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Celebrating the Art of Living in Southern Arizona
October 2008
Vol. III No. 12
Santa Cruz County Update
by Kathleen Vandervoet
On the Jaguar Trail
by Roseann Hanson
Excerpt: Trinity
by Charles Bowden
The Borderland Photographer
by Murray Bolesta
The Amazing Herman Ehrenberg
by Mary Bingham
American Zinfandel
by Bernard Berlin
Election information
by Kathleen Vandervoet
Nothingness
by Carol Egmont St. John
New Faces, Tubac Map, Events,
Ruthie’s Recipes, Letters, and more...

October 2008
Park’s Anza Days
offers entertainment
The Tubac Presidio State Historic Park is the host to the annual Anza
Days celebration on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 18-19. It provides a
great opportunity to learn more about the history of the area and to
be entertained by historic re-enactors.
The celebration marks the second of two expeditions to the San
Francisco Bay area, when Juan Bautista de Anza II in 1776 led
240 men, women and children across the deserts and mountains
to California. Anza was stationed in Tubac at the Spanish fort,
or presidio. As Americans fought for their independence in the
East, Anza led the group across 1,200 miles to settle Alta California.
It was the first overland route established to connect New Spain with
San Francisco.
The official re-enactment ride will take place on Saturday, but
costumed horsemen and women will ride through Tubac and into the
park periodically to add to the ambience on both days.
There will be a wide range of information booths, and activities
for adults and for families including a Junior Ranger program and
a living history presentation. There will be a Mass at Tumacácori
Mission on Saturday at 9 a.m., and the Anza Riders will arrive at
the Tubac Park at noon. The Nogales High School Mariachi Apache
group will perform from 1:30 to 3 p.m., a spokeswoman said.
Admission is free to the
park on Oct. 18 and 19.
Donations to support
that came from the Tubac
Historical Society and
the Anza Trail Coalition,
Santa Cruz County Trail
Management Council.
The Tubac Presidio State
Historic Park is located
on the east side of the
retail area of Tubac, and
is reached by driving on
Tubac Road. For more
details, call the park at
(520) 398-2252.
“After the Rain” 18x24 Oil/Board
Top left - Tubac Presidio state Historic Park is Arizona’s first state park and is located
inside Arizona’s oldest European community. The Museum is open daily.
Top, right - Displays of Juan Bautista de Anza II, second commander of the presidio (or
Spanish garrison), explain his significant contribution to the area’s history.
Above - The extensive museum houses many treasures and covers much more than the
period of the presidio’s history.
October Cover:
by Fred Collins
Now a full time painter, Fred was a design engineer with his
own consulting firm for over 30 years. He still dabbles in
engineering for a client in California.
The inspiration for the paintings he does comes from the
animals and landscapes that he sees around him, water in its
many forms, and a good title can cause him to ponder what it
would look like as a painting! Fred’s influences are the Hudson
River School, Surrealism and specific painters such as Dali,
Ernst, Bierstadt, Church and Hopper. Fred has no formal
training by choice and prefers oils but will use whatever his
engineering mind might deem useful to create an image.
Painting “After the Rain” will be in the Tubac Center of the
Arts’ Members Open Exhibit Sept 5-Oct 12, 2008
Pg 4 Tubac Area Event Calendar
Pg 7 Tubac Map
Pg 8 Santa Cruz County Update
by Kathleen Vandervoet
Pg 10 Photographer Warren Allen
by Joseph Birkett
Pg 11 Beads of Tubac
by Joseph Birkett
Pg 12 On the Jaguar Trail
by Jonathan and Roseann Hanson
Pg 18 excerpt from coming book: Trinity
by Charles Bowden
Pg 20 The Borderland Photographer
by Murray Bolesta
Pg 22 The Amazing Herman Ehrenberg
by Mary Bingham
Pg 24 Tubac: Where Art & History Meet?
by Nancy Valentine
Pg 25 American Zinfandel
by Bernard Berlin
Pg 26 Faisal, King of Iraq
by Hattie Wison
Pg 27 Remnants from Ruth
Pg 30 Election information
by Kathleen Vandervoet
Pg 33 Nothingness
by Carol Egmont St. John
Pg 34 County Supervisor Candidates
by Kathleen Vandervoet
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October Circulation: 13,000. The Villager is made available
at 180 Tucson locations, 400 Phoenix locations, and offered
free of charge at locations in Tubac, Tumacacori, Carmen,
Green Valley, Nogales, Rio Rico, Amado and Arivaca,
Arizona.
Deadline for the November 2008 issue of the Tubac Villager
is October 15th.
Many thanks to the excellent
contributions from:
Bernard Berlin
Mary Bingham
Joseph Birkett
Murray Bolesta
Charles Bowden
Jonathan Hanson
Tubac Map:
Bruce Pheneger
Roseann Hanson
Ruthie
Carol St. John
Nancy Valentine
Kathleen Vandervoet
Hattie Wilson
County Update Editor:
Kathleen Vandervoet
Publishers/Editors
Joseph & Hallie Birkett
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E-mail: TubacVillager@mac.com
Write: P.O. Box 4018
Tubac, AZ 85646
Phone: 520-398-3980

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Mondays, Fridays - Yoga for Everybody with the Tubac
Yoga Club at the Tubac Community Center. Rm B7. Call
398-2562 for more info.
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wedensdays - Hatha Yoga at Yoga
Saguaro Home Studio located at the Spencer House
south apartment at 2369 E Frontage Rd, Tubac. Call
398-2562.
Tuesdays, Thursdays - Yoga at 9am at The Spa at the
Tubac Golf Resort.
Tuesdays
- Qi-Gong at 11am at The Spa at the Tubac Golf Resort.
Wednesdays
- Green Valley Anglican Church Wed. Night Seminars
(beginning Oct 8th) at 5pm. Each seminar will focus
on aspects of how the Anglican Church evolved in the
great tradition of Western Catholicism and attempt to
explain how our path diverged from that of the Episcopal
Church. Locations will vary please call 520-777-6601 for
more information.
Thursdays
- Farmer’s Market at Plaza de Anza from 10am to 2pm.
- Karaoke & Live Entertainment at Cafe Presiodio in
Plaza de Anza 398-8503.
Fridays
- Tubac Rotary Club 8am breakfast meeting @ Stables
Restaurant in the Tubac Golf Resort. All Rotarians are
welcome, no reservation nec. 398-1913. golfjcn-rotary@
yahoo.com.
- Movie Night at Agua Linda Farms 5pm to 8pm
Admission $7 car. Take I-19 to Exit 42. We are on the
east side, just south of the exit. for more info visit www.
agualindafarm.net or call 398-3218. Closed 10/31/08.
Saturdays
- Fun Fall Festivities at Agua Linda Farms Hayrides, farm
raised burgers, animals, live music & more from 10am
to 5pm Admission $7 car. Take I-19 to Exit 42. We are
on the east side, just south of the exit. for more info visit
www.agualindafarm.net or call 398-3218.
- Karaoke & Live Entertainment at Cafe Presiodio in
Plaza de Anza 398-8503.
Sundays
- Fun Fall Festivities at Agua Linda Farms Hayrides, farm
raised burgers, animals, live music & more from 10am
to 5pm Admission $7 car. Take I-19 to Exit 42. We are
on the east side, just south of the exit. for more info visit
www.agualindafarm.net or call 398-3218.
Now thru Oct 12th - Member’s Open Exhibition at
the Tubac Center of the Arts. See this month’s Tubac
Villager cover by Fred Collins.
Now thru Nov 21st - Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes
Fall Program in Green Valley. Why do Americans
pay so much for health care? Are war, violence and
terrorism caused by biology or environment? Does the
mind affect the health of the body? These are a few
of the timely topics to be discussed when the Green
Valley affiliate of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
(OLLI) at The University of Arizona launches its fall
semester. Additional study group offerings include:
Consumer Psychology, The American Presidents
– The ‘50s, American Poets – 1920-1970, Great Nature
Writers in America, Introduction to Judaism, Dreams
and Spirituality, The Stage Director, Anglo-Saxons,
Vikings and Normans, Faces and Places of the Tohono
O’odham, How the Media Have Changed, Investing
101 – Beginner’s Guide, Non-Fiction Addiction, & Are
Labor Unions Obsolete? Members also may explore
Classical Jazz, Shakespeare, Readers Theater, Films
that Speak, Photographic Composition, Journeys
Abroad, Museums in Tucson and Supervised Bridge.
The cost of an OLLI/Green Valley membership is $75 for
a two-month semester or $125 for an entire year, which
Come experience the ambiance of Old Town, Tubac
where our collection from over 30 years
of expert and passionate collecting
is thoughtfully displayed.
Browse over 10,000 works of the
fi nest folk art created by
Latin American artisans
that we work closely with
to ensure the highest quality
and fairness in trade.
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includes fall, spring and summer programs. Membership
is open to those 50 years of age and older living in
Green Valley, Sahuarita, Tubac, Arivaca and other
nearby communities. Members may participate in any or
all of the classes offered in Green Valley. Membership/
registration packets with specific class information are
available at the Joyner-Green Valley Library, or contact
Penny Schmitt at the OLLI/UA office (520) 626-9039 or
ollimail@u.arizona.edu.
Friday, Oct 3rd - Wisdom’s First Fridays - Oktoberfest
Celebration with lunch and dinner specials including
Bratwurst, German Potato Salad & Bavarian Sauerkraut
with LIVE MUSIC by U & The Risk from 7 to 10pm. Call
398-2397 or visit www.wisdomscafe.com.
Saturday, Oct 4th - “Stepping Out” Walk-A-Thon in
Green Valley. at 8am. This is the Greater Green Valley
Community Foundation’s opening fundraiser of the
year. With the support of our sponsors and walking
participants, we hope to receive enough funds to
help organizations from Tumacacori to Sahuarita. We
will walk about 3 miles, have a light breakfast, and
meet some beneficiaries. It begins and finishes at the
Silver Springs Retirement Complex on south Abrego
Drive at Torres Blancas Road. For $25.00 walkers
receive a T-shirt, gift bag, prize ticket and breakfast.
Early registration is appreciated, please contact the
Foundation at 625-4556 or email exdggvcf@qwestoffice.
net.
Saturday, Oct 4th - Way Out West sings classic cowboy
songs at Hacienda Cornona 348 S River Rd in Nogales.
$15 admission. Bring your chair, picnic basket and drink
of choice. For reservations call 520-287-6503.
Sunday, Oct 5th - Tubaqueños Living History from 1 – 4
pm. Come experience the sights, sounds, and tastes of
Tubac 1776 during these Spanish Colonial living history
demonstrations at the Tubac Presidio State Historic
Park. For more information call 398-2252.
Monday, Oct 6th - La Frontera Corral of Westerners Intl.
will resume their monthly meetings. Speaking will be
Lillian Hoff to tell the group about upcoming events on
the Anza Trail. She will also talk about the Santa Cruz
Co. Courthouse. Also, Don Honnas will introduce his
new book, Happenings on the Pocahonnas: a Southern
Arizona Cattle Ranch. The Corral, an organization
interested in Western history, meets on the first Monday
of each month at Casa Community Center, 780 W. Park
Centre Dr. in Green Valley. The public is invited. Call
398-2344 for information.
Tuesday, Oct 7th - Season Opening at the Out of the
Way Galleria, in Tubac Plaza.
Wednesday, October 8th - Salon Grand Opening at
the Tubac Golf Resort & Spa from 10am to 5pm. Hors
D’oeuvres and drinks, mingle with hairstylists and nail
technicians. Enjoy complementary hair consultation
and make-up refresher. Call 398-3545 or visit www.
tubacgolfresort.com.
Thursday Oct. 9th- “It’s All a Matter of Timing”
Presentation by Archaeologist William Deaver, only one
of a handful of experts in the field of Archaeomagnetic
Dating—a technique begun in the 1960s utilizing
geophysical studies of changes in the earth’s magnetic
field as a basis for dating artifacts and sites—telling how
the technique has challenged the conventional ideas
of the nature and timing of cultural change from A.D.
950-1100, revealing the dramatic and rapid changes
at acritical point in the prehistory of Southern Arizona.
Monthly program hosted by the Tubac/Santa Cruz
County Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society.
Public invited. Donations appreciated. Tubac Presidio
State Historic Park, Old Town Tubac. Meeting/potluck 5
p.m. Presentation 6 p.m. 520-245-9222, or tubacval@
msn.com for more information.
Friday thru Sunday, Oct 10th-12th - Patagonia Fall
Festival.
Friday, Oct 10th - Official dedication of the Rio Rico
Trailhead of the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic
Trail to Guy Tobin at 3pm.
Saturday, Oct 11th - National Opening of the Guy Tobin
Trailhead of the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic
Trail connecting Rio Rico to Nogales.
Saturday, Oct 11th - “Golf for the Arts” at the Palo Duro
Creek Golf Club 2690 N Country Club Dr. Nogales. 7:30
am registration, 9am tee time. Consider sponsoring,
donating a prize, or coming out to play in support of
Young Audiences programs in Santa Cruz County
schools. For more infromation call 520-397-7914 or
email youngaudiences@yascc.com
Saturday, Oct 11th - 4th Annual Fire District Golf
Tournament to benefit Rio Rico High School students &
Tubac fire employees. Golf at 9AM in Tubac with lunch
to follow at Wisdom’s. Contact Rick Kemp at 398-2258 to
sign up or for more info.
Saturday, Oct 11th - Complete Hands On Water
Harvesting. Learning how to use rainfall and storm water
run-off is one of the keys to developing a successful
Permaculture site. It helps us to reduce erosion and
have a lush multi use landscape without having to
import water from outside a site. In this fun workshop
we will install a water cistern, learn how to read the
water situation on a site, and do basic calculations
on the water flow available. We will learn how to
install basic earthworks to hold water on site, and talk
about contours, plant selection, and mulching. This
workshop is more than learning about techniques
for harvesting rainfall; it will show you how water
harvesting can be integrated into your own lifestyle and
into a simple landscape design for your home. Location:
Central Tucson Location, To Be Announced. This class
is limited to 15 participants. 9AM to 4:30PM. Cost: $59
includes all class materials. Taught by Dan Dorsey (520)
624-8030 and guest instructors. dorsey@dakotacom.
net, www.sonoranpermaculture.org/members/dan-dorsey
call Dan for registration or information.
Sunday, Oct 12th - Printing Press Demonstrations 10
am – 2 pm. Come celebrate the 150th anniversary of
the printing press in Arizona! The Washington Press
is original and printed the first newspaper in AZ, “The
Weekly Arizonian” on March 3, 1859. Volunteers operate
the press and reproduce the first edition of the paperat
the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. For more
information call 398-2252.
Monday, Oct 13th - Welcome Back Barbeque 5:00-
8:00pm at the Karin Newby Sculpture Garden, $20 per
person. Call the Tubac Center of the Arts for reservations
398-2371.
Wednesday, Oct 15th - Cowgirl Ugly moves to it’s new
location 8 Burruel St, next to South of the Border.
Thursday, Oct 16th - Breakfast at the Cow Palace with
the Bauders, printers of The Weekly Arizonian. Longtime
printers and volunteer docents at the Tubac Presidio
State Historic Park Charlie and Arlene Bauder will speak
at 9am in Amado. The Bauders have worked in the
TPSHP Museum for nine years taking visitors through
the printing process step by step, from inking the plates
with rollers to drying and cutting the printed sheets.
They work on the original Washington hand press
which was used in Tubac before the Civil War and later
in Tombstone to print the Tombstone Epitaph. Charlie
plans to lead a discussion on the history of printing from
Johann Gutenberg down to the dawn of offset. Two main
categories, the development of type and the evolution
of printing presses, will provide the structure for his
discussion. Charlie and Arlene will have some samples
of earlier printing as well as some reproduced examples
of the March 3, 1859 paper that made printing history
right here in Tubac. This paper was the first printed work,
the first newspaper, and the first political mouthpiece in
a newly created Arizona soon after the Gadsden Treaty.
For more information call 398-2252.
Thursday, Oct 16th - National Feral Cat Day. Paws
Patrol is sponsoring a dry cat food drive throughout the
month of October. Call for drop-off locations if you would
like to contribute dry food for our feral cat colonies. You
can help support our efforts by purchasing a 2009 feral
cat calendar, which features photos of a few of our many
success stories - feral cats adopted or placed in colonies
or barns. Cost is $15 plus $2.50 shipping, or call 207-
4024 for a pick-up location. The calendar makes a great
gift for a cat lover and proceeds from its sale will help us
continue our work.
Thurs thru Sat, Oct 16th - 18th - Rio Rico High School
Thespians perform the classic play by Arthur Miller,
Death of a Salesman. Tickets will be available beginning
September 19th from any Thespian student or at San
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Cayetano Veterinary Hospital in Rio Rico. If you need lots
of tickets, give me a call at 841-3157 and I’ll make sure
you have them. The ticket price of $10 includes dinner by
Las Vigas, candles and tablecloths and a riveting evening
of drama. As usual, doors open and dinner is served
from 6:00 pm until 6:40 pm. The performance will begin
promtly at 7. Introduce a friend to the Rio Rico High School
Thespians. Don’t miss it!
Friday, Oct 17th to Nov 16th - Exhibitions: THE FORGE
AND THE PRESS, a juxtaposition of metal art and print
making in the Tubac Center of the Arts Smith Gallery and
TUBAC WALLS, FROM OUR WALLS TO YOURS, works
by featured artists from Tubac galleries in the TCA Central
Gallery. For information call 398-2371.
Friday, Oct 17th - Wine Dinner at Esplendor Resort at
Rio Rio. Presenting unique wines from Spain Argentina
and Chile paired with a 4-course meal at 5pm & 7:30pm.
$75 per person plus gratuity. Call 520-377-7311 for
reservations.
Saturday, Oct 18th - AUDITIONS for LOVE LETTERS
1-4pm with callbacks Oct. 19, 1-4pm at the Tubac Center
of the Arts Smith Gallery. The acclaimed play will be
performed at TCA Nov.22, 23, 28, 29, Dec. 5 & 6. Look for
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Saturday, Oct 18th - Save the Scenic Santa Ritas
and Friends of Madera Canyon Fundraiser and Book
Signing and Awareness Raiser from 1 to 5pm at the
CactusHuggers Gallery, La Entrada de Tubac Plaza. Book
signings will be held at the event by authors Joan W. G.
