors of the tiled roof, adobe-block family hacienda.

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The spacious pink-hued dining room was expanded to feature a vaulted ceiling and castlestyle fireplace by Regina Loew when she and Arthur married. Important mementoes from Arthur’s family home such as a Baccarat glass chandelier and Tiffany windows are in the spotlight as is a marble-topped buffet with carved wooden legs.

The bucolic compound, with the three-bedroom main home, a pool house and a guest house, was the setting for the wedding of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. In the past, the Loew family entertained friends and celebrities such as Natalie Wood, Elizabeth Taylor, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh, Gene Kelly, Joan Collins, Quincy Jones and many more.

On display in the gracious living room, dining room and den, where vistas of the Santa Rita Mountains unfurl, are treasures from the estates of Arthur’s parents and grandparents, such as priceless glass ware and dishware, tapestries, and additional Tiffany-glass windows.

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and bathrooms. The artist is Deyanne Valencia, the mother of Loew’s daughter-in-law, Laurel.

Valencia, a decorator as well, redesigned several of the five bathrooms in the main house, melding modern amenities with the aura of a glamorous past.

Run by Loew’s son Stuart, and his wife, Laurel, the Agua Linda Farm surrounding the home is set on 63 acres of pastures, vegetable gardens with a U-pick garden, petting zoo, hayrides and themed festivals each year. The Agua Linda Ranch store will be open during the farm tour.

Jean and Steve Smith home Enjoyment of the outdoors is a hallmark of many Tubac homes and the Smith home, on five acres west of Tubac, demonstrates that to the fullest. Giving it a marvelous flow, deeply shaded patios span the south side of the home forming a crescent shape, where one can savor dramatic views of the nearby rugged Tumacácori Mountains.

Constructed in 2004, the tan Santa Fe-style home is eminently suitable for a retired but youthful couple with a beamed-ceiling master suite featuring French doors on two walls leading to patios. On the opposite end of the house is a sunny guest bedroom and bathroom situated next to a relaxed terra cotta-colored den with a fireplace. Those rooms, as well, feature doors to patios.

The rectangular living room is anchored by a crimson-colored beehive fireplace on one end and large, brightly-colored textiles purchased in Chicago years ago decorating the opposite end.

High clerestory windows on the north and south supplement the sunlight streaming in through French doors leading, once again, to the patio.

The fresh, bright kitchen is enticing with light grey granite-topped counters and a butcher block island. Cabinets finished in a cream-colored paint carry out the modern theme. Most of the home’s furnishing and decorations were purchased in Tubac and Tucson, Jean said. Decorative painter Johanna Martinez of Tucson created unique wall designs in the dining room and master bathroom.

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Now, shades of tan, brown and beige are used to advantage. Mesquite wood forms the deep mantel of the stone-faced fireplace in the living room, where the ceiling rises to an impressive 18 feet and sumptuous leather couches beckon. An open plan means the dining area and kitchen are only steps away. Mesquite counters in the chef ’s kitchen were created by the Tumacácori Mesquite Sawmill and Meg is excited by their natural beauty and pleased with their durability.

The Tubac Center of the Arts home tour will also feature the new home of Nancy and John Peyton on the Tubac Golf Course, the new hilltop abode of Karen and Brad Woodford, and the established residence of Pam and Ken Parkinson in the Palo Parado Estates neighborhood.

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by Serge Manna & Robert Gay Unless you have been like Rip Van Winkle and slept away a couple of decades, you already know the litany of environmental problems: global warming, rising ocean levels, air and water pollution, famine and disease, overpopulation, disappearing species, and a handful more. Responding effectively will take all the creative fiber we have, and sometimes the magnitude and interlocking nature of these problems can seem overwhelming and unsolvable.

The hope, we think, lies in THINKING GLOBALLY and ACTING LOCALLY. A deep green view – as opposed to a temporary veneer called “greenwash” - puts living systems first in our choices, expands our understanding of the complex systems which sustain us, and tunes our ears and hearts to the fibers, flows and energies that keep us alive. Looking through “green eyes,” we automatically find an appreciation of the web of life on our precious planet, taste the juice of life, and begin to do things a little differently.

For local action, DIRT is a good place to start.

varied – it isn’t just “stuff ” – a neutral, clay-like material you push around to make pads or roads – its got personality and very different qualities, as soil maps will show you.

The great dust-bowl in the Midwest in the 1930’s was a manmade ecological disaster that should stand as a powerful reminder of the fragility of soils, and the consequence of brutal disruption of nature’s protection of the soil. Combined with economic depression, misunderstanding the soils turned over a million Midwesterners into environmental refugees, mostly relocating to California.

Here are some other aspects of the complexity of dirt:

In the desert, we have many different kinds of soil protection and plant adaptations to dry conditions, and we also have a great variety of soils and the rocks which so interestingly mix with them. Our soils are fragile in different ways than the Midwest, but fragile nonetheless.

Because we have much less organic content than is found in broad river basins, organic material often has to be added to our soils, and drainage and soil porosity always must be considered. Interestingly, one type of soil from agricultural areas between Tucson and Phoenix has been identified the official State Soil - a type known as the Casa Grande Soils.

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Soil types strongly affect the foundation design of buildings. The rock content and coarseness, for example, has a lot to do with how much weight you can safely carry with a given soil type. For a building, the soil bearing ability can range from 500 to 5000 pounds per square foot, and this has important consequences for foundation design. Expansive soils occur in some places, making foundation design much more difficult. Some soils liquefy during seismic events.

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Different places absorb and re-radiate heat quite differently – dark rocks are a heat sink, for example, and a grassy lawn insulates the earth below it from heat gain. Light-colored ground cover can radiate more light – and heat - into a home than will a darker ground cover.

This is why tortoises and snakes like roads in the winter.

your head at why dirt is so feared and fought against in certain parts of our lives. The flip side is that someone willing to get deeply involved in some activity is said to be willing to “get their hands dirty.”

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ECO-GUIDELINE NO. 1 CAREFUL STUDY OF THE DIRT should always be a basic part of your understanding of a site before you do any planting, grading, berming, road- or trail-building, undergrounding of utility lines, building siting, or making of earth walls or plasters.

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Certain kinds of dirt can become a building material – for adobe or compressed-earth blocks, rammed earth, cob, or earthbag walls, for example.

In making adobe blocks, finding “good adobe dirt” is the vital first step. Clay plasters are another use of clay-containing soil, and earthen wall materials have the great sustainability feature of simply returning to the soil when their use as a building material is over.

There is need for a book explaining the many ways to know, love and work with dirt – it could be called “Dirtcraft.” Before someone writes the book, you can study and know those qualities, feel and smell the dirt, learn to know and love and care for it. You’ll come to have a visceral understanding of why it’s so appropriate that our planet is called Earth! You might even scratch

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by Mary Bingham

Christmas in Old Arizona

Growing up in Santa Monica, California in the

1950s was about as far from the Old West as one could get, even though it is about as far west as one could go. Never saw a real cowboy, unless you count Montie Montana, Leo Carrillo and the equestrian riders in the annual Tournament of the Roses Parade on New Years Day.

For 25¢, an afternoon at the Aero Theater bought three to four hours of western movies, a couple of cartoons and previews of the coming attractions. TV westerns were in their heyday with Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Wagon Train, Maverick, and two with Arizona connections: Frontier Doctor starring Willcox, Arizona's own Rex Allen, and Texas John Slaughter about the famous lawman and rancher who settled on the San Bernardino Ranch in Cochise County.

1958 saw the introduction of a new comic strip appearing in the Santa Monica Evening Outlook. Drawn by Stan Lynde, it was called Rick O'Shay and featured a young wet-behind-the-ears sheriff. Of course, the real star, as far as I was concerned, was Hipshot Percussion. He was the local gunslinger, tough as horseshoe nails but with a heart as soft and warm as his independent-minded cat, Belle Starr. To this day, the first Christmas comic strip with Hipshot leaving the warmth and friendship of the town of Conniption, to ride out and talk to "The Boss," makes me smile. We cannot reproduce the comic strip here, but it can be viewed on Lynde's website: http://www.oldmontana.com/print2.html. Hope it brings back a few memories for you as it did for me.

