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Vol. V No. 3

January 2010

On the Cover:

"Early Morning Round Up" acrylic on canvas

by Roy Purcell

Pg 4 Events Around Tubac Santa Cruz Pg 7 County Update

by Kathleen Vandervoet Personalities from Tubac's Past

Pg 10 Jean Wilson

by Shaw Kinsley Tubac Dining

Pg 12 Old Tubac Inn

by Bernard Berlin Pg 14 Phocion Way's Diary

by Mary Bingham Pg 16 Judge Gordon Farley

by Hattie Wilson Creature Feature

Pg 19 Cactus Wren

by Maggie Milinovitch Pg 20 Hurrah for the Newspaper

by Carol St. John Area Business:

Pg 24 Access Wisdom Homecare Remnants from Ruth Pg 28 Gertrude the

Incredible Chicken

Pg 30 Borderlands Photographer

by Murray Bolesta Pg 31 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.

Letters are welcome.

Opinions and information herein do not necessarily reflect those of the advertisers or the publishers. Advertiser and contributor statements and qualifications are the responsibility of the advertiser or contributor named.

All articles and images are the property of the Tubac Villager, and/or writer or artist named, and may not be reproduced without permission.

January Circulation: 11,000. The Villager is made available at 180 Tucson locations, 400 Phoenix locations by Certified Folder Display, 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

P U R C E L L ’S

PASSION IS DEPICTING THE DESERT

by Kathleen Vandervoet

After painting his entire life, artist Roy Purcell was faced with a new dilemma in 2004 when he moved from Las Vegas to Southern Arizona.

“The intensity of the colors was very outstanding for me here.

And the other thing was the grand variety of textures. So I had to develop a style and a technique that would give me that expression. It took me a couple of years to explore different ways,” he said during an interview in his gallery at 24 Tubac Road.

“I love the desert and that passion really drives me,” he said. He painted the many aspects of the Mohave Desert during the decades he lived in Las Vegas. Now, he’s completed hundreds of paintings of the Sonoran desert.

The technique he developed creates the results he’s looking for. He explained that before arriving here, “I was used to landscapes and wildlife. I had worked a lot with palette knife in abstract and mythical material.

“I got down here and I wanted more and more detail. I switched to brush and I developed a technique for the detail I needed but I didn’t have the texture, so I went back to palette knife,” Purcell said. “It’s a blend that works well.”

Purcell’s brother lives in Tucson and they had visited Tubac several times, so Purcell decided to investigate it as a business option.

Beverly, an executive recruiter for Indian gaming properties, has clients all over the country so a move wasn’t troublesome for her.

Their Las Vegas home sold quickly and they were on their way to Tubac.

Purcell said they purchased a home west of the Canoa Ranch on five acres and his studio is located there. Frequently, he finds wildlife to paint just outside his windows. “I have a beautiful view of the Santa Rita Mountains. And in the evenings when the sky lights up, it looks like a sunset in the east. We have 360-degree sunsets around this place.”

The first gallery in which Purcell showed his work is located a half block west of his current location. He moved in August and said he’s very pleased with the current gallery space which features work from other artists, along with about 30 of his paintings.

The relocation to Southern Arizona has been artistically stimulating. “I’ve been exploring every dirt road I can find. Most of the subjects (of paintings) are from right around here. I find there’s a great deal of diversity and variety.

“You go west and get into Purcell is also a writer the desert toward Organ Tubac Artist Roy Purcell in his gallery at 24 Tubac Road. and has had several books Pipe and that country or you published that combine his go east and there’s where art and his philosophy. One they fi lmed ‘Oklahoma’ and the wine country or you go up written about the Mohave Desert was chosen by the state of into the mountains and get into the pines, or at the base of the Nevada to be placed in every school library, he said. mountains into saguaro country.”

Purcell said he left Las Vegas and a good career because “I was Mesquite trees have triggered a strong response. “I call them getting really burned out -- the size of the city, and it just got so desert bonsai. These mesquite trees that are twisted and gorgeous frenetic.” have had a hard time. There’s so much here I could never get it He and his wife, Beverly, decided to move and considered a all painted in my life. There are so many vistas, and you also have variety of communities where art is an important component. so much intimate little detail.”

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Located at 24 Tubac Road, The Purcell Gallery features acrylic works of the desert southwest by Roy Purcell.

The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

Contact gallery manager Brent Land at 520-398-1600 for more information.

He’s currently working on a book about the Sonoran Desert. “I’ve done 100 studies of spider and insects. Last year I painted about 150 paintings of wildflowers and altogether, probably 700 or 800 paintings of the wildlife.”

Purcell’s newest book is scheduled to be published this month. Titled “The Great Goddess and Hero’s Journey,” it features many of his etchings and writings. The subject is the journey within, he said.

He’s won many awards in the past, but “I haven’t competed since I’ve moved here. I don’t focus on that. I’ve never been one to enter competitions. My life is competing with myself.”

Purcell comes to the gallery two or three days a week, sometimes setting up his easel and painting on Saturdays.

Brent Land is the gallery manager and Purcell describes him as a “master framer” of artwork. “He taught framing for the

big framing manufacturing companies.

He was managing a big art supply store in Las Vegas and when I decided to move here, I asked him if he’d like to go to Tubac and run a gallery for us. He thought I was kidding. He came down to check it out and he liked it,” Purcell said.

The Purcell Gallery, located at 24 Tubac Road, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. For information, call (520) 398-1600.

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Creating art has led Purcell on his journey through the world, its history, its beauty and its destiny. He seldom feels frustrated, he said. “Once you master the technique, it doesn’t matter what you paint. It’s second nature. It’s kind of like the hand dances on the canvas with the brush and you don’t pay much attention to what you’re doing.” �

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Sunday: Marinated and Grilled Eggplant on Flat bread Monday: 8” Mediterranean Pizza Tuesday: Spinach Salad with Warm Citrus Dressing Wednesday: Portobella Ravioli with Sun-dried Tomato Pesto Thursday: Chicken Piccata with Angel Hair Pasta Friday: Blackened Mahi Mahi with Mango Tequila Lime Salsa Saturday: Half Rack Baby Back Ribs.

4 OPENING FRI, JAN 8TH - ARIZONA EDGES, a national juried exhibition and sale of art of all media from artists across the nation. The exhibition will open with a reception for the public from 5-7pm at the Tubac Center of the Arts and will be show until Feb 14th.

ONGOING MONDAYS - CHILDREN'S STORY HOUR at TJ's Tortuga Books & Coffee Beans in the Mercado de Baca at 10am. 520-3988109.

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

FRI, JAN 8TH – SECOND FRIDAY AT WISDOM 'S CAFE in Tumacacori with Fish & Chips and Live Music. 520-3982397.

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

SAT, JAN 9TH - GRAMS & KREIGER Roots Rock and Blues at the Old Tubac Inn, 7 Plaza Rd. www.oldtubacinn.com.

398-3161.

SATURDAYS - LIVE MUSIC BY ANGEL PEREZ 5:30pm at Stockman's Grill at the Amado Territory Ranch, I-19 exit 48. 520398-2651.

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.

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SUN, JAN 3RD - 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 5TH –BOOK SIGNING AND Q&A WITH MYSTERY WRITER, DON PORTER. Based out of Bisbee this prolific writer writes about what he knows. His

experiences as a bush pilot in Alaska and other fascinating adventures flavor his wonderful tomes. Don will discuss his novels, including his latest work, Murder Pro Bono. At the Green Valley Village, Suite 13 – MEETING ROOM, 101 S. La Canada Drive, Green Valley, I-19 & Esperanza Blvd. (Exit 65). At 2pm. Free.

conservation need (including the criteria used to determine their status); threats to wildlife (what they are and where they’re located); and delineation of landscapes of conservation concern. The public can also provide input into aspects of the plan by accessing an online survey at www.azgfd. gov/cwcs.

WED, JAN 6TH – RAILROAD TRAIL HIKE, walk along Sonoita Creek on the Railroad Trail from Rio Rico to the Natural Area. This hike is slightly over 7 miles long and crosses diverse terrain. Bring along hiking boots, water, and lunch. Meet at Rio Rico trailhead 8am. Call 520-287-2791 to register.

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 Tubac Center of 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/

WED, JAN 6TH - PUBLIC MEETING ON STATE WILDLIFE ACTION PLAN. The Arizona Game and Fish Department will host a public meeting in Tucson from 3-7pm, to provide information and gather input on the update of Arizona’s State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP). At the Game and Fish Tucson office at 555 N. Greasewood Road. Part of the public review process for updating and revising the plan, focusing on three main areas of the plan: the species of greatest

SAT & SUN, JAN 9TH & 10TH - COPPERPLATE ETCHING DEMONSTRATIONS BY NICHOLAS WILSON, Wildlife Artist Sat 10am to 4pm, Sun 1pm to 4pm. At TJ's Tortuga Books & Coffee Beans in the Mercado de Baca, 520-398-8109.

SAT & SUN, JAN 9TH & 10TH - DRAMA WORKSHOP REGISTRATION for adults and children. Sat 10am to 2pm and Sun 1 to 3pm, at the Tubac Performance Studios, 2243 E Frontage Rd. 398-9156. www.tubacperformancestudios.com.

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. At the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. Call 520-3982252.

SUN, JAN 10TH - THE ORIGINAL WILDCAT JASS BAND performs at the Tubac Center of the Arts at 7:30pm. The Jass Band plays traditional New Orleans and Chicago jazz, played in a style that’s true to their musical roots and filled with spirited fun. $15 members, $20 nonmembers. Call 398-2371 to reserve tickets. ...continued on page 8

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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 cmeaker@hughes.net

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 2258 TWO BEDROOM, IMMACULATE HOME IN PALO PARADO ESTATES. AMAZING MOUNTAIN VIEWS 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

PALO PARADO

520-237-2414

102BANK-OWNED VESPUCCI 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!

