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Our summer line up includes Geronimo- In His Own Words, a tribute to Father Piccoli, the Pinal Little League story and the last picture show at Apache Drive In.TRANSCRIPT
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Father Gino, Continued on page 35
By Teresa Propeck
The American railroad is the stuff of legend and folklore,
inspiring poems, novels, fi lm and song. On Saturday, August 31,
Verde Canyon Railroad’s Rhythm on the Rails serves passengers
a special blend of trains and tunes with this onboard concert
in the Canyon. The brilliant scenery serenaded by the
clickety-clack of steel wheels along the rails is an American
lullaby. This summer’s musical line-up will equal the thrills
of the Canyon’s rare riparian wilderness for an audio-visual
sensation hard to fi nd elsewhere.
As the train covers a wide range of scenic highlights, seven
musical acts cover a wide range of genres from jazz to blues,
rock to country, spoken word to instrumental. The passenger
cars each provide an intimate concert venue as the acts travel the
length of the train, performing a set of songs in each coach.
Rhythym on the Rails, Continued on page 38
Concerts in the Canyon
Building the Apache Spirit
By Jenn Walker
The fi rst time I met Father Gino Piccoli, he was
shuffl ing around barefoot inside St. Francis Church
on the San Carlos Apache Reservation, a bandana
wrapped around his forehead and tools on the fl oor.
He had been working on the interior of the church
throughout the afternoon. I had heard Piccoli had
done great things with the church, and was there to
see for myself.
It was the fi rst and last time I saw
him. Months later I learned that
Piccoli passed away in April on
his way to the hospital, after 16
years spent serving as the
church friar. He was 72.
Geronimo, Continued on page 36
By Linda Gross
He was called the “greatest warrior” and
the “worst Indian who ever lived.” He brought
hope to his people and terror to his enemies.
And he survived the most bloody of confl icts in
the settling of the Arizona Territories of the late
1800s – to tell his story “in his own words”.
When he surrendered in 1886 to General
Miles, he and his band of 16 warriors were
the last Apaches to do so, bringing a close
to the Apache Wars which stretched for
nearly ten bloody years throughout the
Arizona Territory and parts of Mexico.
“Once I moved like the wind,” he told General Miles. “Now I surrender to
you and that is all.”
Yet, unlike so many of the conquered, Geronimo’s voice was not silenced
with his surrender. Although it would be twenty years before he got to
tell his story, a book would be published in 1906 “in his own words.” It was
not without a good deal of controversy and a string of objections from the
U.S. War Department. Had it not been for the persistence of a young
Superintendent of Schools in Lawton Oklahoma who befriended the old
warrior at Ft. Sill the words of Geronimo may never have made it to paper.
– IN HIS OWN WORDSGERONIMO
In remembrance of Father Gino, a dedicated carpenter and priest
2 Summer 2013
La Fleur FataleLa Fleur FataleBy Kim Stone
The row of red yuccas in two gallon
pots had been in the same location
for weeks, and I walked or rode my
bike past them dozens of times. Their
particularly deep red fl owers waved
on fl exible stems in short arcs or long
ones, depending on the wind, and I
took casual notice of them just as I
do all of the other plants in the retail
nursery. Thickened, lance-shaped
leaves grew from each pot and then
curved outward, allowing room for the
meter-high fl owering stalks to rise from
the center. Because they were perched
atop an elevated rock wall, the fl owers
were effectively at eye level, and hard
to miss.
During the heat of the afternoon last
Wednesday, an expected lustfulness
rose up inside me, and with it, a primal
urge to possess these plants – all of
them. The fl owers, I realized, weren’t
just deeper red than most red yuccas,
they were the color of blood, starting
with bright arterial blood near the
center, transitioning to a darker venous
color at the tips. I began to guard
them, jealously, fi nding reasons to loiter
nearby, waiting for the paycheck that in
48 hours would make them mine.
The truth be told, the native form of
red yucca (Hesperaloe parvifl ora) can
easily reach six-seven feet across with
a daunting thicket of tightly packed
leaves, and while it looks great in front
of offi ce buildings or along freeways,
it is often too large and gangly for
home landscapes. The plant that was
plucking the heartstrings of my desire
is a trademarked cultivar of this species
called Brakelights. It not only has much
redder fl owers, but a mature size of
just a third of its parent. Petite, you
might say, rather than full fi gured. It is
exceptionally heat tolerant and cold
hardy, too, down to minus 20 degrees,
which means it can be grown anywhere
in Arizona, from Yuma to Flagstaff.
