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Boyce Thompson Arboretum.  Better every day By:  Kim Stone  Photos: LCGross   For those of you that are lucky enough to live in Globe,  Miami, Kearny, Winkelman, Gold Canyon, or Apache Junction, Boyce Thompson Arboretum is a mere 30 – 40 minute drive from your front door.  As close as it is, there is a strong likelihood that some of you haven’t visited the Arboretum since you were kids, or if so, not since the first term... Read More

  "Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul. "                Author Unknown.             Motorcycling Moves Mainstream America By: Linda Gross   When Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper took to the open road in “Easy Rider” - circa 1969, Harley’s were a symbol of what it meant to be young, male and... Read More

Frank Balaam’s new work, Light through the Trees, is testimony to the resilience of both nature and artist. In the face of two devastating fires within years of each other;  one,which took out the Pioneer Hotel in Globe which housed the Balaam Gallery and the other, which took out vast acreages of northern forest in the Rodeo-Chedeski area, both artist and trees are beginning to send up magnificent shoots of new growth. It was July of 2005 when fire consumed the Pioneer... Read More

   Dale & Claire Gilbert of the San Carlos Apache Tribe His earliest memories of beading trace back to his grandmother. She would spread a blanket on the ground and tell stories in Apache to her grandchildren while she beaded. Dale remembers the stories, although he spoke little Apache as a child, and even less now as a grown man. But it was her presence he remembers. “She sold little miniature items to the Peridot Trading Post, where she would trade her work for... Read More