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TUBAC HOME SALES - RESALE HOME SALES AS REPORTED BY MLS - 11/23/09 - 12/24/09 ADDRESS

408 POST WAY 105 POST WAY 705 LOMBARD WAY 114 CIRCULO VESPUCCI 906 LOMBARD WAY 507 POST WAY 43 CALLE MARIA ELENA 126 GEARY RD 57 CHAVEZ SIDING RD

AREA

BARRIO - “EMBARCADERO” BARRIO - “EMBARCADERO” BARRIO -“EMBARCADERO” BARRIO -“SANTIAGO” BARRIO -“EMBARCADERO” BARRIO - “EMBARCADERO” BARRIO -“SANTIAGO” BARRIO - “TRAILS HEAD” TUBAC VALLEY VISTAS

DESCRIPTION

SALES PRICE

2BR, TOWNHOME - FORECLOSURE 1 BR TOWNHOME - FORECLOSURE 1 BR TOWNHOME - FORECLOSURE 3 BR HOME - FORECLOSURE 3BR TOWNHOME - FORECLOSURE 1 BR TOWNHOME - FORECLOSURE 3 BR HOME - FORECLOSURE 3 BR PATIO HOME - FORECLOSURE 3 BR HOME, BUILT 1972, ON .95 ACRE

$105,900 $62,000 $74,000 $324,000 $135,500 $64,900 $317,000 $274,000 $225,000

$ PER SQ. FT

$78.27 $68.97 $82.31 $106.30 $92.62 $69.56 $132.41 $114.12 $125.35

DAYS ON MARKET

86 250 50 144 44 148 92 142 35

NOTE: EACH MONTH, WE WILL REPORT ON HOME SALES, USING MLS DATA. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? CALL OR E-MAIL!

HOME SALES SUMMARY - RESALE HOME SALES AS REPORTED IN THE MLS IF YOU’D LIKE A DETAILED LIST, I CAN E-MAIL ONE TO YOU - JUST ASK ME AT - CMEAKER@HUGHES.NET

TUBAC

AVERAGE PRICE

AVERAGE DAYS ON MARKET

FORECLOSURES

2009 - 13 HOMES SOLD.

$387,361. - $151.97 PER SQ. FT.

277

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2008 - 9 HOMES SOLD.

$553,755 - $203.38 PER SQ. FT.

422

NONE

BARRIO DE TUBAC 2009 - 23 HOMES SOLD. 2008 - 8 HOMES SOLD.

AVERAGE PRICE $211,807 - $112.90 PER SQ. FT. $312,863 - $165.74 PER SQ. FT.

AVERAGE DAYS ON MARKET 167 226

FORECLOSURES OR SHORT SALES 19 3

THE RAINFALL REPORT RAINFALL FOR THE YEAR 2009 - 11.51 INCHES 2008 - 15.99 INCHES

18-YEAR AVERAGE (SINCE 1992) - 14.66 INCHES MOST RAIN - 22.80 INCHES IN 2000 LEAST RAIN - 9.43 INCHES IN 2002

-READINGS AT MY HOUSE IN PALO PARADO ESTATES

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New director at Chamber of Commerce

Kim Etherington is the new executive director of the Tubac Chamber of Commerce, replacing Carol Cullen whose resignation took effect Dec. 18.

Etherington has been the chamber’s administrative assistant for nearly six years.

Before joining the chamber, Etherington, who has a bachelor’s degree from Connecticut College in Connecticut, worked as special events coordinator at the Tucson Botanical Gardens for two years.

She and her husband live in the Tubac Foothills Ranch area. Other previous jobs have include work as student advisor and technology assistant at Green Fields Country Day School in Tucson; office manager for Kea Construction in Tucson; and as a graphic designer and art director at Ted Bertz Design in Middletown, Connecticut.

Cullen, executive director for the past six years, said she plans to remain in Tubac where she and her husband live.

County parks closing Jan. 8

An attempt has been started to find volunteers to keep the Ronald R. Morriss Park in Tubac open after a December decision by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to lay off three maintenance employees who worked at six county parks.

The Ronald Morriss Park, two Rio Rico parks, two Nogales parks and one in Sonoita, are affected.

Two local groups, the Santa Cruz Valley Citizens Council and A Park for Tubac, are discussing the possibility of offering volunteers to do various jobs.

The next meeting of “A Park for Tubac” is planned for Thursday, Jan. 14, at 5:30 p.m. at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Road.

For more information or to volunteer assistance, contact Katie Munger at (520) 403-7347. Rich Bohman of the Santa Cruz Valley Citizens Council can be reached at (520) 398-8095.

State award for school district

Excellent financial oversight of the food service department resulted in a state award for the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District No. 35 (Rio Rico and Tubac).

The Arizona Department of Education “Coordinated Review Effort” award was the result of an intensive audit conducted in September and October 2008. The U.S. Department of Agriculture requires that the audit occur a minimum of once every five years.

Business manager Isela Brown said an award was presented in November to three representatives from School District No. 35. The school district contracts with Sodexho for food service, but “it’s the district’s responsibility to keep the company in compliance. All of the financial work is by district personnel,” she said.

28 county jobs slashed

To help balance the budget, Santa Cruz County has laid off seven employees and moved the payment source for nine employees from the general fund to grant funds. Another 12 vacant positions were eliminated. In August, Santa Cruz County laid off eight employees.

Nearly every department cut 15 percent of its operating budget to help meet a projected $3.1 million shortfall for the budget year that begins July 1, 2010, County Manager Greg Lucero said.

Local group supports water rules

Members of the Santa Cruz Valley Citizens Council in Tubac voted on Dec. 14 to send a letter to Gov. Jan Brewer asking that she allow a set of rules to be developed regarding assured water supply. The council has 352 members, Chairman Rich Bohman said.

The vote came after a brief presentation by Sherry Sass, chairwoman of the Groundwater Users Advisory Council which advises the Santa Cruz Active Management Area, a division of the Arizona Department of Water Resources.

Sass said the rules have been in development for several years and are needed so the Groundwater Users Advisory Council can review plans submitted by large-scale residential developers to determine if the water in the area’s aquifer will be protected from depletion if hundreds of new homes and businesses are built.

She said Brewer halted all rule development for all agencies a few months ago, but it’s hoped she’ll allow this group to advance.

The Santa Cruz Valley Citizens Council’s next meeting is Monday, Jan. 18, at 9 a.m. at the Tubac Community Center, and it’s open to the public.

Checkpoint work starting

The U.S. Border Patrol said construction was scheduled to start Monday, Jan. 4, on improvements on the immigration checkpoint on Interstate 19 between Tubac and Amado.

The purpose of the $1.5 million project is to provide more safety for Border Patrol agents and protection from sun and rain. Also, one building will be brought to the site with computer connections, a spokesman said.

The construction will funnel the two northbound lanes into a single lane each so a third lane can be constructed on the east side.

A sun and rain metal canopy, about 100 feet in depth and 115 feet in width, will be erected across three lanes.

The project is expected to be completed by mid-April. Construction will be temporarily halted during the Tubac Festival of the Arts, Feb. 10-14.

(Reach Kathleen Vandervoet at kathleenvan@msn.com or (520) 398-2089.)

Tubac Chamber of Commerce presents the 51st Annual

FEBRUARY 10- 14 175 Visiting Juried Artist Booths, Food Court, Horse-Drawn Trolleys, Artist Demos, Music & More!

10am to 5pm Daily Plus 100 Year-Round Shops Galleries wStudios wDining wLodging wGolf

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TUES, JAN 12TH - 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.

Call 520-287-2791 to register. Meet at Sonoita Creek Visitor Center at 8am.

TUES, JAN 12TH - BOOK SIGNING AND Q&A WITH DOUGLAS D. COPELAND, author of the field guide Insects of the Southwest. The author will be available to answer your questions and share his enthusiasm and knowledge on many insects that can be observed in the southwest, especially in the Madera Canyon area and even in your own backyard. At the Green Valley Village, Suite 13 – MEETING ROOM, 101 S. La Canada Drive, Green Valley, I-19 & Esperanza Blvd. (Exit 65). At 2pm.

Free.

TUES, JAN 12TH - JACK LASSETER, “THE SAGA OF THE AMERICAN MOUNTAIN MEN” Jack will tell the story of the American mountain men, the fir trappers of the old West.This is part of Jack's new series of talks on the West, never before heard. This one is all about the beaver trappers in the Rocky Mountains, who they were, what their life was like and what happened to them.

Jack will share with us some of their hairraising stories as only he can. At 7:00 pm. Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door. At the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley.

WED, JAN 13TH – INFORMATIONAL MEETING FOR THE OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE (OLLI) at the University of Arizona (lectures in Green Valley) SPRING 2010 SEMESTER at 3pm at Casa de Esperanza, Green Valley. More than 40 study groups will be offered

by OLLI/Green Valley during the Spring semester, which runs from Feb. 1 through March 26. Most meet for 90 minutes once a week, Mon through Fri, for either four or eight consecutive weeks. A few assorted topics are addressed in one or two classes. Spring study groups include: The Changing World Scene; Battle for the Soul of Capitalism; Natural History and the People of the Santa Cruz; Ecology and Economic Development; American Presidents Series: Abraham Lincoln; Forum on Current Events; Canadian Perspectives; Gastronomic Tour of France; Classical through Modern Jazz; Introduction to Classical Music: Part II; The Golden Age of Melody: Part II; Desert Gardening: Opportunities and

8th. For more information or to volunteer assistance, contact Katie Munger at (520) 403-7347.

FRI, JAN 15TH - LIVE MUSIC BY AMBER NORGAARD www.ambernorgaard.com & Wisdom’s Famous Fish & Chips at Wisdom's Café. 520-398-2397.