What I love most about living in the Santa Cruz River Valley are the remnants and feel of the "Old West" that still survive. It is especially strong in and around Amado, Tubac, Tumacácori, Rio Rico, Patagonia, Sonoita and Elgin. Nothing has been more fun than getting to know both the historic old Arizona and the presentday Arizona with independent people who cherish and preserve our American West.

Christmas in Arizona was and still is very different from many other places in our nation. Nacimientos (miniature brightly colored clay nativity figures), ristras (chili pepper wreaths), Christmas cards featuring roadrunners, coyotes or quail, and decorations made of cacti, saguaro ribs, devils claw, mesquite, and lights shaped like chili peppers are a wonderful treat. Even Cheech & Chong's Santa Claus And His Old Lady is making the rounds this year:

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The vato with the boney knees...

For this newcomer in 1991, it was a whole new way to celebrate the holidays. Here are a couple of early Arizona Christmas memories to help us appreciate Christmas 2009 all the more.

1775

The earliest Christmas story I can find with a tie to Tubac appears to be the story of the final baby of eight to be born during the 1775 Anza Expedition. It was Christmas Eve and the entire party had successfully crossed the desert without the loss of another life. Sadly one expectant mother, Manuela Piñuelas, died in childbirth the first night out of Tubac on October 23rd.

But now two month later, on December 24th, the weather was downright miserable. Rain, sleet and fog dogged the colonists as they made their way through the alternately sandy and rocky canyons. In the shadow of the snow covered San Gabriel Mountains the expedition made an early afternoon camp in Coyote Canyon near a spring.

Ignacio Linares' wife was in labor, and everyone else was tired and miserable.

Anza issued the men aguardiente, a strong drink, to help warm and lift their spirits. Padre Font was not pleased and had a rather heated discussion with Anza about the matter according to his diary.

The little mother to be, Gertrudis Rivas, wife of Ignacio, called for Padre Font to hear her confession soon after getting settled. She feared for her life in this wild and hostile place. By the grace of God, Gertrudis was safely delivered of a fine boy, Salvador Ignacio Linares. He arrived at 10:45 P.M. as recorded in Anza's diary.

Known as Ygnacio with a "Y", he became the first baby of European ancestry born in California and was also known as the "Christmas Eve Baby." Ygnacio would follow his father into the military serving as a soldado de cuera to the King of Spain at Monterey, California. The fort was known as El Presidio Real de San Carlos de Monterey (the Royal Presidio of Saint Charles of Monterey) and protected the nearby Mission of San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (Carmel, California) established by Father Junípero Serra in 1770.

Ygnacio married María Bernarda Silva in 1795, and they had at least four children. Their first son died in his 8th month in 1797. A second son, Josef Ynes de la Luz was born in 1800 and twin boys were born July 25, 1807.

Sadly, their father Ygnacio died as the result of a fall from his horse on August 14, 1807 at the age of 34.

The elder Linares and wife Gertrudis would have at least eight more children according to mission records.

Linares served the King of Spain as a soldier at both San Francisco and Santa Clara.

1856

In 1896 Charles D. Poston, the self-anointed "Father of Arizona," gave a talk about "How I Spent Christmas."

He told of celebrations with famous people and royalty in Europe but declared that the best Christmas he ever had was in Tubac in 1856. That certainly seems to be the case!

Here is Poston's account: ...we had such a store of bear meat, deer, antelope, and fat wild turkeys that no apprehension of short rations disturbed our enjoyment. We even essayed to give an entertainment to our neighbors from Sopori, Tucson, and Magdalena, places distant from twelve to eighty miles, these being the nearest settlements. Old Colonel ( James) Douglass came over from Sopori, booted and spurred in Mexican style, bringing a motley retinue among them a harper and 'fiddlers three.' The festivities were continued during Christmas week; and in order to relieve our guests of any anxiety about the abundant resources of the larder, a dozen fat turkeys were dressed and hung up on the joist over the table in the dininghall. The best liquid we could place before our guests was a native production from the juice of the maguey, called mescal. It made punches nearly equal to Scotch whiskey, and colaced many a winter's evening in this remote lap of the mountains.

Poston sure knew how to throw a party! Perhaps that is one reason the Sonora Exploring & Mining Company was always short of funds.

Late 1870s

Historian Orick Jackson was the first to write about "Arizona's First Christmas Tree." German immigrant Julius Nicolaus Rodenburg arrived in the United States in 1868, and is listed in the 1870 San Francisco census as working for a brewer. He eventually moved to the Prescott

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According to the story, Prescott was rather sparse on children. The frontiersmen took a local census and found only "seven eligible kids." A few more were added, "...who were still young, but grown tall."

Rodenburg rounded up six men and a beautiful fir was located and cut for the occasion. Jackson also noted: "the Indians permitted the party to return in safety."

The tree was set up in Rodenburg's house, and the townspeople were called upon to help provide presents to put on the tree as none of the local stores had toys or trinkets, and definitely no sugarplums. The response was great and the following was the result: "A big stock of brown sugar was purchased, and, with the assistance of a New Orleans negro, three kinds of blackjack were skillfully moulded. This settled the sweet end of the programme, the candy being encase in manilla paper bags glued together with flour paste. the tree must have illumination, so the market was searched for all the tallow candles obtainable. These were cut in two and after being tied to the limbs with ordinary twine, another obstacle was conquered. There was a scarcity of ribbons to give the scene the beauty and brilliancy necessary, but the bottom of every trunk was scoured among the ladies who had recently arrived from the east, and a few bolts were donated. Various crude toys and goods were then manufactured by men conversant with the handling of tools, or skilled in such handiwork.

Quite a respectable collection was

secured in this manner, everybody contributing something that he either could manufacture or purchase. But the most important consideration yet faced the committee, and that was to secure music for the event. An inventory of the burg disclosed that there was but one musical instrument to be found — a violin, out of tune, and minus a string. The owner was conversant with but one air — The Arkansaw Traveller. This was humiliating to the directors, but there must be melody, and after the operator was admonished to play something half way through and then to repeat it was a change in cadence, the day arrived for the event — Arizona's first Christmas tree.

1890s

Patagonia pioneer John Cady wrote of a visit by Charles Wheeler of Wheeler & Perry—Wholesale and Retail Grocers.

Cady who was "running buggy trips to the mines in the neighborhood," picked Wheeler up at old Fort Crittenden and was driving him to Duquesne when Wheeler noticed a big beautiful fir tree on a hill. Cady recounts their conversation: "Say, John, I'd give something to have that tree in my house at Christmas." It was then a week or so to the twentyfifth of December.

I glanced at the tree and asked him: "You would, eh? Now, about how much would you give?"

"I'd give five dollars," he said.

"Done!" I said. "You give me five dollars and count that tree yours for Christmas!"

And we shook hands on it.

A few days later I rigged up a wagon, took along three Mexicans with axes, and cut a load of Christmas trees—I continued on page 24....

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Christmas in Old Arizona continued... think there were some three hundred in the load.

Then I drove the wagon to Tucson and after delivering Wheeler his especial tree and receiving the stipulated five dollars for it, commenced peddling the rest on the streets.

Cady said the trees "sold like wildfire." He netted $1,000! The following year he decided to try it

again. Unfortunately he found, "about forty other fellows ahead of me loaded to the guards with Christmas trees of all kinds and sizes. For a time Christmas trees were cheaper than mesquite brush as the overstocked crowd endeavored to unload on an oversupplied town. I escaped with my outfit and my life but no profits—that time."

1902

Christmas, Arizona, the mine and the town was at one time part of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation until an unnamed Washington politician "became interested and eventually reservation lines were changed." Christmas got its name in 1902 as word of the shady doings in D.C. made their way across the nation. George B. Chittenden and his mining partner, N. H. Mellor, were waiting.

According to the Granger version of Arizona Place Names: "Chittenden arranged that he would receive news of the passage of the bill via telegraph to Casa Grande and then by messengers riding on horseback in relay. The news came to his hands on Christmas Day, 1902, his birthday. Wasting no time, he rode immediately to locate the property, naming it Christmas.