And because it produces few seeds, it
can fl ower for nine months of the year,
attracting hummingbirds all the while.
The pulsating red fl owers glow –
like brake lights – and appear to be
backlit even when they’re not. In the
shade, the pigments are particularly
strong and lucid, resembling crushed
cochineal. The species form of red
yucca fl ower is painted raspberry
sherbet on the outside, with long
yellow tipped stamens surrounded by
bone white on the inside, all as if lithely
applied with a fi ne horsehair brush.
From a distance, this gives the “red”
yucca more of a deep pinkish hue. The
color of Brakelights, by contrast, is
blood red through and through, like it
was plunged wholesale into a pool of
thick, pomegranate syrup and hung
to dry. Even its stamens have shrunk
almost out of sight to help magnify the
Big Red effect.
In interest of full disclosure, I had
already planted three of the regular red
yuccas in my yard, long before I became
enamored with the intense beauty and
diminutive size of Brakelights. Plant
fi delity is not one of my strong points
(after all, there is no higher calling in
landscape design than to choose the
right plant for the right place, even if
it takes several tries to get it right ),
so I unceremoniously dug out the
original red yuccas and replaced
them in the same location with
Brakelights, preserving the older
plants in the empty containers.
Is this a case of trading a reliable
old standby for the seductive power of
a new introduction? What some might
call a trophy plant? Perhaps, but now,
comparing the two plants side-by-side,
I’ve grown a new appreciation for the
subtle artistry of the native red yucca
fl owers, compared to the drunken
allure of the Brakelights. Even with its
rambunctious vegetative growth, the
native red yucca suggests that it sips
from a glass, with stately elegance,
while the upstart Brakelights brashly
chugs from the bottle, not genteel
enough to even wipe its chin, but never
outgrowing its location, either.
For size, color, and length of
fl owering alone, Brakelights is a
superior choice for most home yards
and landscapes, but if space isn’t an
issue, the native red yucca still has
its charm. In the end, the choice will
depend on how thirsty you are.
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August 18 – Prickly Pear Processing Class
August 24 – Geology Tour
August 24 – Butterfl y Walk
August 25 – Edible and Medicinal Plants
Left: The native form of Red YuccaRight: The new, trademarked Brakelights cultivar
By Jenn Walker
Fourth of July is here again. I
can already remember last year,
standing awkardly in the kitchen of
someone I hardly knew, where every
table and counter top was covered
with pies, chips, dip and potato salad.
I was invited, sure, but the fact I only
knew three people was evident.
These days we equate Fourth
of July with being social, either
standing over barbecues and food or
beneath fi reworks.
But unless you are in school and
have been assigned to do so, it is not
often we take the time to ask each other
around this time, "What does it mean to
be American, anyway?"
Once celebrated as the day we
declared independence, is that still
what we think of when we hoist up our
fl ags in front of our houses, or watch
brilliant, colorful explosives fall from
the sky? Some of us throw around
the word 'patriotism', but what does
that imply?
True, we could turn to our
dictionaries and encylopedias
and dryly read aloud defi nitions
and dates. However, there are
approximately 302 million of
us Americans living here in the
U.S. as legal citizens, who is
to say what “being American”
means?
What being American
means to someone who just
became a citizen days, months
or years ago versus a second,
third or fourth generation
American, versus a Native American,
is likely different. It seems like it would
depend on who you ask. For this reason,
we recently asked our readers to simply
respond to the question: "What does it
mean to you to be an American?" on our
website, and we still invite you to do so.
Meanwhile, we came across a book
called, "To Be An American", written by
an attorney, author and professor who
grew up just over the mountains from
Globe, in Superior, Arizona. His name is
Bill Ong Hing.
Nowadays, in addition to blogging
regularly for the Huffi ngton Post, Hing
is a professor of law at the University of
San Francisco and professor emeritus at
U.C. California, Davis School of Law.
We asked Hing during a brief phone
interview what it meant to him to be
an American.
After an aside commenting on how
he missed the summers in Superior (he
now lives in California) he responded:
"My concept, my idea, of what
it means to be an American is really
infl uenced by growing up in Superior,"
he said. "What it means to me, it's
very diverse."