FRI, JAN 15TH - DIXIE CATS at 7:00 pm. Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door. At the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley SAT, JAN 16TH – THE 2009 TUBAC HOME TOUR sponsored by the Tubac Center of the Arts from 10am to 4pm. Six beautiful homes filled with art and inspiring decor on the tour this year. Tickets may be reserved by calling TCA 520-398-2371. Reserve your ticket $25.

SAT & SUN, JAN 9TH & 10TH - COPPERPLATE ETCHING DEMONSTRATIONS BY NICHOLAS WILSON, Wildlife Artist Sat 10am to 4pm, Sun 1pm to 4pm.

At TJ's Tortuga Books & Coffee Beans, Mercado de Baca shopping plaza, 520-398-8109.

Challenges; Passages: Support and Education in End of Life Decisions; All About Personality Types; Chemistry for the Non-Scientist; The Bill of Rights: Why Do We Need It?; Theatre in Action; Understanding Religious Differences; Introduction to Judaism; Religions of the Indian Subcontinent and Their Impact; Islam and Women’s Rights; Fear of Crossing the Threshold: Arizona Women Pioneers; What You May Not Know about the Monsoon; Paleoclimatology; The Cold War. Additional offerings include: The Hanoverians; Shakespeare, Hamlet and the Sonnets; Non-Fiction Addiction; Canadian Short Stories; Ancient Art of Hand-Reading; Young @ Heart Green Valley Style; Foreign Films from Asia; Journeys; Sex Under the Steeple; Hopi Katsinas.

The nationwide, university-affiliated OLLI program is open to adults over age 50. A half-year membership for the Spring 2010 semester is $95, and members may take as many courses as they wish. Membership/registration packets available at the Joyner-Green Valley Library.

For information, contact Penny Schmitt at the OLLI/UA office, (520) 626-9039 or ollimail@u.arizona.edu, or visit www.olli.arizona.edu.

THURS, JAN 14TH - A PARK FOR TUBAC MEETING at 5:30pm at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Road. Help determine what can be done to save our local park, scheduled to be closed by the county on Jan

SAT, JAN 16TH - BOOK SIGNING & FIRESIDE CHAT with RAUL H CASTRO, first Arizona Hispanic Governor and author of Adversity Is My Angel AND JACK L AUGUST, Executive Director of the Barry Goldwater Center for the Southwest and expert on Southwest water issues. A rousing discussion of early Arizona history and politics. Book Signing 1 to 5 pm, Fireside Chat 5:30 to 6:30pm, at TJ's Tortuga Books & Coffee Beans in the Mercado de Baca. 520-398-8109.

SAT, JAN 16TH - HAYWIRE - Rockin' Country Blues at the Old Tubac Inn, 7 Plaza Rd. www.oldtubacinn.com.

398-3161.

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.

MON, JAN 18TH - SANTA CRUZ VALLEY CITIZENS COUNCIL MEETING at 9am at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Road. Open to the public.

MON, JAN 18TH – FAMILY ACTIVITY DAY at Patagonia Lake State Park from 9am until 11:30am in and around the Sonoita Creek Visitor Center. Activities include boat tours on the lake, nature hikes, junior ranger activities and using microscopes to study nature.

Pre-registration is required. $8 park/car park entry fee.

Pack a lunch and enjoy the afternoon at the park. Call the visitor center (520-287-2791) for more information and registration.

Where Art and History Truly Meet

Art for the Discriminating Collector Across the street from St. Ann’s Church in Historic Old Tubac PO Box 1478

TUBAC, AZ

85646-1478

520-398-2721

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 520-398-2655 for reservations.

For other info call the park at 520-3982341.

TUES, JAN 19TH - BOOK SIGNING AND Q&A WITH DYAN GARRIS, will be discussing her cookbookVoice of the Angles Cookbook-Talk to Your Food! Intuitive Cooking. This informative book teaches about feeding the mind and spirit as well as the physical body. With tastings of some of the delicious recipes in her book. At the Green Valley Village, Suite 13 – MEETING ROOM, 101 S. La Canada Drive, Green Valley, I-19 & Esperanza Blvd. (Exit 65). At 12pm. Free.

TUES, JAN 19TH - POETRY READING IN TUBAC, from 5-8pm at 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 Poets. You are encouraged 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 her at Martitamfoss@yahoo.com.

WED, JAN 20TH - VISTA TRAIL HIKE. Hike in the desert uplands and view several different mountain ranges with a volunteer. Hike is just over 6 miles.

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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 renowned 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. Forum meets at Plaza de Anza - Artist's Palate Restaurant, 40 Avenida Goya, Tubac.

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Above: Not all of Jean Wilson’s paintings were trompe l’oeil. This image of the house just north of St. Ann’s Church is in a private Tubac collection. Photo by Shaw Kinsley Right: JeanWilsonMonkeyScreen: This is Jean Wilson and the Monkey Screen she created for Phoenix collector David L. Hudson. Courtesy Tubac Historical Society.

Center: JeanWilson1971: Jean Wilson was a founding member of the Santa Cruz Valley Art Association and is shown here in 1971 before the ground breaking ceremonies for the Tubac Center of the Arts. Courtesy Tubac Historical Society.

Wilson is a remarkably frequent name in 20th century Tubac. Among many individuals with that name, there is Harold Wilson, the distinguished sculptor of animals from Los Angeles that designed the Tubac Center of the Arts and several houses in town; Walter Wilson, founder of Old World Imports and noted portraitist, landscape artist and art teacher; Walter’s brother Earl Wilson, mechanical engineer and international businessman who ran eighteen manufacturing operations in twelve countries, and Nicholas Wilson, celebrated wildlife painter and sculptor. But before all

of these Wilsons, there was Mortimer and Jean Wilson, who arrived here in 1956.

The Wilsons needed to move from New York to a drier climate for their daughter’s health, and were on their way to Mexico when they stopped for the night at the Rancho Santa Cruz, just south of the Tumacácori Mission. Captivated by the beauty of the Santa Cruz River valley, they decided to stay in Tubac, and both Mortimer and Jean played important roles in the development of Tubac as an art colony. Jean was a founding member of the Santa Cruz Valley Art Association and

Mortimer was an early president of the organization.

The son of concert violinist and symphony conductor Mortimer Wilson, Sr., Tubac’s Mortimer Wilson had a first career as an illustrator at the Saturday Evening Post. He also illustrated books by fiction writers including Paul Galico, Louis Bromfield, Franz Werfel, and Ben Hecht.

He developed an eye disease that ended his career as an illustrator, but later, when his sight was restored by what he called “a gift from the Almighty” he took up painting, inspired by the works of Degas, Frans Hals,

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Jean was originally from Flemington, New Jersey and attended the School of Design for Women in Philadelphia. She developed a fascination with the art technique called trompe l’oeil, a French phrase meaning ‘trick of the eye’ which uses highly realistic imagery to create the optical illusion of three dimensions.

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PERSONALITIESÊ OFÊT UBACÊÐJ Elizabeth Brownell says that Jean “might spend a year collecting objects appropriate to a theme such as Tubac history, and finally produce an arrangement of these items on a canvas that tempted the viewer to touch the picture to see if they were real.”

One such painting, now One of many light fixture covers at the lost, included a Arizona Inn painted by Jean Wilson. conquistador’s Photo by Shaw Kinsley. helmet, an antique crucifix, Apache arrows, an ancient map, the sheet music for a Spanish song, a fragment of the first newspaper published in the Territory of Arizona, as well as mementoes of Native Americans, priests, miners, cowboys, and soldiers of several nations. This work captured more than 200 years of Tubac’s evolving history and was displayed at the Rosequist Gallery in 1959.

Jean’s trompe l’oeil paintings were collected by Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Raymond Burr among many others.

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Phoenix collector David L. Hudson. Wilson described the work as “a sort of tree of life for monkeys.” Based on Chinese monkey paintings of the 11th and 12th centuries, Jean studied numerous pictures and descriptions for her version, and said she selected those with the most interesting faces. Wilson had a gift for turning mundane objects into exquisite collectibles, whether they were screens, water kettles, milk cans, or metal buckets. Doris Fouch, former director of the Tubac Center of the Arts, said in an oral history interview for the Tubac Historical Society in 1987 that Jean Wilson painted the screens and light fixture covers for the Arizona Inn. Many of Jean’s creations have vanished over time, but the light fixture covers at the Inn are still there, brilliant in their originality and unending in their variety.

Another surviving work

by Jean Wilson is the Great Seal of Santa Cruz County. In 1964, the recently incorporated Santa Cruz Valley Art Association was asked to submit designs for the seal, and a committee was formed under the chairmanship of Ralph Humesten.

The design submitted by Jean Wilson was accepted by the County Board of Supervisors, and doesn’t the orientation of the twin peaks of the Santa Ritas look as if it’s seen from Tubac?

Jean was an indefatigable promoter of Tubac art, and arranged a number of exhibitions to showcase the broad spectrum of talent here. One of the most notable was called “Sunday Painters of Yesteryear” that brought together scenes of roses and barns and sheep in elaborate gold frames. It was mounted in the old Tubac schoolhouse just after the new school (now the Community Center)

was built in 1965. Another year, Jean opened a small garden restaurant at one end of St. Ann’s Hall (now the Montessori de Santa Cruz Charter School) for visitors to Tubac’s Festival of the Arts.

Suzanne ‘Susi’ Hesselbarth talked about Jean Wilson in a 1985 oral history interview: “Jean Wilson. Jean was really something special. She had such fire and such enthusiasm.

Whatever she did, she made it fun. Just having things like a hot dog suddenly became a big event with Jean. She had this drive – I don’t know if we would have had some of those festivals if she hadn’t done the advertising, the brochure, the posters, saw that the banners were up, got the ladies organized to make the little sandwiches, borrowed the china from Garrett Wray to serve the sandwiches on, got the tables, got the umbrellas. She was an astonishing person!”