Lewis and Douglas W. Moore, “A Field Guide to Madera
Canyon Wildflowers”, was written and illustrated by Joan
Lewis. Beginning at the Proctor parking area at 4450’,
the guide covers all the canyon trails up to Josephine
Saddle at 7080’. Plants have been grouped by flower
color for easy identification. The guide features 194
colored illustrations of flowering plants and descriptions
of 40 additional wildflowers, trail map with keys, blooming
time in Madera Canyon and much more. “The Nature of
Madera Canyon”, written and illustrated by Douglas Moore,
covers the geography, climate and geology of Madera
Canyon, a profile of the Sky Islands, plants, animals and
ecology and native peoples and recent history. Included
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are 65 color photos, 23 black & white photos, 10 inkwash
illustrations and more. Doug is a graduate of the University
of California at Santa Cruz with a BA degree in biology and
a post-graduate certificate in natural science illustrations.
A presentation by Save the Scenic Santa Ritas board
president, Gayle Hartmann, will begin at 2 p.m. at the
gallery. She will talk about the threats of open-pit mining
to both the Santa Rita Mountains and the Patagonia
Mountains (within shouting distance of the Santa Cruz
River headwaters). SSSR members will be on hand
outside the gallery as well to provide information about
the impacts and the status of new mining in Southern
Arizona. For further information, contact Murray Bolesta at
520-241-1280.
Saturday, Oct 18th - Anza Days Celebration at Wisdoms’
Lunch & dinner specials with LIVE MUSIC & drink specials
from 5-9PM.
Saturday & Sunday, Oct 18th & 19th - Juan Bautista
de Anza Days. Come join us for an annual cultural
event celebrating the 1775 Anza Expedition. Mass is at
Tumacácori Mission on Saturday, Anza Ride re-enactment
on Saturday, Native dancers, lectures, Spanish history,
and Tubaqueños demonstrations. Sunday Tubaqueños
Living History from 1 – 4 pm. Come experience the sights,
sounds, and tastes of Tubac 1776 during these Spanish
Colonial living history demonstrations at the Tubac Presidio
State Historic Park. For more info see page 3 of this
month’s Villager or call 398-2252.
Sunday, Oct 19 - History & Art—Live from Old Town
Tubac—Anza Days Festivities. At Noon, experience the
re-enactment at the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park.
Cross the street for an Open House from 1-4 p.m. featuring
photography of the Santa Cruz River Valley’s historical
haunts and natural habitats,and fine art crafts of Warren
Allen and “Martita.” Walk back in time on a tour of Old
Town Tubac’s historic buildings and their colorful residents
guided by Nancy Valentine beginning at 2 p.m. Aldea de
Artisticas—working Artists’ Village in Old Town Tubac. 14
Calle Iglesia just across the way from the Tubac Presidio
State Historic Park and Anza Days. 520-245-9222,
tubacval@msn.com for information.
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Manos Gallery, Celebrates 3 Years with New Works ... Meet the Artists ... SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 FROM 3 TO 6 PM
Each year Manos Gallery has hosted
a fund-raising event for a local non
profit including Equine Voices,
SCC Humane Society and Young
Audiences of SCC. This year in
support of our local Montessori
schools art programs, Manos will
donate a portion of sales from its
Winter Invitational Exhibit which
is open to members of Southern
Arizona Watercolor Guild and the
Watercolor Society of Oregon. Also
several inspirational educational
workshops are scheduled with
Manos. In November artist Pat
Lambrecht-Hould will be working
and demonstrating with acrylics.
The team of Michaelin Otis and
Deborah Voyda Rogers will teach
watercolors on different surfaces
in March. Michaelin will also
teach Mondays in the gallery and
can be seen demonstrating on the
patio on most Saturdays.. Detailed
information is online at manosgallery.
com.
The past three years have been
wonderful and yet a patience building
experience as the gallery has been in
the heart of La Entrada construction.
When the project is complete it will
be a great addition to the village. Leo
Millers genius architecture with the
beautiful elevation that can be viewed
from the freeway and frontage road
will benefit all Tubac merchants.
Mary Helen Watson, gallery
owner, laughingly admits that
although she hasn’t been taking
antidepressants or had a nervous
break down during this construction
period there may still be time.
“Manos has an incredible wealth
of artistic talent with artwork from
over 40 local and regional artists.
I wholeheartedly thank and am
grateful to the artists that have
supported the gallery and my
dream, and for terrific clientele who
return to purchase art and make sure
of this gallery’s continued success.
Honestly, Tubac must have an
unwavering awareness in the coming
years and continue to maintain and
support our wonderful galleries,
shops and restaurants, so the success
that I am blessed to be part of in this
unique village continues to be an
inspiration and eventful experience
to the community and visitors alike.
Cheers to a great season!”
520-398-8144
manosgallery.com
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Tubac jewelry designer Sharon Cipriano
and her Manos Collection.
Last Stand, a new watercolor by
local artist Michaelin Otis.
Gallery owner MH Watson with paintings by J Bateman and
P Lambrecht Hould, Manos Gallery’s top selling artists.

North to
Dental Artistry
Green Valley Bike & Hike
Kristofer’s
Ventana Mortgage
Tubac Golf Resort
1 dos Silos
1 The Spa
1 Stables Restaurant
1 Pancho’s
1
Golf
Resort
LA ENTRADA
10 Cactus Huggers
Photography
9 Casa Fina de Tubac
15 CCurry Studio
& Gallery
17 Cowboy’s
Sweetheart
21 Damian Koorey
Designs
14 Feminine Mystique
23 Flor de Tubac
11 The Harrison Group
11 Horizon Funding
15 Dr. Brian Kniff
22 La Cucaracha
12 La Esplendida
13 Manos
18 Michele’s
11 Office Works
19 Renee Taylor Gallery
23 Rinconart
20 Tubac Deli
16 Tumacookery
15 Visitor’s Center
15 Yard Woman
E. FRONTAGE ROAD
BRIDGE ROAD
Montessori
de Santa Cruz
Tubac
Entrance
HESSELBARTH LANE
89 Beads of Tubac
90 Casita del Oro
91 Otero Gallery
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Tubac Fire
Station
LA
ENTRADA
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FRONTAGE ROAD
4 Access Wisdom
Home Care
6 Coldwell Banker -
Bill Mack
2 El Mercado
3 Melio’s Trattoria
5 Realty Executives
6 Lawrence V.
Robertson, Jr. Attorney
5 Saigon Nails
7 Spa Zen
8 Tubac Health Center
4 Tubac Post Office
7 Tubac Art Exchange
CALLE BACA
123 Holistic Haven
128 Los Gatos Locos
129 Rogoway’s
Turquoise Tortoise
125 Terra Flora
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30 Brasher Real Estate
35 Casa Maya
31 Desert Wind Herb & Tea
33 House of Stone & Light
34 Long Realty
32 Mariah’s
31 The Old Book Shop
33 Red Willow
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HESSELBARTH LN CALLE BACA
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TUBAC ROAD
Mercado de Baca
39 Accent on Mexico
44 Chios
45 Crowe’s Nest
41 Karin Newby Gallery
42 Shelby’s Bistro
40 Sole Shoes
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TUBAC PLAZA
Plaza Antigua
PLAZA DE ANZA
143 Anza Market Place
148 Artist’s Palate
144 Baca Float Water Co.
149 Café Presidio
149 The Chef’s Table
147 Josef’s of Tubac
149 Tubac Culinary School
149 Tubac Ranch
CAMINO OTERO
115 Artes Alegres Gallery
116 Clay Hands Studio
117 Cobalt Fine Arts
119 Cowgirl Zen
109 De Anza Restaurante
122 Four Winds Gallery
120 James Culver Leather
111 La Catrina
119 Lavendar Bay Antiques
119 Peter Chope
112 Quilts Ltd Gallery
119 Roberta Rogers Studio
110 Saddle Tramp Cowboy Shop
122 Silver Fox
113 Tohono Village Trading Post
115 Tubac Online Sales
118 Turquoise Angel
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48 Cloud Dancer
49 Cowgirl Ugly
49 Más y Más
49 Mayhew Gallery
49 Sempre Bella
49 Sunrise Jewlers
49 Tile N Art
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WILL ROGERS LANE
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59 The Artist’s Daughter
61 Big Horn Gallery
46 The Chile Pepper
55 Creative Coyote
47 Digital Brushstrokes
58 Galleria Tubac
60 Hal Empie
37 La Piñata
52 Los Cántaros
47 Metalmorphosis
57 Old Presidio Traders
36 Purcell Galleries
53 The Shops at Tubac Plaza
54 Tubac House
47 Galeria de la Vega
51 ZForrest
45 minutes south of Tucson
PLAZA ROAD
105 Casa Maya
101 El Rincon
102 La Viña
106 Lee Blackwell Studio
99 Michael’s of Tubac
95 Old Tubac Inn
100 The Red Door Gallery
103 Sonora Trading Co.
97 Tubac Center of the Arts
104 Tubac Ironworks
96 Tubac Old World Imports
98 Tubac Territory
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El Presidito
65 Carol St. John
65 Linda Boylan
65 Kingston Studio
65 Wolf Den Gallery
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CALLE IGLESIA
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53 Alan’s Imports
80 Country Shop
83 Galileo Antiques & Otherwiz
81 Graham Bell Gallery
85 Jane’s Attic
82 La Tienda de Oaxaca
84 Out of the Way Galleria
86 Paws Here
84 Soulistic Medical Institute
84 Spirit Steps Tours
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Placita de Anza
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Tubac
Presidio
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Historical
Park
BURRUEL STREET
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132 Designs in Copper
135 Gallery 219
134 Cowgirl Ugly
133 South of the Border
131 Tubac Country Inn
132 Tubac Furniture
130 Tubac Trailer Tether
OLD TOWN
72 Aldea de Artisticas
73 Anza Inn
73 Floating Stone
67 Hugh Cabot Gallery
68 Intricate Mosaics
72 Kristine White
74 La Paloma de Tubac
72 Paula Kjorlie
75 St. Ann’s Church
70 Sculpture Garden
66 R Van Reyper Studio
71 Tubac Secret Garden Inn
68 Tubac Villager
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County adopts 4-day work week
Santa Cruz County government on Sept.
15 implemented a four-day work week
for many of its operations at the county
complex, located north of Mariposa Road
and east of Interstate 19 in Nogales.
Deputy County Manager Carlos Rivera
said the reason was to save money during
a time when state revenues are dropping.
County offices are open Monday through
Thursday, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. There is
limited assistance to residents on Fridays
at the county complex.
The change is for offices on the lower
floor of the complex. It doesn’t impact
the county court system, clerk of Superior
Court or the office of the County
Attorney. The sheriff ’s office is not affected
either.
The offices involved include the Assessor,
Treasurer, Public Fiduciary, School
Superintendent, Emergency Services,
Health, Building Codes, Planning and
Zoning, Public Works, Central Permits,
Finance and the Board of Supervisors.
Rivera said the Recorder’s Office will
continue as is until after the Nov. 4
General Election. At that time they will
change over to the same schedule as all
other lower level departments.
On Fridays, one person representing
each office works from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
in the county complex in the Emergency
Operations Room, Room 109.
Rivera said the telephone numbers
for each office are forwarded by each
department to that one office, so people
can continue to dial direct lines or can call
the main county number of (520) 375-
7800.
82-home project is reviewed
The Santa Cruz County Planning and
Zoning Commission gave unanimous
approval on Sept. 25 to a new residential
project planned for a 40-acre parcel of
land on the west frontage road in Tubac,
between Exits 32 and 40.
Gary Brasher and David Grounds of
Dorn Homes are partners and plan
to build 82 homes. Larger homes on
one-acre lots will be placed around the
perimeter and in the interior they plan
attached patio homes. The developers
will install underground utilities and will
build a constructed wetlands wastewater
treatment plant, Brasher said. There will be
a small community center building with
an exercise room, as well.
He told commission members the homes
will be certified energy efficient. There will
also be steps taken to reduce rainwater
run off so that flooding doesn’t occur on
the opposite side of Interstate 19 in the
Belderrain Wash.
Several of the commissioners praised
Brasher for the planning aspects of
the project, and asked aloud why other
developers can’t provide the same high
quality. They said they liked the lower
density, the wastewater treatment, and the
energy-efficient homes.
In two separate votes, the commission
voted 7-0 to approve the tentative plat,
and to recommend approval to the Board
of Supervisors for the development
guidelines and final plan.
Border Patrol checkpoint oversight
Members of the Coalition for a Safe and
Secure Border, a Tubac and Green Valley
area group which was active a year ago, is
reforming, said Gary Brasher.
Brasher gave an update at the Sept. 15
meeting of the Santa Cruz Valley Citizens
Council in Tubac. He said the group is
opposed to plans by the Border Patrol
to construct a permanent checkpoint for
immigration and drug interdiction on
Interstate 19 between Tubac and Amado.
He said group members developed a
presentation that was given several times
in the summer of 2007 and they are in the
process of “modifying and updating” it.
The presentation gives a range of options
that could be used by the Border Patrol in
place of a permanent checkpoint.
An informational meeting was scheduled
on Sept. 29, after deadline for this issue
of the Tubac Villager. Brasher said that
for more information, anyone can call his
office at (520) 398-8374. Other contacts
include Carol Cullen, (520) 398-2704 or
Jim DiGiacomo at (520) 625-7575.
Giffords acts on checkpoint
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords,
whose District 8 includes Tubac, Amado
and Green Valley, released information
on Sept. 26 regarding her concerns about
the Border Patrol’s Interstate 19 proposed
permanent checkpoint between Tubac and
Amado.
Ron Barber, Giffords’ district director, said
she had the following language, which
insists on a delay in developing plans
for the checkpoint, included in the U.S.
House of Representatives Appropriations
bill.
“The Committee directs CBP (Customs
and Border Protection) to not finalize
planning for the design and location of a
permanent checkpoint until the findings
from the completed GAO (Government
Accountability Office) study and data on
the performance of the upgraded interim
checkpoint have been collected and
incorporated into such planning.
“The Committee also directs CBP,
as appropriate, to make all interim
checkpoint performance data available on
an ongoing basis to affected communities
and stakeholders, as part of full and
transparent consultation with the public.”
Also, Giffords was a co-signer on a Sept.
24 letter to Border Patrol Chief David
Aguilar. She and Congressman David
Price, the chairman of the Homeland
Security Appropriations Subcommittee,
insisted that the Border Patrol, by Oct. 10,
2008, give them “a detailed report on all
current and designated funding for, and
the schedule for work associated with a
permanent checkpoint and the improved
interim checkpoint on I-19.” They wrote
that Giffords requested that in a July
phone conversation, and hasn’t received it.
Flood maps are online
Santa Cruz County Flood Control
District recently released preliminary
digital flood insurance rate maps. The
project was started about three years ago.
Anyone interested in how the new maps
might affect property they own can review
the maps. The address is: www.co.santacruz.az.us/flood/DFIRMS/dfirms.html
The maps are available for comment at
this time, and are not to be used for flood
insurance purposes. A note from the
district said that appeals and protests will
be accepted once the 90-day public appeal
period officially opens. The date for the
appeal period is still to be determined and
will be announced and advertised.
(For questions or comments, contact Kathleen
Vandervoet at kathleenvan@msn.com or
(520) 398-2089.)
Mon-Sat 10-5 26 C-1 Tubac Road
Sun 12-5 398-9009
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Tubac Photographer,
Warren Allen
New Faces New Places
Tubac’s Old Town has a new resident artist.
Photographer Warren Allen has brought his
talents and artistic objectives to the Village
and has set up his gallery and studio in the
Historic Lowe House Gallery with Aldea de
Artistica. at 14 Calle Iglesia
Warren comes to us from Tucson most
recently and before that, Oceanside, CA
where he worked and studied various forms
of his art, including the difficult elements of
commercial product photography.
Working from Tucson, Warren says he found
our area while photographing properties for
agents from Nogales to Green Valley.
His area photographs reveal the amount
of ground he’s covered in a short period of
time, as he devotes time and energy into
experiencing our incredible access roads off
into the desert wilderness surrounding Tubac.
As an artist, Warren says, “When I was a kid,
I was in the Mojave Desert and I remember
everything was
perfect. Somewhere
along the line I lost
that,” so now he
looks for it through
a camera. Working
on things without
preconceptions, he
will shoot a photo
at high noon to
capture the hard,
short shadows that
most leave until dusk
softens the mood.
images by Warren Allen
It works.
Some of Warren’s images show what time in
the desert does to human endeavors, simply
framed, without comment or suggestion.
These images tease within me a reminiscence
of the subtle novelty of being a kid on a roadtrip,
in the quiet distance from the roadside
picnic table, where good things are looking to
be found again.
His images are reasonably priced and printed
on-site in his studio on archival paper and
Ultra-Chrome pigment inks, which he
guarantees for life. His framed pieces for
sale are also presented in UV glass to ensure
preservation..
You can visit his studio and gallery at Aldea
de Artisticas in Old Town, Tubac, #72 on the
Tubac Villager map, page 7.
Contact Warren Allen for more information
about his photography art and services by
calling 520-444-6107.
You can learn more about Aldea de Artisticas
online at www.aldea-de-artisticas.com/
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y Joseph Birkett
Southern Arizona’s best bead shop
has moved from its Tubac Road
location to Otero Gallery’s former
spot in the two story gallery and
studio at 5 Hesslebarth Lane,
located just southwest of the
Tubac Center of the Arts, #91
Tubac Villager map, page 7 .
In business in Tubac since 1991,
owner, Margaret Rose moved
recently into the large, 2,300 sq
ft space as she expands her
ever-changing inventory of
semi precious, glass, fire polish,
crystal, hand-made lamp work,
bone and shell beads, and fine
yarns, to now include professional
grade art supplies.
Margaret will be adding to the
variety of art supplies offered
as she arranges art classes
which will begin in January,
in the large, brightly lit studio
above the gallery. Classes will
feature Southern Arizona artist
instructors: Jan Thompson - pastel,
Barbara Borgwardt - watercolor,
Rick Wheeler - scratchboard,
David Simons - oil, Roberta
Rogers - watercolor, Diana
Tollenaar - gourd art, Kim Keast
- encaustic on wood, Neala French
- basics of sculpting clay.
Visit Beads of Tubac online at
www.beadsoftubac.com, or call
Margaret Rose at 398-2070 to
learn more about coming classes,
what art materials she carries, or,
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Gorgeous 41 acre parcel adjoining
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Inground electric to property, well
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take in the fabulous mountain views. 3
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floor plan, hickory cabinets, tile roof, high
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Immaculate 2-story
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Call Meg at 520-603-8752.