He then went on to describe the
multiethnic environment he grew up in,
which he also details in his book.
Hing was born in Superior in 1947 to
one of three Chinese American families
in the area, which were all essentially
part of the same extended family. The
rest of his peers were primarily Anglo,
Summer 2013 3
The American ExperienceRefl ecting on what “American” means with Bill Hing
American Experience, Continued on page 5
Summer 2013 3
Bill Ong Hing with his parents.
4 Summer 2013
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This summer will be the last one for the Apache Drive-In
on Hwy 77. It has served many generations of moviegoers
who loaded up the car each weekend with kids and coolers to
watch the latest fi lms on the big silver screen under the stars at
night. When I found out that no event had yet been planned for
the ‘last picture show’ I jumped on the chance to host one! As
a publication, GlobeMiamiTimes is known for featuring stories
which help defi ne our times. And the closing of the drive-in
represents the ending of an era for many of us. So mark your
calendars for September 28 and get your early bird tickets now to
secure a spot. This is a moment in history and we plan on making
it memorable (see pp 12-13).
Oh my, and that event will follow on the heels of the Gila
County fair which always happens the middle of September and
this year we will be helping the fair get the word out about the
huge line up of scheduled events. Two new features of the fair will
make it easier for attendees to get tickets and keep up with events –
a QR code and online ticket sales. The code links to a hosted
landing page featuring up to date information on fair activities for
mobile users, and pre-paid gate tickets which can now be bought
online through Eventbrite.com (see pp 13).
Before I get to our feature articles, I just want to put in a plug for
all the new additions we launched this summer for our fans to stay
in touch with the Globe-Miami Community. Check out the details
of our new comprehensive website (pp 24 ), and consider signing
up for one of our weekly newsletters or liking us on Facebook.
Both will help you stay connected to the community, and we look
forward to serving you on these platforms.
Our feature articles this summer have a distinctive nod
to history. We didn’t really plan that when we began
gathering ideas for this edition, but each of our stories involve a
link to the past. We bring you Clara T. Woody who has educated,
entertained and inspired us (pp 6), and Bullion Plaza Cultural
Museum (pp 14) which has risen from decay to become
a noteworthy museum and cultural center hosting both
visitors and locals.
For those of us who had the pleasure of a fi rsthand
experience with our own Copper Spike, the upcoming
event on the Verde Valley Railroad will be of special
interest. Like Globe’s excursion railroad which
was closed in 2011, the Verde Valley line has a rich
history of railroading and copper mining on its
38-mile stretch of track. It has operated
since 1990 as an excursion line and their
August event includes a variety of
musical acts and scenery and
cooler temperatures. What’s
not to love?
This spring we were saddened by the loss of Father Gino; the
Franciscan friar who had held sway over the small Catholic church
in San Carlos for nearly two decades. We had heard so many good
things about his work on San Carlos and even met up with him
earlier this year to plan an article. The article (pp 1) by Jenn Walker
refl ects on the man who was both priest and carpenter at St.
Francis Church in San Carlos.
And on the eve of the nations’ celebration of the Fourth, it
seemed appropriate to ask the question, just what does it mean
to be an American ...to you? Beyond the cliches and the talking
points we hear on TV, have you thought about what this means?
How does each of us defi ne ‘being American?” We fi rst asked
this question on our website and Facebook, and have included an
interview with Bill Ong Hing, who grew up in Superior and wrote
the book “To Be An American” (pp 3). We still encourage readers to
weigh in on this question and leave us a comment on our website.
And on that note, I will leave you to our summer issue!
Enjoy,
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
– Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works
Summer 2013 5
American Experience,Continued from page 3
Mexican, Navajo and Apache. These
were the kids he would play basketball
and Little League with.
He learned Mexican corridos, or folk
ballads, from his next-door neigbor.
During the '60s, he played guitar in
a couple rock n' roll bands in high
school, one of which gained local
popularity. They called themselves
the "UNs", short for United Nations,
because the members included a
Chinese American (Hing), a Mexican
American, and Scandinavian and
German descendants.
As he describes his upbringing in
Superior in his book, Hing says this:
"Although I left Superior after
graduating from high school to attend
college at U.C. Berkeley, my early life
in Superior has profoundly infl uenced
my thinking on multicultural,
multiracial, and multireligious
communities, class distinctions, and
social values. Although life was not
without strife, my family was part of a
larger community that respected our
Chinese American identity and culture.