In addition to the mine, the Christmas post office gained fame in 1905 as bag loads of mail arrived requesting "Christmas" postmarks on letters to Santa. The post office would close for the first time five years later when it was found that they just couldn't keep a postmaster. The post office would continue with sporadic service through the Christmas of 1934, closing in March of 1935. Twenty years later, mail was still being received for Christmas, Arizona at the Winkelman post office.

New Christmas Tradition

Many relatively new traditions in the Santa Cruz Valley make the holidays very special. My favorite is the lighting of the luminarias using the traditional paper bags, sand and candles.

About twenty-five-years ago, local Tumacácori residents began illuminating Mission San José de Tumacácori with luminarias (illuminations) also known as farolitos (little fires) on Christmas Eve. The tradition is said to have begun in the United States among the small pueblos along the Rio Grande River through New Mexico and Texas. It eventually spread to Arizona and California and has now become a nationwide craze. Even my relatives in Hagerstown, MD sent word last year that volunteers were being recruited to light luminarias in the local park for Christmas Eve. So what was the story behind this tradition? Luminarias seem to have originated in Spain, which explains why the tradition is so strong in the southwest. On La Noche Buena (The Good Night) when Christ was born, the shepherds in the hills of Bethlehem lit bonfires to help protect their sheep and no doubt to keep warm. The fires could be seen in the surrounding hills, a sight that began long before and continued long after the birth of Jesus.

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The memory of those bonfires burning in the Holy Land was carried back to Europe by early travelers. Pedro Ortega writes in Christmas in Santa Fe that the tradition began when Rome invaded and conquered Spain some 200 years before the birth of Christ. Romans noted that the pagan people of Spain "... prepared huge bonfires and lit them on hills and mountaintops to celebrate the feasts dedicated to ancient gods and goddesses."

After Christianity was brought to Rome by the apostle Peter and to Spain by the apostle James the Greater or Santiago, the bonfires were adapted to the new Christian faith. From there, it is easy to conclude that the Crusaders may have had a lot to do with enhancing the tradition in the middle ages.

With the settling of Nueva España (New Spain), including Old Mexico, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Arizona, the tradition of the bonfires was brought to the New World.

Conquistadores and padres spread the word of Christianity among the natives and their customs were quickly adopted.

By the 18th Century large bonfires lined the roadways of Europe on Christmas Eve to help the faithful find their way

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to Midnight Mass. For the Spanish it was the final night of Las Posadas (The Inns), the nine-day reenactment of the story of "no room in the inn." Years ago in old Tubac, beginning on December 16th the children would be sent out to knock on the doors of their neighbors asking for shelter. Each night they would be turned away until December 24th when just as Mary & Joseph were at long last invited to spend the night in the manger of a stable, the children would invited into the last home to be visited and refreshment would be served.

In recent years, Tubac has celebrated the season with Luminaria Nights.

Galleries and businesses wanting a way to thank their customers for patronizing them and began inviting their faithful customers to visit the village on one weekend evening in December to enjoy refreshment in their places of business. Buildings were outlined in luminarias and other lights. This yea,r Luminaria Nights will coincide with the daytime festival, La Fiesta de Tumacácori, three miles to the south. It should be quite a weekend!

However, for an evening to remember, visit Tumacácori on Christmas Eve. The Mission and grounds will be lit with an array of the old-fashioned paper bag luminarias. There is nothing like the warm glow of the real thing to make it so special.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Feliz Navidad y Feliz Año Nuevo Sources:

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Cruz River. Sunday will begin with a traditional Mariachi Procession and Mass in front of the old mission church. The procession begins at 10am. Mass begins when the procession returns to the church, approximately 10:45.

Please note that no photos are permitted during the procession or mass, or while sacred dances are being performed.The Tumacácori Fiesta is sponsored by Friends of Tumacácori, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to raise funds in support of special projects at Tumacácori National Historical Park. Admission to the park is free during the fiesta. Take exit 29 off of I-19 and follow the signs.

SUN, DEC 6TH - TUBAQUEÑOS LIVING HISTORY from 1 – 4 pm. Come experience the sights, sounds, and tastes of Tubac 1776 during these Spanish Colonial living history demonstrations. At the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. Call 520-398-2252.

SUN, DEC 6TH – GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS of Southeastern Arizona.

Step back into the Wild West with Ron and Judy King for a look at the history of Santa

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Cruz County’s ghost towns and mining camps.

At the Sonoita Creek State Natural Area at the Patagonia Lake State Park Visitor Center at 7pm.

5:30pm; Fri, 18th - 7pm; Sat 19th - 7pm; Sun, 20th - 2pm. $15. Seating limited call 520-3989156 or visit www.tubacperformancestudios. com.

TUES, DEC 8TH – FIVE-MILE BIRD HIKE. Bird several different habitats and see a variety of species with a guide. Hike begins in desert uplands and reaches Sonoita Creek. Bring sturdy shoes, binoculars, water and snacks.

Hike is approx. five miles and four hours long.

8am. Call 520-287-2791 to register. Meet at Sonoita Creek Visitor Center at the Patagonia Lake State Park.

SAT, DEC 12TH - LIVE MUSIC at Wisdom's Cafe from 6 to 9ish.

THURS, DEC 10TH - ARCHAEOLOGIST JAMES VINT will present the findings from the just-completed excavation of one of the earliest irrigation-based villages in the American Southwest yet documented. The Santa Cruz Valley Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society will host his talk at 7pm, at the North County Facility at 50 Bridge Road in Tubac. Free. With an elaborate network of ancient canals more than 3000 years old, Las Capas may be “the earliest sedentary village in the Southwest with people depending on agriculture as a primary food source, says Mr. Vint, who directed the excavation for Desert Archaeology, Inc., as part of the expansion of the Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Facility. “Las Capas” is Spanish for “The Layers,” and the layers revealed Meet at this site date from 1200 BC to 800 BC and include more than 200 maize fields and 170 canals of various sizes. The preHohokam people who farmed here represent “one of the earliest attempts to shift away from a hunting and gathering lifestyle, says Mr. Vint. For more information about the Santa Cruz Valley AAS Chapter and its activities, call Alan Sorkowitz at 520-207-7151 or e-mail at asorko@cox.net or visit www.

AzArchSoc.org

SAT, DEC 12TH - CHUCK WAGON & THE WHEELS plays at Old Tubac Inn at 7pm.

Swinging Country Rock and Western Roll.

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LUMINARIA NIGHTS

December 4 & 5 ‘til 9pm

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SAT & SUN, DEC 12TH & 13TH – COPPERPLATE ETCHING DEMONSTRATION

BY NICHOLAS WILSON, Wildlife Artist. At TJ's Tortuga Books & Coffee Beans in the Mercado de Baca. 520-398-8109.

SAT & SUN, DEC 12TH & 13TH – END OF THE YEAR SALE at Castro’s Iron Works and Steel Supply, Inc. 25% to 30% off selected items in stock. Patio furniture, firewood grills, firewood holders, wine bars and more. Visit us from 9am to 3pm at 515 E Frontage Rd, Nogales, AZ. For more info call (520) 761-3670 or visit castrosironworks.com.

SUN, DEC 13TH - PRINTING PRESS DEMONSTRATIONS from 10am–2pm. Come celebrate the 150th anniversary of the printing press in Arizona! The Washington Press is original and printed the first newspaper in AZ, “The Weekly Arizonian” on March 3, 1859.

Volunteers operate the press and reproduce the first edition of the paper. At the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. Call 520-398-2252.

SUN, DEC 13TH - THE 20TH ANNUAL WINE AND CHEESE AMONG THE TREES, hosted by Nogales residents Lou Clapper and Richard DeLong to benefit St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic Cleft Palate Fund from 2pm to 6pm. St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic is nondenominational with its mission to provide medical treatment for disabled children of indigent parents in Mexico. This clinic is held the first Thursday of every month except hot July at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 969 W. Country Club Drive, Nogales. The volunteer doctors and specialists see between 200 and 250 children during clinic day. www. standrewsclinic.org. Enjoy four varieties of wine and 10 different cheeses and several pates while viewing 20 to 25 distinctly decorated trees & numerous nativity scenes at the hosts’ home, 781 N. Linda Vista Drive in Nogales. Non-alcoholic beverages available.