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PO Box 1349
Tubac, AZ 85646

y Roseann Hanson
August 31, 1996 – Baboquivari Mountains,
southern Arizona. A hot, muggy summer
day, the best kind, when the normally duncolored
hills are bristling green and alive with
butterflies and flowers and birds, a gift from
what we call monsoon rains. Lifelong cougar
hunter Jack Childs, his wife, Anna Mary, and
hunting partners Matt Colvin and Gavin Weller
were working their hounds in these remote,
rugged mountains two hours southwest of
Tucson. The terrain is so fractured and steep,
it can take hours to cover just a few miles.
The dogs had picked up a scent and were
baying hard up in the oak-and-juniper-dotted
rhyolite crags above. But something sounded
wrong—the dogs were frantic, their calls more
urgent than normal. Two cougars? Cubs?
Scrambling up the scree slopes, the hunters
gained the ridgetop to find their dogs had treed
not the expected mountain lion, but a large male
jaguar—El Tigre stared balefully down at them.
As the legend goes, Jack put down his rifle and
picked up his video camera. And his life was
changed forever.
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On the Jaguar Trail
Cat conservationists come together in the Arizona-Mexico borderlands to find out:
Is North America is ready to ensure a future for our biggest cat?
Panthera onca, the jaguar, is the
largest cat in the Western
Hemisphere. Males average five
to six feet in length and can
top 200 pounds. By contrast,
male cougars in the Southwest
rarely exceed 150 pounds. The
cougar is long and sleek, with
tall legs and a smallish head,
but the jaguar’s blocky head sits
atop powerful shoulders on stocky
legs with large feet. Jaguars are
perfectly suited to climbing, swimming,
and crawling in order to capture their preferred
prey: peccaries, deer, livestock, and even caimans.
Jaguars are “roaring” cats, with a larynx adapted
to make a gutteral, cough-like call that resonates
across even forest landscapes (much like a very
loud leopard’s call).
Like all cats except African lions, jaguars are
solitary, and come together only to mate; females
raise their cubs on their own to an age of about
12 to 18 months. The territories of males might
take in parts of female territories, but males
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don’t share territories—they will
fight to hold their ground. As the
cubs mature, males will disperse
out of their mother’s home
range and strike off to find
their own stomping grounds,
challenging other males
to rights to their land and
females.
Most people relate the jaguar
to tropical Brazil or Belize, where
it has gotten the most press. But
historically the range of El Tigre has
been from the southwestern U.S. to southern
Argentina. A science workshop held in Mexico
in 1999 on the status of the jaguar revealed that
jaguars have been lost from over half their range
since 1900, with most of the loss occurring in
Mexico and the U.S. in the north, and in Brazil
and Argentina in the south. Most of the loss is
due to deforestation, conversion of land to other
uses, and killing of the cats and their prey.
As one of the top predators in our hemisphere,
the jaguar has been a cultural icon for power
and spirituality for millenia. The Maya believed
the jaguar’s spotted coat symbolized the night
sky, while Amazonian people believed them
to be a connection to the spirit world because
of their reflective eyes. The Aztecs fed the
hearts of sacrificial victims to jaguars. Today
the jaguar is a powerful symbol for wildness,
spurring passions across cultural boundaries,
from environmentalists to livestock growers to
scientists to regular citizens. Despite being listed
as an endangered species in the U.S. by the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service in 1997, jaguars are
still in extreme peril, particularly because we
continue to fragment their habitat.
This is what brought ten of us together in May
2008 to learn as much as possible about the
status—and fate—of this incredible predator
that some think might be returning to the
American Southwest.
Our exploratory team comprised myself, a
conservation and business consultant working
in North America and East Africa, along with
my husband, Jonathan Hanson, executive editor
and co-founder of Overland Journal; Scott
Brady, publisher and co-founder of Overland
Journal; Jack Childs, retired land surveyer and
mountain lion hunter; Cathryn Hilker, founder
and director of the Cat Ambassador program
and Angel Fund at the Cincinnati Zoo and
a leader in big cat conservation (particularly
cheetahs); Kathleen Maynard, volunteer with
the Cat Ambassador program and wife of Thane
Maynard, the zoo director; Lily Maynard,
daughter of Kathleen and Thane; Gabriel Paz,
Arizona Game and Fish Department officer;
Marisa Rice, senior hydrologist with Pima
County Water Resources; and Brian DeArmon,
education chairman for the Overland Society,
a new service organization aiding conservation
efforts through education and four-wheel-drive
transport assistance.
Our goal was to explore overland along the
Arizona-Mexico border, visiting key people
involved in conservation, as well as sites where
jaguars have been recorded in the last 14 years
and where conservation efforts are underway—
and where the new border wall has been erected.
We wanted to learn as much as possible about
the natural history of this elusive cat, its habitat,
and interaction with other native wildlife. We
began in Brown Canyon, in the Baboquivari
Mountains opposite the ridge where Jack and
his friends videotaped their first jaguar in 1996.
We were on the Jaguar Trail.
When we picked up the Cincinnati crew at
Tucson International Airport, the weather was
distinctly un-May-like for Arizona: Storm
clouds streamed in from the west on a 40-mph
gale, the temperature hovered at 65 degrees
Fahrenheit, and rain spattered our windshields
as we headed west on Arizona 86.
Brown Canyon was added to the 118,000-acre
Buenos Aires National Wildlife in 1995, and
Jonathan and I were lucky enough to live there
from then until 1998 as volunteer caretakers.
It would be great to return, and show the
team this sub-tropical canyon with Sierra
Madrean influences—tall sycamores, oaks,
junipers, catclaw thickets, agaves and cactuses,
rare reptiles and birds such as vine snakes
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Left: the teams leaves Brown Canyon in the Baboquivari Mountains. Roseann Hanson and Cathryn Hilker inspect a fresh cougar scrape. Center: a close-up of the cat print that gave pause to
the team: big enough for jaguar, but likely cougar. Right: one of 65 photographs of Arizona jaguars captured by remote camera by the Borederland Jaguar Detection Project/Emil McCain.
and gray hawks, and lots of cats, including
jaguar, mountain lion, and bobcat. While we
lived there, we had five visual encounters with
cougars, and regularly tracked a single female
in whose territory we lived. We knew when she
bred, had kittens, and hunted, and found her
kills many times. And we’re certain we heard a
jaguar calling one night in late 1996—though
at the time we did not know what it was, as
Jack’s sighting remained secret for some time.
I hoped to share a glimpse of a cougar with
Kathleen, Lily, and particularly Cathryn, who
has never seen a cougar in the wild, although
she has lots of face-time with cougars: As
the trainer for the Cat Ambassador program,
Cathryn has raised dozens of big cats, from
cheetahs to tigers to ocelots, all of whom
lived at her Ohio farm while learning to be
ambassadors for the zoo’s education program.
Her cougar, Carrie, was one of her first cats.
We set up base camp at the Brown Canyon
Environmental Education Centre, a
comfortable stone lodge in the upper canyon,
just above the creek. That evening we sat
around the fireplace while winds raged in the
canyon walls above and rain fell onto the metal
roof, and talked about how each of us came to
be interested in cat conservation.
“I was a professional horsewoman for years—
fox hunting and training horses—and then I
met a cheetah,” Cathryn said. “It changed my
life. From then on I dedicated my life to that
cat.”
Speaking on the magic of big cats and why
they affect us so much, Kathleen said, “Cats like
cougars and jaguars are the representations of
the ‘wild’ for us humans. A predator is about
life and death. We humans have a primal fear of
predators; as primates we’re genetically coded
for this. Even today we’re no more removed
than we were in the earliest times from this
fear, which is triggered by these predators—and
we’ve dealt with it worldwide by exterminating
them.”
That is the story of the jaguar in Arizona.
In the book Borderland Jaguars: Tigres de la
Frontera, authors Dave Brown and Carlos
A. López González surveyed the last 100
years of documented jaguar sightings—
either photographs or skins. There were 65
occurrences. Three were kittens, and 28 percent
were female, the last of which was killed in the
central White Mountains in 1963. A graph
of the documented occurrences showed that
since 1970, the sightings dropped markedly.
The reason is thought to be that in 1969
the state of Arizona passed a law protecting
jaguars from hunting (including an $850 fine).
Prior to that, jaguars were considered pests
to livestock growing, and hunted for bounty.
So hunting (and thus documentation) both
diminished, but also went secret—it’s unlikely
it ceased altogether. When the Endangered
Species Act was passed in 1972, the jaguar
was listed in Mexico but not in the U.S.,
because it was assumed to be extinct here .
One interesting fact is that there has been no
female documented since 1963, and so it’s still
widely thought there is no breeding population
in Arizona. The nearest confirmed breeding
population is in the western slopes of the Sierra
Madre, around the Ríos Yaqui and Aros, only
about 125 miles due south of Douglas, Arizona.
Jaguars are still being killed at an alarming rate
in Mexico.
The next morning we set out early for a hike
up the canyon, looking for big cats. The sun
had just cleared the canyon wall, and we were
still bundled up against the cold wind and
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Above, left: Macho B. This 13-year-old tigre started it all when his meal on a rocky ridgetop in the Baboquivari Mountains was interrupted by Jack et al in 1996. Center map: our “Jaguar Trail”
took us from Tucson west to the Baboquivari Mountains, on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, east to the Sierrita Mountains, south to the border town of Sasabe, and then back to
Tucson via the town of Arivaca and the famous Ruby Road. Ruby Road and its wildlands provide some of the Southwest’s most scenic overlanding experiences. On National Forest land, the 25
miles wind through rock canyons and oak-dotted hills deep in jaguar country. Four-wheel-drive side roads abound, offering plenty of remote camping and hiking—though it is drug-smuggling
country and camping is probably best closer to Peña Blanca Lake. Contact Coronado National Forest for more information. Right: this map courtesy the Northern Jaguar Project shows the extent
of jaguar sightings, the two newly purchased private and existing federal reserves in Mexico, and suitable jaguar habitat.
catclaw, mimosa, hackberry, and sycamores, we came upon a very
fresh pile of big cat feces (also called scat) in the middle of the
trail—still practically steaming, not more than a few hours old.
A few paces away was a scrape—a pile of leaf litter next to the
trail that cats such as cougars pile up and then urinate on. These
are scent markers or “signposts” to communicate to fellow cats or
other species, particularly about territory boundaries. The top of
the scrape was still wet.
For the rest of the morning we scanned the hills for signs of a
cat, keeping as quiet as possible. Occasionally a few drops of rain
clattered in the trees while the sun played hide-and-seek with
clouds. On the two-mile hike we found no fewer than 15 scrapes
of varying ages, two more older scat piles, and one fallen log that
has lots of claw marks on it—a big-cat scratching post. Lots
of big cat activity—most likely cougar, although jaguar was of
course a possibility, having been previously recorded in this area.
We also saw several white-tailed deer, and sign of javelina—a
favorite jaguar food—and human sign as well. New and heavily
used trails sliced through the rocky hills heading north to a
spring on the other side of the ridge, used by migrants and drug
runners or ‘mules.’
Fourteen years ago there was no migrant activity in the
canyon, but the continued decline in Mexico’s economy and
the commensurate increase in northward migration, as well as
changing Border Patrol enforcement strategies, have forced
more people into the remotest of terrain. Border issues have
ignited passionate wars of words—and physical conflict—in our
region. Millions of people cross the border into the U.S. where
they readily find work; many are aided by people smugglers who
charge as much as $2,500 per person (representing an estimated
$2.5 billion in revenue per year). Drug smuggling is even more
massive, with a smorgasbord ranging from marijuana to heroine
to cocaine, and now meth. Many billions of dollars’ worth of
people and drugs. Border residents are sick and tired of the trash,
the trails, the human waste, the crime. The borderlands swarm
with border agents and their trucks, helicopters, ATVs, check
points and guard towers—all adding to the war zone feeling
along our borders.
And then there is the border fence. Desperate to show some
sort of effort to stem the impossible flood of people and drugs,
Congress passed the Secure Fence Act and President Bush
signed it into to law on October 26, 2006—calling for 698
miles of mandatory fencing along the Mexico border. Although
specific funding for the fence has been delayed, nearly $1.2
billion in Department of Homeland Security funds for “border
security” are available. And in April this year, DHS announced
it would waive more than 30 environmental and cultural laws to
speed construction of the wall. Eighty miles of the 12-foot-tall
steel barrier have already been built in southern Arizona, seven
in the region where the jaguars have been crossing.
“What do you think? Is it cougar?” Cathryn asked Jack Childs.
We were crouched in the mud at the edge of Champurrado
Tank, a large cattle pond on the southern slopes of the Sierrita
Mountains. Two big cat prints nudged the edge of the water,
which was riffling in the breeze.
A long silence. Too long. My heart leaped—jaguar? They were
big, and the central pad very large—one of the characteristics
of jaguar paws. Jack cocked his head. “Probably cougar, a big
one, but see how it’s slid down toward the water, and the mud
exaggerates size.” Jack gave a tutorial to the group on how to tell
different species prints apart, and then we poured a plaster cast
of the print.
Jack and Arizona Game and Fish officer Gabe Paz, who I
have known for 15 years, had met us at the Marley Ranch
headquarters, and we’d bumped over 10 miles of backcountry
ranch roads to the tank and to see several of the 50 hidden
digital motion-sensor cameras that Jack and his partners
maintain throughout the Tumacacori Highlands. Jack is a
member of the collaborative Arizona-New Mexico Jaguar
Conservation Team, which initiated a monitoring project in late
1996 by supplying five remote cameras to him and to Warner
Glenn, a rancher and cougar hunter who also photographed
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Jack and his wife Anna Mary expanded their monitoring efforts
in 2001 to become the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project,
seeded with their own money and later grants from sources such
as the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Phoenix Zoo.
The Jaguar Conservation Team supported the research and the
Arizona Game and Fish Department furnished film, batteries,
and developing for additional camera stations. Game and Fish
officers such as Gabe are invaluable for assisting with landowner
relations, Jack said.
On December 9, 2001, one of the cameras captured an adult
male jaguar in Arizona about 6.5 km north of the Mexican
border. On August 7, 2003, 20 months later, the same jaguar
was photographed again at another monitoring station 6 km
farther north in the same mountain range—jaguars’ spots are
as unique as fingerprints. In 2004, Humboldt State University
graduate student Emil McCain began his masters thesis research
on the project. The effort has since increased from 13 camera
stations to 50, and the search effort encompasses a larger area
of more remote and inaccessible mountains and includes track
and scat collection transects. Between June and December
2004 the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project captured 14
photos of jaguars. To date there have been 89 jaguar ‘events’ (65
photographs and 24 sets of tracks). Jack and Emil have authored
the first comprehensive scientific paper on jaguars at the
northern portion of their range—and were the first to calculate
a jaguar’s home range in the Southwest (525 square miles), as
well as to verify the year-round presence of jaguars in the U.S.
( Journal of Mammology, 89(1):1–10). This is an impressive list
of accomplishments for a true grassroots effort, compared to
the large, staffed organizations that, despite significant funding,
have added little to jaguar science (though plenty to the written
material on the need for jaguar conservation).
Our group hiked up into the brush surrounding the tank, in
a natural terrain “funnel” where one of the trip cameras is
mounted to a tree. Cameras capture everything from migrants
to wildlife deer, skunks, foxes, cougars, black bears, turkeys,
opossum, and bobcats.
“I think there could be a viable Arizona population of jaguars, if
we wanted it,” Jack said. “Obviously, they are here.
The nearest core breeding population is in the Rio
Yaqui, only 150 miles away. One theory (about the
males in Arizona) is that these are ‘surplus’ males
from the core populations, who circulate around
a huge region, from time to time returning to
Mexico.”
Of course, it’s not just about jaguars. The big
spotted cats, Kathleen urges us to remember, are
‘umbrella’ species, meaning if you protect habitat
for an animal that uses such a wide landscape, you
protect many species. Jack said: “If you save the
jaguar, you’ll save the cougar, and the wild turkey,
and the ‘possum. People come to hear me talk
about jaguars, but I end up telling them about
the biodiversity. This jaguar, no matter how much
publicity it gets, is not any more important than the
‘possum.”
Cathryn, with her characteristic disarming
Midwestern directness, got to the main question we’d all been
thinking: “So what about this dumb border fence?”
“The impact of the fence is unstudied,” Jack said. Though
he admitted that the main jaguar, Macho B, has not been
recorded since July last year, when the fence was completed.
The immediate positive effects of the fence have been on the
southern end of the wildlife refuge, keeping out Mexican cattle
and stopping smugglers’ cars, both of which were having a huge
negative impact on the land, according to Fish and Wildlife
biologist Mary Hunnicut, who we had talked with earlier. Mary
admits that the barrier—which is 12 feet tall with tightly spaced
bars—will permanently cut off deer and mammals like cougars
and jaguars that used to use this region.
While we ate lunch in a dense mesquite thicket, our group
talked more about the wall. Cathryn’s work in southern Africa
to save the imperiled cheetah has many parallels, including
barriers. She witnessed first-hand the devastation to wildlife
when massive fence barriers were put up in Botswana, ostensibly
to protect domestic animals from disease . Wildlife died by the
hundreds of thousands, trapped by the fence. Cathryn helped
establish the first cheetah reserves—huge privately owned
ranches—in Namibia. These, and the research, education, and
outreach they provide, have been instrumental in saving one of
Africa’s great cats.
Talk turned to what the immediate future holds for jaguars in
North America. Dave Brown said it well: “We need reservoirs,
not remnants.” Like Cathryn’s Namibian effort, a group called
the Northern Jaguar Project recently raised several million
dollars to purchase two ranches in the Rio Yaqui region where
part of the core breeding population exists—along with ocelots,
river otters, military macaws, and cougars.
“[The jaguar] is a living myth. People can embrace this. There is
a joy of knowing they are here—I’ve never seen a polar bear, but
it gives me great joy to know they are there,” Cathryn said.
“Everything here has a right to be here,” Jack said of the wildlife
of our great borderlands. “God put them here for a reason. We
need to give them a chance.”
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soil looking south into Mexico through the
steel bars of the border wall. It stretches as far
as we can see east and west, 12 feet tall. An
insurmountable, impermeable barrier to all
terrestrial wildlife—the mule deer, pronghorn,
Coues’ whitetail, javelina, cougars, and jaguars.
Not an insurmountable barrier to humans—
where we stand are hundreds of footprints
where people have dropped down into the
U.S. from the top of the fence and rushed off
into the desert grassland to the north, bound
for Phoenix or Chicago or New York, where
plenty of work awaits. The drug smugglers don’t
bother going over; they cart along gas torches.