We learned about and respected other
cultures and languages. I learned values
and approaches to life from people
of all backgrounds, from my Catholic
Mexican American playmates to my
Jewish high school history teacher, from
Navajo and German customers to the
chief administrator of the local mine.
In retrospect, the opportunity to hear
different perspectives was clearly an
advantage."
"My life after high school – at U.C.
Berkeley, in law school, in Chinatown, at
the Buddhist church, as a legal services
attorney, immigration lawyer, academic,
participant in community activities,
spouse, and parent – has reinforced the
values I began to develop in Superior.
How could I not be infl uenced by my
African American college roommate
from Texas, the jazz band we formed,
People's Park, or the all-Asian American
fraternity I initially spurned but
ultimately joined?... My early life in
Superior and all of these subsequent life
experiences have created impressions
– some would say biases – that lead
to views about America and being an
American that one might loosely call
cultural pluralism."
As we fi nished our conversation
over the phone Hing told me that he
still comes back to Superior twice a
year, and that his perspective on what it
means to be American has not changed
since his childhood.
“You don’t have to be of European
descent,” he said. “Anyone can be
an American.”
Bill Hing is pictured here with members of Quill and Scroll at Superior high School, an organization for outstanding journalism students.
Old clip: "Superior's musical group known as the UNs appeared on a Phoenix TV show recently and is proving very popular with the teenagers. It is appropriately named since the boys consist of (left to right) Gary Antilla, Bruce Medlock, Armour Gomez at the mike, and Billy Hing. They come from a 'United Nations' stock of Swedish, German, Spanish and Chinese blood."
6 Summer 2013
By Jenn Walker
This story is about a Globe woman
who was ahead of her time. It should
have been written decades ago. But this
paper did not exist then and I was no
more than a twinkle in my dad's eye.
Clara T. Woody was perhaps the
most independent woman in Globe-
Miami during her heyday. If you were
around Globe-Miami anytime from
1917 onward, perhaps you saw her
somewhere around town, donning her
cat-eye framed glasses. She was a mother
of two, employed fi rst at the county
attorney's offi ce and later in local real
estate. On her own accord, however, she
became Gila County's most infl uential,
unoffi cial historian and archivist.
"Many books may be written from
material Mrs. Woody has gathered
through the years," Frances Gerhardt
once wrote of Woody in the Arizona
Record (article date unknown). "Her
fi les include data on mining, brands,
cemeteries, churches, courthouse[s],
dams, fi res, fl oods, early families,
deaths, military, pioneer women
of Arizona, railroads, schools, Al
Seiber, mails, wildlife and many other
pertinent facts."
In an era when women were
expected to be homemakers, if Woody
wasn't working, she was out collecting
stories, perhaps talking to witnesses
or informants of the Tewksbury Fewd
or Pleasant Valley War, or visiting Mr.
Anderson, a pioneer. A Kansas farm
girl herself, Woody was fascinated
with Globe's pioneer history from the
moment she arrived to the area.
It all started when Woody relocated
to New Mexico in pursuit of a drier
climate after developing severe
pneumonia and hay fever. She was
rebellious from the start, says Woody's
daughter Jean Stiles. She attended the
New Mexican Agricultural School in
Las Cruces. There she taught Mexican
children English and learned Spanish.
Pneumonia and hay fever stayed with
her, and in 1917 she came to Globe.
Soon after she met her future husband,
Clarence, from West Virginia. He was
camped out on the tailings with the
calvary in 1917 to quell the mine strike.
They married on Thanksgiving Day of
the same year. She traveled with him to
Oklahoma and Texas, until the doctor
told Woody's husband he had better
relocate her to Arizona and keep her
there. He worked for Old Dominion and
later Inspiration.
Meanwhile, she found work as a
court reporter for the county attorney's
offi ce and began traveling around the
county for work.
"She talked about murders,
sometimes she viewed the bodies,"
recalls Stiles.
It was then, with the encouragement
of the state librarian, that she began
to collect data on Gila County and
interview survivors of the past,
documenting their stories. Woody
developed a knack for getting these
individuals to open up to her.
"They trusted her with information
they would have imparted to nobody
else, sometimes exacting a promise
that it would not be revealed until
they and all others involved were
safely dead and buried," wrote C.L.