Jean Wilson died of cancer at age 58 in 1975, and Tubac lost one of its most dynamic citizens. The Tubac Historical Society would love to have more documentation about Jean Wilson and her creations. If you have any photographs of Jean or any of her special creations, and would let the Historical Society borrow them briefly to photograph and describe them, please let Shaw Kinsley know, at 398-2686 or by email at sdk878@ earthlink.net. �

Shaw is the author of the recently published book Tubac in the Images of America series by Arcadia Publishing. The book and an accompanying set of 15 postcards are available at the Tubac Historical Society, T.J. Tortuga’s Books and Coffee Beans, the Tubac Center of the Arts, the Santa Cruz Chili & Spice Company, or directly from Shaw at www.ShawKinsley.com

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by Bernard Berlin Special moments happen when all the right ingredients are there for that “certain something” to take place. The right music, the right people and their energy come together, then as if by magic, a special moment is born. The Saturday night that my wife Linda and I went to the Old Tubac Inn was that sort of night. Electrifying music resounded throughout the patio and into the restaurant. The guests dancing outside on the patio and some at the bar boogied, swayed and gyrated to the energetic rhythms of the Cross Cut Saw band—and a fun-filled memorable evening happened for us and everyone else at the Old Tubac Inn.

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The crowd milling about inside and out at the Old Tubac Inn is as diverse as its décor. This particular Saturday night we rubbed elbows with cowboys, would-be cowboys, artists, writers and chatted with members of the Tubac Center of the Arts.

Some men were dressed in blue jeans and tee shirts; others wore continental styled sport jackets and scarves. The ladies wore denims and diamonds, chic leather pants, skirts, dresses and other assorted fashions, which this writer is unable to characterize suitably.

neighborhood bar and restaurant for locals and visitors alike to have fun.

When Jim Lagattuta purchased, Tubac Jack’s eight years ago, he eventually renamed the restaurant the Old Tubac Inn. His vision for the Old Tubac Inn, then and now is the same, a place that he would enjoy going to—a fun place, where everyone could relax, meet friends, listen to music, eat, drink and simply have a good time.

The renovated bar and dining areas are warm and inviting with an old wood beamed ceiling, stained wood and tile flooring throughout, original works of art by Fred Tuch and other local artist adorn the walls. There are nooks and crannies of cozy sitting areas, a corner room with a wood burning fireplace to take the chill out of our cold desert night air. An upright piano awaits anyone wishing to sit down and play anything from Sinatra to Chopin or start an impromptu musical “jam” session.

Adding to the aura of never-knowing-what-to-expect at the Old Tubac Inn, Jim Lagattuta hosts a Hawaiian style luau once a year. Tiki torches light the festivities inside and outside of the restaurant. The entire staff dresses up in grass hula skirts.

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in a St. Patrick’s Day parade led by the Tubac Fire Chief with other members of the community. At the end of the parade, which takes approximately twenty-two minutes for two laps around the Village, the restaurant features corned beef and cabbage and serves green beer. If the luau, parade and green beer in honor of St. Patrick’s Day were not enough to satisfy everyone’s whimsical fancies there is also a costume party on Halloween.

The fully stocked bar features premium beers on tap, such as Guiness Stout, Bass Ale, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Fat Tire and Dos XX Light, served in pint glasses. The house special “Cadillac Margarita” is rich and flavorful with just the right amount of Sauza Hornitos tequila. There is also a “Washington Apple” cocktail made with Crown Royal, Apple Pucker and cranberry juice. These are just two of the specialty drinks served up by the friendly bar manager, Steve Butt.

All of the hearty dinner plates are less than twenty dollars each, except for the generous

sized, sixteen-ounce Certified Angus Beef Rib Eye steak for twenty dollars and ninety-five cents. A bowl of their flavor-rich Green Chile Stew, brimming with thick tender chunks of pork, potatoes, black beans, crisp kernels of corn in a savory beef broth, which I enjoyed, is only nine dollars and ninety-five cents.

My wife Linda, who cannot say no to a large hamburger on a menu, was not disappointed with her Big Johnson Burger. The half-pound juicy hamburger made from Angus Beef, cooked to perfection and served with a mound of delicious thick-cut steak fries and creamy coleslaw is less than ten dollars.

The Old Tubac Inn’s menu is appropriately full of tasty southwestern standards that one expects to find in an unpretentious neighborhood restaurant/bar, where good food, fun and comfort are the specialties of the house. There are such favorites as Carne Adovado, tender chunks of smoked pork simmered in a spicy tomato and red chili sauce served with rice and beans, a bountiful Beef Burrito, topped with red chili, their “Killer Chimi” with homemade

green chili sauce and a Rotisserie Chicken with an intriguing Apricot Garlic Glaze that I cannot wait to try. The “Jack’s Baby Backed Ribs,” which I watched fall off the bone on the plates of others is another dish that I am looking forward to enjoying.

There are four bottles of wine on the menu, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz, each for only twenty-five dollars and wine is available by the glass.

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or lovers of history, there is nothing better than a wellwritten diary from the time period that piques your interest.

One of the best diaries reflecting Tubac history was written by Phocion Way in 1858. The diary includes his experiences riding the fledgling San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line to Tucson and his everyday life as an employee of the Santa Rita Silver Mining Company (SRSMC).

It is apparent that the diary was meant to save Way’s personal recollections, only. He had no agenda and no thought of rewriting history.

Thirty-one-year-old Phocion Way arrived in Tubac on June 17, 1858 seeking adventure and hopefully his fortune. Thanks to historian William A. Duffen, Way’s diary was published in 1960 in all four issues of Arizona and the West. Titled “Overland via ‘Jackass Mail’ in 1858,” it deserves

to be published in book form, in my opinion, as the diary and hand-drawn sketches by Way are priceless.

“Jackass Mail” was a reference to a portion of the trip that required passengers, continuing on to California, to leave the stage and travel via mule back from Tucson to Yuma. The overland mail route was so new the road through the soft sandy desert could not yet handle heavily-loaded wheeled vehicles.

Way, born in Ohio in 1828, was the son of Robert Way, a wellknown schoolmaster and scholar.

An artistic flair led him to a career as an engraver. It is likely that he was employed by the Wrightson Brothers publishing firm in Cincinnati. Thomas and William Wrightson were the publishers of the Railroad Record newspaper and many important books of the day. They were also principle stockholders and

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The SE&MC was headquartered in the old presidio at Tubac, while the SRSMC would have its headquarters in the future town site of Santa Rita. The new town was to be built near the main mining operations on the west side of the Santa Rita Mountains above the old Mission of San José de Tumacácori.

Accompanying Way on his trip to Tubac was the well-known engraver, Horace Chipman Grosvenor. It is likely that he was also employed by the Wrightson Brothers as his engravings were published in many prominent publications as early as the 1840s. Grosvenor was hired as the superintendent of the newly formed SRSMC, and according to Charles D. Poston, Way came along as his faithful friend. Way often refers to Grosvenor as “my partner” in his diary. While Way was a bachelor, Grosvenor, was married with one son.

Way’s impressions of the very rough and uncomfortable stage ride on the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line, (the predecessor of the Butterfield Overland Stage), began on May 8th and ended on June 12th. Disembarking in Tucson he had rather harsh words for the Old Pueblo, but his impressions of Tubac were considerably better.

“Tubac is a paradise compared with Tucson. The scenery is beautiful.

It is situated in a beautiful valley surrounded by mountains” he wrote.

However, it is Way’s record of his everyday life at “Camp Santa Rita,” as it was called when he first arrived, that gives us a unique picture of his life in the New Mexico Territory* during the summer and fall of 1858. It also fills in a few blanks and confirms

suppositions about what life was like around Tubac more than 150 years-ago.

For instance, Way notes that Tubac is 20 miles from Camp Santa Rita and 22 miles from Fort Buchanan which was located on the east side of the Santa Ritas between present-day Patagonia and Sonoita. Arriving at the camp on the 19th of June,Way was left alone for nearly two days with three Mexicans, two men and one woman who were hired as servants for the camp. The rest of the company went out to look over the mines and to get supplies from the fort.

Finding that the Mexicans didn’t speak English while he knew no Spanish, he wrote in his diary, “They are as stupid as asses. I cannot make them understand what I want done, and I would rather be entirely alone.”

Important places and names pop up in casual references. Poston, his brother John, Grosvenor, and the others returned on the 20th.

Way wrote that he “entertained three or four travelers” while they were gone. This statement alone confirms that the southern route to Fort Buchanan crossing over the Santa Ritas, via Camp Santa Rita, was in regular use at the time. In fact, it had probably been in use for a century or more as the principle mine that was claimed by the SRSMC was the old Spanish mine known as the Salero.

More important notations appear a few days later as Way makes a trip to the Cerro Colorado or Heintzelman Mine as it had recently been renamed for one of the principal stock-holders, Major Samuel P. Heintzelman. The mine was located near presentday milepost 10 on the Arivaca Road which Way noted as being a distance of 22 miles from Tubac.

The trip was required to have a supply of axes sharpened by the blacksmith at the Heintzelman in addition to picking up more necessities in Tubac.

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Soporí Ranch and met the owner, Colonel James Douglas/Douglass. A true southern gentleman, Douglass saw to it that Way got a good meal before continuing on to “Poston’s Mine” as Way called it. Very little is known of Douglass, but of importance is the entry mentioning a partner who had been killed by Indians the year before. Who was this partner?

Duffen was unable to identify him. Perhaps another diary or report will show up and give us the name. Douglass also mentioned a new partner that was now living with him.

Duffen speculates that it was probably William Rhodes/Roods who would soon own his own ranch north of the Canoa Land Grant in present-day Green Valley.