Humankind has built walls as long as we have
been humans, to keep “undesirables” out—
Hadrian’s Wall, the Great Wall of China; and
to keep people in—the Berlin Wall, the walls of
the Warsaw Ghetto. But they do not work. The
walls always come down.
Our border wall will not last, believes Dr. Peter
Warshall of the Northern Jaguar Project. Like
all others, he said hopefully, it will come down.
But it will take time before any resolution will
solve our border woes enough to bring down
the wall . And by then, will it be too late for
southern Arizona’s jaguars? I am left to wonder
how we can ensure the future of our rarest cat
and its brethren, the cougars and the many
animals of the borderlands, if we do complete
a 700-mile barrier across the borderlands?
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Left: Jack Childs checks one of 50 motion-triggered cameras his team has set up and monitors every six weeks. Center: the 12-foot steel border wall near Sasabe, Arizona.
Right: motion-triggered camera captures a jaguar in southern Arizona (Emil McCain, Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project).
Cast of Cat Characters
Jack Childs
Born in Iowa in 1942, Jack moved to Tucson
with his family when he was nine. After high
school, he worked as a land surveyor until
retiring in 1993. His wife, Anna Mary, is a
retired teacher and avid outdoorswoman,
enjoying riding mules and tracking with
Jack. They have two grown children, 10
grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
The Childs’ encounter with “Macho B” the
jaguar changed their life, catapulting them into
jaguar research in Arizona, in Brazil’s Pantanal,
and Mexico’s Sierra Madre. Jack is author of
Tracking the Felids of the Borderlands. He
and Anna Mary founded the Borderland
Jaguar Detection Project in 2001 and have
conducted jaguar surveillance and research for
the Arizona-New Mexico Jaguar Conservation
Team since 1997. Their book Ambushed on the
Jaguar Trail: Hidden Cameras on the Mexican
Border will be published this year.
Cathryn Hilker
Cathryn Hilker’s life is filled with animals.
Now in her 70s, Cathryn grew up on an
Ohio farm, where she still lives, and is an avid
horsewoman. Adventure has long been in her
blood. In 1955, a year after finishing college,
she took off on a wild drive across the Congo in
a Studebaker pickup, with a baby gorilla in her
lap. As well as raising her son, Carl, she spent
the next several decades training horses and
volunteering at the Cincinnati Zoo. In 1980 she
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Angel the cheetah. The program was
hugely successful; Carrie the cougar
was added, and then a tiger—and the
Cat Ambassador Program was born.
Cathryn continues to lead the program,
raises money for the Angel Fund for
conservation of cheetahs and more, and
zips around Cincinnati in her Subaru
with FELIS 1 plates. On choosing a
life of meaning and adventure, Cathryn
gives sage advice: “All you have to be is
willing to work hard.”
Kathleen and Lily Maynard
Kathleen Maynard is a writer, a film
producer, and the mother of three
daughters. She has studied birds of prey
for 25 years, and big cats, specifically
cheetahs and cougars, for the past eight
years. She tries to teach Cathryn Hilker
about birds of prey in exchange for the
deep and life-changing connections
to a cougar named Sage and a cheetah
named Bravo. She works for the Angel
Fund as a writer and project manager,
and one day hopes to glimpse the rare
Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis)
in the wild. Lily Maynard is an avid
explorer: she has kayaked the Boundary
Waters, hiked and kayaked in Alaska,
and has led hiking and kayaking trips
on Isle Royale and the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan. She “grew up” at the Cincinnati Zoo,
where her father is the director. Lily is studying
biology at Smith College; she drives her
parents’ Subaru Forester but admits one of the
highlights of the Jaguar Trail trip driving Scott
Brady’s cool new Jeep Rubicon.
Macho B
This 13-year-old tigre started it all when his
meal on a rocky ridgetop in the Baboquivari
Mountains was interrupted by Jack et al in
1996. He was not seen again in Arizona until
2004, when he reappeared in a now-famous
photo sequence: The jaguar known as “Macho
A” was photographed on June 25, 2004 at 8:47
pm; four hours later, Macho B passed the same
camera, on the trail of Macho A. Macho A
has not been seen since. Over the next three
years Macho B has provided us with a wealth
of information: he is now at least 13 years old;
his home range is at least 525 square miles; he
is part of a population of jaguars that utilize
southern Arizona up to 50 miles north of the
border in every month of the year; he has been
documented 81 times (57 photos and 24 tracks)
in a wide range of habitats and elevations; and
he is nearly strictly nocturnal. Sadly, Macho B
has not been seen since July 2007. We hope he’s
just enjoying a nuptial-stop down south in one
of the reserves.
This article first appeared in the Summer 2008
Overland Journal. Reprinted with permission from
Roseann Hanson, author and conservation editor
for Overland Journal. For more information visit
www.OverlandJournal.com or call 520-591-1410
Resources:
Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project
swjag.org
Northern Jaguar Project
northernjaguarproject.org
Wildlife Conservation Society and Panthera
Foundation
savethejaguar.com, panthera.org
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Buenos Aires National
Wildlife Refuge
fws.gov/southwest/refuges/arizona/
buenosaires
Coronado National Forest
fs.fed.us/r3/coronado
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Road”)
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He’ll be riding. Across the mountains,
down the valleys, into the canyons, out on the
mesas, day after day, he’ll be riding. He’s hungry,
my God, the hunger, but others do not see it, or if
they do, they write it off, put it on the shelf. Still
the hunger is there and they will one day look
back and say, yes, there was this hunger on his
face. He has just turned eighteen, and his world
has been east, the big city, that big ocean. Nothing
in his years has prepared him for this place. The
sky rolls out an endless blue, the mountains jab at
the horizon, the streams tumble down the canyons
and everything is color, screaming, pure color.
He meets a woman ten years his senior, a young
bride from an old Spanish family, and she teaches
him the horse and then he rides, pack trips that
take days and days, a thin, frail looking eighteenyear-old
relentlessly pushing a horse through this
new country. He astounds others with his sheer
will for movement on a horse. If he is proving
something, he does not say what it is. If he is
learning something, it stays within his mind. He
is friendly and yet there is a silence to him as if he
lives in a place others do not know, a place even
he is barely acquainted with.
He can think very easily and numbers flow through his
mind like water down a river. His name is J. Robert
Oppenheimer and he is American born. Someday,
after these long rides, he’ll be back and the world
will witness a new light and be frightened by the
obliteration of the darkness before dawn.
Earlier visitors sense violence in the air. Often they are
men who do not belong in the place they were born and
so have fled into the wild lands. Around the time of the
American Civil War, travelers into Arizona keep body
and soul together with Pickhandle whiskey, a beverage
fashioned from alcohol, water, cayenne, pepper and
tobacco, the swill stirred with a pick handle. Some
visitors on reaching the Pima villages on the middle
Gila River notice something on the hill above the
floodplain. They climb and find two Apaches on crosses.
They are captives from a raid and have been tied alive
to the crosses with green rawhide. As the leather dries,
it cuts to the bone. As the sun burns in the sky, they
slowly die. Because of the low humidity, the corpses do
not rot but become mummies.
Violence has become life. Between 1491 and 1892,
ninety percent of the native people in the western
hemisphere disappear due to disease, the sword and
deliberate policies of extermination. Between 1491
and today, the land controlled by Native Americans
in the United States shifts from more than 3 million
square miles to around 79,000 square miles.
Plants and beasts have long fought for space and then,
with the migration of humans at some forgotten date,
tribes and finally nations fight for space. The word
native simply means some person or beast or plant
arrives before some other person or beast or plant.
In this arena, there is a belt of ground, a border
country now marked by nations, a dry and trying
place that could be dominated at moments but never
satisfactorily settled. Eventually, those who lord over
this ground, who moved freely through it and put fear
in the hearts of others, are nomadic or semi-nomadic,
men, women and children who shape their lives
around the uncertain rains and the generally scant
plant cover.
Those who defy these realities become ghosts. The corpses
on the crosses by the Gila River can stare south to Casa
Grande, the big adobe house left by earlier settlers
who ceased to matter when the drought came in the
thirteenth century. Ruins stud the region, broken teeth
left by failed hungers.
The Indians know the ground in sharp detail but live
in a world of dreams and enchantment.
Where the boy rides—testing himself and proving that
he can be tough and can suffer—the canyons harbor
ruins left by people who flourished here until some
hard springs came. And then they fled. Always, as he
rides, his eager young flesh brushes against the bones
of failures.
Sycamore canyon comes into my life in my
twelfth year. It is a stone slot knifing five miles
south through the oak hills to Mexico. The dirt
track crawls over the shoulder of the Atascosas. Bear
Canyon opens below, a spot where Yaqui warriors
are caught in the 1920s smuggling guns into
Mexico for the endless wars against outsiders.
In the Apache wars, white men settle at the mouth
of the canyon and then die. The stream purls
along, the banks sporting large sycamores and
cottonwoods. The green breath of the slot inspires
fantasies of bounty. I drink with an old trapper who
once wintered in the canyon murdering bobcats. He
scoffs at the notion that his work could dent their
numbers.
Trogons, that colorful, parrot-like bird, seep into the
canyon from Mexico, as do rosy-throated becards,
five-striped sparrows and hordes of other species.
The canyon hosts bandits, smugglers, drug caravans,
and herds of poor people trekking to the riches of
El Norte. Sometimes gunfire rips the night as men
war over kilos. One exasperated rancher in the area,
after endless cutting of his fence bordering Mexico,
simply puts in a gate for the smugglers’ convenience.
Dawn brings the tolling of the doves, light dancing
on the tops of the cottonwoods while along the
stream cold hangs like a wet sheet. The canyon wren
trills, the tracks of beasts on the soft sands echo the
passing of the night. Moss shelters in the wet places,
the Sonoran chub darts in the pools. The cliffs and
pinnacles always take command of the eye.
Just to the south and east, men found sheets of silver
on the surface of the earth in the early eighteenth
century at a place called Arizonac and this strike,
now lost to memory, lingers on the tongues of
people and becomes the name splattered on an
American state. The slot is a pathway for Apaches
raiding south, for Yaquis during their wars coming
north to buy guns, for Mexican revolutionaries
bartering for supplies.
I am the friend of a man whose grandfather kept
store for less than a year near the canyon during
the Mexican Revolution, a business a few hundred
yards from the border. He took his earnings from
selling produce and dry goods and guns and bought
a ranch of some fifty square miles.
Dreams of power slip through this slot, then fade,
and yet the stone walls remain cool and calm long
after the killing and shouting falls away.
The Mexico of the 1840s had maybe seven million
souls. No one knows the numbers, they have been
lost or doctored. More Blacks came to Mexico in
shackles than Spaniards came as conquerors and
yet the history of Blacks in Mexico has been erased.
The Mexicans face over twenty million Americans,
a nation almost like the Mongol hordes that once
streamed out of the steppes, a restless people
constantly reaching out for new ground, a hungry
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down the gangplanks in eastern cities, refugees from
some place called Europe, ambitious Germans,
famine-starved Irish, all cannon fodder for an
idea they have surely never heard, this Manifest
Destiny, something so natural to the nation that
even a conservative leader and one time president
such as John Quincy Adams notes as early as 1819
that the world will soon have to learn a new fact,
and “be familiarized with the idea of considering
our proper dominion to be the continent of North
America,” and they all mean it, that the great
Jehovah or some other potentate has decreed that
Mexico and Canada are meant to fall under the
heel of the United States, and of course, the heel
is always denied, this mission is simply an effort to
extend the joys of democracy but still, the mission is
there and it is like oxygen, something in the air, not
questioned but simply inhaled.
By the 1860s, General James Henry Carleton can
crush the Navajo with a scorched earth policy, herd
the starving tribe into Bosque Redondo far from
their canyon homes and justify the whole enterprise
by simply stating what to him is obvious: “In their
appointed time, God wills that one race of men—as
in the races of lower animals—shall disappear off
the face of the earth and give place to another race,
and so on in the Great Cycle traced out by Himself,
which may be seen but has reasons too deep to
be fathomed by us. The races of mammoths and
mastodons, and the great Sloths, came and passed
away. The Red man of American is passing away!”
His troops guard the Navajos in their concentration
camp and the soldiers run a fifty percent rate for
venereal disease. The starving Navajo women who
prostitute themselves for food sometimes die from
self-inflicted abortions in order to avoid the shame
of bearing a soldier’s child.
This notion of divine right and might is met with
dismay by some—the London Times argues, “To
assert a prospective dominion over territories
beyond [a nation’s] frontiers, is to confuse and
overthrow the barriers of power, and to hasten the
return of universal war and confusion.”
And Henry David Thoreau squats at Walden Pond
and decides all this is bad and refuses to pay a tax
and is thrown in jail and writes his ideas and he
says, “when a sixth of the population of a nation
which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty
are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly
overrun and conquered by a foreign army,
and subjected to military law, I think that it
is not too soon for honest men to rebel and
revolutionize . . . .” And John C. Calhoun, the
southern man who embodies state’s rights and
the lash, looks at the same facts as Thoreau and
looks at the same Mexican war as Thoreau and
thinks almost the same thought: “Mexico was to
us forbidden fruit; and . . . if we should consume
that fruit, it would be almost tantamount to the
political death of our institutions.”
Ten thousand years ago, the mountains against
Yuma, Arizona had pine and now they are
rock, and cactus and volcanic heat, the small
fort standing at 111 feet above sea level, the
heat so intense soldiers tell tales of a dead man
who came back from Hell the following day to
get his blankets for his new billet, and armies
move through in 1846 as the theater of empire
is played out in this Mexican war, a clash of
cultures, to be sure, what with the Mexican
army having 20,000 soldiers and yet listing in
its records 24,000 officers, and the U.S. forces
being a mob of some regular army and the
rest, volunteers under elected officers. Of the
sixty-two volunteer colonels in the war, only eleven
had any military training. They are men subject to
strong passions and little discipline—on the fourth
of July 1846, a Texas Ranger unit in Mexico salutes
patriotism with two horse buckets of whiskey and
some pigs and chickens “accidentally killed while
firing in honor of the day.” And somehow by hook
or crook, or what they see as the grace of God, they
keep winning battle after battle until they peel off
from Mexico half of its territory—in the main, a
paper Mexico with almost no Mexicans—places
now called California (16,000 Mexicans) or Arizona
(5000 Mexicans), or New Mexico and chunks
of Utah and Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming, a
huge grab of land and all because many Americans
cannot imagine a future without ground for farmers
who will till the soil and be free and safe from
the horrors of big cities and so empire comes into
being in part because of dream forged by Thomas
Jefferson so long ago, a dream built on the hatred of
empire. And it came to pass because of deception by
the president of the United States, James K. Polk,
who insists it is about Mexican troops violating
the border by crossing the Rio Grande when
every previous U.S. administration has seen the
line between Texas and Mexico proper as the Rio
Nueces. But behind this lie is a greater lie: the war is
not about the Texas boundary but a pretext to annex
New Mexico (Arizona was then simply a slab of it)
and of course, California.
The Spaniards and Mexicans claimed this ground
but left it largely alone and seldom lived there or
held sway. The tribes came and went and killed and
surged and then receded as they, too, sought to say
this belongs only to us and then found that others
held the same idea and were willing to use force.
So this ground of Apaches and Comanches and
Tohono O’odham and Maricopas and many other
peoples is hardly a thought, just a happenstance in
seizing the Pacific coast and the key port on the
western coast of both continents, San Francisco, for
the dreams of the China Market.
When the war with Mexico ends, the United States
has added a chunk that finally makes it about the
size of the Roman Empire or the imperial domain
of Alexander the Great.
So I have come down to this slot in the earth, a
place called for the moment Sycamore Canyon,
since I was twelve-years-old and it is the natural
area, the refuge for the plants and beasts, the place
where the song of the canyon wren hangs in the
still air of morning, splashes of green, cool shadows,
the pad of the bobcat and now, in the night, the
movement of drugs and people, and all this in land
stolen in a war and now certified as the property of
the United States but once again the ground is in
play because that is the nature of the zone of dust
and heat regardless of the claims of nations.
continued on page 35...

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The Borderlands Photographer
Box Canyon
Area, Part 1
by Murray Bolesta
First, the not-so-good news: the northern Santa Rita
Mountains are threatened by a proposed open-pit copper
mine which southern Arizona residents don’t want.
Now, the better news: “Save the Scenic Santa Ritas” is a nonprofit
organization that is working to protect our local mountains
from environmental degradation caused by mining and mineral
exploration activities.
According to the group’s brochure, “the Rosemont Valley in
the northern Santa Ritas is threatened by the Rosemont Mine
proposal. The Patagonia Mountains are threatened by extensive
open pit mining at numerous proposed sites around the areas of
Harshaw and Duquesne. The San Rafael Valley is being explored
for copper deposits at the headwaters of the Santa Cruz River.”
Getting involved is easy by surfing to www.ScenicSantaRitas.org
You, the borderlands photographer, prefer an untrammeled
natural world, an unspoiled mountain experience within easy
driving distance. You prefer open roads, open vistas, dark skies,
quiet solitude, and plentiful wild nature to the vile alternatives.
The northern Santa Rita Mountains have a convenient access to
all that good stuff which still exists. It’s called Box Canyon, or,
more specifically, Forest Road 62 which traverses the northern
Santa Ritas through Box Canyon and environs.
This month’s article skims above the rocks and trees of this area
and talks about the broad expanse of attractions beckoning the
borderlands photographer. Next month, with any luck, I’ll be back
and delve deeper into the canyon and observe nature more closely.
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side via a turnoff north of Sonoita on
State Highway 83, Box Canyon Road is
the scenic avenue over the northern Santa
Rita Mountains.
On the west end of the canyon is the
entrance to the famous Madera Canyon
and a dramatic view of Elephant Head;
on the west end are the heritage sites of
Kentucky Camp and Empire Ranch.
To the north of the canyon, the
mountains of the Santa Ritas, smaller in
scale than the central range, are flanked
by ribbons of grass-covered hills. The
diverse and challenging Arizona Trail cuts
through this area on its way north to Utah
and south to the international border.
According to the Arizona Trail
Association www.aztrail.org, the trail is an
800+ mile scenic pathway linking deserts,
mountains, canyons, communities and
people, and is about 94% complete. Trail
signs exist on our Forest Road 62, but
they’re small and easily missed without
using a map from the website or elsewhere.
Motorists often discover the
canyon road by veering left
instead of right as they approach
Madera Canyon from Green
Valley. Leaving the desert scrub
on the west, they’ll find a very
different scene on the other side,
one of grassy ranchland at about
1,100 feet higher elevation.
