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Not exactly a farmers market, but fun
Festivals in Tucson / Food in Tucson

Not exactly a farmers market, but fun

by carollightwoodNovember 28, 2022July 30, 2025

The Sunday market beside the Rillito Race Track is called a farmers market, but there are more venders selling prepared foods than farmers selling fresh …

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Bigger and better museum art fair
Arizona / Art in Tucson / Festivals in Tucson / Tucson

Bigger and better museum art fair

by carollightwoodNovember 19, 2022July 30, 2025

Well, it’s not just earrings and earrings and more earrings! The Tucson Museum of Art‘s Fall Artisans Market is not only larger this year, it …

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Walking my new favorite neighborhood
architecture in Tucson / Art in Tucson

Walking my new favorite neighborhood

by carollightwoodNovember 13, 2022July 30, 2025

After watching volunteers from the Living Streets Alliance paint 6th Avenue by Armory Park in late October, I drove around the area and discovered a …

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Tears at a Day of the Dead altar
Art in Tucson / Festivals in Tucson

Tears at a Day of the Dead altar

by carollightwoodNovember 6, 2022November 8, 2023

For years I photographed the Dia de los Muertos altars in Grand Park in Los Angeles and Pasadena. You can see some of them here …

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Cycling the mean streets of Tucson
Festivals in Tucson / Tucson

Cycling the mean streets of Tucson

by carollightwoodNovember 1, 2022July 30, 2025

The car-free route for Cyclovia this year went right through some neighborhoods where streets are lined with light industry and vacant lots. The housing in …

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Too many inflatables? Not for Halloween
Festivals in Tucson

Too many inflatables? Not for Halloween

by carollightwoodOctober 30, 2022July 30, 2025

In Los Angeles people celebrate Dia de los Muertos for most of the month of October. In Tucson Halloween with tales of a headless horseman …

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Painting 6th Avenue brilliant colors
Art in Tucson / Tucson

Painting 6th Avenue brilliant colors

by carollightwoodOctober 23, 2022July 30, 20252

It was a Volunteer Saturday with Tucsonans out and about improving the city by doing everything from picking up trash in the Santa Cruz riverbed …

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Nothing like jury duty summons to tell you…
Historical Tucson / Tucson

Nothing like jury duty summons to tell you…

by carollightwoodOctober 21, 2022November 8, 2023

Since I launched this blog about three years ago, I’ve claimed to be a newcomer to Tucson. After all, I had just moved here from …

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A Tucson Folk Festival thrives again
Festivals in Tucson / Tucson

A Tucson Folk Festival thrives again

by carollightwoodOctober 10, 2022July 30, 2025

49 years ago Jim Griffith, folklorist extraordinaire, founded the Tucson Meet Yourself folk festival. Sadly, he passed away in 2020, the year TMY was cancelled …

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The art of the traffic roundabout
Art in Tucson / Tucson

The art of the traffic roundabout

by carollightwoodOctober 3, 2022July 30, 20251

In quiet neighborhood intersections all across Tucson there are roundabouts with trees, shrubs and some artwork in the middle. Along with speed bumps they are …

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