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Embracing Tucson: Ignite Sign Museum

This was an unexpected treasure to find and then tour.  The Ignite Sign Museum is a collection of Tucson signage that spans many years and commemorates many landmarks in my hometown. My friend, Jody, a designer and presentation expert, found it on Atlas Obscura before she came to visit me here in Tucson (along with […]

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Embracing Tucson: “From Cowtown to Desert Metropolis”

Drachman is the name of a street in my old neighborhood off.  And growing up here, I knew the name. I really didn’t know much about the family behind the name and the impact they had and knew of until I read this book. As I continue my discovery of history and information about hometown

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Embracing Tucson: Shopping Mall Art

Our Meet Me Wednesdays group decided we needed a change of venue.  While we didn’t want to turn into mall walkers, the pull to the murals and art at the Eastside Tucson indoor mall, led us to take on a new place to count our steps. While a seemingly odd place to feature public art,

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Embracing Tucson: Take me back to the Cold Spot

“A cement building, white cinderblocks…the sign read ‘Cold Spot’…” We all seem to have a corner store, a coffee shop or other store in our past or present life.  Gathering places where you know each other’s names and share moments together.  Where there are no strangers. Kane Brown’s song about his grandpa’s store reminded me

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Cyclovia Spring 2025

Having ridden this event in the past, I knew this was going to be fun.  It happens twice a year (spring and fall) and takes a different route each time.  Usually held on a bike boulevard, this time it was the Treat Avenue corridor.  The “course” is usually about 3 miles in length and anchored

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Embracing Tucson: Shopping Centers of the past

They were the anchors of neighborhoods and parts of town. If you said you lived near a specific one then your conversant probably knew about where you lived and how to get to your house. Each had its own collection of stores. Usually anchored by a grocery store and a drug store, they may have

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Embracing Tucson: Tucson Festival of Books

If I hadn’t seen it for myself, I would not have believed it.  the Tucson Festival of Books at the University of Arizona Campus is huge–it takes over the mall for two days every April. This year I was invited to this event by my author friend, Lisa Schnebly Hedinger. She and her co-author, Julie

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