Sonnichsen in the forward of Woody's
book "Globe, Arizona". "She was forever
digging into old newspapers and court
records, visiting the state library, and
corresponding with people who might
have a scrap of authentic information."
Needless to say, Woody was excellent
at shorthand, Stiles remembers.
It would take 60 years, however,
before Woody's notes, manuscripts
and articles were compiled into a
published book.
"My mom was a procrastinator in
some ways," Stiles says. "The fun of
writing for her was the investigating, she
loved interviewing people."
"She would write the stories down,
but to compile a book required someone
else to get it done," she adds.
Meanwhile, Woody certainly left
her mark on this region. She was an
inductee into the Arizona Women's
Hall of Fame. For a time, Mayor Hank
Williams rallied for the county museum,
which at the time was owned by Miami
Copper Company, to be named after
her. For a brief time it was.
Clara Woody, Continued on page 7
Clara's husband Clarence Waitman Woody. Though Clara was more active than most wives of that era, he never protested her investigative nature.
CLARA T. WOODY A WOMAN AHEAD OF HER TIME
Clara Thompson Woody was one of Gila County's most infl uential historians and archivists, from the time she moved here in 1917 until her death in 1981.
Summer 2013 7
But Woody was a modest woman,
and didn't like the idea of the
museum being named after her. The
name was changed to the Gila County
Historical Museum.
She frequently contributed her
work to the Arizona Silver Belt, then the
Arizona Republic, and was instrumental
in helping other local writers. She served
as a member of the board of directors
to the Arizona Historical Society. She
was also extremely active in several
organizations; she was president of
the Globe Business and Professional
Women's Club, and vice president of
the state's organization.
"My mother loved politics, she was
what I would call a rabid politician,"
Stiles says. "When women got the
vote she became a democrat, a very
staunch democrat."
"I remember she would go around
at night after polls to check and see
who was winning," Stiles adds. "If she
could have run for offi ce, she probably
would have."
She happened to be married to a
man who supported her all the while.
"My father was a very laid-back
man," Stiles says. "Whatever my mother
wanted to do, fi ne."
Neither Woody or her husband
were around much while Stiles and her
brother grew up in Globe. He worked in
the mines, and was later sent to Wilcox.
Around 1928 Woody picked up work
real estate with J.J. Keegan, working on
insurance policies in the room above
what is now Bacons Boots and Saddles.
As a child growing up in Globe during
the 1920s and '30s, Stiles recalls
instead often coming home from
school to babysitters rather than
her mother.
"She became the forerunner of
women's lib," Stiles says. "She didn't
like to be confi ned to the house."
"At that time, she stood out
in the community," Stiles adds.
"Women weren't expected to do
things like this, they were expected
to stay at home, cook, clean and
raise babies."
Woody continued to work the
same job throughout the Great
Depression. It wasn't a lot of money,
remembers Stiles, but it was enough
to get by.
"We may not have had a lot
of material things, but we always
had books and magazines. Mother
was a big believer in education,"
Stiles says.
In 1939 Woody retired from
JJ Keegan and began to pursue her
research in full force. Eventually she and
her husband relocated to Wheatfi elds,
and later Miami.
Even then, she spent a lot of time
at her typewriter, remembers Woody's
granddaughter Diane Stewart. Woody
raised Stewart when she was little.
Stewart still remembers Woody's
offi ce next door to the little house in
Miami, where she kept her typewriter
and records. Even Stewart was young,
Woody was still collecting stories. She
remembers taking a trip with Woody to
Zane Grey's cabin.
Woody's plan was to write four
books. That's where Milton L. Schwartz
comes in. Schwartz was a graduate
student at the University of Arizona
when Woody was just shy of turning 90.
At that time the publications committee
of the Arizona Historical Society agreed
to edit a collection of her stories on
Globe. Schwartz was tasked with taking
Woody's research and transforming
it into a narrative. Three years later
Woody's fi rst book, "Globe, Arizona",
coauthored by Schwartz, was published
in 1977. Woody was 91.
Unfortunately, she did not get to
the other three before she passed away
at 95.
Nonetheless, she left a legacy. Copies
of photographs she collected are now in
state archives, including the laying of
the fi rst cornerstone of the fi rst church
in Globe in 1880, pictures of the 1894 big
snow storm, Al Seiber, and Tal Ka Lai,
the Native American chief and scout
who lived his last years in Miami.