Tickets, $20adults, $5kids. Call Clapper and DeLong at (520) 287-5929, St. Andrew’s

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FRI, DEC 11TH - BBQ NIGHT AND LIVE MUSIC BY TRIO LOS CHAN at Wisdom's Cafe in Tumacacori. 5 to 8ish 520-3982397.

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SAT, DEC 12TH - A CHARLES POSTON CHRISTMAS starring Shaw Kinsley at the Tubac Performance Studios, 2243 E Frontage Road. 7pm $15. Seating limited call 520-3989156 or visit www.tubacperformancestudios. com.

Give the gift of the Southwest

Children’s Clinic office in Green Valley located at 75 Calle De Las Tiendas, Suite #127B, phone (520) 648-3242 , or Fr. Ed at St. Francis in Green Valley. Entire ticket price benefits the clinic as the hosts underwrite the costs.

SUN, DEC 13TH – BIRDS OF PATAGONIA LAKE AND SONOITA CREEK. Get up-to-date information on local birds with great pictures.

Jim Lockwood will provide tips on how to improve and enjoy your birding experience.

At the Sonoita Creek State Natural Area at the Patagonia Lake State Park Visitor Center at 7pm.

SUN DEC 13TH - METEOR MANIA PROGRAM AT KITT PEAK observatory to see the Gemenid meteor shower from 10pm to 3am. View a spectacular meteor shower under the pristine dark skies of Kitt Peak.

Observe one of nature’s most spectacular cosmic shows. Learn about meteors, comets, meteor showers, and touch an actual piece of an asteroid. Registration deadline for the December program is Friday, December 11th.

Cost is $35 for Adults, $25 for Children (8-13) and $30 for Kitt Peak Members. Please call the Kitt Peak Visitor Center Staff -or- call 520-3188726 to make your required reservation today. http://www.noao.edu/outreach/kpvc/classes. html Dress warmly. Parking will be provided at the picnic area and guests will be shuttled to the mountain. Snacks and refreshments will be served. Bring blankets and a reclining lawn chair if you can.

MON, DEC 14TH – NOCHE ITALIANO WITH LIVE MUSIC at Wisdom's Cafe in Tumacacori. 5 to 8ish 520-398-2397.

TUES, DEC 14TH - TUBAC POETRY GROUP'S POETRY READING from 5-8pm. 57 Bridge Road,(Look for the abode in the back). First part is happy hour, you are welcome to bring snacks and wine to share. We will spend the remaining part of the time having an open forum to read, recite and receive feedback from our fellow artists. You are encourage to participate with an original piece of yours as well as a piece from a poet you may have been inspired by. For more information, you may reach Martita at 520.398.3113 or e-mail Martitamfoss@yahoo.com.

WED, DEC 16TH - TUBAC SINGERS CHRISTMAS CONCERT at the Tumacacori Mission at 6:30pm. Seating limited, reservation call 520-398-2371.

STARTING THURS, DEC 17TH INTRODUCTION TO GEMS lecture by Helen Serras-Herman at the Las Campanas Recreation Center in Green Valley and are open to all GVR members and their guests.

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The Visitor Center at Sonoita Creek State Natural Area Is Now Open The Visitor Center at Sonoita Creek State Natural Area is now open for a season of outdoor activities and learning opportunities for family fun.

The Visitor Center located within Patagonia Lake State Park will be open Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 8am to 4:30pm.

Visit Sonoita Creek State Natural Area for birds walks, pontoon boat rides, hikes, history, children's programs - nature, science, serenity, exercise and fun! The most popular activities are the guided bird walks and the pontoon boat tours. Boat tours occur on Saturdays and Sundays and cost $3 per person. The Saturday evening Twilight Boat Tour is known for views of the water surface and hillsides. Reserve boat tour seats by calling (520) 287-2791.

A permit is required to enter Sonoita Creek State Natural Area, which can be acquired at the gatehouse in Patagonia Lake State Park or by calling (520) 287-6965. A fee of $8 per vehicle is charged for daily entrance. Thirty permits are available each day for entrance into the Natural Area.

The Park offers more than 21 miles of trails and three backcountry campsites.

REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS

AVIAN ADVENTURE PONTOON BOAT TOUR SAT. 9 AM & 10:15 AM; SUN. 9 AM One-hour birding tour of the east end of Patagonia Lake.

Help us locate and identify resident and migratory birds of the Sonoita Creek area.

Registration recommended, $3 upon arrival.

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EVENING PROGRAM - SUN. 7PM Learn about Sonoita Creek and the Patagonia Area through a variety of programs and videos. Topics include: Intro to Bird Watching, New Mexico & Arizona Railroad, Local Ghost Towns, Natural History of Sonoita Creek, Importance of Riparian Areas, Bats, archeology, educational videos and more. Visitor Center, no registration, no fee.

One-hour exploration of the west end of Patagonia Lake.

Discover the vegetation, history, and beauty of Sonoita Creek and Patagonia Lake as we explore Ash Canyon, the dam, and Deep Cove. Registration recommended, $3 upon arrival.

TWILIGHT PONTOON BOAT TOUR - SAT., LAUNCH TIMES VARY WITH SUNSET. Enjoy the evening sights and sounds of Patagonia Lake's riparian wildlife while exploring the entire lake.

Registration required, $3 upon arrival.

BIRD WALK WITH GUIDE - MON. 8 AM; THURS. 9 AM; FRI. 9 AM Start times vary. Duration approximately two hours. Meet at the Birding Trail trailhead at the east end of Patagonia Lake State Park campground. Wear comfortable shoes and bring binoculars, field guide, and water. No registration required, no fee.

JUNIOR RANGER ACTIVITY - SAT. AT 2PM, SUN. AT 11:30AM Kids and their adult family and friends are welcome to join us for an hour of discovery as we explore nature, create fun crafts, and learn how to become a Junior Ranger. Meet at the Visitor Center. No registration required, no fee.

MOONLIGHT HIKE - TIMES VARY WITH SUNSET Experience the wonderful view of the Sonoita Creek riparian ribbon with the colors of an Arizona sunset and a glowing moon serving as the backdrop. Wear sturdy shoes, bring water, flashlight and perhaps a walking stick.

Moderate difficulty, 350 ft. elevation gain. Meet at the Visitor Center. Call for dates and times. Registration required, no fee.

Directions: Take 1-10 east to Hwy 83 south to Hwy 82.

Stay on Hwy 82 for 7 miles past the town of Patagonia, turn right onto Lake Patagonia Rd., four miles. Or, drive north from Nogales on Hwy 82, 12 miles to Lake Patagonia Road.

For more information, call the Sonoita Creek State Natural Area Visitor Center at (520) 287-2791. Visit http://azstateparks.com/Parks/SOCR/index.html.

For more information about the 30 State Parks, statewide hiking opportunities, off-highway vehicle trails, and other outdoor recreational and cultural opportunities in Arizona, call (602) 542-4174 (outside of the Phoenix metro area call toll-free (800) 285-3703) or visit AZStateParks.com.

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The Borderlands Photographer

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Text and Photos by Murray Bolesta

A sharply defined silhouette easily can form the outline of a discussion of photography, and shape its successful conclusion.

My friends Sam and Cass, new to the area, remark that opportunities for borderlands photography during the winter season appear to dwindle with the daylight.

There’s the problem of a lack of snow, a feature more plentiful in northern climes, whence my friends came, offering a blizzard of opportunities for artful photography.

My friends complain that there’s more outdoor austerity than usual in the borderlands after the fleeting autumn and before the spring. This opinion is only a figment of their imagination, I respond, and it is their imagination that could offer a solution during winter.

I explain that, while lacking much snow, a borderlands morning of frost can be used to great artful effect. Also, seasonal starker vegetation, the increased angle of sunlight, and more convenient sunrise and sunset times offer another solution, namely, more opportunities for silhouettes.

My dictionary tells me that the word “silhouette” mysteriously comes from the surname of a French author and politician.

Cass responds that it makes sense, since she thinks politicians in general have an outline but little substance.

After reminding Cass that CactusHuggers is apolitical, I ask her to summon other references to help define the concept, especially in the context of photography.

