A great way to always spend a Saturday evening is to travel
to Jerome for the town’s monthly First Saturday Art Walk. For the month of April, that will be
Saturday the 7th. Even
if you don’t think you want to purchase any of the wonderful artistic
offerings, just to spend a night walking the streets of this historic mining
town, once known as the “wickedest town of the West,” is a real treat. A night spent at Jerome’s Grand Hotel can
also be real adventure especially if you have any interest in discovering those
on “the other side.” We have
listed both the Jerome First Saturday Art Walk and the Jerome Grand Hotel in
our Favorite Sections at the bottom of our Blog. We have also attached a few
pictures of the Jerome First Saturday Art Walk.
If you have never been to Tombstone, Arizona, the weekend of April 13 -
15, 2012 would be a great time to make that journey to this most historic of Wild
West towns. That weekend the good
folks of Tombstone will host The Rose
Tree Festival which commemorates 127 years of blooming of the World’s
Largest Rose Tree.
Here
is a good link to give you more information - http://www.tombstonechamber.com/Rose-Tree-Festival
. We have also included some
pictures we took of Tombstone in March 2010 showing some of the most famous
historic sites in this wonderful Arizona town. Finally, take a look at our movie of the “unblooming” rose
tree we made that March. We think
you will be amazed of the size of this Arizona rose tree!
The Rose Tree Museum
The Tombstone Rose Tree - March 2010
Allen Street, one of the "dusty streets of Tombstone"
Famous Bird Cage Theater
The Newspaper that wrote on October 27, 1881 "Three Men Hurled Into Eternity in the Duration of a Moment" as a result of the Gunfight At The OK Corral.
Tombstone Courthouse State Park
One of the many Allen Street businesses of Tombstone.
Greetings! We are two Arizonans who have spent our lifetime learning about and exploring Arizona. We hope that anyone who wants to learn more about Arizona will visit our blog often.
Please email us with your questions you have about visiting the people, places and amazing man made and natural wonders found in Arizona. We will be happy to share with you what we know. We hope you will share with us your knowledge of Arizona as we too are constantly learning about our wonderful state.
We are retired public school educators who have been teaching, learning and "Finding Arizona" ourselves for over 40 years. We have written two textbooks series for kids dealing with Arizona, both of which will soon be available as ibooks.
For the past six years, we have written for the In&Out of Anthem magazine in Anthem, Arizona - www.ioanthem.com. Here we have had published over 230 stories about Finding Arizona under the heading "Get Out". Here is a link to most of our In&Out "Get Out" stories - http://www.ioanthem.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=15&Itemid=85 We are and always will be most grateful to Nadine Shaalan, owner and editor of the In&Out of Anthem
magazine, for giving us the opportunity to write and share our Arizona
stories in her wonderful community magazine. You can always check out
our new In&Out stories at this link as well.
We hope this blog becomes a great resource for you as you too go about Finding Arizona. It is such a wonderful adventure to go on and may our blog be a friendly companion on your own Arizona journeys.
We wanted to share with you a couple of pictures and videos of a most special place in Arizona, the Chocolate Falls on the Little Colorado River northeast of Flagstaff. Just a sample of never ending natural wonders found in Arizona!
Hope you visit with us often!
Linda & Dick
Here is a view of the Chocolate Falls (also known as the Grand Falls)
flowing 30 miles east of Flagstaff. Located on the Navajo Indian
Reservation, this is a trip well worth the effort to get there. This is
a springtime trip after a big snow melt runoff. We have good
directions to the Chocolate Falls that we would be happy to share, so
email us if you are interested.
