Years before his grizzled face adorned The Last Picture Show, Ben Johnson the wrangler (uncredited) drove the runaway buggy to the dogleg railroad crossing right there by Flying Kite Winery (as it exists today, just the railroad bed). There in Elgin you can also see Ben (a face in the crowd) on the rail station […]
Robert Dorney
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Thornton Wilder Picked Patagonia… But It Was Not to Be
In 1962, longing for the ‘loafer’s life,’ the famed ‘Our Town’ playwright talked up an imminent move from the East Coast to Patagonia.
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Bucket List
The author calls Sonoita librarians Dot Rhodes (pictured), Virginia Fain and Barbara Hershberger his inspirational muses of the interlibrary loan.
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Community Development Committee Formed for Sonoita Commercial Zoning
Opponents to construction of a Dollar General store have formed an ad hoc committee to present a major amendment to the county comprehensive plan.
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Sonoita Residents Rally Against Dollar General
A donkey draped with the slogan, ‘I Only Shop at Mom & Pops’ was at the Sonoita crossroads on Nov. 19, along with nearly a hundred other demonstrators on foot and on horseback. They chanted, ‘No Dollar General!’ and ‘Buy Local!’ as they marched outside the construction
site of the chain store.