by Mark Duggan | Oct 14, 2011
Casa Grande, Ariz. – Once a year, a small group of adults climbs some of Arizona’s tallest trees for fun and sport. They are tree workers, professionals who cut and prune for landscaping or utility crews. Each year, they meet in a city park somewhere in Arizona...
by Mark Duggan | Oct 11, 2011
Tombstone, Ariz. – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is an American Myth. It’s a tale of a violent showdown in 1881 in a remote part of Arizona, and it’s long been immortalized in both history text and Hollywood script. Various cinematic and literary treatments of...
by Mark Duggan | Oct 4, 2011
Arivaca, Ariz. – Byrd Baylor’s love of the desert serves as both setting and subject for her writing. She’s best known for her children’s books, primarily set in the Southwest and populated with Native Americans and desert creatures. After years in Tucson...
by Mark Duggan | Oct 3, 2011
Listen to the story: Tucson, Ariz. – James Joyce’s Ulysses is a notoriously difficult read. The book chronicles one day – June 16, 1904 – in the life of fictional Dublin resident Leopold Bloom. More than just a narration of Bloom’s...