Other notions ensue, such as contour, form, shape, and profile. “Ah, profile,” I said.

An effective photographic technique is the display of a human profile. For film fanatics, especially, memories of famous side profiles include the likes of John Barrymore, Robert Taylor, and Alfred Hitchcock, among others.

But movie stars are often hard to find in the borderlands wilderness in which my friends and I trek. Instead, I suggested we look for the true stars of this place, the plants and critters whose profiles yield an uncommon opportunity for artful and often humorous photography. Recognizing a thing from its shape is often more rewarding than viewing a plain picture of it.

The trick, mainly, is to get the light to come from behind a subject, or for the subject to be inside a shadow. Either way, the objective is to obscure the details of all but the outline of the subject. The subject,

then, will most likely be a mass of black or grey, with the surrounding area a lighter shade of any color.

Silhouettes within monochrome images commonly are used to great effect, but the dazzling multicolor spectacle of a sunrise or sunset, for example, should be fully exploited nearly always with a silhouette.

An image of a sunrise or sunset is virtually assured to be superior when combined with a silhouette in the foreground of a plant, critter, person, or more distantly, a mountain.

My friends Sam and Cass start to see the light. Eagerness ensues, to rush out and try it.

“Let’s go find a sunset,” they chime.

Yes, let’s go – and bring a jacket.

Images:

Top Left: A familiar shape in southern Arizona, Baboquivari Peak, is silhouetted by a fiery sunset, and framed by the dark ridges of Box Canyon in the foreground.

Top Right: A common sight in the borderlands, an ocotillo, frames San Augustine Cathedral in downtown Tucson (prerestoration).

Above Left: A woodpecker with meal in its beak, doing its job just before sunset and quitting time.

Above Middle: The full outline of my daughter Zoé on a cool winter day in Tucson, doubled by a shadow on the bricks.

Above Right: A time exposure captures a midnight sky and the streaks of moving clouds behind the iconic shape of a century plant in San Rafael Valley.

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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DREAMS OF A JESTER

by Russell Thompson

DEEP WITHIN THE CASTLE KEEP THE JESTER FELL ASLEEP THE DREAMS HE HAD HE WILL NOT TELL BUT WHAT HE HEARD HE MUST FORTELL JESTER TOOK THE STAGE ON CUE PERFORMED AS HE WAS TO DO HALF ALERT YET WIDE EYED THE PEOPLE LAUGHED WHILE THE JESTER CRIED NO! NO! YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS IS NOT WHO I TRULY AM HE LOOKED AROUND AT THEIR SIGHTLESS EYES THE PEOPLE LAUGHED WHILE THE JESTER CRIED. JESTER KNEW NOT ALL WAS RIGHT THINGS WERE HIDDEN FROM THEIR SIGHT KEPT SAFE AND SECURE LOCKED INSIDE THE PEOPLE LAUGHED WHILE THE JESTER CRIED THE WAITING TIME PASSED SLOWLY THEN JESTER WROTE HIS STORY IT OPENED OTHER EYES UP WIDE THE JESTER LAUGHED WHILE THE PEOPLE CRIED DEEP WITHIN THE CASTLE KEEP THE JESTER WAS NO MORE ASLEEP THE DREAMS HE HAD AT LAST RELEASED

T h e P r i c k l y Pa i r b y J o s h C i c c i So, what's a Yule Log for anyway.

Don't look at me, I'm stumped.

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Tuesday, December 14th from 5-8pm at 57 Bridge Road.

Call 520-398-9156 or email martitamfoss@yahoo.com for more information.

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My first trip to the Sonoran Desert was back in the early seventies. I proclaimed it uninhabitable and didn’t even want to get out of the car.

Nothing under that huge sky said it wanted human visitors. The soil was hard pan, the trees cast no shade. Spiky sticks in the ground waved red flag warnings. I saw only a barren landscape, dry, dangerous, stark and alien, where things looked like they were dead or dying. While my children joyfully scrambled across the terrain to catch lizards and touch a saguaro, I stood by the car and begged them to stay at my side, away from the spiders and snakes that threatened their existence.

How did I end up here in this dead sea, compromised by the blazing sun, living on a golf course and always wishing for rain? I am a water person, an aging hippie; a city girl plopped into this parched place.

How did it come to this?

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Hmmm. I think there’s another side to this story.

The twist is that I’m pretty happy. In fact, this could be the happiest time of my life, the most carefree. I say goodnight to a cathedral of stars above my head each night. I rise to paradise unfolding in front of me each morning. Scores of little birds appear, white crowned sparrows, catbirds, yellow breasted finch, purple finch, scarlet tanagers, a variety of hummingbirds.

As the sun turns the blue crested Santa Rita mountains into a burnt sienna, larger birds appear; doves, pyrrhuloxia, flickers and cactus wrens. I sip my coffee under the tiled roof that shades my patio. Its curved clay pieces cradle one another above timbers that make convenient homes for the dimwitted doves and designer spiders. Flowers open to the sun, shadows define the hills, the golf course becomes a stream of emerald green. It ain’t bad.

I am grateful for the choice each day brings to learn something new, to find a playmate, to stretch my limbs by myself or in a class. New foods excite my senses, new weather calls me out, away from the bed, the computer, the TV. Creatures that once looked too mean to love have found their way to my heart. I know where the tarantula lives and give it a safe haven, a javelina family is more fascinating than frightening, the prehistoric horny toad no more than a dear little dinosaur. The desert is filled with life, with moods, with color and seduction.

Too much seduction, perhaps.

If I stay away from the Green Valley News I won’t have to think about the man who pulled a gun on the crosser who asked for water. Instead, I can think of a church that offers hospice and friends who risk their lives to save another. I think of the creative spirit I see in everyone I know, like the writers who have been together for years and offer poetry and wisdom again and again in our weekly writing group. The words we share are like mulch for our gardens.

It seems art of every kind thrives in the desert.

Is it the intensity of light or the warm air, or the expansion of time that makes anything seem possible? Whatever the reason, experimentation is obviously a by-product of life on the edge.

Have you seen the clay pots with their metal glazes? Found the gourds carved and stained, jewelry weighted with turquoise or copper wires wrapped around lapis lazuli? If you step into the Tubac Center of the Arts this month you will.

So much beauty and so much effort and all from the Southwest.

I didn’t plan for this life, didn’t see it in my future, but here I am, a crone who has found a new paradigm for living. The monsoons are glorious, snow a welcome stranger. The lizard’s eye no longer seems lazy. As I adjust to these revelations, I realize I am renewed in this land of mesas, arroyos, tumbleweed, and wandering cattle. It has asked me to test my mettle, to rethink the possibilities and engage in all sorts of rigorous creativity before rigamortus sets in.

Is that not the secret of life--to learn through experience and keep experiences coming? To move beyond the expected and love the surprises that life guarantees?

I was once a gadabout, a mother, a sunworshipper, a swan. I was a teacher, a New Yorker, an activist, a lover, a fool. Now I am all those things and more. No losses, only accumulated wealth. I am the desert rat, but not the desert. I am what was, what is, and what will be. Et tu?

Carol Egmont St. John is offering an all-day Writers' Workshop on Sat, Jan 23rd. at the Tubac Center of the Arts.

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As you grow older, do you remember outstanding events of the past more vividly?

The holiday season, the cool air, the festivities, the evidence of love, long dormant in many hearts, now making its way to the surface, all this reminds me how wonderful it is to be able to tell you a story.

Many, many, many years ago, after a joyous dinner with my parents and two older brothers at a dear friend’s home in Wayne, Michigan when I was only six years old, my older brothers, Earl and Vincent and I decided to take a walk. The house was on a large piece of land and there was a light covering of snow on the ground, we just walked and I lingered behind watching a rabbit. I then spied what looked like a bird house wrapped in screening, it was in the middle of a thin plank, about 3ft. by 3ft. All I remember is saying “Oh Look!” I lifted up the plank and took a step, the plank fell back to the ground and I fell about six feet into a well with deep water, hitting my head in the fall.

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I screamed and yelled but my brothers couldn’t see me, they finally heard my whimpers and splashing and were led to the well. They threw back the lid, lay down on their stomachs and reached for my hands and together pulled me up to dry land.