While at the Heintzelman Mine, Way met Frederick Brunckow a mining engineer working for the SE&MC. Two years later, Brunckow would be murdered by Mexican bandits at a mining operation on the San Pedro River.

Returning to Camp Santa Rita, Way continued working on a temporary “picket house” and spent another two days helping to dig a trench around the Salero Mine to prevent rain from flooding it.

Hunting expeditions and descriptions of local wildlife fill many pages attesting to the

abundance of wild game. The 4th of July found Way and two others in camp while the rest celebrated Independence Day in Tubac. On the 3rd, Way experienced his first grasslands fire.

The hillside around the camp was burned black for some distance, but they were able to protect the new picket house, tent and supplies.

Livestock were another major problem as they tended to “wander off ” with great frequency.

A makeshift corral became a top priority, but did little to keep the critters from heading back down the mountain to Tubac.

1858 appeared to be a rather sparse year for rain. The monsoon season got a late start in July and by mid-August, Way was expressing concern that the rainy season was over.

On August 13th, one of the best employees of the SRSMC, William Randall, had to leave to help his partner, William Kirkland bring in the crops. Kirkland and Randall were farming and raising cattle on the old Canoa Land Grant.

Way’s biggest problem turned out to be a lack of shoes or boots. He wore out two pair in 3 months and wrote, “I will be compelled to remain in doors until I can procure another pair.” The lack of shoe leather prevented him from hunting for game, so there was a lack of

meat from time to time until someone else could go out and hunt.

By September, Camp Santa Rita was quite a lively place with constant visitors traveling to and from Fort Buchanan and various officers of the mining company stopping by to see the operation. Visitors included: Lieutenant Sylvester Mowry, Nelson Van Alstine, Elias Brevoort, Major Samuel P. Heintzelman, Edgar Conkling, Charles Schuchard, and Christian Dodson all familiar names in Tubac history.

Way would spend approximately two years in the Tubac area before returning to Ohio. His explanation for returning home was “because he didn’t want to go barefooted on the top of his head so early in life.”

With the outbreak of the Civil War, Way enlisted July 9, 1861, in the 11th Regiment of the Ohio Infantry serving for three years with Company G. Entering at the rank of Sergeant, he completed his first tour of duty with the rank of Sergeant Major. Reenlisting with the 60th Ohio Infantry Way was commissioned an officer on December 15, 1864 as a 2nd Lieutenant. With the end of the Civil War, he was mustered out on July 28, 1865 at Delaney House, Washington, D.C. with the rank of Captain.

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It is not known exactly which battle engagements Way fought in, but it is likely that he fought in some of the most fierce battles of the war including: the Second Battle of Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Chickamauga, the Siege of Chattanooga, Battle of Missionary Ridge, Buzzard’s Roost Gap, the Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Siege of Atlanta, Battle of Jonesboro, Lovejoys Station, Sherman’s March to the Sea, the Carolinas Campaign and the Battle of Bentonville.

It is interesting to note Way was commissioned as an officer upon reenlistment with the 60th Ohio. Friend Joe King pointed out to me that this usually only happened upon recommendation of a high ranking officer. This is only supposition, but the 60th Ohio was assigned to fight with General Ambrose Burnside on the Potomac in defense of Washington, D.C. Also assigned to the defense of the capital was Brevet Brigadier General Samuel P. Heintzelman. Perhaps Heintzelman, having met Way at Camp Santa Rita in 1858, provided the recommendation that confirmed Way’s commission.

The 60th Ohio Infantry was finally mustered out on July 25, 1865.

Way returning to civilian life took up his first trade, engraving, married Jennie Fuller and settled down to a long peaceful life. He passed away in 1898.

*Note: Arizona would become a separate territory in 1863.

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- Eaton, W. Clement, “Frontier Life in Southern Arizona, 18581861,” Volume 36, Number 3, Southwestern Historical quarterly Online.

- North, Diane M.T., Samuel Peter Heintzelman and the Sonora Exploring and Mining Company. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, c. 1980.

- Pumpelly, Raphael, Pumpelly’s Arizona. Tucson: Palo Verde Publishing Company, Inc., c.1965.

- Way, Phocion R., “Overland via ‘Jackass Mail’ in 1858: The Diary of Phocion R. Way.” Edited and annotated by William A. Duffen.

Arizona and the West, Parts I-IV. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press (Spring-Winter 1960).

- Wikipedia: Ambrose Burnside, Samuel P. Heintzelman, 11th & 60th Ohio Infantry.

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Cactus wrens inhabit desert areas where cacti are found.

They will nest in a woodpecker hole in a sahuaro, in spiny shrubs or in cholla and other large cacti. Their long legs allow them to negotiate their spiny homes without becoming impaled. When a sahuaro is not available, they build football-shaped nests made of stems and grasses. This has a side entrance with a narrow passage leading to an inner chamber lined with fur and feathers. Often a pair will build more than one nest – she picks the site and he builds it. The additional nests are for a second brood, roosting or getting away from the kids.

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The Mockingbird is alive and un-killed as the state bird of Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee and Florida. Better choices . . . let’s see . . . Arkansas Goldfinch, Mississippi Kite, Texas Kingfisher and the Tennessee Warbler come to mind. And Florida – what is wrong with the Flamingo? Then all Floridians could proudly display a pink plastic replica of their state bird on their front lawns.

Kudos to Rhode Island, they picked a red chicken of the same name, (brave-hearted people electing a chicken). Again to Maryland for their Baltimore oriole and South Carolina with their Carolina wren, well done! Utah’s selection of the seagull shows an historic relevance that’s admirable.

I’d like to mention here a native bird selection that causes me to ponder the reasoning. Alaska, the Cactus Wren Illustration, scratchboard, by Rick Wheeler. See more of giant state full of nature’s riches, could have chosen Wheeler's art online at www.Rickarts.com. Wheeler offers scratchboard classes in Tubac at Beads of Tubac, find out more by calling 520-398the charming Puffin, the mighty Sandhill crane or 2070 or visit www.beadsoftubac.com for dates, times and prices. the magnificent Tundra swan, but instead opted for the Willow ptarmigan – a small chicken-like bird As Arizona’s state bird, I think it was an excellent selection. with an unspellable name that is said to have the When looking at a listing of the state birds around the intellect of a small stone. (A town wanted to name itself This wren will eat just about anything: insects, spiders, country I noticed that in defiance of originality, Illinois, ptarmigan but no one living there knew how to spell it, so lizards, berries, and seeds making them handy to have Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and West it’s now Chicken, Alaska. True story) around the house. They are not particularly weary of humans Virginia selected the cardinal as their bird. With all the There are whole groups of birds to select from that have and if you provide an attraction – berried shrubs, a fruit or beautiful birds to choose from it would seem, to me, they been overlooked. No ducks, hummingbirds, vultures, seed feeder, fresh water – they might become a backyard would have come up with a more representative or at least a hawks, owls, or falcons have been tapped for the honor guest helping with insect control. However, leaving your car less used one. of being a state bird. I don’t mean to be iconoclastic windows down is an invitation for investigation and perhaps New Mexico has the Roadrunner and California has the and would never agitate people to a state of civil unrest. having a “gift” left behind.

California quail – they have the right idea. But, Kansas, However, the citizens of the “I’ve got the same bird as (If you decide to make an attractive habitat, for this and Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon AND Wyoming you’ve got” states should petition their state government to other birds, remember to change the water daily and only couldn’t see past the meadowlark. These cute little chirpy rectify this travesty of lazy, uninformed symbol selection. put out enough seed for one day – preferably spread on the creatures do have a very pleasant song but obviously are not To do less would be a fowl dereliction of civic duty. ground to help limit the spread of diseases.) unique to any of the aforementioned states.

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Hurrah for the Newspaper!

by Carol Egmont St. John

Have you ever thought of the newspaper as anything more than an easy read; a place to check for coupons and gossip? Has it simply meant paper to be perused, reused and/or eventually discarded? Is it best used as gift wrapping, for washing windows, or papier maché?

I’m sure you’d agree it’s utilitarian when it’s lining a poor man’s shoes or stuffed between the floorboards of a drafty house.

were considered authorities on wars, political campaigns and justice. The public based their opinions on what they read and heard. Many signed up for the armed services and mothers supported their sons marching off to war fueled by the reports of these men. We believed. After all, one of the greatest gifts of democracy is its first amendment. We thought we were privy to untainted news.

I was brought up in New York City, where newspapers were in abundance. At least 1,000 different newspapers serviced the 12.5 million people that lived there then. Those were the days of newsstands, newsboys, foreign press bureaus, fictionalized tycoons like Citizen Kane and real ones like Hearst. Foreign correspondents were household names; people like Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid and William Shirer. Such journalists

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

— The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Maybe it was innocence, but most Americans trusted the newspapers

before they doubted.

It was in print and therefore it was most likely true. Of course, yellow journalism existed, along with comic strips and puzzles, but they served to relieve the weight of a serious newspaper, just as they do today.

To remember famous American journalists is like reading a who’s who list of American thinkers. The famed poet, Walt Whitman, started as a journalist.

He edited the Brooklyn Eagle for a number of years and later started The Long Islander. I had to memorize one of Whitman’s poems in elementary school. O Captain!

My Captain! Our fearful trip is done…. By then, Leaves of Grass, which he self-published back in 1855, (all 979 copies were sold) was no longer trashed or considered

obscene. In fact, it had become one of the greatest poetic anthologies published in the United States of America.

Washington Irving and Aaron Burr started The New York Morning Chronicle in 1802. In 1837, John Greenleaf Whittier edited New York’s, The Emancipator. Frederick Douglas founded North Star in 1847. Emily Dickenson published four of her poems anonymously in newspapers. Mark Twain wrote and edited the Buffalo Morning

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Express after the Civil War. Horace Greeley birthed the New York Tribune and the New York Enquirer. Newspapers represented a diverse and heady world of thought and seemed to be expanding along with the universe.

advantage of such a potential news source. I am not sure we are hungry or patient enough to look beyond short blurbs for answers to our questions.

