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Category Archives: Lifestyles
A Bountiful Harvest at Vails Station
Visionary, is how the 1897 Arizona Daily Star described the ranching and farming operation of Carter Crane and John Fraker at Vails station. The article goes on to say, they “have probably the finest single ranch there is in Southern … Continue reading
ROCKY TOP IN THE EMPIRE MOUNTAINS
Routed letters painted white in the pine board spelled the name HOLDERBAUM. The sign was affixed to a string of barbed wire that ended at the fence post marking the entrance to the Hilton Ranch Road from Highway 83. Purchased … Continue reading
Rancho Milagrito
Serendipity and delightful surprises fill the home and yard of Jane and Royce Davenport. The Davenport’s discovered Vail in 1994 when they were looking for educational options for their soon to be kindergartner, Cali. Jane’s mother, a Corona de Tucson … Continue reading
Cienega Station
Speeding by Vail along I10 at 75 miles per hour it is hard to experience the area’s beauty, let alone its heritage, except in the rear view mirror. But, in 1858 when the Butterfield Stage line had just established the … Continue reading
Music Brought Them Together-Filis & Alex Cardieri
Their first date was to a concert in Carnegie Hall to hear Handel’s Messiah. Alex knew then that Filis was the one he wanted to spend his life with. They were both attending the New York High School for the … Continue reading
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Beginnings & Endings on the Hilton Ranch
It was spring of 1920 and the demand for mohair from goats was very good. Perry Hilton knelt down to tend to a task in the corral full of the goats. He ran 2,000–3,000 of them on his ranch. Goats … Continue reading
At Home Along Rincon Creek
When Celina Ruiz and her husband Lonnie Stonefield welcome guests into their home it is into the kitchen where they feel the presence of the Ruiz family’s long history in the Rincon Valley. If the kitchen is the heart of … Continue reading
Lifestyles… Bruce & Sandy Whitehouse
’Take it Easy”, the Eagles 1972 hit holds many reference points for Bruce and Sandy Whitehouse. They met in 1976 when Bruce was “standin’ on a corner in…” Tucson, hitchhiking. He cut a handsome figure with his long chestnut colored … Continue reading
Seasons
Of course it’s hot. And it should be. That’s what you get from living on a planet whose rotation axis is tilted to the plane of its yearly orbit around the sun. As I sit out in the very warm … Continue reading
I Wouldn’t Change a Thing
He answers to “Chief”, a name earned as one of the original cadre of a ‘super grade’ created in the Air Force after WWII when all of the helicopter pilots were transferred to the Army as Warrant Officers. Gerald Garrison, … Continue reading