They carried me to the house where a very upset mother tore my clothes off and I was wrapped in a blanket and put into a bed warmed with hot water bottles. I had a small gash on the back of my head, which was cleaned and bandaged and after I rested and my clothes were all dry, my dear family and I went home.

The love that enveloped me that day was never forgotten, never did I hear why, why, why? Only love, love, love, love!

The reason I say it’s wonderful to be able to tell you this story, my brothers searched and found me, and I can tell all of you, my dead friends, I’m here to say,

Have a Blessed Christmas Filled with Love and Hope for the Future.

*The ‘birdhouse’ that drew me to the well was a form of ventilation.

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Combine all ingredients, mix well; place in one or two casseroles. Bake in 350º oven for 30 minutes.

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1 16oz. jar dry roasted peanuts 1 12oz. can cashews 1 12oz. pkg. semi-sweet choc. bits 1 8oz. pkg. Bakers semi-sweet choc.

1 24oz. block white or dark almond bark

Layer in order in crock-pot, nuts on bottom, break almond bark with hammer. Cook in low for 3 hours. Don’t PEEK! Turn off, let rest for 30 min. Stir and drop by tsp. onto wax paper.

DUTCH PUMPKIN PIE 1 can pumpkin 4 eggs, separated 1 c. sugar 1 tbl. cornstarch ½ tsp. cinnamon

1/3 c. cream ¼ c. melted butter 2 tsp. whiskey, optional

Combine pumpkin, egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon, beat for 5 min. Mix in cream, melted butter and whiskey, if used. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites, pour into 9 in. pie pan.

Bake at 3750 for 45 min, till knife inserted in center comes out clean.

THREE MINUTE CHERRY COBBLER

Put contents of can of pie filling in bottom of greased 8” by 8” baking dish, sprinkle cake mix all over, cut butter into thin slices and place over the top. Bake at 3750 for 30 min. (uncovered). Good with whipped cream.

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A dog gave birth to puppies on the side of the road and was cited for littering.

A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center!

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Celebrating the Art of Living in Southern Arizona

ART EXPERIENCE 2009

Bringing art up close and making it personal is what Tubac’s “Art Experience” is all about. Yearly, on the streets of Tubac in early November, artists escape the con nes of their studios to demonstrate the creative process for the public.

A common motivation of the artists this year was a powerful desire to educate others, and express themselves through their craft.

Lisa Harnish, (top left)

Pulling folks into the Clay Hands Gallery was easy for clay-master Lisa Harnish. An expert in the technique and substance of “sgraffito in terra sigillata”, Lisa described herself as a “wheel thrower” who creates artworks of porcelain pottery colored with oxides. Her preferred embellishments are nature-based designs, such as graceful vines and leaves, elegantly growing from the clay surface.

Roberta Rogers, (middle left)

An effervescent Roberta Rogers and her sparkling watercolors were on display in the courtyard of her gallery on Camino Otero. Much of Roberta’s art portrays historical subjects. This year, her work in progress was a study of a charming old Ford car. “I want to get people to share an appreciation of what went before.”

Applying this to the future, she advises: “Slow down and appreciate every day.”

Willowela Wilson, (bottom left)

Acrylic and mixed media are the provinces of Willowela Wilson of Out of the Way Galleria. Further, she’s a vocalist with Gabriel of Urantia’s Bright and Morning Star Band. Willowela’s artistic motivation springs from a feeling of destiny, a calling of personal discovery which “has come into fruition since joining Global Community Communications Alliance” based in Tumacacori. Willowela feels that “if given an artistic gift, there’s an obligation to make a spiritual walk, to reach out globally, touching others.”

Jennifer Hocking, (bottom center)

Jennifer Hocking of Sahuarita has exhibited her polymer clay art in Tubac for seven years. Motivated by a need to express herself, Jennifer’s goal is to move and inspire, and to do so, she creates iconic feminine figures such as the exotic “dancing goddess” which she held for display.

Felicitas Sokec, (bottom right)

Tucson artist and educator Felicitas Maria Sokec has what might be called an omnimedia empire of artistic endeavors.

Affiliated with Feminine Mystique Art Gallery of Tubac, Felicitas creates painting, jewelry, marble sculptures, candles, textiles, and to top it off, she is an art teacher and works with students with special needs. Her motivation springs from the spirituality of art, and her work is female-centric: her goal is to lead people away from mass culture’s cosmetic and superficial portrayal of the female, “looking for deeper and more profound images.”

There are many working artists and artisans working in Tubac daily.

Be sure to stop in their studios so you can experience the joy of owning an original work of art.

follow Calle Igelsia aournd the bend., take Bridge Road to the Tubac Community Center

La Paloma de Tubac

Bridge Road Tubac Villager St. Ann's Church

Hal Empie Gallery The Artist's Daughter

Graham Bell Gallery

Galleria Tubac Casa Maya de Mexico

Clay Hands Studio & Gallery

Old Presidio Traders Tubac Plaza Main Stage

Sweet Stuff

Peter Chope Gallery

Jane's Attic Cobalt Gallery

Roberta Rogers Studio

Tubac Center of the Arts

Tubac Territory Rogoway Gallery

Long Realty Tubac Shelby's Bistro TJ's Tortuga Books & Coffee Beans James Culver & Sole Shoes

Wild Rose Heirlooms

Emmy's Pilates Studio Tubac Embarcadero

Casa Maya de Mexico Old Tubac Inn Beads of Tubac

Bruce Baughman Studio & Gallery

The Artist's Palate Restaurant Coming Soon: Tubac Fitness Center & MIJ Hair & Nails Tubac Ranch

Café Presidio The Chef's Table Anza Marketplace

Tumacookery Feminine Mystique Tubac Dental Casa Fina de Tubac

Damian Koorey Designs

Brasher Real Estate, Inc.

take the Frontage Road south to Wisdom's Café, the Tumacacori Mission, Lily's Boutique, & the Santa Cruz Chili Company Tubac Performance Studios, Realty Executives - Bill Mack & Sally Robling, & Charlie Meaker, and Village Counseling

take the Frontage Road north to The Tubac Golf Resort & Spa, Stable's Ranch Grille and Dos Silos

ADVERTISERS outside the Village AMADO RV & SELF STORAGE (520) 398-8003

FIESTA TOURS (520) 398-9705

KEN MICHAEL ART FRAMING (520) 398-2214

LONG REALTY CHA CHA DONAU (520) 591-4982

SUSTAINABLE ARIZONA (520) 240-1018

CASTRO'S IRON WORKS & STEEL SUPPLY (520) 761-3670

JACOBSON CUSTOM HOMES (520) 975-8469

KRISTOFER’S CATERING & BISTRO (520) 625-0331

REX RANCH RESORT & SPA (520) 398-2914

STOCKMAN'S GRILL (520) 398-2651

Tubac Villager Advertiser Map drawing by Roberta Rogers. Provided as a courtesy by the Tubac Villager.

Information edited by the Tubac Villager. This map is an artistic rendering of the Village of Tubac and Tubac Villager supporting advertisers of November ‘09.

Unlisted map structures may be active businesses. Work in progress. For questions or comments call: 520-398-3980

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arts, history of gems, SUN, DEC 20TH - Come mythology, jewelry, to the TUBAC PLAZA and mining, offering MAIN STAGE for a an amazing range glorious CHRISTMAS of information and CONCERT! At 2pm. inspiration to participants.

Celebrate the true Fee is $40, while a single spirit of Christmas with lecture is $5 for GVR incredible music by members and $7 for their Gabriel of Urantia's Bright guests. Limited sitting. & Morning Star Choir – a Helen will be introduced 40-voice choir singing on Dec 3rd at Las traditional Christmas Campanas Center at 4pm. carols as well as original, Come meet Helen, have sacred, CosmoWorship some light refreshments songs by the choir’s and pick up a flyer with founder. The Bright all the listed dates at this & Morning Star Choir complimentary social. has been performing Sun, Dec 20th - Come to the Tubac Plaza Main Stage for a Christmas Concert by Gabriel of Urantia's Registration is available professionally around Bright & Morning Star Choir – a 40-voice choir singing traditional Christmas carols online at www.gvrec.