It’s quite a distance from
the Madera Canyon Road
(otherwise known as
Whitehouse Canyon Road)
turnoff to Box Canyon itself.
In the meantime you’ll
pass through the Santa
Rita Experimental Range,
administered by the University
of Arizona.
Crossing the creek bridge is
when you begin the actual
canyon experience. The dirt
road thus far is usually smooth,
except after heavy rains, but it
starts to get narrow and rocky
here.
Images:
Above, left - The view to the west when
exiting the canyon is of Baboquivari
Peak in the far distance.
Above, right - A profusion of prickly
poppies greets the photographer heading
to the canyon from the west.
Middle - The aerial view of the
northern Santa Rita Mountains looking
south at Mt. Wrightson, at top left, with
Box Canyon the cut in the ridge at top
center. The entire area at right center
could be devastated by open pit mining
unless we act with urgency.
Bottom - A late afternoon shot of Box
Canyon, center of image, from Green
Valley.
Next page - A trail runs through it: the
Arizona Trail can be accessed at many
points throughout the east flank of the
mountains.

A driver of a regular sedan can negotiate the
canyon road adequately but should use a slow
speed due to rocks. Then, some real care is
needed while negotiating a few narrow sections
of road which can be precarious.
The borderlands photographer, experienced
and wise, knows that to stop on a road of this
type for picture-taking, he or she must choose
a wide section and carefully park the car in a
safe place which can be seen easily from both
directions.
The gorge is a dramatic rocky one with a few
cottonwoods and sycamores lining the bottom.
Water runs through it from time to time. The
canyon slopes are steep and alive with agaves.
Turning your head back towards the west
will afford you wide-open views of the Santa
Cruz River Valley area, and well beyond to
the horizon defined by the sacred Baboquivari
Peak. Even on a moderately hazy day it’s easy
to see the entire 45-mile distance.
Farther east, the road leaves the dangerous
curves behind and flattens into charming
ranchland. The horizon to the east is
dominated by the Whetstone Mountains.
Numerous destinations in this area include
the historic Empire Ranch House and Las
Cienegas National Conservation Area, the
bountiful Gardner Canyon area with the Cave
of the Bells, an active Cistercian Abbey (really),
and Kentucky Camp, home of one of the
largest restored adobe buildings in the state.
And of course, there is access to the Arizona
Trail.
As a gateway to these great east-side
destinations, as well as to the much-loved
Madera Canyon to the west, Box Canyon is
truly the gateway to the northern Santa Ritas.
Next month we’ll get closer to these treasures
sought by so many borderlands photographers.
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Friends of Charlie #1:
The Amazing Herman Ehrenberg
by Mary Bingham
Periodically this column will feature
men important to the history of Tubac
during the early territorial period. The
years 1854 to 1861 brought together a group of
amazing men from diverse backgrounds. Each
contributed something to the history of Tubac
and the Territory of Arizona, if only for a short
time. All were friends of Charles D. Poston.
Herman Ehrenberg is one such man. In
Tubac the name Ehrenberg rings a bell with
a few history buffs, but for most he is merely
a footnote in history usually associated with
Charles D. Poston, the self anointed “Father
of Arizona.” Amazingly Ehrenberg’s exploits
extend far beyond Tubac or the little town that
bares his named on the Arizona-California
border. Today his name appears in the dusty
archives of his native Prussia (present-day
Germany), Texas, California, Baja California,
the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and Tahiti. His
books, mining reports and articles were much
acclaimed and reside in the top historical and
university libraries in the United States and
worldwide.
Within a year of Ehrenberg’s 1834 arrival in
the United States, he became involved in the
struggle for Texas independence. Ehrenberg was
the third man to volunteer for the New Orleans
Greys, a military force recruited by Adolphus
Sternes in Louisiana.
December 1835 found Ehrenberg’s company
involved in guerrilla warfare, going from house
to house in Bexar (present-day San Antonio)
until they successfully captured the city and
the old Franciscan Mission of San Antonio de
Valero better known as the Alamo. The Alamo
would play a tragic roll in Texas history a few
months later, however after the withdrawal
of Mexican troops in December, a small
detachment of the Greys, including Ehrenberg,
spent the winter within the protective walls of
the old Alamo.
Under the command of Colonel James W.
Fannin, Ehrenberg and the Greys marched to
Goliad. Overwhelmed by the Mexican forces
of General José Urrea, over 300 defeated and
wounded American men were imprisoned within
the walls of a small chapel located inside the
presidio of Goliad. After eight days, on March
27, 1836, an estimated 324 prisoners were
executed on orders from the Mexican president,
Antonio López de Santa Anna.
On that horrific day, the prisoners were marched
out of Goliad and divided into three different
groups, each taking a different road. Ehrenberg’s
group, surrounded by Mexican troops, took
the road toward Victoria. They assumed they
would be placed on a ship, and sent back to New
Orleans. However, Ehrenberg’s suspicions were
soon aroused and he feared the worse. He tossed
his personal items to a couple of the Mexican
soldiers marching next to him and knew they
were in trouble when the Mexican commander
called halt and led them off the road near the
San Antonio River. In the distance they heard a
musket volley and then another from a different
direction. It was too late. The other two groups
were being executed and Ehrenberg’s group was
next!
Miraculously, Ehrenberg was not hit by the first
volley of musket balls. Thick black smoke from
the gunpowder provided cover and he headed for
the river. Chased down by a Mexican lieutenant
Ehrenberg received two blows from his lance.
Fighting for his life, he was able to overcome
his attacker, escape to the river and swim to the
other side. Fortunately his lance wounds were
minor.
Making his way across county while trying to
avoid the Mexican troops, Ehrenberg finally
reached the Mexican camp of General Urrea. In
a bold move he entered the camp and demanded
to see the general. He managed to pass himself
off as a Prussian traveler and remained in camp
with them for over a month. Ehrenberg found
another New Orleans Grey at the camp. Upon
the defeat of General Santa Anna, the two
escaped and headed for Matagorda where Texas
troops were in control. Ehrenberg received an
honorable discharge from the Army of the
Republic of Texas on June 2, 1836 and made his
way back to New Orleans.
Returning to Prussia in 1840, Ehrenberg
sought higher education in the field of mining,
reportedly at the prestigious Freiburg University.
While in his homeland, he wrote a book on his
experiences in Texas. The English translation of
the title is The Fight for Freedom in Texas in the
Year 1836. It became a bestseller and helped to
instill a love of the American West in the hearts
and minds of the Germans, a fascination that
still lives today.
Upon Ehrenberg’s return to the United States
in 1844, he was ready for another adventure. He
signed on with a large wagon company headed
for Oregon over the newly blazed Oregon Trail.
The company was captained by Nathaniel Ford
and led by the well-known former mountain
man, Moses “Black” Harris. Ehrenberg remained
in Oregon for about a year.
1845 found him sailing on board the Chenamus
from the Columbia River to the Sandwich
Islands (Hawaii). The passenger list shows
that he was 29 years old and his occupation-
-surveyor. Once in Honolulu, the local
government requested that Ehrenberg survey the
streets and draw up a map of the city. The map is
dated, Honolulu, Oahu, S.I., October 1, 1845.
From Hawaii, Ehrenberg seems to have made a
grand tour of the South Pacific islands including:
the Marquesas, Samoa and the Society Islands.
In Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia, he became
the favorite of Queen Pomare IV, ruler of the
island.
Adventure beckoned and Ehrenberg joined
a trading expedition going to Baja California
and South America. In Valpariso, Chile he
met Colonel J. D. Stevenson who was forming
a regiment with the intent of taking over
possession of California from the Republic of
Mexico. Was Ehrenberg about to participate
in another war of independence—this time
for California? Nothing seems to have come
from this association. However, while returning
to San Francisco, Ehrenberg helped to rescue
seven American naval officers and Marine
privates being held by Mexican officials in Baja
California on March 16, 1848.
Arriving in San Francisco later that year,
Ehrenberg was one of the early participants in
the California gold rush. He was prospecting
the Trinity Valley when it was decided that a
seaport closer to their valley was needed. In
February 1850 with Ehrenberg leading the
group, they sailed north along the California
coast and discovered the mouth of the Klamath
River. Disembarking near Rocky Point [close to
present-day Crescent City], eight members of
the group traveled overland till they located the
mouth of the river and established contact with
the local Indians, the Yurok. After several hours
of tension, Ehrenberg and his men convinced the
natives to take them across the river where they
laid out preliminary plans for a new town site.
On August 15,1850 the San Francisco Weekly

Pacific News, a newspaper published
and distributed for Pacific steamboat
passengers, printed a “Map of the Klamath
Gold Region” drawn by H. Ehrenburg
[sic]. The publication of the map coincided
with a second survey made by Ehrenberg
and partner, A. Sydney Myers. This survey
was for the creation of a town site to be
called Klamath and the opening of the
duo’s new real estate office! Ehrenberg
continued to map the gold regions of
California over the next couple of years.
Ehrenberg probably became acquainted
with Charles D. Poston in 1853 and
Poston was likely aware of Ehrenberg’s
abilities as a cartographer and his
background in mining. The two headed
up an expedition to the newly acquire
Gadsden Purchase in February 1854.
Surviving a shipwreck, they were able
to travel through Sinaloa and Sonora,
Mexico over a three-month period.
They finally crossed into the Gadsden
Purchase in early July where they spent
approximately two weeks including one
week in Fort Yuma. Whether they stopped
in Tubac on this expedition is in question.
While in Yuma, Ehrenberg’s mapping
skills came into play as he drew up plans
for a new town site called Colorado City
[present-day Yuma, Arizona]. Ehrenberg
& Poston were able to sell shares in the
new town site, which helped to replenish
their depleted funds for their return to
San Francisco.
The commander of Fort Yuma, Major
Samuel Heintzelman, was interested in
their plans for Colorado City and even
more interested in their plans for starting
a mining company in the Gadsden
Purchase. It is not clear if the name Tubac
was brought up at this time. The three
would be instrumental in the beginnings
of the mining industry in Arizona with
the establishment of the Sonora Exploring
and Mining Company (SE&MC) in the
Santa Rita Mountains east of Tubac and
the Santa Rita Mining Company.
Ehrenberg’s reputation as a cartographer
grew when he made the first map of the
Gadsden Purchase in 1854. The map was
put into immediate use by the military.
Over the next few years, he served as
the mining and topographical engineer,
metallurgist, surveyor, cartographer
and interpreter for the SE&MC. His
mining reports and articles written
for various publications were much
The Amazing Herman Ehrenberg
admired. Ehrenberg revised and updated
his Gadsden Purchase map in 1858.
Resigning from the SE&MC, Ehrenberg
traveled east to promote the map and
obtain financing for his own company
named the Cahuabi Mining Co.
Ehrenberg remained associated with the
SE&MC, sharing a house in Tucson in
1860 with J. Deane Alden, treasure of the
company. The following year Ehrenberg
and Poston published one final edition
of the Arizonian on August 10, 1861.
Historian Virginia Roberts sums up their
publication by saying:
It contained an enumeration of the
killings and other unnatural deaths of
Americans and Mexicans in “Western
Arizona”—that is, from Stein’s Peak on
the east to Fort Yuma on the west—
between 1857 and August 1, 1861, so
far as the two men were aware. The total,
172, amounted to almost a fourth of the
non-Indian population which Ehrenberg
estimated the region to have averaged
during that time. He guessed that whites
had killed about 265 Apaches. ‘Every mine
has been batised [sic] in blood,’ the writers
continued. ‘What country and business
can prosper under such monstrous
adversity? And what man would settle his
family in these blood-drenched valleys?’
The final phase of Ehrenberg’s career
centered around the gold discoveries on
the Colorado River. First discovered by
the legendary mountain man, Pauline
Weaver, on January 12, 1862, Ehrenberg
was in the thick of things, locating, and
promoting land and mines. Establishing
his headquarters in La Paz, north of Yuma
he worked to make the area a worldclass
mining district. In spite of the Civil
War raging in the east, and with Indian
hostilities at an all time high, Ehrenberg
was able to blaze a new road between La
Paz and Weaver Diggings. The only thing
that was lacking was water and he had a
plan for that, too. It would have to wait.
The end for Ehrenberg came in a most
unexpected way for a man who had fought
to survive all of his life. Returning from
San Francisco, Ehrenberg stopped at the
desert stage stop known as Dos Palmas
near present-day Palm Springs. Opting to
spend the night at the station, he sackedout
on a pallet beneath a ramada next to
the station. On October 9, 1866 sometime
during the night Ehrenberg was attacked
and killed. His body was discovered by
“Big Mike” Goldwater and bother Morris.
Controversy has surrounded his death
ever since. Some speculate that it was
the station keeper who killed him, while
others, including the station keeper, blame
his death on a deranged but unknown
local Indian. The case was never solved.
Ehrenberg’s old friend, Charles Poston,
spent the night on the same pallet the
night before the murder. It is possible their
paths crossed somewhere on the same
road without either knowing the other was
traveling in the opposite direction. Poston
let it be known to all that he thought the
station keeper, a man named Smith, was
to blame.
Two year later, in 1868, the Colorado
River changed course, isolating
Ehrenberg’s last hometown of La
Paz. Living in La Paz at the time
was Ehrenberg’s old friend Big Mike
Goldwater. He moved the business
downstream and named the new
community Ehrenberg.
If Poston was the “Father of Arizona,”
then perhaps it can be said, Ehrenberg
put Tubac and Southern Arizona on the
map. Goldwater provide one more honor
by adding the name Ehrenberg to the map
of Arizona, a fitting tribute to the history
making cartographer.
Sources:
- Altshuler, Constance Wynn (editor), Latest from Arizona! The
Hesperian Letters, 1859-1861. Tucson: Arizona Pioneer’s
Historical Society, 1969.
- Farish, Thomas Edwin, History of Arizona. San Francisco, The
Filmer Brothers Electrotype Company, 1915.
- Ornish, Natlie, Ehrenberg: Goliad Survivor, Old West Explorer.
Dallas: Texas Heritage Press, 1993.
-Poston, Charles D., Building a State in apache Land. Tempe:
Aztec Press Inc., 1963.
- Roberts, Virginia Culin, With Their Own Blood: A Saga of
Southwestern Pioneers. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University
Press, 1992.
-Wallace, Andrew (editor), Pumpelly’s Arizona... Tucson: The
Palo Verde Press, 1965.
- The Overland Monthly, August 1868. San Francisco: A.
Roman & Company, Publishers.
- Handbook of Texas Online. http://www.tshaonline.org/
handbook/online/articles/EE/feh1.html
- Flora, Stephenie, (compiler), “Emigrants to Oregon in 1844.”
http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1844.htm
- “Morris Goldwater Collection.” www.ahfweb.org/download/
MGoldwater_MSS_8.pdf
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It was Tubac’s working artists during the 1950’s,
60’s and 70’s who contributed to the creation of
the tradition of “Where Art and History Meet.”
That tradition is a large part of the foundation for
the Tubac we know today.
Some regard the contributions of the artist colony
as the goose that laid the golden egg. Some feel
that goose is being plucked of its vitality.
In early 2006, at a gathering of a few remaining
Old Town Tubac working artist property owners,
members of the group expressed concerns about
the health of Tubac’s working artist community,
and, expressed fears about their ability to continue
to live and sustain themselves here due to
escalating costs and, sadly, the loss of their fellow
working artist residents.
The lack of affordable living, studio and exhibition
space was identified as a major cause for these
losses. The high costs—then and more so now--
of rents, land and buildings are making it difficult
for them and near impossible for professional,
up and coming artists to consider relocating to
Tubac. This lack of affordable living/studio/gallery
space is, in their view, minimizing the opportunity
for new artists to replenish the artist colony and
jeopardizing the community’s future.
Some of Tubac’s earlier residents saw the dilemma
coming.
Will Rogers Jr. along with his wife Collier
were significant contributors to the historic
preservation of Old Town Tubac in the late 1950s
to the early 1980s and to the “Where Art and
History Meet” tradition. In a 1986 interview,
(available at the Tubac Historical Society) Rogers
shared his concerns: “The people have expressed
to me that they worry because the ground is so
expensive, and buildings are expensive, how good
young artists can manage to come in here.”
Painter and ceramicist Susi Hesselbarth, along
with her husband Jarl--sculptor and metal
worker—both from New York state, were among
the early recruits to the Tubac artist colony. Susi
passed away a few years back but her painted tile
street signs remain at Tubac’s intersections to
remind us of just one of her many contributions.
Susi also expressed worry about the future of
Tubac’s artist community in a 1985 interview.
(Available at the Tubac Historical Society) Susi
observed then that, “For a young leather worker
to come in, or for a young man who makes
jewelry or a young potter… there’s nothing to
rent. Who has the money now to buy land? To
buy the house? To set themselves up in business?
Not many of the young ones are that affluent, so
that’s a problem….”
A problem indeed.
Adding fuel to the fire, beginning in the mid-
1980’s, the model of the resident artist living,
working and exhibiting in one space gave way
to focusing on new construction primarily for
commercial or retail use, further diminishing
space for affordable housing for working artists.
As a result, costs for housing, studio space and
exhibition space increased dramatically and grew
out of reach for most professional working artists.
Today, there are only four active working artists
in Old Town Tubac, - two of whom own their
buildings - and two or three living/working/
exhibiting in one location they own in the balance
of the village.
The ability of the Tubac working artist sector to
survive and to be contributory to the economic
viability , panache and uniqueness of the broader
community is seriously marginalized.
The plight of Tubac’s working artists is not unlike
that of many established “artist colonies” and
districts across the country—and closer to home
such as in Sedona and Tucson.
In a 2004 article entitled “Building Roots: The
Installation of Chicago Artists Community”
by Abby Glogower, the author identified the
chronology that has plagued existing artist
colonies .
It’s a familiar pattern: … energetic artists seeking
work space and cheap rent disperse into devalued
communities. With them they bring an attractive
cultural wealth. As people rediscover these areas
through art openings and other events, the
landscape begins to change. An organic grocery,
a coffee shop and a bookstore spring up. The
neighborhood gains a reputation as young and
vibrant and the market responds one incremental
rent rise at a time. Within a few years, the very
artists who carved out the niche find themselves
financially squeezed, but they are not the
only ones; the preexisting communities, often
comprised of families far less mobile than young
artists, are also pushed from their homes. Unable
to keep up with soaring rents and the influx of
newcomers, the cycle of gentrification and forced
migration haunts urban existence.
