By Jack Curtis For many years explorers wandering through the West referred to the Colorado River as the Grand River. The river’s name then changed from Grand to Colorado where the Green River met it in southeastern Utah and continued on through the Grand Canyon and out to sea in Mexico. Prior to being called the Grand River around 1836...
By J.J. Lamb Jimmy and Oscar Leon anxiously waited for their mother, Carmen, to have everything ready for their long walk from their home along the Pantano to the Vail Depot. Once a month they went to town (Tucson) to shop and visit family and friends. They stayed overnight in town with family. For Oscar and Jimmy this was the best part—they would...
By Mike Lavelle There was a time when we had a deep political divide, racial strife, civic unrest, wide-spread protests, riots in many American cities, and a pandemic. I was only superficially aware of the serious underlying issues and challenges as I was in the 8th grade at the time. It was 1968. It was one of the most challenging times in...
In this age of social media and “selfies,” photography has become a defining element in our lives. Most of us would assume all that began in 1839 when Louis Daguerre developed the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced photographic process which required only minutes of exposure in the camera and produced clear, finely...