How many individuals are willing to investigate the causes and solutions to the world’s problems?

Now the reverse is true. Gone is the NY World, the Journal American, The Herald Tribune, the NYWorld Telegram and Sun. They tried consolidating. They tried specializing and using star reporters, but they died anyway. Like the world, the newspaper world has shrunk. It’s being supplanted by new waves of instant information; through channels unheard of in the not-so-distant past. Is the guy on the street as able to deliver the news as a trained chronicler of events? Is the computer screen as sexy as the big bold print in a hot-off-the-press newspaper story? Perhaps so.

I am just back from Barbados where their daily paper, The Advocate, is the main source of local and world news. In this young independent nation, with an exceptionally high literacy rate, the newspaper is an object of pride and read religiously. It reflects the community it serves, with every promotion and local event reported, but world issues are prominent. Elections in South America, Africa, the States and Belize are duly noted. In addition, editorialized homilies appear. Protecting the environment starts at home. Your intellectual life is your future.

Reading is important.

GlobalPost.com is creating an internet station where experienced journalists have an opportunity to use their skills from any point on the globe. This is an interesting experiment.

I am not sure it will work because to obtain this particular news you must seek it out. In a world where celebrity’s lives and football scores are more studied than the warming of the planet, I am afraid only the intellectually curious will take

Being a New Yorker and living in a family who revered “The Gray Lady” (Gray because of the tone of the paper, lady because of her sustained dignity) I learned to revere her as well. I was sad to see her change; the ads on her front page, her size, the charges of plagiarism. I suspect she has even come to depend on the internet as much as I do.

Years ago, I took a class of teenagers to see the The Boston Globe’s presses run. It was I who loved the smell of the paper and the ink, and the roar of the turbines that fed that flood of paper to the city of Boston. I have never seen the NYTimes produced, but the volume must be even more amazing. I once heard from a Times representative that a Sunday’s edition of the Times, laid end to end, could take us to the moon and back again. What a ride that would be!

Instead, here we are, sharing words in the Tubac Villager, in a place that sometimes seems like the moon. I am no Emily Dickenson, no Mark Twain, no Joseph Pulitzer, but I am proud to share something special with them. We have all loved newspapers, big and small, and we have made our contributions to their treasure trove of words. The Villager may be modest in size but it knows its intention. It asks you to see our community’s face. It invites you to believe in a little town, and to participate with its commerce and its people. I am happy to be part of that message. I wish to thank its publishers for all their hard work and wish them and all our readers a Happy New Year. �

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Another well known trial, at least in Santa Cruz County, was the one of Librada Bender, who with her nephews threw her husband head first down a mine shaft, while he was crying, Librada, Librada que no me matan.”

One of those women got off with a “not guilty” verdict. The other was sent to the Arizona State Prison at Florence for life.

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Gordon Farley came to Patagonia with his family in 1918 when he was nine years old. He had been living in a city apartment and was brought by his father, a prospector, to a Western mining town where he lived in an adobe house and went to a school where most of the children were Mexican and spoke Spanish.

During an interview with the judge at his office in the court house when he was 70 years old, he told me that the children made fun of him, but “I managed to pick up Spanish pretty well along the years and learned how to accept the taunts and give the same back.”

That fluency in Spanish helped him later when he ran for county judge. But, first he had to finish high school and go to college.

He credited Robert Campbell, owner of the pool hall in Patagonia where he worked while in high school, for encouraging him to go to the University of Arizona. To earn money for college young Gordon worked at sorting ore at the Trench and the World’s Fair mines.

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The mines at Ruby were going full blast back then and he remembered, “I would go to Ruby to campaign and the boys there would have a meeting in a house or a hall and they were all Spanish speaking, so I would address them in Spanish. When the votes were counted in Ruby I was able to defeat my opponent by 520 votes to 124.”

That was in 1938. He was 29 years old and he was re-elected for the next 40 years. When he gave this interview he was about to retire and leave his office on the second floor of the old court house. This was in 1978 and the county was preparing to move to a new County Complex, a move he supported. The county had outgrown the old building and besides that it was no longer safe.

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Gordon Farley has served as a judge longer than any judge in Arizona, and said he would have run again but retirement at the age of 70 was mandatory.

In an interview for the Arizona Attorney magazine, Farley said, “When I initially went on the bench I spent a mot of time fretting over judgments that I had to render and lost a great deal of sleep. After the passage of a couple of years though I realized that I couldn’t continue on that basis and I resolved that I was going to treat each case as an individual case and dispose of it in the manner that I thought was correct. I tried to give everybody a fair shake and I think the people of Santa Cruz County felt that I was doing that or they wouldn’t have reelected me as many times as they did.”

The judge died in 1996 at the age of 87. After retiring he worked in private practice and later as a legal aid volunteer. He was a member of several local civic organizations: the Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Rotary Club.

A family spokesman was quoted in the Nogales International article announcing his death as saying, “Gordon enjoyed life in general but in particular his passions were politics, golf, poker, travel, good bourbon and above all his family.”

His wife, Virginia Sayre Farley, had died 10 years before. They had two daughters and a son.

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The former long-time director of the Tubac Center of the Arts, Patricia “Pat” Marohn, died in Tucson on Dec. 30 at the age of 84.

Tubac resident Marty Schuyler, who worked with Marohn, said, “She was quite remarkable. She was a lovely, talented lady.

“She had an enormous passion for the art center and gave an enormous number of hours to it. She had a wonderful ability to work with the volunteers, the artists and to communicate with the membership,” Schuyler said.

“Her contribution to the art center reveals itself all the time,” she said.

Marohn, an artist, was director of the Tubac Center for the Arts from 1982 to 1995. She received a degree in fine arts from Syracuse University in 1949 and also attended Pratt Institute and the University of Arizona.

“With her love of the Southwest and her passion as an artist she created abstract desert landscapes in watercolor and collage,” said her son, Jonathan Marohn.

She taught at Pima Community College and later at the Drawing Studio.

As well, she was a displaying artist at the Otero Arty Gallery in Tubac.

She is survived by her twin brother, Newton Ronan of Altamont, N.Y., her son, his wife Kimberly Marohn, and two grandchildren, Samantha and Ronan.

A private remembrance was scheduled for friends and family on Jan. 4. In lieu of flowers, the family requested donations to the Humane Society, The Drawing Studio or the Tucson Symphony.

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SAT, JAN 23RD - CELEBRATE ZFORREST'S 7TH ANNIVERSARY from 2 to 6pm. Come and see the new and exciting things happening at our gallery! In La Entrada. 529-398-9009.

SAT, JAN 23RD - CROSSCUT SAW - Blues with an edge at the Old Tubac Inn, 7 Plaza Rd. www.oldtubacinn.com.

398-3161.

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.

SUN, JAN 24TH - TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RECITAL SERIES STRING QUARTET, at 2pm. Call 520.882.8585 for tickets. At the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley.

SUN, JAN 24TH - BETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTER in Green Valley (1751 N. Rio Mayo) is delighted to present a most unique BENEFIT CONCERT at 3pm, featuring PIANIST AND SINGER, MICHAEL GERVAN, whose musical career has spanned forty years. Proceeds from the concert will be dedicated to professionally led services and other needs at BSTC. Reservations are $20 ($25. at the door, space permitting),and are due

by Jan 20 to: Beth Shalom Temple Center, P.O. Box 884, Green Valley,Az.85622-0884. Checks and envelopes should be marked "Concert". Call 520-399-1503 for more information.

SUN, JAN 24TH - MAN FROM MAGDALENA, with music by Mary Lou Prince, words by Patty Christiena Willis. At 2pm. Amado Territory Ranch Madaras Center, 3001 E. Frontage Road, Amado. I-19 South, Arivaca Exit #48. Tickets $25 (tax deductible). 520-269-9429.

TUES, JAN 26TH - BOOK SIGNING AND Q&A WITH TWO FOR TUESDAY. Two local authors will be in hand reading from their books, answering questions from the audience and signing copies of their books for purchase. Local celeb, DORIS STEFFY, will read from her novel, Mrs. Steffy, Our Mother the Mortician.

PATRICIA LUCAS will read from her book, Congo Mission. Described as more memoir than novel, this is the story of Christian Missionaries trek to safety when the 1960 Congolese Revolution begins. At the Green Valley Village, Suite 13 – MEETING ROOM, 101 S. La Canada Drive, Green Valley, I-19 & Esperanza Blvd. (Exit 65). At 3pm. Free.

THURS, JAN 28TH - NATURE AND HISTORY HIKE. Learn about the history of the area with a little nature thrown in! Join local historian Gregg Scott on this hike.

Bring hiking shoes, water, and snacks. Call 520-287-2791 to register. Meet at Sonoita Creek Visitor Center at 9am.

OPENING THURS, JAN 28TH - The Santa Cruz Shoestring Players has cast "BLITHE SPIRIT," Noel Coward's comedy about a seance gone awry when a writer's deceased wife returns to bedevil the writer and his new wife. The players are Brianna Catlin, Karen Cuthbert, Roberta Konen, Hal Streib, Neysa Dickey, Tom Bushee and Jessica Pomeroy. The play opens at 2pm at the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley, followed by 7pm performances, Jan. 29 and 30. There will be a 2pm Feb. 4 performance, followed by 7pm shows Feb. 5 and 6.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door, call 520.399.1750 or visit www.performingartscenter.org.

FRI, JAN 29TH - LIVE MUSIC BY CONTRA SWINGS & Wisdom’s Famous Fish & Chips at Wisdom 's Café. 520398-2397.