(www.Fnewsmagazine.com/2004-Nov/
current/2004-nov/pages/1.shtml)
While Tubac is by no means urban, the track
of its artist community unfortunately fits the
description.
But, it’s not all bad news for working artists. In
some communities—from ruralesque
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western states to large growing cities and small
depressed rural villages—existing working artist
communities are being shored up and working
artists themselves recruited by savvy community
leaders interested in deriving the economic
benefits and community revitalization resulting
from a healthy and vital artist community.
In an economic impact study of the importance of
the artist sector to the economic well-being of the
state of Montana, it was determined that the state
derived $233 million and 4,274 jobs as a direct or
indirect result of the state’s 5,840 working artists. 1
Phoenix acknowledged that arts and cultural
organizations are an “economic driver” with a
$361 million annual economic impact. They
confirmed that artist activity generates state and
city tax revenue, and pumps vital income into
local restaurants, hotels, retail stores…and other
businesses. 2
For the 15, 500 residents of Brown County,
Indiana, their 100-year old art colony, 240
resident artists and more than 300 art studios,
galleries and specialty shops, and their state park
attract over 3.5 million visitors a year.
With all these findings confirming the economic
impacts of their artist sectors, it is no wonder
community leaders are revving up their marketing
strategies to both hold on to existing and support
expansion of their artist communities.
Some cities and towns are going so far as to
recruit artists, some taking into account the
crucial factors—affordable housing/working and
exhibition space and an artist-friendly community.
Among them are Paducah, Kentucky which
claims to have had a successful campaign to
attract working artists who have relocated there
from 17 states, including Arizona.
For the most part, it’s been the sound fiscal
choices of municipalities and states who have
taken the lead in pro-economic development
measures to provide affordable live/work
ownership opportunities and bolster artistfriendly
options. However, in recent times,
support for artists in the context of broader
economic development has leapt the fence
to private sector development. Milepost 5 in
Portland Oregon, Acme Artists Housing in
Chicago, Surreal Estates in Sacramento are a few
private sector artists’ villages that are leading the
way.
Now Tubac has its own boost for the revitalization
of its artist community on the drawing boards—
Aldea de Artisticas—working artists village in
Old Town Tubac.
I was among my dear fellow resident working
artists in 2006 who shared our feelings of the
loss and squeeze. As the daughter of Hans and
Marion Valentine, two of the early artists who
contributed to the creation of Tubac’s artist colony
and community from the 1965 to 1994, I am
fortunate to be able to do something about it.
My experiences during the beginnings and heyday
of Tubac’s creative enclave contribute to my
appreciation, sense of privilege and responsibility
and passionate commitment to secure and
enhance the integrity and economic viability of
“Tubac: Where Art and History Meet.”
Since 2006, with the participation of landowners
abutting my property, support and participation
of neighbors and fellow working artists,
guidance from Santa Cruz County Planning
and Development staff, and technical and
design support from engineers and architects,
the expansion plan for Aldea de Artisticas is
on the drawing boards. Scheme 20 represents a
thoughtful, compliant, and purposeful approach to
enhancing and securing the tradition of “Tubac;
Where Art and History Meet” - in a caring,
responsive, affordable (to artists), green and
sustainable way.
On Sunday, Oct. 19, in conjunction with Tubac’s
Anza Days Celebration and after the reenactment
at the Tubac Presidio State Historic
Park, Aldea de Artisticas will be celebrating “Art
& History—Live in Old Town Tubac” with an
open house in the gallery from 1-4 p.m, featuring
the work of current Aldea de Artisticas resident
working artists—Warren Allen and Martita,
photographers and fine crafts persons, and Mike
Taylor, sculptor—a walking tour of Old Town
Tubac guided by me at 2 p.m., and an opportunity
for the broader Tubac community to view the
Aldea de Artisticas plans—a work in progress—
as well as to provide input and to share the vision.
For more information, on the Aldea de Artisticas
plans and “Art & History—Live in Old Town
Tubac”, call 520-245-9222.
Sources
art.mt.gov/resources/econartists/econartists_
eimpacts.asp
phoenix.gov/ARTS/artplan.html
goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4969926/Anartful-approach-Brown-County.html
lowertownartdistrict.com/
milepostfive.com
acmeartists.com
surrealestates.org
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American Zinfandel
Searching for a good, easy drinking, and
affordable wine? Try the not so American,
“American Zinfandel”.
Up until 1967, Zinfandel had been considered
an indigenous American grape. That year, a
Professor at UC Davis, while visiting Italy,
noticed a similarity between the American
Zinfandel and the Italian Primitivo. To an
academic, the question begged to be answered.
Was this just a coincidence or is there a deeper
connection? Others at UC Davis also noticed
the similarity and joined in the research to
determine just how far this resemblance went.
After five years of exhaustive study, it was
declared in1972 that the American Zinfandel
and the Italian Primitivo had the same isozyme
fingerprints (molecular markers). Then, in
1993 this finding was confirmed using DNA
fingerprinting technology. Our American
Zinfandel is genetically the same as the Italian
Primitivo with origins in Croatia.
At its best, Zinfandel is a rich, medium to full
bodied wine with moderate tannins, lingering
pepper or anise finishes and mouth-coating
flavors of black fruits. Its lack of respect stems
from the inexpensive blush wines or White
Zinfandels lining our grocer’s shelves. These
wines are the poorest examples of what a
wonderful drinking wine Zinfandel can be.
Good Zinfandel can be bold or mellow, spicy
or fruity depending on the producer and where
it is made. This is a varietal that pairs well with
many different foods and should be regarded
more favorably by wine lovers for its quality.
By chance, this year I discovered some very
enjoyable wines from California’s Central
Coast and decided to unearth some hidden
Zinfandel gems there. We embarked on our
treasure hunt for “hidden” Zins, with high
hopes.
The undulating, verdant countryside of Paso
Robles is one of the fastest growing wine areas
in California. It is situated approximately
twenty-five miles inland from the Pacific
Ocean, about midway between Los Angeles
and San Francisco. The weather there is ideal
for living and farming; the days are warm,
but not dessert hot, and the nights are cool.
In some locations the temperature variation
between daytime highs and nighttime lows can
be as much a fifty degrees. This temperature
variance enables the fruit to stay longer on the
vine and consequently, the grapes have more
flavor. It is an AVA (American Viticultural
Area) that is making lush, vibrant wines that
do not overpower food or ravage the tongue
with tannins and acids. This is a wine region
that is well worth getting to know.
Rio Seco Vineyard & Winery
Making good “old fashioned” drinking wine
that tastes good from the first sip to the last
swallow is in Rio Seco’s owner, Tom Hinkle’s
blood. He was raised by Sicilian grandparents
in Kansas City, Missouri and consequently
Tom is no stranger to home winemaking.
Twelve years ago Tom and Carol Hinkle
purchased their sixty-three acre estate to make
wine for the same reason his grandfather
did— good wine to have with food. Today
they have thirty-one acres planted with about
six varietals and their own winery producing
over 3,500 cases of quality wine a year. Tom’s
grandfather would be very proud of his
grandson’s wines.
The Rio Seco Zinfandel is a well balanced,
lush wine that invites food without calling too
much attention to itself. The wine is aged in
neutral oak barrels. Each year the length of
barrel aging is determined by the vintage to
produce a soft, easy drinking wine. Aromas
of black cherry and stewed prunes waft from
the glass with the first sip. To the taste, the
same aromatics of black cherry and stewed
prunes come forward on the palate with a long,
moderately spicy finish. The wine’s Italian
heritage shows when pairing it with food.
It is a good, heavier alternative to Chianti
or Sangiovese to accompany pasta with red
sauce, meatballs, sausages, grilled beef and
hamburgers. We had it with some dried Italian
salami, not pepperoni, and loved it.
There are many references to baseball on Rio
Seco’s web site ( www.rioseco.com) and for
good reason. Tom Hinkle spent twenty-eight
years in major league baseball, mostly as a
scout. If asked he will proudly show off his
World Series ring from the Toronto Blue
Jays. Rio Seco ships directly into Arizona, a
state where Tom spent many spring trainings
scouting and getting to know people in Tempe,
Tucson and other spring training venues.
Maybe you noticed him; Tom would be the
amiable one with an engaging smile.
Opolo Vineyards
One of the lessons I learned visiting Paso
Robles was to rethink everything I thought
I knew about wine. Many of my wine tenets
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were either shattered or put to question. For
example, I always believed that good wine
comes from a vineyard where the owner or
winemaker is on site daily as opposed one with
absentee or part time management. Opolo
Vineyards proved this belief to be false.
The winery does not have a designated
winemaker per se. Wine is produced
collectively by the winery and vineyard staff
in conjunction with the two proprietors. The
owners, Rick Quinn and Dave Nichols still
operate other full time businesses; one a
successful Century 21 real estate operation and
the other a wireless electronics firm. If anyone
asked me if this approach was a formula for
making good wine, my answer would be no
and I would be wrong. I tasted all ten of the
Opolo wines and they are all very good.
The Opolo Mountain Zinfandel is a classic
example of a hearty Zinfandel for all occasions.
It is a deep dark garnet hue with black
raspberry spice flavors and a long lingering
white pepper finish. The tannins and acids are
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moderate and well balanced. The wine will
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and casseroles but not take over the meal. Try
it with a Hungarian style Goulash and you will
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Our search for hidden gems in Paso Robles
was richly rewarded with other discoveries.
These are just two that will add pleasure to
your next meal and impress you friends with
your skillful selection of an “American” wine.
All totaled, we visited thirty-one producers and
personally spoke with twenty-nine vineyard
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recorded tasting notes on all of them. These
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by Hattie Wilson
hen Faisal’s troops marched into the
W capital of Damascus September 1918
women flung their veils aside and
scattered flowers on the soldiers’ path
and men threw their fezzes in the air.
The ancient country of Mesopotamia became
the Arab kingdom of Iraq after World War
I, thanks to the British and thanks also to
two British citizens, Lawrence of Arabia and
Gertrude Bell. England had a practical reason
for its interest: The pipe line of the Anglo-
Persian Oil Company passed through the south
tip of Mesopotamia. T. E. Lawrence and Miss
Bell backed the Arab cause for sentimental
reasons. They were fascinated by the Bedouin
mystique and saw the Arab Sheikhs as the
aristocrats of the desert.
Lawrence felt that, “The Bedouin has been
born and brought up in the desert and has
embraced the barrenness with all his soul,
for the reason that there he finds himself
indubitably free. He finds luxury in abnegation,
renunciation, self-restraint.”
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Faisal, King of Iraq
Chapter 2
First, the Arabs with the help of British
soldiers, guns and planes pushed out the Turks
who had occupied Arabia for centuries. After
that they were promised help in forming an
independent Arab kingdom but they were to be
disappointed.
After the Armistice was declared, in 1919 a
Peace Conference in Paris was set up to handle
countries affected by the war. That included the
various fiefdoms in the Middle East but their
representatives who traveled to France were
ignored. The three major allies, France, Britain
and the United States, were concerned with
Europe. However, a major mandate system had
been set up for the small countries. This offered
each the help of a powerful country like Britain
or France to form a new nation until that
nation was able to stand alone. In return the
supervising country gained trading advantages.
It was an underfinanced Marshall Plan.
For eastern Arabia which included
Mesopotamia that help came from England.
A British staff at Baghdad was rebuilding the
country’s railways and canals, its
markets and mosques. Miss Bell
was on that staff and because of
her years in Arabia one of her
jobs was to explain the status
quo and who the important
sheikhs were to administrators
being sent to Baghdad.
As a result of two years
of British aid the cities of
Basra and Baghdad became
prosperous, a condition they had
not enjoyed for centuries during
their exploitation by the Turks,
but there were delays. One was
a decision on the east border of
Mesopotamia, dividing it from
the old enemy, Iran.
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The Kingdom of Iraq
Meanwhile, back in London
Winston Churchill, soon to
be Secretary of State for the
Colonies, argued that the
several million pounds a month
spent for the rebuilding of
Mesopotamia should be cut
off. He advised concentrating
on the protection of the port at
Basra on the Persian Gulf. There
the English could oversee their
shipments of oil from Persia.
The Arabs would have to take
care of themselves.
The office at Baghdad had to act fast. They
saw no chance of a pan-Arab government in
the form of a democratic republic. Most of the
Arabs were illiterate with every tribe fighting
for its particular interests.
The brother Gertrude and Lawrence chose
was Faisal ibn Hussain. In his book, “Seven
Pillars of Wisdom,” Lawrence of Arabia wrote
he decided on Faisal because, “I found in him
the leader with the necessary fire. I felt at first
glance that this was the man I had to come to
Arabia to seek – the leader who would bring
the Arab Revolt to full glory.”
The name Faisal means the flashing down
stroke of a sword.
Faisal was in his mid-thirties, tall and thin with
heavy black eyebrows and moustache but his
close cropped beard was touched with gray. His
slanted eyes were hazel. He dressed in white
robes and a brown keffiyeh bound with red and
gold cords.
Lawrence described Faisal’s effect on his fellow
Arabs: “He made the Arab Independence
Movement national and alive by the force of
his personality. When the Sheikhs came to him
to assert their allegiance, he made them swear
on the Koran to wait while he waited, march
when he marched, to yield obedience to no
Turk, to deal kindly with all who spoke Arabic
and to put independence above life, family and
goods.”
Lawrence fought alongside Faisal during the
first battles for independence. That was when
at Faisal’s suggestion he began wearing Arab
clothing, changing his British khaki uniform
for the Arab keffiyeh and flowing robes so the
tribesmen following Faisal would not mistake
him for a Turkish officer. Lawrence was
constantly demanding money and technical
experts from the British and even asked for
guns that made a lot of noise explaining that
was what the Arabs liked.
With British help Faisal became the ruler of
Syria. It was his and Arabia’s greatest success.
When Faisal’s troops marched into the capital
of Damascus September 1918, women flung
their veils aside and scattered flowers on the
soldiers’ path, men threw their fezzes in the
air. A few days later when Faisal entered the
city on horseback there was a hush. The crowds
heard the drumming of hooves, then saw him,
alone, galloping. His arm raised in a salute. The
thousands of cheers became a roar of triumph.
The new administration under Faisal
functioned well. But a few months later Syria
was placed under a French mandate, since
France was given control of the west half
of Arabia. The French sent 90,000 troops
into Syria and took the ports along the
Mediterranean. When Faisal protested the
foreign occupation, the French general ordered
him out of Damascus within 24 hours. And so
the French stamped out the Arabs’ first try at
independence. Syria was left in chaos.
There was no chance of an uprising for
independence elsewhere. The French were
treating the lands under their mandate like
colonies and besides, since Churchill was
arguing for retreat, the Arabs feared the British
government which had been generous in
rebuilding Iraq would not stay the course. The
Turks could return and take vengeance.
All that was left for Faisal was Iraq. He had
expected greater glory, but finally agreed to
become its king. Churchill gave his approval,
because as he put it, “Shariff ’s son Faisal offers
hope of the best and cheapest solution.”
A series of grand receptions were arranged
for Faisal. They were to impress him and the
people of Iraq. One celebration took place at
Ramadi west of Baghdad. On the way there
Faisal was driven down a road lined with
tribesmen roaring a salute and waving their
rifles over their heads then galloping alongside
his car.
On his arrival at Baghdad by train he was
greeted by a band and a guard of honor. The
city was decorated with triumphal arches
and Arab flags. People lined the streets and
a reception was held at the old government
offices, the Serai, furnished with carpets and
wall hangings donated by Baghdad’s 300
nobles. In July 1921 the Council of State
chosen by the British office at Baghdad
declared Faisal King of Iraq. After that a
referendum of the people had to be held.
Papers printed with the question “Do you agree
to Faisal as King and leader of Iraq?” were sent
to the tribal leaders and the 300 nobles. The
referendum was almost unanimous.
In August of 1921 Faisal was crowned king in
the courtyard of the Serai in Baghdad. It was
at six in the morning while the city was still
cool. More that a thousand guests were seated
in the courtyard: British and Arab officials and
townspeople. After the cry “Long Live the
King,” the audience stood and the band played,
“God Save the King,” since Iraq did not yet
have a national anthem.
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Thanks for the memory you wonderful monsoon rains.
What an incredible treat during July, August and much of September. The clouds were exciting, then the
thunder and lightening added the finishing touches to this great show. It satisfied the earth and gave me
joy.
It was a beautiful summer, never has the green been so green, so lush, yes, it was hot at times, that is to
be expected. The birds are slowly coming home from their summer vacation, the hummingbirds have left
for a shopping trip, the wildflowers said good-bye, they were so lovely. To everything there is a season
and now as we step through the door to October, we’ll see the beauty of fall. Columbus Day will soon be
here, the month will close with Halloween which is so popular that advertising begins in August! And
then the holiday season enters and everyone gets warm and cuddly. Bah Humbug! Let’s be warm and
cuddly all the time. So be it!
With the holidays fast approaching, you’re going to need to freshen up your
spices. Here is a wonderful old-fashioned recipe that uses delicious spices.
Old Fashioned Gingerbread
2 ½ cups flour
1 ½ tsp ground ginger
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. nutmeg
¼ tsp. salt
Stir together flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt,
set aside.
Cream butter. Gradually beat sugar into butter. Beat in eggs one
at a time. Stir together molasses and hot water. Add flour mixture
alternately with molasses mixture to butter mixture, beating well after
each addition.
Turn batter into greased and floured 9 x 13 inch pan. Bake in 375º
oven 35-45 minutes or until tester inserted in center comes out clean.
Whipped cream is delicious on this old timey cake.
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 cup molasses
¾ cup hot water
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1 onion, finely chopped
Spread.
Garlic clove, chopped
Salt, pepper
2 cups cheddar cheese
Haiku for the month
1 ½ cups sour cream
Keep your eyes open
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 large can chopped green chilies Holidays are coming soon
10-12 flour tortillas
Recipes abound
Brown meat with onion, garlic, salt and
pepper. Add sour cream, soup and chilies.
Spoon half of this mixture in pan, pour
remaining mixture on top, also remaining
cheese.
Bake 325º for 30 minutes covered. Remove
cover and bake an additional 10 minutes.
In 1900 when my father was a boy, he began a journal in a
very small notebook. He pasted newspaper articles from
The Boston Globe to the Wisconsin State Journal ( and
many in between).
Articles on poetry from Disraeli to Emerson, scripture
verses, sayings, a potpourri numbering nearly a thousand.
This is one poem I discovered. People worried about their
weight even then.
Scientific Feeding
Give me three grains of corn, mother
Only three grains of corn!
