Tips for road travel with canines, no matter how many you bring with you.
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Mercurial Nature
What do various species of wildlife do to keep their body temperatures at optimal levels when the mercury plummets?
The Elgin Cemetery
A census of those likely buried at the Elgin Cemetery, which was probably established in 1912. Approximately 19 graves are evident at the cemetery, but only four have headstones.
A Trip to the Silver Leaf Mine
An exploration of an old digging in the Santa Rita Mountains includes a visit to the old headquarters for a curious hydraulic mining operation.
The Magic of the Geminid Meteor Shower
For two days in December, the Geminids may deliver a wonderful counterbalance of amazement against all the things that weigh us down.
What Is That?? Curios From the Patagonia Museum – Dec. 2023
Photo by German Quiroga The art of blacksmithing goes back to 1500 BC. These blacksmith tongs could have been used locally as early as 1857 when Fort Buchanan was established along the headwaters of Sonoita Creek to as late as 1980 when the Museum of the Horse was still in Patagonia.
Ask an Engineer: What Is Rebar?
Our columnist explains not just what rebar is, but how it works.
Real and Imagined Beauty
Sometimes we are unwilling to believe that there is really much more than what we currently know or see or are able to grasp with our hands.
Quail Season Is Open
Gambels’ numbers should be up over last season, but Mearns’ will be lower.
Three Years Here
Here are a few things I have learned since becoming an Arizonan. Or Arizonian.