Green Valley at 2pm. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door, call 520.399.1750 or visit www. performingartscenter.org.

FRI, JAN 29TH - ARIZONA OPERA PREVIEW GIACOMO PUCCINI’S “LA BOHEME” at 2pm. Tickets $7. At the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley.

FRI, FEB 5TH - FIRST FRIDAY WITH LIVE MUSIC plus Wisdom’s Famous Fish & Chips at Wisdom 's Café. 520398-2397.

FRI, JAN 29TH - DAVE MANNING - The Piano Man at the Old Tubac Inn, 7 Plaza Rd. www.oldtubacinn.com.

398-3161.

FRI, JAN 29TH – BLITHE SPIRIT, Noel Coward's comedy about a seance gone awry when a writer's deceased wife returns to bedevil the writer and his new wife, at the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley at 7pm. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door, call 520.399.1750 or visit www.performingartscenter.org.

FRI, FEB 5TH – BLITHE SPIRIT, Noel Coward's comedy about a seance gone awry when a writer's deceased wife returns to bedevil the writer and his new wife, at the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley at 7pm. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door, call 520.399.1750 or visit www.performingartscenter.org.

FRI, JAN 29TH - OPERA TUNITY. This Phoenix based group performs their trademark, off center view of opera. Their extraordinary voices and love of fun captures audiences, young and old. Tickets are $20 for the 7:30pm performance and may be reserved by calling the Tubac Center of the Arts: 520-398-2371.

BEGINNING FEB 5TH - MARTY COHEN’S LECTURE SERIES “THE UNIVERSE IN A CUP: WHAT’S ALL THE HOOPLA ABOUT QUANTUM PHYSICS ANYWAY?” offered weekly through Feb 26th by the Green Valley campus of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Arizona during the Spring 2010 semester. Membership/registration packets are also available at the Joyner-Green Valley Library. For additional information, contact Penny Schmitt at the OLLI/UA office, (520) 626-9039 or ollimail@u.arizona. edu, or visit www.olli.arizona.edu.

SAT, JAN 30TH – BLITHE SPIRIT, Noel Coward's comedy about a seance gone awry when a writer's deceased wife returns to bedevil the writer and his new wife, at the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley at 7pm. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door, call 520.399.1750 or visit www.performingartscenter.org.

SAT, FEB 6TH – BLITHE SPIRIT, Noel Coward's comedy about a seance gone awry when a writer's deceased wife returns to bedevil the writer and his new wife, at the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley at 7pm. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door, call 520.399.1750 or visit www.performingartscenter.org.

SAT, JAN 30TH - OLD TUBAC INN'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY - WITH RETRO ROCKETS. Party to music of the 50s and 60s, at the Old Tubac Inn, 7 Plaza Rd. www.oldtubacinn.com. 398-3161.

SUN, FEB 7TH - 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, FEB 1ST - “REBALANCING PLANET EARTH,” a two-part presentation on global warming, will be offered from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. For additional information, contact Penny Schmitt at the OLLI/UA office, (520) 626-9039 or ollimail@u.arizona.edu, or visit www.olli.arizona.edu.

BEGINNING FEB 1ST - BERNARD BERLIN, WILL CONTINUE “DEMYSTIFYING THE WINE MYSTIQUE” with Part III of his series. The four-session course will meet weekly at Stockman’s Grill in Amado from 3:30 to 5pm from Feb. 1 through Feb. 22. The nationwide, university-affiliated OLLI program is open to adults over age 50. A half-year membership for the Spring 2010 semester is $95, and members may take as many courses as they wish. Membership/registration packets are also available at the Joyner-Green Valley Library. For additional information, contact Penny Schmitt at the OLLI/UA office, (520) 626-9039 or ollimail@u.arizona. edu, or visit www.olli.arizona.edu.

BEGINNING FEB 2ND - Film critic Marty Meltz, will offer a four-part series on “FILM AS A MIRROR OF SOCIETY AND HOW IT IS CRITICIZED” beginning Feb. 2. The nationwide, university-affiliated OLLI program is open to adults over age 50. A half-year membership for the Spring 2010 semester is $95, and members may take as many courses as they wish. Membership/ registration packets are also available at the JoynerGreen Valley Library. For additional information, contact Penny Schmitt at the OLLI/UA office, (520) 626-9039 or ollimail@u.arizona.edu, or visit www.olli.arizona.edu.

THURS, FEB 4TH – BLITHE SPIRIT, Noel Coward's comedy about a seance gone awry, at the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in

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TUBAC FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS.

Arizona’s longest running art festival, this juried show features the work of 175 visiting artists, craft persons and musicians from around the country. Festival booths line the village streets, mixed among the 100 year-round shops, fine art galleries and working artists’ studios. Horse-drawn trolleys shuttle visitors around the historic village. An eclectic variety of arts will be showcased including watercolors, oil paintings, pottery, jewelry, sculpture, music, gourd art, photography, leather crafts, glass, clothing and wood. The entertainment lineup includes ongoing art demonstrations, music and more. The Festival Food Court offers a variety of ethnic foods including Greek, Mexican, Thai, Chinese, Zuni Frybread and Southwestern fare. There will be AllAmerican favorites like barbecue, burgers, chili dogs, curly fries, wood-fired pizzas, funnel cakes, ice cream, kettle corn and roasted nuts. Visitors can take home treats including gourmet pastas, spices, salsas, honey, regional wines, garlic specialties, jams and jellies.

For more information, contact the Chamber at (520) 398-2704 or visit their website www.tubacaz.com.

SAT, FEB 13TH - TUCSON SWINGS, “A BENNY GOODMAN CENTENNIAL” FEATURING JULIE ANNE AS VOCALIST AND JEFF HASKELL AS GUEST PIANIST at 7:30 pm. Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door. At the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley.

SUN, FEB 14TH - 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.

MON & TUES, FEB 15TH & 16TH – PASTEL WORKSHOP, intermediate to advanced from 9am to 3:30pm with Jean Ranstrom at Aldea de Artisticas, 14 Calle Iglesia. Focus will be on under painting, controlling values for strong compositions. We will work with making some unique color choices and the overall goal is to increase your pastel skills with much personal attention by the instructor. For more details and registration, contact Jean directly at jfranstrom@msn.com.

TUES, FEB 16TH - JACK LASSETER, “THE OREGON TRAIL”. This is the true story of the Oregon Trail. They traveled from Missouri to Oregon for 2,000 miles, by wagon and on foot, across the Great American Prairie that stretched endlessly to the horizon, over and around the Rocky Mountains and on the treacherous Columbia River Gorge. They were away from family, friends and civilization. Why did they go; what was it like on the Trail; who went? Jack tells this fascinating

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Foundation has challenged Rotary to raise 200 million dollars in the next three years. They have given 350 million dollars to this cause. Each Rotary Club (over 35,000 world-wide) has been asked to hold a special event in each of the three years to raise money specifically for the polio eradication campaign. To that end, Tobac Rotary is sponsoring the following: "Take a Hike" to End Polio Now. What is a poker Hike? Similar to a Poker Run. Each hiker gets a playiang card at the beginning and at three stops on the trail and at the end. The object: to build the best and winning 5 card poker hand. Need better cards? Purchase an additional 2 for $ 5.00 each. We hope folks will join us for a fun event. It is not a race, but a casual walk. We cannot accommodate baby carriages or bicycles for this event. There will be places along the trail where tired folks can "bail out" if necessary. Important: All participants need to provide for transportation back to the Mission from the Secret Garden Inn at the end. (Leave a car at both places) For information call: Judith Noyes 398-1913 or Leila Pearsall 398-7371. PS: We will be manning a booth at the Festival in Tubac in February.

WED, FEB 17TH -“REBALANCING PLANET EARTH,” a two-part presentation on global warming, will be offered from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. For additional information, contact Penny Schmitt at the OLLI/UA office, (520) 6269039 or ollimail@u.arizona.edu, or visit www.olli.arizona.edu.

WED & THURS, FEB 17TH & 18TH – OIL WORKSHOP, intermediate to advanced from 9am to 3:30pm with Jean Ranstrom at Aldea de Artisticas, 14 Calle Iglesia. Focus will be on paint quality, harmonious color, limited palette versus full palette. Composition emphasizing values. Adjusting photo reference so less is more in creating a painting. For more details and registration, contact Jean directly at jfranstrom@msn.com.

THURS THRU SAT, FEB 18TH THRU 20TH - GREEN VALLEY MYSTERIES PRESENTS “BOND BUMPED OFF! SIX SEXY SPIES SUSPECTED” at 7pm. Tickets $12. At the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley.

SUN, FEB 21ST - 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.

SAT, FEB 27TH - JOE BOURNE & JUDY ROBERTS at 7pm at the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley. Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Jazz vocalist and international favorite Joe Bourne, accompanied by Judy Roberts, will present an evening of musical favorites including numbers by Ellington, Michael Bouble, Sinatra, Broadway hits and many others. Hailed as Chicago’s First Lady of Jazz, well known pianist and vocalist Judy Roberts relocated to Arizona last year. She will perform her own special renditions of standards and originals with a jazzy twist.

SAT, FEB 27TH - TUBAC ROTARY POKER HIKE - Rotary International has been engaged in a 20 year project to rid the world of polio. There are only 4 countries left - India, Pakistan, Afganistan and Nigeria - where there is "wild" polio. The Bill and Melinda Gates

SUN, FEB 28TH - 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

SAT, FEB 20TH - GV CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY AND FRIENDS PRESENT “A FESTIVAL OF MUSIC” at 2pm. Free to the Public. At the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley.

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WED, FEB 10TH - “REBALANCING PLANET EARTH,” a two-part presentation on global warming, will be offered from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. For additional information, contact Penny Schmitt at the OLLI/UA office, (520) 6269039 or ollimail@u.arizona.edu, or visit www.olli.arizona.edu.