It’s all that I wish
For my breakfast dish
I’ll Fletcherize* all the morn.
I’m in the care of a specialist
Who says that we eat too much;
On a jeweler’s scale
He tells the tales
Of my calories and such.
For luncheon I’ll have a minim of milk
And the half of a soft boiled pea,
And a portion of fig,
If is isn’t too big,
And that will be all for me.
Tonight I’ll revel and hold a feast
So roast me a peanut, rare
With a pinch of tea
And a cracker, Gee!
And all I want for fresh air
Tomorrow, I diet no more, mother!
With coffee, 100 proof.
Some porterhouse steaks
And plenty of cakes,
I will not dry up on the hoof!
*Fletcherize: meaning chewing food slowly and thoroughly.
Made popular by Horace Fletcher in the late 1800’s. From
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TRINITY continued from page 18 ...
In 1771, James Murray, the Earl of Dunsmore,
and at the moment, the Governor of Virginia, pens a
few thoughts about the Americans. He sees them as
white trash and he sees them as beyond the power of
government. He writes:
“My Lord I have learnt from experience that the
established Authority of any government in America
and the policy of the Government at home, are both
insufficient to restrain the Americans; and that they
do and will remove as their avidity and restlessness
incite them. They acquire no attachment to Place: But
wandering about seems engrafted in their Nature:
and it is a weakness incident to it, that they should
forever imagine the Lands further off are Still better
than those upon which they are already settled . . . .
they do not conceive that Government has any right
to forbid their taking possession of a Vast tract of
Country, either uninhabited, or which serves only as
Shelter to a few scattered Tribes of Indians. Nor can
they be easily brought to entertain any belief of the
permanent obligations of Treaties made with those
People, whom they consider as but little removed from
the brute Creation.”
In 1853, Captain John Pope writes out his
understanding of the problem:
“The great obstacle to our successful negotiation with
them results from the peculiar form or rather want
of form of their government. They are eminently
democratic in their notions and recognize no control
whatever. They are divided into numerous families
and cliques and are only amenable to control through
their personal interests . . . . In such a state of things it
is impossible to make a treaty with them which is not
likely to be violated.”
The Captain is in New Mexico and is writing of
Navajo raiders.
People for centuries have said things like the
border, the frontier, the boundary line, the rim of
Christendom, the edge of civilization, the place
where the rain stops and old ways of working the
land curl up and die. I used to think of it this way
myself, as a jagged edge much like a knife’s, between
two nations. That is when I thought nations had
a future. Then, for a spell, I saw it as place where
two cultures, that of northern Europe and southern
Europe, sloshed up against each other and enriched
and polluted each other’s waters.
Now I think it is the center of the future because the
future is past the grasp of nations and the future may
beyond reach of humans but the future, seas rising,
temperatures soaring, beasts and plants vanishing
forever in a global shake-out of life, that future
will belong to the land and the big deep waters.
And this zone between so many centers of power
has never been broken or tamed and now grows
wilder and wilder as the claws of nations’ weaken
and their talons break and fall to the ground. The
two republics that pretend control of ground at the
moment both feature eagles as national symbols.
The various tribes that once knew the area paid
more heed to ravens and coyotes and got better
information through this act of attention.
I write by a creek that is most likely doomed. The
trees along it will also go and the hillsides around
me have oaks retreating and mesquite reaching
higher and higher onto the slopes as the sky burns
and the rains decline.
The movement of drugs and people, despite the
efforts of cops and nations, merely underscores this
reality. Just as the empty promises of new wealth
and prosperity through various theologies of trade
and economics fix almost nothing. The only real fix
on the line at the moment is in a syringe.
The species are moving also, those killer bees that
were supposedly going to be stopped, that dengue
fever and all plagues that scamper and move without
heed of nations and borders.
The zone is a laboratory where the delusions of
life—economic, religious, military, foreign policy,
biological and agricultural—can be tested. This time
the edge is the center, this time the edge is the face
of the future.
Sources:
Peter Cozzens, Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars
1865-1890, Volume One, The Struggle for Apacheria,
Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA., 2001, pp. 18,
22.
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Massacre at Camp
Grant: forgetting and remembering Apache history,
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2007, pp. 14-15.
Calloway, One Vast Winter Count, see pp. 53-65 for
an overview of the tumult in motion in the North
America before the arrival of Europeans.
We have a deep need for an Eden in the deep time
of the past, a new world garden that we violated and
destroyed. This dream denies facts. In 1325, 486 men,
women and children are slaughtered and scalped
in a fortified village on Crow Creek and the Missouri
River. Evidence suggests the killing resulted from a
fight over dwindling resources in a time of climatic
stress. See Calloway, One Vast Winter Count, p. 64.
Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: an epic of the
American West, Doubleday, New York, 2007, pp. 387,
368..
For Manifest Destiny and the Mexican War see
Bernard Devoto, 1846: the year of decision, and Joseph
Wheelan, Invading Mexico: America’s continental
dream and the Mexican war, 1846-1848, Carrol & Graf,
New York, 2007.
Bil Gilbert, Westering Man: the life of Joseph Walker,
master of the frontier, Atheneum, New York, 1983, p.
45.
Tom Dunlay, Kit Carson and the Indians, University of
Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2000, p. 256.
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by Kathleen Vandervoet
FIRE DISTRICT BOARD
DRAWS MUCH INTEREST
Being a firefighter is an exciting job, but
serving as a member of a fire district governing
board may not rank up there among the things
kids aspire to do when they grow up.
The Tubac Fire District has a five-member
governing board, and there are three vacancies.
That has drawn interest from seven candidates,
and voters will have to make their choices at
the Nov. 4 general election.
The Tubac Fire District includes the north half
of Rio Rico, Tumacácori, Tubac and Amado
to the Santa Cruz County boundary. Board
members serve without pay, and usually attend
meetings once a month. They hire the fire
chief, which is presently Kevin Keeley.
INCUMBENT MEMBERS
Incumbents who would like to be re-elected
are Dottie Bergmann, Michael Burns and
Denny Scanlan.
Doris “Dottie” Bergmann, 68, of Tubac, has
been on the board six years. She was appointed
to fill a vacancy, then elected four years ago.
She’s retired and has lived in the area for seven
years. If re-elected, she said she will stand
behind the chief and his staff, and “help out
the best way we can,” advising him when he
needs the assistance.
Carmen resident Michael Burns, 52, is a
paramedic and firefighter for the Rio Rico Fire
District and a flight paramedic for LifeNet
helicopter medical service in Tubac. He’s lived
in Santa Cruz County for 22 years and is now
completing a four-year term on the fire district
board.
Burns said if he’s re-elected, “I would ensure
that the department has adequate staffing, and
adequate facilities and equipment.” He also
will focus on making sure that “people’s tax
money is being spent very wisely.”
Scanlan, 69, a Rio Rico resident, has served
one four-year term. He’s retired, but in
addition to former jobs, he served as a
volunteer for 20 years with the Tubac and Rio
Rico fire departments. If re-elected, he said
his main concern is to “watch the expenses”
related to construction of new fire stations,
and “making wise decisions.” He also plans to
work towards merging the two fire districts,
Tubac and Rio Rico, to benefit residents.
4 OTHER CANDIDATES
There are four other candidates who would
like to be elected to the board.
Ron Campana, 60, is retired and spent 30
years in law enforcement in California. He’s
lived in Rio Rico for three and a half years. He
would like to see the fire district develop and
implement a policy and procedures manual.
“The board has to be more active in policy
making for the district,” and he said his work
experience will assist in that. As well, he
thinks the board should take a look at how the
district’s assets are allocated and spent.
Richard Conroy, 72, of Rio Rico, is retired
and has lived in Santa Cruz County since
July 2006. If elected, he said he will oversee
building plans and financing. “I think that’s
the job of the board.” He also anticipates
that “I can bring fresher ideas in.” He said
he wants to be part of the community and
support the “forward movement.”
Douglas Muri, 48, lives in Tumacácori and
is a teacher in the Nogales Unified School
District. He said he was a fire district chief
in Ganado, Ariz., from 1990 to 2000, and he
served under a five-member elected board.
He’s lived in Santa Cruz County since 2001.
Muri said he wants to investigate the ISO
insurance rating for the area “to see if we
can improve it,” to save costs for residents.
He wants to focus on “the life-safety side of
things,” which includes fire prevention and
pre-planning. As well, “I have the firefighters’
interests at heart and want them to have the
tools to do their job,” he said.
Randy Williams, 53, has lived in Santa Cruz
County all his life. A Rio Rico resident, he
is an aircraft mechanic. His father, Donald
D. Williams, was one of the founders of
the Tubac-Tumacácori Volunteer Fire
Department.
If elected, he would like to assure that vehicles
are well-maintained and that drivers have
training that will assist in keeping equipment
in good shape. He also is proposing that the
department have mechanics who are also
trained firefighters and EMTs. He wants to
investigate the budget with an eye to saving
some money.
3 SCHOOL BOARD VACANCIES
TO BE FILLED
by Kathleen Vandervoet
There are five members of the governing board of the Santa Cruz Valley
Unified School District No. 35 (Tubac and Rio Rico). Members serve
without pay and meet twice a month in public sessions.
On the Nov. 4 ballot there will be three candidates for two, four-year terms.
Also, Susan Faubion is running unopposed for a two-year term.
Faubion, 59, of Rio Rico, works in the Nogales Unified School District for
assistant superintendent Dr. Lucina Romero. She said she ran for the office
to improve educational opportunities. She hopes to see an ROTC program
at Rio Rico High School and more funding to support music programs. She
is also concerned about test score reports and wants to see the scores rise.
Two incumbents would like to remain on the school board. Harry Clapeck,
61, is a manager in general accounting. He has lived in Rio Rico 21 years
and was appointed to the District 35 board in October 2007 to fill a vacancy
when Frank Bejarano resigned.
“The hiring, retention, training and pay of qualified teachers are major
ingredients to improving education,” Clapeck said. He said the board must
continually focus on these issues and seek ways to improve on them.
He’s hoping to get extra help for teachers by seeking volunteers. He said
he wants to lower the teacher/student ratio, which “has a huge and positive
impact on learning. Without additional state help, one way to accomplish
this is by establishing a structured volunteer program. The community is a
valuable source of help. We need to tap into it with vigor,” he said.
Finally, he said, “The management of funds is vital to ensure that they
are used appropriately and earmarked to get the best results from our
investment.”
Brian Vandervoet, 60, of Tubac, has served two four-year terms. He works in
produce imports and sales and has been a county resident since 1973.
Several standards guide good school systems, he said, “The two most critical
factors for excellent educational opportunities are small classroom size and
highly qualified teachers. It should be the policy of the governing board to
always see that these two goals are met.”
Vandervoet said the highest priority should be in providing excellent
education in the primary grades. “Well-educated students in grades
kindergarten through 3 will always be well-educated students in middle
school and high school,” he said.
Rio Rico resident Jack Scholnick, 63, is a candidate for a four-year term. He
previously was a board member for about a year for the Santa Cruz Training
Program in Nogales. Scholnick has lived in Santa Cruz County since 2001.
His priorities will include increasing teacher pay so it’s close to the level of
Tucson, he said. To fund that, he said there can be cutbacks in other areas,
such as administrative pay. He also wants to increase the money for teachers
to purchase classroom supplies, he said.
Another concern is that he wants to focus on “setting up guidelines when
a child is hurt or abused on campus,” he said. He will push for more library
books, and said he has donated books and other resources to the district.
(Note: Candidate Brian Vandervoet is the husband of reporter Kathleen
Vandervoet.)
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y Kathleen Vandervoet
A $15 million Tubac Fire District bond election, and two
propositions about that would allow planning to continue for nearly
9,500 new homes in Tubac and Amado are on the Nov. 4 general
election ballot.
TUBAC FIRE DISTRICT ELECTION
The five-member governing board of the Tubac Fire District is
holding a $15 million bond election as part of the Nov. 4 general
election. The revenue would be used to build more fire stations
and purchase large fire trucks.
Fire Chief Kevin Keeley said the funding would include a new
three-building Tubac complex on a four-acre parcel south and
west of the Chavez Siding intersection of Interstate 19. Two
more fire stations would be built in east Rio Rico. The entire
northern half of Rio Rico is within the boundaries of the Tubac
Fire District.
One Rio Rico station will be on Camino Josefina, about four
miles east of Pendleton Drive. A second station is planned near
the Pendleton Drive and Palo Parado Road area, Keeley said, but
a piece of property has not yet been determined.
The district’s Station 2 which is on the I-19 West Frontage Road
just south of the Peck Canyon interchange in Rio Rico would
have needed remodeling.
Some are concerned that the district’s current station No. 1, on
the East Frontage Road just north of the entrance to the village
of Tubac, now more than 30 years old, would no longer be used
as a fire station and would be a vehicle maintenance and repair
center.
The fire district’s present tax rate is $2.64 per $100 of assessed
valuation, or $792 a year on a home with a valuation of $300,000.
A brochure printed by the fire district lists an extra $46 a year
in taxes per $100,000 value of a home. For example, a home
valued at $400,000 would pay an extra $184. A business valued
at $315,000 would pay an additional $339 a year, while a $2.5
million business would pay an extra $2,289 a year.
Some homes may see their fire insurance premium reduced,
Keeley said, when a fire station is located closer. Other homes
may not see a drop in fire insurance but will benefit by having the
availability of resources that can remain nearby to respond, rather
than traveling far distances.
Keeley said anyone with questions can call him or Louis Chaboya
at (520) 398-2255.
LOCAL ANGLE ON
ELECTION ISSUES
PROPOSITIONS 400 AND 401
All Santa Cruz County residents will have the opportunity to
vote on Prop. 400 and 401. The referendum propositions are
responses to requests by developers to change farm land into
housing developments, with some resort, commercial and retail
sections.
Supporters call it responsible master planning, while opponents
say it will set a dangerous precedent for irresponsible sprawl.
“Yes” votes on Prop. 400 and 401 will allow the developers to
move forward in the county-regulated process to the next step,
and ask for the needed zoning changes. “No” votes will halt the
developments, allowing the developers will have the opportunity
to bring forward modified plans in the future.
Prop. 400 is the proposed Sopori Ranch in Amado on the west
side of Interstate 19, south of the Arivaca Road interchange.
It would include 6,839 homes, two golf courses, a resort,
commercial and retail shops on 6,076 acres of land now used for
cattle grazing and farming.
Prop. 401 is the proposed Las Mesas in Tubac on the east side
of Interstate 19, north of Chavez Siding Road. The land spans
both east and west of the Santa Cruz River and the Union Pacific
railroad tracks and it would have 2,630 new homes, a resort and
an equestrian center.
Opponents formed a political action committee called Coalition
for Responsible Growth. They say the developments have too
many houses and fault the planners for trying to get the most
money possible out of the projects. They say the environment will
suffer, and water supplies will be adversely affected.
In a fact sheet distributed by the political action committee in
favor of the developments, it’s said that they will bring many jobs
in construction, retail and community work. Higher wages are
promised but no specifics explain that.
Another benefit is that there will be wastewater treatment
systems constructed for the effluent created by the new homes,
businesses, and golf courses. It’s said that roads will be built by
the developers and maintained in future years by fees paid to
homeowners’ associations.
Opponents say that if the projects aren’t stopped now, it will
create a legal difficulty to the Santa Cruz County Board of
Supervisors to hold back other developers who want to receive
the same approval for numerous other ranches.
To learn more, visit these web sites: www.yes400-401.com, or
www.cforrg.org.
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For those folks who generously stepped
up to the plate in September of 2006
and helped out financially or with plain
old sweat - the people from the Slidell’s
Pontchartrain Humane Society, who
were wiped out from Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita, wanted us to tell you that they
will always remember Tubac. They have
used the travel trailer we redid for them
hundreds of times and they thank you all
every day.
Most recently the trailer was used for
Hurricane Gustav and Ike, evacuating 64
dogs and 15 cats in just 2 trips! Once at
their temporary location the dogs were
moved to kennels and the trailer became
“the cat house.”
They also thank the Tucson Humane
Society for the 6 special stainless steel
crates that fit so well in the 17 ft. trailer,
which serves mainly as their weekend pet
adoption trailer at local shopping malls.
They will never forget Southern
Arizona’s help and generosity!
Micki & David Voisard
To make a donation for much needed help
please go to:
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Rio Rico Trailhead to be Dedicated to Guy Tobin
Rio Rico Properties, a subsidiary of Avatar
Properties, Inc., announced that the Rio
Rico Trailhead of the Juan Bautista de Anza
National Historic Trail is to be dedicated in
honor of Guy Tobin, President of the Arizona
Division of Avatar Holdings, Inc., who passed
away July 22. An official dedication and ribbon
cutting for the Guy Tobin Trailhead will be
held on Friday, October 10, at 3:00 PM at
the trailhead, with a national dedication and
opening of the trail segment from Rio Rico to
Nogales on Saturday, October 11.
Guy was instrumental in working with the
Anza Trail Coalition of Arizona and the
National Park Service to establish the 13
mile segment of the Anza National Historic
Trail from Rio Rico to Tubac, which received
official certification from the National Park
Service in November of 2005. Rio Rico
Properties received official recognition from
the National Park Service for their donation of
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the easements for the trail segment. All of Rio
Rico’s neighborhoods are designed with trails
linking them to the Anza National Historic
Trail, allowing residents to literally walk out
their front doors and retrace the footsteps of
history.
Richard Williams, President of the Anza
Trail Coalition of Arizona, said, “In their
capacities as landowners and developers, Rio
Rico Properties under the guidance of Guy
Tobin showed extraordinary foresight and
public spirit in contributing part of their land
towards creating this National Historic Trail
to be preserved in perpetuity for all to enjoy.
It’s a fitting tribute that we in turn dedicate
this trailhead to preserving his memory.” The
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volunteer effort in building the trail in Arizona,
with a wonderful group of members from
Santa Cruz County and the other counties that
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Guy was a true visionary who changed the
face of Rio Rico. His accomplishments in Rio
Rico are numerous. He took a basically stalled
and somewhat negative development at Rio
Rico and turned it into what it is today, The
Villages of Rio Rico, which has expanded from
one development to six successful projects,
including custom homes, golf course homes at
Tubac Golf Resort, equestrian properties, and
soon-to-be golf course homes in Rio Rico.
Guy also had the foresight to perform a
complete renovation on the former Rio Rico
Resort, upgrade the Swim, Racquet & Fitness
Center, and spearheaded the revitalization
of The Plaza at Rio Rico, attracting such
major tenants as Wells Fargo Bank. Guy
Tobin is listed in the national “Who’s Who of
Homebuilding” as the person spearheading the
revitalization of Rio Rico.
