Art Museums Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block Today the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block encompasses an entire city block in historic downtown, and features original and traveling exhibitions focusing on Art of Latin America, Art of the American West, Modern and Contemporary Art and Asian Art … Continue reading
Ms. Karen and I left our home in Tucson and headed north to Biosphere 2, a 3-acre laboratory of glass domes near Oracle that houses five different ecosystems and was designed as a prototype of a space colony in the early 90’s. Today, it is a tourist attraction and a … Continue reading
Editor’s note: 2022-01-11. Every January, the Hotel Congress stages a reenactment of the capture of the Dillinger gang. Be sure to visit the courtroom where Dillenger was arraigned in the old courthouse, which is now open again as the Visitor’s Center, Heritage & Mineral Museum. Part1 of 3: The Dillinger … Continue reading
Christmas week 2015 – Jim, Ms. Sue and I (Ms. Karen) headed out to Ft. Huachuca to visit their museums and cemetery, approximately 1.25 hours from Tucson.
Continue readingWhen Ms. Karen’s brother and sis-in-law came to visit us over Thanksgiving, we chose to visit the Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures on the Friday after. For those of you who have not been, The Museum of Miniatures is a magical place full of enchanting miniature houses, castles, and … Continue reading
Kelly Wiehe, Director of Communications and External Affairs for the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, recently gave me a tour of the Museum to show me their plans to expand and enhance the Museum’s exhibit space. The remodeling is scheduled to take place July 9 – October 20, … Continue reading
Those of us who live in the vastness of the Sonoran Desert share this land with two sovereign nations: the Republic of Mexico and the Tohono O’odham Nation. The Tohono O’odham Nation is the second largest American Indian reservation in the United States: 4,344 square miles. The largest belongs to … Continue reading
The Raptor Free Flight Program at our Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is the most extraordinary bird of prey exhibition in the United States! The new season begins Saturday October 15, 2016 and continues through April 2, 2017. Shows are daily at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. November and December are great … Continue reading
The Museum of the Horse Soldier is a small, but remarkable museum about one very important aspect of American military history.
Continue readingI had wanted to visit Southern New Mexico ever since I read Eve Ball’s magnificent Indeh: An Apache Odyssey I knew many of the descendants of Chiefs Naiche, Chihuahua, Loco, Nana, and Victorio live on the Mescalero Apache Reservation and I wanted to interview them. Even the descendants of “The … Continue reading
