Arizona
Celebrating Centennial: Travel Photo Thursday I love to confound people by describing the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona as “lush”. They give me an odd look. Isn’t that an oxymoron? Not here it isn’t . The Sonoran Desert fits the description of Desert because of its aridity, but on the other hand, a multitude [...]
Celebrating Arizona’s Centennial Two brand new books and one from last year, celebrate some of the women who helped build Arizona in the past 100 years, and the years when it was a Territory. Women were celebrated in Arizona from the beginning. Arizona wrote women’s suffrage into their constitution, making it one of the first [...]
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Celebrating Centennial ARIZONA, STATE OF ROMANCE Arizona celebrates the centennial of its statehood on February 14, because one hundred years ago a lovesick rancher took a detour to see his sweetheart. The story may not be true, but the romance is undeniable. This is the true part. For nearly twenty years, the citizens of Arizona [...]
Celebrating Centennial Today kicks off Arizona’s Centennial Week, the Arizona Territory became the State of Arizona on February 14, 1912. This week A Traveler’s Library will take a look at Arizona from several different angles, starting with folk customs. Destination: Arizona Book: A Border Runs Through It, Journeys in Regional History and Folklore (NEW 2011) [...]
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CONTEST OVER (Today only, you have a chance to win a beautiful photo book of classic train stations. (See below) Windows form an important frame for many travel pictures. As I look at these, I think I can see where the inside and outside of the windows blend to tell us more about the place. [...]
Christmas greenery looks a bit different in the desert. Merry Christmas from Tucson, Arizona. From another desert garden. And a hummingbird adds some sparkle. These images are my contribution to Travel Photo Thursday. You can see more contributions at Budget Travelers’ Sandbox. Have a wonderful holiday and I’ll see you in a couple of weeks. [...]
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I was invited to tour The Nest, at Rawhide in Chandler, Arizona before it opened to the public this month. In one section, you walk through a graveyard and are confronted with zombies who may be real and may be animatronics. I’m not staying around long enough to find out! This photo is part of [...]
I’ve been to a few scary places while traveling–most of them because I got lost and wandered where I should not be. But today I’m thinking about scary places that people plan travel to–in Phoenix, Mansfield Ohio, and New Orleans.
Destination: The Western United States Book: Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West–One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried (2010–New paperback edition in 2011) The reader gets more than his/her money’s worth with the fascinating book, Appetite for America. A biography, a history of the western expansion of [...]
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