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TUES, FEB 9TH - TUCSON WOODWIND “POPS” QUINTET at 6:30 pm. Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door. At the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley.

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operate the press and reproduce the first edition of the paper. At the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. Call 520-3982252.

SUN, FEB 28TH - TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RECITAL SERIES FLUTE, VIOLA, HARP TRIO at 2pm at the Community Performing Arts Center at 1250 W. Continental in Green Valley. Call 520.882.8585 for tickets.

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 Ro bin son, David Simons, Wanda Tucker & Rick Wheeler. Call 520-398-2070 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. Drop off

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book donations at Jane's Attic, 8 Will Rogers Lane or at any of the Santa Cruz Valley Schools. 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.

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 should call 1-800-733-2773. www.asse.com.

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In February of 2010, three (3) positions will open on the Tubac Historic Zone Advisory Board (THZAB). In order to be eligible for appointment to this Board, a person must either live within or near the Tubac Historic Zone and/or possess special knowledge of building design, construction or the history of the area. Members will be appointed by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to serve for two years.

The THZAB reviews development and design plans involving the erection or construction of new buildings, structures or signs or the modification, addition, alteration, moving or demolition of existing structures or signs located within the historic zone. All meetings of the advisory board are public.

If you are interested in being considered for the THZAB, please submit a letter of interest and resumé to Mary Dahl, Director, Santa Cruz County Department of Community Development, 2150 North Congress Drive, Suite 117, Nogales, AZ 85621 or via e-mail at mdahl@co.santa-cruz.az.us. Letters should include information on your qualifications to be on the Board.

The deadline for submitting letters of interest is Thursday, January 28, 2010.

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Dear friends and readers of The Villager, we've been together for quite a number of years. In going through some past issues I realize I've shared quite a number of my life memories with you, the story of Gertrude has been mentioned many months ago, this time with illustrations by my dear friend in Rogers, Arkansas, Sara Ford, she also knew Gertrude.

I thought it would be fun to bring her to you again as she truly was.

By Ruth Papini Illustrated by Sara Ford

Gertrude

The Incredible Chicken

Once upon a time in a little town in Northwest Arkansas, there lived a family, Papa

Rano, Mama Ruthie, and three children, Penn, Claire and Rano Paul. Papa Rano worked for Daisy Air Rifle Manufacturing Company and they were all very happy living in Rogers.

When Rano Paul was in the third grade he was

allowed to walk three blocks to and from school each day. One day on his way home a Tyson chicken truck passed him. Now Tyson was a huge chicken plant where tiny chicks were sent to various local farms for people to raise. As the truck passed Rano Paul, a young chicken fell from one of the cages on the big truck and landed on the road. Rano Paul ran over and picked up the chicken and carried her home.

What does one do with a white chicken, very

pretty, too, but say, “Oh my, we’ve had animals around for years, I guess we will now have a chicken!” She took our hearts immediately and we named her Gertrude. The first night we put her in the garage with some cracked corn and so began our time with Gertrude. During the day she roamed the yard, we had no fence and when the children came home from school she was at the back door waiting to come in, too.

Also a very short, simple, delicious chicken dish, (my sincere apologies to Gertrude) a sweet and loving wish for all of you to have a wondrous 2010, and a deep desire for Peace and let it begin with me!

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she decided she wanted to sleep by the back door on a pillow in the breakfast room. She would peck at the door when she wanted to come in.

She even came when she was called. She loved her pillow and besides the cracked corn we gave her every day she enjoyed a treat, usually lemon cookies or small pieces of Milky Way candy bars.

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the living room to talk after Papa Rano came home from work, she’d fly up on the windowsill and watch and listen to us through the window.

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One day while Gertrude and I were outside, she stepped off the curb to cross the street.

I said in a very loud voice, “Gertrude, get back here!” She never stepped into the street again.

After many months of

Gertrude sleeping by the back door in the breakfast room, we took her pillow and introduced her to the workbench in the garage, only about ten steps from the house.

You see, she had been taking

liberties inside the house.

She likes to go upstairs and rest on Claire’s pillow on her bed.

Also bathing Gertrude each week was becoming a chore.

The garage seemed more chicken-like for her, although I do believe she was meant to be a house chicken. After all, she had been living with us for nearly two years!

One morning, Easter Sunday, I went to the garage to

let Gertrude come in and say hello. She had passed away, peacefully, during the night. Oh my, we truly missed her, she was a very

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ere’s a New Year’s resolution for you, the borderlands photographer: Don’t succumb to temptation.

With the proliferation of digital image technology, it’s easier than ever to abandon purity for manipulation. It’s so easy, and so cheap, in fact, that there is little effort required to transform a perfectly good photograph into an awful one.

My friends Sam and Cass moved to southern Arizona earlier this year, determined to become accomplished art photographers using only their cellphones. This is a medium, they say, that is already sweeping the art world in major cities like New York, with gallery shows devoted to I-phone use of the many software “apps” for image creation.

Sam and Cass are enthralled by the burgeoning world of digital enhancements, and argue that digital technology does nothing to harm art; it’s quite the contrary.

This type of discussion pays many salaries of art educators and critics across the globe. Manipulation? What manipulation? A tool is a tool. Art is what sells. Anything goes.

Photography has two phases: pre-shutter and post-shutter. In the past, it was more critical than it is today to get things right during the pre-shutter phase; this fabrication mostly involved using filters, and still does. Among nature photographers using filters, the great Ansel Adams was a masterly craftsman of filtered images. His pictures of blackened skies shot at midafternoon attest to that.

In photography’s post-shutter phase, the old-fashioned photographer’s darkroom, now replaced by the digital darkroom

complete with a hunched geek (like me) staring at a flat-screen, was routinely the scene of all sorts of interesting developments.

Foremost among these common techniques were dodging and burning, both also employed by Ansel Adams. These procedures involved manipulating the light of the photo enlarger. With the film negative suspended over photo paper lying on a flat surface, and the light of the enlarger turned on, dodging blocked that light from selected portions of the paper. Burning applied more light to selected areas of it. To obstruct light from the enlarger, anything could be used, including a piece of cardboard or your sweaty paw.

Many other technical variables entered into the equation to produce the desired result. Choice of camera and lens and film, use of a hand-held light meter, choice of exposure duration, choice of aperture setting, choice of photo paper, and choice of chemicals and duration of their use were all part of the artful calculus of photography.

a new camera to the viewfinder of a very old camera. Why would anyone argue with such things? I don’t – they require inventive effort and neat materials like duct tape.

The problem is that now you can digitally simulate these effects in a blink of a gnat’s eye while bent over the keyboard, with no effort at all.

The new-generation TtV is my favorite. With it you can apply a lot of nice dust and scratches to your clean, unblemished image.

First you start with a good picture, and then you go ahead and ruin it. Or, you can start with an unremarkable image and cover up the mediocrity with dust and scratches.

Ultimately, when the dust settles, will classical photography outlast digital mania? I think not. A thundering herd of fads threatens to overrun the poor old purist, lumbering along in a rut.

But doesn’t effort and skill correlate with value? “Lighten up,” Cass smiles. “There’s a world of opportunity with software.”

Trying to convince Sam and Cass that, in my quest for purity, I’m not being arrogantly self-serving, I entered a figurative courtroom of artistic reason. I showed them six images, vile exhibits of excessive cruelty to a good picture, my painstakingly composed photo of Mission San José de Tumacácori.

The dreaded mouse eliminates all creative techniques. Throughthe-viewfinder photography, or TtV, briefly was a mechanical process. A digital image was created using a contraption linking

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.

No more! It is now effortless to produce art.

Yes, I think, the opportunity to overdo it by anyone with a wrist quivering over a mouse. The most common example: the oversaturation of contrasts and colors. It’s the photographic equivalent of the obesity epidemic.

Images:

Exhibit A: “Convento y Calabazas” – my original photo of the grounds of Mission San José de Tumacácori.

Exhibit B: The result of Mom’s first outing with the Fujica in 1952, sort of ruining the pictures due to having no training with “all the knobs and stuff.” Also the negative got washed through the laundry.

Exhibit C: The very famous Civil War photographer Matthew Brady visited Tubac with Abraham Lincoln and took this picture right after the war while on vacation.

Sam studies the photographic atrocities, raises an eyebrow, and declares earnestly, “Hey, these are great - you should sell them!”

Exhibit D: Grandpa accidently ran over this picture with the Rambler and spilled battery acid on it too.

Exhibit E: This negative disappeared for many years after the summer car trip to Arizona and was discovered by Uncle Bart in the trunk wedged under the spare tire.

Exhibit F: The outcome of Sister Clara’s first attempt at age nine with film in a shoe box taped shut and using mom’s sewing pin to make a hole.

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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

Hugh Cabot Gallery

Hal Empie Gallery The Artist's Daughter Galleria Tubac Global Family Legal Services

Casa Maya de Mexico

Clay Hands Studio & Gallery

Tubac Plaza Main Stage

Sweet Stuff

Peter Chope Gallery

Old Presidio Traders

Jane's Attic

Purcell Gallery

Cobalt Gallery

Roberta Rogers Studio

Tubac Territory Rogoway Gallery

Indigo & Olive

Tubac Center of the Arts

Long Realty Tubac

Mercado de Baca

Shelby's Bistro TJ's Tortuga Books & Coffee Beans

Wild Rose

Emmy's Pilates Studio Tubac Embarcadero

Heirlooms Bruce Baughman Studio & Gallery ZForrest Gallery

Tumacookery

Casa Maya de Mexico Old Tubac Inn Beads of Tubac

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

Café Presidio The Chef's Table Anza Marketplace

Feminine Mystique Tubac Dental Casa Fina de Tubac

take the Frontage Road south to Wisdom's Café, the Tumacacori Mission, & 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

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