Once part of a vast land grant from the King of
Spain, Rio Rico maintains the unique balance
of new homes planned around thousands of
acres of open space, a new State Park, the Anza
National Historic Trail, the Esplendor Resort,
and the par-72 Robert Trent Jones, Sr. golf
course, which is consistently rated among the
best in the state. Rio Rico’s major attraction
is its resort lifestyle, affordable housing, and
proximity to both Tucson and the Mexican
border.
A subsidiary of Avatar Properties Inc., Rio
Rico Properties is the residential, commercial
and industrial developer of the 35,000-acre
community. Rio Rico Properties has enjoyed
more than 12 years helping to develop and
build the town of Rio Rico, with a lasting
commitment to preserving the culture and
natural beauty of the area.
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THEY LIVED IN TUBAC
by Elizabeth R. Brownell, Ph.D. - Past President of the Tubac Historical Society
The peculiar charm of Tubac has attracted people for more than two centuries. For
Spanish missionaries the attraction was a new field for soul-saving endeavor; for settlers
out of Mexico it was the fertile bottomlands of the Santa Cruz River for farms and
orchards; for the prospector the promise of gold and silver. To the modern day settler
Tubac’s charm is the beauty of the valley, the bright warm sunshine in winter, vivid
sunsets, or the opalescent sky behind the black silhouettes of the Tumacacori and the
Santa Rita mountains.
The settlers of Tubac came from a variety of homelands and home towns: Spanish
Franciscans and Jesuits from Germany, Sweden, Bohemia, and Italy. Soldiers, ranchers,
and farmers from Mexico; mining engineers from Germany, shop keepers from
Switzerland, tradesmen from northern European countries, and a long procession of
North Americans from every state in the Union. In many cases the Anglo-Americans
married into Spanish or Mexican families and became more Mexican than Yankee.
Around these individuals Elizabeth Brownell weaves her tapestry of history. And she
neglects no one — soldier-explorer Juan Batista de Anza, visionary Charles Poston,
miner Phocion Way, libertine and entrepreneur Sylvester Mowry, Tubac’s early and
modern developers, the artists, and the retirees. The drama of Tubac’s fight against the
Apaches, drought, economic chaos, as well as its roller coaster ride through depressions
and two world wars, and the town’s final emergence into a period when “art and history
meet” in the Santa Cruz Valley is related with great insight.
This handsome casebound volume is the culmination of years of research through
historical collections, family papers, first person interviews, territorial, state, and
county documents, and newspaper files. The book contains 290 pages, over forty rare
photographs and illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. This reprinting is an exact
reproduction of the 1986 original edition.
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y Carol Egmont St. John
Nothingness
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“The greatest purity is nothing or nothingness - no thinking, no
desiring, no imagining. You are then one with the moment and
the great movement of life so nothing can happen that is not
right.”
Barry Long
I get bored when things are slow. I have to revise my
thinking to incorporate down times into my life and
remember some people seek nothingness. They sit and
meditate and try to rest their minds by not thinking. Some
people take long walks in highlands and let the birds do the
talking. Others find a beach where they can vegetate. But
then there are still more, people like me, who are afraid
of the challenges of emptying out their lives and stopping
the clutter inside their heads. We run from silence, work at
vacations, and schedule our lives away which don’t lead to
satisfaction, only anxiety. I believe my way of being needs to
be re-thought.
Sounds good, no? But how to get there is something else.
Any person who meditates knows how hard it is not to think.
The utilization of music, mantras or chants is testimony.
Even Jesus had to get away, go to the desert to purify his
thoughts, as have many other wisemen--I get that. But I am
already in the desert, so what am I not tapping in on?
Of course, the primal desert involves transformation. It is
where snakes shed their skins and butterflies the size of
earmuffs arise from nowhere, where drought stricken plants
don crowns of fuchsia and gold in the face of suffocating
heat. It is the place where the land is so parched and so
inhospitable that dogs sleep and toads hide and even
javalinas stand perfectly still until all of a sudden the rains
arrive. Like a benediction, they sweep over us and we watch
as energy is released from bolts in the sky, the grasses are
pushed up and arroyos filled, tiny bugs take flight and
all things seem to radiantly return to life again. But our
monsoons are tricksters. They grace us with relief and then
leave us to face the return of autumn’s unwelcome heat.
These are the dog days of summer, the quiet forerunners of
a brisk northern front coming in to revive us. It is a time
I should learn to make the most of, because an artistic life
demands a time out. It wants a blank canvas, a new page, an
emptiness to recover from work completed.
Have you ever made a huge effort like organizing a wedding,
creating a theatrical event, teaching a difficult class or
putting on a fundraiser and found yourself totally depleted
afterward? At first you’re glad it’s over and declare I will
never do that again, then you find yourself slipping into a
crash zone. But it doesn’t have to be crashing; it could look
more like going to nowhere and nothingness, a rest that
allows your mind and body to heal.
In the summer things tend to be slow. Time for alternative
lives, for gathering and sorting. The fall seems to be the
time for setting the stage and building the energy required
to perform winter’s tasks. I saw this happening in Tubac
this past week. Stores were open, despite the few shoppers,
and storekeepers were primping shelves and unpacking new
items in anticipation of the new season. They were in the
incubation mode, imagining.
Billy Joel describes the place where we can go during the in
between times, the times of not knowing what to do, where
to go, how to live in the chaos of the indefinite.
I listen and choose to believe the Dalai Lama when he says:
If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity
is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires,
feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction
with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself
from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in
abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful
ones in meditation.
They say that these are not the best of times.
But they’re the only times I’ve ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation
In cathedrals of our own.
And where is our cathedral? It is wherever we are of course.
It is that universal space where we can let go and not fall. It
is allowing what is, to just be.
My little cathedral is my studio in Tubac. Bug infested
and tired at the end of a summer, I have only gone there to
restore the space, paint the floor, touch my supplies, rearrange
furniture and put a blank canvas on the easel. I visited my
neighbors and privately wondered what I would come up
with to make my creative life interesting this year. Although
what that will be is still not defined, I remember Erich
Fromm’s words, creativity requires the courage to let go of
certainties. The absence of certainties is alright.
But negative thinking is not. Instead of allowing dark
thoughts to dominate my mind I hereby commit myself to
put aside those worries that tend to overwhelm me, stuff like
failing energy, dirty politics, dropping house values, stock
market maneuvering, war and border issues. I will grow
simple instead. Become quiet. Pause. Take a break. Let go
and let God. Clean house.
I listen and choose to believe the Dalai Lama when he says:
If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity
is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires,
feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction
with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself
from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in
abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful
ones in meditation.
Who can see the face on the butterfly’s wings if they are
looking at its head? Who will see the landscape on the face
of a rock if they are only focused on its weight? Open minds
see things anew. They discover planets in a puddle and tunes
in the rain. But to open the mind you have to get your self
out of the way.
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Voters in Tubac, Amado,
Tumacácori and north
Rio Rico will be asked
to choose a Santa Cruz
County Supervisor for
District 3 at the Nov. 4
general election.
The salary for the
supervisor’s position
is set by state law, and
will rise to $63,800 a
year as of Jan. 1, 2009.
Santa Cruz County has
three supervisors. Again,
state law determines
that. Any county with a
population of more than
500,000 residents has a
five-member board of
supervisors.
Democrat John Maynard
has been District 3
supervisor for two fouryear
terms and wants to
be elected again. He is
being challenged by Joel
Kramer and Juan Andres
Ibarra, both running as
Independents.
The candidates were each
asked questions. They are:
What is your strongest
asset as an individual
that you believe you
can use to benefit the
constituents of District
3? Do you believe the
county’s Comprehensive
Plan should remain as
it has been written? Do
you believe amendments
to the plan should be
accepted when requested
by developers?
by Kathleen Vandervoet
A Santa Cruz County resident for 47 years, Juan
Andres Ibarra, 53, lives in Rio Rico. He works as a
financial controller and has had 12 years’ experience in
the position, along with seven years’ experience as an
international commercial loan officer, he said.
Ibarra earned a B.S. degree in business administration
from the University of Phoenix and is working on an
MBA in business.
Ibarra said that if he’s elected, he hasn’t decided if he
will retain his present job. “I will weigh the needs of
Santa Cruz County and the demands of continuing to
work. Santa Cruz County will be first on my agenda.
First, I must win the election.”
He said his personal assets are experience, education, a
heart of gold and the dedication, new energy, ideas and
vision to serve the people of Santa Cruz County.
In regard to the county’s Comprehensive Plan, he said,
“Since Propositions 400 and 401 will be decided by
the people of Santa Cruz County, I believe we must
wait to see what the outcome of the vote will be.
“Since Santa Cruz County will continue to grow
in the years to come, if elected, I have the maturity,
experience, and education to provide the leadership on
the Board of Supervisors if changes are sought to the
county’s Comprehensive Plan.
“Further, this involves listening to the people and
seeking common ground where all constituents are
happy with any changes. It appears to me everybody
agrees to growth but the deadlock centers on density,
i.e, homes per acre. We should march into the future
together. What we do in life echoes through eternity,”
Ibarra said.
Joel Kramer, 44, lives in Rio Rico. He’s principal
of Pierson Vocational High School in Nogales. He
received a bachelor’s degree in education from the
University of North Dakota and a master’s degree in
administration and supervision from the University of
Phoenix. He’s lived in Santa Cruz County for nearly
20 years.
If elected, Kramer said he intends to keep his
principal’s job. “I believe that I was taught very well on
how to manage my time, to be focused on the tasks at
hand and complete them in a timely fashion, not to
waste the taxpayer’s money.”
In response to the question about himself, he said,
“My strongest asset would be having a professional
conversation with each and every person that I
have encountered. My indication of a professional
conversation entails having good listening skills and
being honest.”
Kramer said the county’s Comprehensive Plan should
be respected. He said, “The Comprehensive Plan has
the growth plan that each character area has chosen.
Focus the growth along I-19 as it stated in the plan,
since this is going to be the hub area for further traffic,
with the possibility of more distribution warehouses
and businesses, once the Guaymas port opens to
shipping.”
Kramer believes that “few, if any amendments should
be accepted. In the interest of planning, unless (it is) an
issue of health and safety, keep the plan as adopted.”
He also said, “Good leadership is as much the
willingness to complete and follow through rather
than modify based on current opinion. What respect
do plans have and how seriously will people take the
next plan in the planning stages if they know they can
change it easily” by going to the supervisors?
John Maynard, 58, has been the District 3 supervisor
for two four-year terms. He said that if re-elected, it
will remain as his only job.
A Rio Rico resident, he’s lived in Santa Cruz
County nearly 20 years and holds a master’s degree
in landscape architecture from California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona.
In describing his strongest asset, he said, “It is
important to ‘think outside the box’ when solving
problems and to weigh the impacts your decisions
could have upon a broad base of constituents, not
just the immediate few bringing a problem to your
attention.
“I also don’t give up easily, sometimes just step back
and look for another avenue to travel to accomplish
my goal.”
When asked if the county’s Comprehensive Plan
should ever be amended, he said, “If there is public
support for a proposed amendment, it should be
considered. If there is considerable opposition, don’t
amend it.
“Both the Sopori and Las Mesas proposed
amendments had considerable public opposition. I
voted ‘no’ in December, and will do so again on Nov.
4,” Maynard said.
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21, and the public is invited. It will be held at 5:30
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Sunday, Oct 19th - Water Harvesting Designs That Work
(and Why) This is a chance to visit several sites that
demonstrate water harvesting landscapes. The visits will
include in-depth discussion and observation of residents’
vision, site resources and constraints, and budget,
which led to the final design. The course focus is not on
hands-on training but on design ethics, site observations,
and doing more advanced run-off calculations. It is
geared toward owner builders and water harvesting
installers with some experience. A lunch incorporating
native foods is included with a focus of connecting the
dots between integrated water harvesting design, urban
habitat restoration, community food security, and heritage
foods. Class size is limited to 15 participants. Carpool
or Van travel will be arranged. Location: Sites in and
around Tucson, TBA. 9AM to 3PM. Cost: $65 includes all
class materials. Tour led by Barbara Rose and guests.
Contact Barbara Rose (520) 572-7221 for registration
and information www.sonoranpermaculture.org/members/
barbara-rose.
Tuesday, Oct 21st - Tubac Breakfast Forum. Breakfast
and a Speaker at the Artist’s Palate Restaurant at 8 am.
Speaker Tom Ryan, Ph D will present Will Your Vote Be
Counted? Cost $12 includes breakfast, beverage, tax and
tip. Call 398-3333.
Tuesday, Oct 21st - Candidates Forum at 5:30 at the
Tubac Community Center.
Tues & Wed, Oct 21st -22nd - 3rd Annual Investing in
Solar Arizona Grand Resort, Phoenix, Arizona. Sponsored
by the Financial Research Associates
Wednesday, Oct 22nd - THE HEART OF ART SERIES:
Special evenings hosted by the Tubac Center of the Arts
board members to discuss
art with a featured artist
and fellow art lovers. Enjoy
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with Terry Voss as he talks
about “Getting Started with
Art”, local support systems
for emerging artists,
5:00pm. Call 398-2371 for
information.
Fri & Sat, Oct. 24th & 25th
- Yoga Restorative Retreat
in Rio Rico. Contact Kathy
Edds at 520-275-2689 for
details.
Saturday, Oct 25th
- Southwest Fiber Festival
from 10am to 5pm at the
Amado Territory Ranch,
I-19 exit 48. A day long
festival of fun and fiber
including vendors, animals,
classes, demonstrations
and competitions. For more
info call 625-8788 or visit
www.southwestfiberfestival.
com.
Saturday, Oct 25th - White
Elephant Parade in Green
Valley.
Sunday, Oct 26 - Free
public voice recital by
lyric soprano, Vicki
Fitzsimmons. St. Andrew’s
Episcopal Church, 969 W. Country Club Dr., Nogales
(exit 8 from I-19). Religious music including several
selections from Handel’s Messiah. Bring your score to join
in singing the Hallelujah Chorus. Reception follows. Nonperishable
food donation for the Borderlands Food Bank is
suggested. 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct 26th - Printing Press Demonstrations 10
am – 2 pm. Come celebrate the 150th anniversary of
the printing press in Arizona! The Washington Press
is original and printed the first newspaper in AZ, “The
Weekly Arizonian” on March 3, 1859. Volunteers operate
the press and reproduce the first edition of the paperat the
Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. For more information
call 398-2252.
Thursday, Oct 30th - Make up Artist Heather Reyes
at Josef’s Salon in Plaza de Anza from 10am to 5pm.
Complimentary appointments while supplies last. Call
398-0900.
Friday, Oct 31st - 4th Annual Halloween Party at the
Artist’s Palate from 3-8pm. Call 398-3333.
Friday, Oct 31st - Celebrate a safe Halloween with us at
the Tubac Golf Resort & Spa from 4 to 6pm. Costume
Contest at 5:30 - most original, funniest, scariest, most
creative & best overall. For more info call Kristi Gall at
520-398-3512.
Friday thru Sunday, Oct. 31st - Nov. 2nd - Casa Fina
de Tubac’s Grand Opening celebration in La Entrada.
Our treats will surprise you! For more information call
398-8620.
Saturday, Nov 1 - St. Andrew’s 56th Annual Barbecue,
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 969 W. Country Club Dr.,
Nogales (exit 8 from I-19). Pit-roasted beef barbecue,
tortillas, beans, cole slaw, dessert, and beverage. Tickets
available at door: adults ($15), children ($8), pint of
barbecue ($10). Take-out available. Added attraction: Ye
Olde St. Andrew’s Faire selling baked goods, jams, arts &
crafts, much more. 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov 4th - Election Day
Tuesday, Nov 4th - Tubac Breakfast Forum. Breakfast
and a Speaker at the Artist’s Palate Restaurant at 8 am.
Speaker Nick Prevenas will present Sports in Southern
Arizona and Abroad. Cost $12 includes breakfast,
beverage, tax and tip. Call 398-3333.
Saturday, Nov 8th - LifeForce Yoga from “Blues to Bliss”
Amy Weintraub, internationally acclaimed yoga teacher
and author of “Yoga for Depression” will lead an all day
workshop at the Pocket Sanctuary on Kenyon Ranch,
Tubac from 9:30--5:30. Suitable for all levels of yoga
students. Event sponsored by Yoga Saguaro Studio. For
more information contact
Rich Roth, 520-398-2562
or yogasaguaro@yogasaguaro.com
Sunday, Nov 9th - Wellness
Tidbits to Practice at Home
workshop at the Tubac Golf
Resort & Spa. Registration
due by Oct 7th. For
information cll 520-207-
9992 or email sejasays@
aol.com.
Wed & Thurs, Nov 12th &
13th - Plein Air Workshop
with Judy Nakari. This 2-day
workshop will focus on four
primary topics: value, color,
composition, and edges.
Learn to begin with the
thumbnail sketch to address
value and composition,
then systematically
progress to the elements
of color and edges to
create your own vision.
Each day will begin with
a demonstration, followed
by individual attention, and
we’ll end the day with a
comprehensive critique of
the day’s paintings. Our
inspiration will come from
some of the unique scenes
in and around Tubac. Judy
is a signature member of
SAWG, TNWS, and CWS, and teaches regularly at the
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and in Tuscany, Italy. 10-
4PM Meet daily at Manos Gallery in Tubac Cost $195
Wed thru Fri, Nov 12th to 14th - Pat Lambrecht-Hould
workshop. The class will consist of a demonstration along
with hands on instruction in the late morning and after
lunch. We will try to have 2 critiques during the class. This
is a workshop in creativity and exploration...my goal is that
you will come away from this class with lots of exciting
techniques and new directions for your work....it will be
great fun. “The work is a process of layering, with multiple
design elements incorporated into the paintings such as
collage and highly textured area’s...It is truly a fusion of
many layers of leafing, collage and acrylic glazes.” 9-4PM.
520-398-8144. $285. $250 first 5 sign ups.
Tuesday, Nov 18th - Tubac Breakfast Forum. Breakfast
and a Speaker at the Artist’s Palate Restaurant at 8 am.
Speaker E. Phillip Krieger, Ph D will present Benjamin
Franklin & Lightening. Cost $12 includes breakfast,
beverage, tax and tip. Call 398-3333.
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Wed. Oct. 8th – 10a – 5p
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Mingle with our hairstylists
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Enjoy a complimentary hair
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Book a Tubac Signature Facial
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