Arizona for over 15 and original, sacred, CosmoWorship songs by the choir’s founder, at 2pm. org or at all Green Valley years and has two CDs Recreation Centers. More available. There will questions? Contact Dick also be performances Santa. Admission to this event is by donation. Please R.S.V.P. Smith at gvr4us@cox.net or 393-1228. by the 6-piece “Planetary Folk Group” and a lovely trio of for this event as seating is limited – (520) 398-2542. Proceeds beautiful young ladies with merry tunes to sing called “Israfel from these events benefit nonprofit teen & young adult THURS, DEC 17TH - BARBARA FINDEISEN returns by Awakened” And surprise, surprise…shhhh! Santa Claus will be rehabilitation programs and Avalon Gardens internships of popular demand to the TUBAC THURSDAY MORNING making a special appearance, so be sure to come and share in Global Community Communications Alliance. For directions or BREAKFAST FORUM speaking on CHANGE OUR BRAINS; the fun!!! ADMISSION - Ages 18 & up - $7 advance / $10 day of more information on either event call (520) 398-2542 or visit CHANGE OUR MINDS. At 9am. Barbara Findeisen, a Tubac show; Ages 12 to 17 - $2 advance / $5 day of show; Ages 11 & www.GlobalChangeMultiMedia.org. resident, is founder of the Pocket Sanctuary; she has been Under – FREE. This concert will take place at the Tubac Plaza a practicing psychotherapist and workshop leader for over Main Stage next to the Out Of The Way Galleria at 29 Tubac SAT, DEC 19TH - LIVE MUSIC at Wisdom's Cafe from 5 to 28 years. Forum meets at Plaza de Anza - Artist's Palate Plaza. Proceeds from these events benefit nonprofit teen & 8ish.

Restaurant, 40 Avenida Goya, Tubac.Tickets are $10 and can young adult rehabilitation programs and Avalon Gardens be purchased in advance at 398-3333 or at the door. LIMITED SAT, DEC 19TH - BOOK SIGNING – THE NEW ADOBE internships of Global Community Communications Alliance.

SEATING. Admission includes a full sit down breakfast. http:// HOME BY AUTHORS MICHAEL BRYNE & DOTTIE LARSON For directions or more information on either event call (520) tubacbreakfastforum.wordpress.com/ (1-5 PM). FIRESIDE CHAT: Michael Bryne and Dottie Larson, 398-2542 or visit www.GlobalChangeMultiMedia.org. authors, The New Adobe Home, discuss stunning composition, THURS, DEC 17TH - A CHARLES POSTON CHRISTMAS THURS, DEC. 24TH – CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS AND architectural enhancement, art, furnishings, space, gardens, starring Shaw Kinsley at the Tubac Performance Studios, 2243 IRENE’S B-DAY WITH LIVE MUSIC at Wisdom's Cafe in history and a sense of place – 5:30 to 6:30pm at TJ's Tortuga E Frontage Road. 5:30pm. $15. Seating limited call 520-398Tumacacori. Make your reservations now! 520-398-2397.

Books & Coffee Beans in the Mercado de Baca. 520-398-8109.

9156 or visit www.tubacperformancestudios.com.

SAT, DEC 19TH - A CHARLES POSTON CHRISTMAS starring SUN, DEC 27TH - PRINTING PRESS DEMONSTRATIONS FRI, DEC 18TH - Fish & Chips and LIVE MUSIC BY AMBER from 10am–2pm. Come celebrate the 150th anniversary of Shaw Kinsley at the Tubac Performance Studios, 2243 E NORGAARD at Wisdom's Cafe in Tumacacori. 520-398-2397. the printing press in Arizona! The Washington Press is original Frontage Road. 7pm $15. Seating limited call 520-398-9156 or and printed the first newspaper in AZ, “The Weekly Arizonian” visit www.tubacperformancestudios.com.

FRI, DEC 18TH - A CHARLES POSTON CHRISTMAS starring on March 3, 1859. Volunteers operate the press and reproduce Shaw Kinsley at the Tubac Performance Studios, 2243 E SAT, DEC 19TH - CROSSCUT SAW plays at the Old Tubac Inn the first edition of the paper. At the Tubac Presidio State Frontage Road. 7pm $15. Seating limited call 520-398-9156 or at 7pm. Blues with an edge. 398-3161.

Historic Park. Call 520-398-2252. visit www.tubacperformancestudios.com.

SUN, DEC 20TH - BOOK SIGNING – KITTY HUMBUG’S THURS, DEC 31ST - RING IN THE NEW YEAR at Stables FRI, DEC 18TH - Come on out to Avalon Organic Gardens CHRISTMAS TAIL BY DIANA MADARAS, award winning Ranch Grille at the Tubac Golf Resort. 4-course meal with Live Farm and Ranch in Tumacácori, AZ for music, theater, carols, Arizona artist/author from 1 to 4pm. Kitty Humbug is the Music by Amelia Doll & the JSB Trio and Beau Renfro & Clear and baked yummies! At 7pm. The evening will feature a DVD funniest cat you’ll ever see! At TJ's Tortuga Books & Coffee Country. 398-2678. screening of "THE GOD CHILD CAME", a heart-warming, Beans in the Mercado de Baca. 520-398-8109. original Christmas musical play by Global Change Theater THURS, DEC 31ST - CELEBRATE NEW YEAR'S EVE at Company. "The God Child Came," is a beautiful, uplifting, SUN, DEC 20TH - TUBAQUEÑOS LIVING HISTORY from Stockman's Grill at the Amado Terrirtory Ranch, I-19 exit 48. humorous, and inspiring musical that follows a young 1 – 4 pm. Come experience the sights, sounds, and tastes 4-course meal, champagne toasts & Live Music by Becky woman's journey through the celestial realms in search of the of Tubac 1776 during these Spanish Colonial living history Reyes. true meaning of Christmas. The play features a colorful cast demonstrations. At the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. Call of unforgettable characters and original music from Gabriel SUN, JAN 3RD - TUBAQUEÑOS LIVING HISTORY from 520-398-2252. of Urantia's “The God Child Came” Christmas album. Also to 1 – 4 pm. Come experience the sights, sounds, and tastes SUN, DEC 20TH - A CHARLES POSTON CHRISTMAS grace the night will be a special presentation of Christmas of Tubac 1776 during these Spanish Colonial living history starring Shaw Kinsley at the Tubac Performance Studios, 2243 carols by “The Planetary Folk Group” to warm the hearts and demonstrations. At the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. Call E Frontage Road. 2pm $15. Seating limited call 520-398-9156 enliven the spirit on this lovely occasion. And everyone can 520-398-2252. or visit www.tubacperformancestudios.com. enjoy delicious treats and hot cider while they visit with

Wonderful Holiday Gift Shopping

35 MON, JAN 4TH – BASIC BEAD STRINGING WORKSHOP WITH DEE ROBINSON at Beads of Tubac, 5 Hesselbarth Lane. $38. 520398-2070 or www.beadsoftubac.com.

THURS, JAN 7TH - TUBAC THURSDAY MORNING BREAKFAST FORUM PRESENTS STEVE STROM, Ph.D. speaking on "How Stars and Planets Form." Steve Strom is a world renown astronomer receiving his doctorate in Astronomy from Harvard at 9am. As a member of Tucson's National Optical Astronomy Observatory he did research on the understanding of the formation of stars and planets.

His most recent publications include OBSERVATORIES OF THE SOUTHWEST and EARTH FORMS. Some of his photogaphy has been exhibited at the Tucson Center for the Arts. Forum meets at Plaza de Anza - Artist's Palate Restaurant, 40 Avenida Goya, Tubac.Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance at 398-3333 or at the door. LIMITED SEATING. Admission includes a full sit down breakfast. http:// tubacbreakfastforum.wordpress.com/ FRI, JAN 8TH – SECOND FRIDAY AT WISDOM'S CAFE in Tumacacori with Fish & Chips and Live Music. 520-398-2397.

SUN, JAN 10TH - PRINTING PRESS DEMONSTRATIONS from 10am–2pm.

Come celebrate the 150th anniversary of the printing press in Arizona! The Washington Press is original and printed the first newspaper in AZ, “The Weekly Arizonian” on March 3, 1859. Volunteers operate the press and reproduce the first edition of the paper.

