Coming up on an anniversary of sorts for Randolph Park. The largest park in the city, the midtown green space was donated to the city in 1925. It features a golf course, zoo and baseball park along with some significant 3-D sculpture and just plain green grass–and a lake. The heirs of Epes Randolph gave […]
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While I had planned a visit to the museum for some time, I decided to be spontaneous and take in the Coit Museum of Pharmacy & Health Sciences on this incredibly hot June afternoon. After dealing with some challenging parking and a bit of a hunt to find the entrance, I found myself at the
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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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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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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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A great nearly 6-mile round-trip hike with the Beyond group. It is one of those hikes that you don’t realize how far you’ve gone and at altitude until you finish. And it is well worth the almost 50-mile drive south of Tucson. Deep in the Santa Rita Mountains in Santa Cruz County, the hike is
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“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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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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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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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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