Gunslingers at the Tucson Amtrak Station
In 2005 a group of Tucson citizens paid sculptor Dan Bates to create bronze statues of Wyatt Earp and John “Doc” Holliday holding long guns. …
Category: Historical Tucson
A WWI Vet sculpts Garden of Gethsemane in Tucson
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 …
Lunch with Joy at the oldest cantina in Arizona
[Note: part of this post was originally published in April 2019] My sister Joy, who lives south of Tucson, suggested–actually insisted–that we go to a …
No sidewalk? No problem! Walk the streets
Since early March when I decided to seclude myself at home after a day at the races with a scary ending, almost all my exercise …
History revised and revised again at the Tumacacori ruins
History does NOT belong only to the victors at the Tumacacori National Historic Park in Tubac near the Mexican border. There, in a small museum …
The Tucson Presidio reborn from a parking lot
Following the advice of a local newspaper I went to the Presidio San Agustin del Tucson in search of Dia del los Muertos altars. There …