At the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. Call 520-398-2252.

SUN, JAN 10TH - THE ORIGINAL WILDCAT JASS BAND performs at the Tubac Center of the Arts at 7:30pm. Great New Orleans and Chicago Jazz! $15 members, $20 nonmembers. 398-2371.

SAT, JAN 16TH – THE 2009 TUBAC HOME TOUR sponsored by the Tubac Center of the Arts from 10am to 4pm. Six outstanding homes with wonderful art and inspiring décor will be featured on the tour. $25.

Reserve your ticket by calling 520-398-2371.

SUN, JAN 17TH - TUBAQUEÑOS LIVING HISTORY from 1 – 4 pm. Come experience the sights, sounds, and tastes of Tubac 1776 during these Spanish Colonial living history demonstrations. At the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. Call 520-398-2252.

TUES, JAN 19TH – LIVING HISTORY TOUR at the Tumacacori National Historical Park and its two sister missions, Calabazas and Guevavi. Meet an historical character at each site. From 10am to 4pm. Bring your own lunch and water. $38 per person. Wear appropriate shoes for hiking. Reservations required, call Spirit Steps Tours at 520-3982655 for reservations. For other info call the park at 520-398-2341.

THURS, JAN 21ST - TUBAC THURSDAY MORNING BREAKFAST FORUM PRESENTS THEODORE H. FLEMING, Ph.D. speaking on "Bats, Myth and Reality." Ted Fleming is a world renown expert on bats. His publications include A BAT MAN IN THE TROPICS AND THE SHORT TAILED FRUIT BAT. He is an Emeritus Professor Biology at the University of Miami and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona. He has also worked for the Walt Disney Studios as a bat consultant.

SAT, JAN 23RD – TUBAC CENTER OF THE ARTS WRITERS’ WORKSHOP. Carol St. John is offering an all day writers’ workshop for creative writers of all levels. Hands-on, guest speakers, authors and literary experts. To register or for more info call 520-398-2371 or visit tubacarts.org.

SAT, JAN 23RD – 16TH ANNUAL TUBAC COLLECTOR CAR SHOW at the Tubac Golf Resort from 10am to 4pm. A fun-filled day for the entire family with hundreds of collector cars, trucks and motorcycles. Sponsored by the Santa Cruz Valley Car Nuts. Registration at www.carnuts.org SUN, JAN 24TH - PRINTING PRESS DEMONSTRATIONS from 10am–2pm.

Come celebrate the 150th anniversary of the printing press in Arizona! The Washington Press is original and printed the first newspaper in AZ, “The Weekly Arizonian” on March 3, 1859. Volunteers operate the press and reproduce the first edition of the paper.

At the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. Call 520-398-2252.

ANNOUNCEMENTS ART CLASSES available at Beads of Tubac, 5 Hesselbarth Lane. BEAD STRINGING, WATERCOLORS, ACRYLICS, OIL, PASTELS, AND SCRATCHBOARD WITH ARTISTS: BARBARA BORGWARDT, CAROL REILLEY, DEE ROBINSON, DAVID SIMONS, WANDA TUCKER & RICK WHEELER. Call 520-3982070 or visit www.beadsoftubac.com for dates, times and prices.

THE SANTA CRUZ VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT LIBRARIES ARE COLLECTING BOOKS for our annual book sale. Please donate your books to support our fundraiser. We accept all books in good condition, any subject. Drop off book donations at Jane's Attic, 8 Will Rogers Lane or at any of the Santa Cruz Valley Schools.

Each year we use the funds from the book sale to put new books in the hands of our students, and to purchase the supplies we need to run reading promotions at the libraries. In these tough budgetary times we can use your assistance more than ever. Please support our young readers by donating your used books, and stay tuned for our sale in February at the Tubac Festival of the Arts! For more info contact Rio Rico High School Librarian Lara Hull at 375-8778.

The Tubac Chamber of Commerce is ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for the 2010 Tubac Festival of the Arts. The dates for the festival are February 10-14, 2010.

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS INTERESTED IN BECOMING AN EXCHANGE STUDENT in many different European countries, Canada, Mexico, China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa are being sought by the nonprofit ASSE International Student Exchange Program. Exchange students live with a caring host family while attending high school and learning about the language and culture of their chosen host country. Students interested in becoming an exchange student abroad for either an academic year, semester, or summer program, should call 1-800-733-2773. www. asse.com.

Send your community events & announcments to the Tubac Villager at: tubacvillager@mac.com

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Charlie Meaker, Celebrating 30 Years in Tubac!

IT’S A BUYER’S MARKET! Charlie Meaker

There are over 100 resale homes listed for sale in Tubac, at prices ranging from $70,000 to a cool $8 Million!

Tubac Office, PO Box 1987, Tubac AZ 85646

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 BANK-OWNED ONE BEDROOM TOWNHOUSE IN EMBARCADERO! This is the one-bedroom Cordoba model with outside stairs to the sky-deck, which has a built-in Barbie! Clean – never lived-in! Bring a fridge, range and W/D and move right in! Sold “ASIS”. OFFERED AT THE RIDICULOUS PRICE OF $70,000! 520-237-2414 FORECLOSURE IN SANTIAGO– NEVER LIVED-IN! Two bedrooms in the main house, plus one-bedroom casita. This immaculate home has many extras, including a beautiful kitchen with stainless appliances, charming master bath. Split floor plan. Shaded patio off the living room, and a courtyard with fireplace. Views of the Tumacacori Mountains. Quiet street, yet close to the Village and freeway. Sold “as-is”.

IN THE LOW $300’S. CALL FOR THE LATEST PRICE! 520-237-2414

AREA

127 FRIDA KAHLO

BARRIO - “BOSQUE”

Call for a showing!

BANK102 VESPUCCI

BANK-OWNED 3-BEDROOM IN SANTIAGO. Upgraded Dorn Home – Durango Model – has huge Great Room/ Morning Room/Kitchen. Also, there’s a Formal Dining Room, a Home Office/Den, and 3-car garage. The walk-in closet in the Master Suite is large enough for guest quarters. Walled-in back yard, beautiful foyer. Sold “as-is” IN THE LOW $300’S CALL FOR THE LATEST PRICE! 520-237-2414 TWO BEDROOM, IMMACULATE HOME IN PALO PARADO ESTATES. AMAZING MOUNTAIN VIEWS

59 Keating Circle - 3BR, Spectacular Views, Studio, Privacy - $449,000 6 TROCITO CT. - 3BR, Pool, Privacy, Palo Parado Est - $459,000 38 PIEDRA DR. 3BR on 3 Ac a Total Remodel! $499,000 2251 PALO PARADO RD. - 4br, big yard, mountain views. $325,000 156 ALISO SPRINGS RD. - 4BR, 4 acres, what views! $575,000 *Foreclosure, bank-owned properties.

Call for the latest price!

2258 PALO PARADO

Looks and shows like Brand New. Great Room plan with kitchen to die for, roomy dining area, breakfast bar. Master bedroom has mountain view. Den off living room, large laundry room. Bonus Studio or workshop with A/C off garage. All appliances stay.

A MUST-SEE! OFFERED AT $338,000 520-237-2414

TUBAC HOME SALES - Resale home sales as reported by MLS - 9/22/090-10/23/09

ADDRESS

OTHER FINE HOMES!

DESCRIPTION

SALES PRICE

2BR, TOWNHOME - FORECLOSURE

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. $ PER SQ. FT

$127,500

DAYS ON MARKET

$98.08

NOTE: Each month, we will report on Home Sales, using MLS DATA. Questions or Comments? Call: 520-237-2414 or e-mail: cmeaker@hughes.net

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.

B R U C E BAUGHMAN STUDIO AND GALLERY

520.398.3098

Representing Local, National & Internationally Recognized Female Artists La Entrada de Tubac 520•398•0473 www.FemaleArtGallery.com Femi9Mystique@AOL.com Visit our Quilt Wall all December. Participating artists contribute 6"x6" squares of art that are assembled into a quilt. Buy one or more.

Sue Nowell

LA ENTRADA DE TUBAC

Feminine Mystique Art Gallery