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Author: carollightwood

Gunshots? Rocks?  What broke the windows?
Arizona / Tucson

Gunshots? Rocks? What broke the windows?

by carollightwoodMarch 28, 2021October 18, 2023

Sometime after the election last November I noticed that the Pima County Republican headquarters had broken windows. I was on my way to the Trek …

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Feeding one person at a Little Free Pantry
Food in Tucson / Tucson

Feeding one person at a Little Free Pantry

by carollightwoodMarch 26, 2021October 2, 20231

I’d never heard of Little Free Pantry until this morning when I read an article in a local online newspaper about a new LFP at …

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Macrame and custom socks at St. Phillip’s weekend market
Art in Tucson / Festivals in Tucson

Macrame and custom socks at St. Phillip’s weekend market

by carollightwoodMarch 21, 2021August 1, 2025

On weekends St. Phillip’s Plaza at River and Campbell holds a market that is sorta like a crafts fair. Lots of jewelry makers and –you …

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Yellow VW Bug loves succulents
Art in Tucson / Nature in Tucson

Yellow VW Bug loves succulents

by carollightwoodFebruary 28, 2021August 1, 2025

Well, if you have an old rusted out VW Bug lying around somewhere, you, too, can transform it into a gigantic yellow planter for succulents …

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A WWI Vet sculpts Garden of Gethsemane in Tucson
Arizona / Art in Tucson / Historical Tucson

A WWI Vet sculpts Garden of Gethsemane in Tucson

by carollightwoodFebruary 15, 2021August 1, 2025

As he lay gravely wounded in a trench in France during World War I, Felix Lucero, a native of Trinidad, CO had a vision of …

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Getting the Covid 19 vaccine in Tucson: a true story
Arizona / Tucson

Getting the Covid 19 vaccine in Tucson: a true story

by carollightwoodFebruary 9, 2021February 10, 2021

Like millions of other people in a high risk category, I was eager to get the Covid 19 vaccine after 11 months of isolation in …

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Let’s have a big hand for Elvis!
Art in Tucson / Tucson

Let’s have a big hand for Elvis!

by carollightwoodJanuary 29, 2021July 19, 2021

Or maybe two. I had driven by this mural, above, on Fort Lowell Road dozens of times, but it wasn’t until I stopped to take …

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Behind Mercado San Agustin…a little bit of Italy?
architecture in Tucson

Behind Mercado San Agustin…a little bit of Italy?

by carollightwoodJanuary 25, 2021October 28, 20251

They swept the ground down to bare earth in this old Menlo Park neighborhood, now called the Mercado District. Unlike in Barrio Viejo, all homes …

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The Messenger sculpture in east Tucson
Art in Tucson / Nature in Tucson / Tucson

The Messenger sculpture in east Tucson

by carollightwoodJanuary 21, 2021July 19, 2021

Taking a drive out to the Eastside of Tucson finally came up near the top of my To-Do list. So on one relentlessly sunny day …

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Where to make a New Year’s wish in Tucson
architecture in Tucson / Art in Tucson

Where to make a New Year’s wish in Tucson

by carollightwoodJanuary 1, 2021July 18, 20251

In Spanish it’s El Tiradito. In English, it’s The Castaway. And for decades it has been a place Tucsonans bring a candle and make a …

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