A visitor’s center is an important link in the economy of this region where visitors spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Without a visitor’s center it’s hard to know who these people are, much less encourage them to stay awhile. They aren’t likely to find The Nature Conservancy or Patons, the Arizona Trail, the cemetery, or even the library without some guidance. One couple asked about “the pizza place” and I pointed across the road. “We drove right past and never saw it,” they said.
Ann Katzenbach
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Strong Performances By Monologues Cast
Back row from left: cast members Francesca Claverie, Laura Wenzel, Janice Pulliam, Bethany Brandt, [far right: Art Director Anita Clavesco-Wharton]; Front: Ana Maria Warsnick, Sharon Calvert, Jenny La Dage, Andrea Stanley. Not in photo: JamieCattanzio, Erin Blanding. If you attended a performance of “The Vagina Monologues” on Valentine’s Day weekend, you probably experienced a few […]
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Under the Cover of Darkness
David Seibert (left) with John Walsh and Thomas Jonsson David Seibert, who is the director of Borderlands Restoration, rented a small house on the outskirts of Arivaca while doing restoration work and research for a doctorate in cultural anthropology. On February 19 he gave a talk about that research at the Patagonia Library: the mysterious […]
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Clean Up of Lead Queen Mine to Begin
A stream that flows from the Lead Queen mine as it looked after heavy rains flooded old mining tunnels last September. Last September when heavy rains flooded old mining tunnels and sent heavy metals into the local watershed, many government agencies assessed the damage, trying to determine how toxic the run off was, where it […]
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Armida De La Ossa Celebrates Her 100th Birthday
Armida De La Ossa knows the secret to longevity. Armida De La Ossa was born in Santa Cruz, Sonora on January 26, 1915. Today she lives in Patagonia, and according to her children, she doesn’t think that being 100 years old is anything to get excited about. She still does her own cooking and washing […]
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Ground Up Rice and Houseplants
The concept of trust is getting a bad name of late. Will you ever look at a rerun of “The Bill Cosby Show” in the same way again? Will you ever look at all? Will Brian Williams ever have the same gravitas if he comes back to The Nightly News? Bernie Maddof, remember him? How […]
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Arts Alive: Learning to Be Stewards of the Land
Photo by Carlos MinguraPhoto by Borderlands Horticulturalist Francesca ClaverieCarlos Mingura tells the guests how the BECY program “truly changed my life.” The photographs on the walls of the Gathering Grounds in February served as a visual narrative for the intern program run by the Border Earth Care Youth Institute (BECY) to foster a sense of […]
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High Desert Sketches: Sonny McCuistion
Local rancher P. D. (Sonny) McCuistion turned 90 in October. He appears to be in good health, although he says, “Some days I think I could use a brain transplant.”
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Arts Alive: Painting’s Title Inspires Exhibit at Velvet Elvis
There are some new faces joining the portrait of Elvis on the wall of Patagonia’s favorite pizza restaurant. Paula Wittner, an artist whose imagination overflows with faces and stories, thought that a particular painting of hers would be appropriate in a restaurant where the message, “we love cash,” is painted on the front wall. The […]
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Get Your Ying and Yang in Balance
Cera Lynn in her new facility at Piper Plaza Cera Lynn has brought her healing and skin enhancement skills back to Patagonia after tending to clients for the last eight years in Tubac. Lynn is an expert in many facets of skin care and Chinese medicine, but at this point in her life she is […]