"Heritage?" asked Gerhardt. "Gila
County has it. Ask Mrs. Clara Woody."
Clara Woody, Continued from page 6
Clarence and Clara were married on Thanksgiving Day in 1917. They had two children: John Woody, former curator of Gila County Museum, and Jean Stiles, who still resides in Globe today.
8 Summer 2013
THE ABC’S OF ANTIQUING
by Darin Lowery
The cable television show Flea
Market Flip, hosted by Lara Spencer of
Antiques Roadshow fame is the sort of
program that has me alternately ripping
my hair out by its grey
roots, audibly groaning
like a fl atlining cardiac
patient, or lunging
from my lounge chair
to scream at the set.
For those who haven’t
seen it, two teams
of artists/designers/
collectors are handed
a wad of bills, released
into a huge fl ea market
to terrorize antiques
dealers while searching
for items to buy, then
transforming the items
into ‘desirable’ objects
to re-sell, hoping to
reap a windfall. Whoever makes the
most profi ts in this competition, as is
the American way, is the winner.
The teams purchase perfectly good
items – fancy divans, carved bureaus,
elaborate picture frames – and then
sand, paint, pound, blast, burn,
dismantle and torture things which did
very well for a very long time just being
the useful, attractive pieces they were
designed as. The goal is to then move
the merchandise at ridiculously high
prices to buyers who fi nd their wares
‘trendy’, ‘hip’ or – my perennial favorite,
‘really unique’.
Maybe it’s just me, but having a café
table reimagined with a giant serrated
saw blade as its top, or a lighted ceiling
fi xture fabricated from rusted barbed
wire is more than unusual. It’s lethal.
Our fi nal chapter in the ABC’s of
Antiquing continues: Parts I, II and III
covered A-R in the previous issues.
is for Soda Pop Bottles.
Yep, those glass containers
of yesteryear are truly
collectible, and I can prove it— we have
twenty-three outstanding examples
on our kitchen shelf. While Coke beats
out Pepsi for most collectors, how
about brands with names like ‘Husky’,
‘Sparkle’ and ‘Whistle’? The ones to look
for are the unusual— ‘Patio’ and ‘Like’
come to mind. My favorite is a short
green ‘Liano’s Lithiated Lemon Soda’
bottle, done in an Art Deco font in white.
Gotta love a beverage with Lithium as
an active ingredient.
Paper labels went
the way of the
dinosaur with the
advent of ACL labels
(applied ceramic
printing, which is
permanent): brand
names stayed
bright and shiny
through repeated
factory washings –
remember, bottles
used to be returned
for reuse, and
your deposit was
returned! Great
looking pieces can
still be found for a few dollars, and the
more elusive – say, the early Seven-Up
bottle with a bathing beauty on the left
side – fetch a lot more.
is for Typewriter, as in,
what Grandma learned
to use in school. They’re
the hefty, clunky keyboards (without
a monitor) you’ll see in old 1940’s
black and white crime dramas where
the newsman bangs away on a hot
‘hold the presses’ story. Remington,
Underwood, Olivetti… each have their
special qualities and each operate with
a simple press of the keys, which cause
individual steel arms embossed with a
letter or symbol of the alphabet to strike
an inked ribbon which then transfers
the image to paper. Having one sitting
on a desk in your home offi ce means
you recognize the nobility of early
typefaces… and actually using one will
bring a new respect for the legion of
secretaries who greased the wheels of
so many large corporations for so many
years. Typing a letter on one of those
babies will give you a workout.
PART IV
T
SABC's, Continued on page 9
Summer 2013 9
VU
X,Y, & Z
W
is for Umbrella. Don’t laugh –
there are folks out there who
collect just about anything,
and umbrellas are one of them.
When I’m not polishing my twenty-
three vintage soda pop
bottles, I’m opening and
admiring my seventeen
vintage umbrellas (this is
done outdoors, of course:
similar to tossing your
hat on a bed, opening
an umbrella indoors is
to invite disaster). The
better bumbershoots
have fancy handles (the
best, in candy-colored,
carved Bakelite) with
lively and vibrant printed patterns
on cloth. Most to be found are still in
usable condition, and a group of them,
like any still life, make an impact. A
recent dinner guest commented on my
collection, stuffed in a chrome Moderne
stand by the front door – but she seemed
more puzzled than impressed. We don’t
get a lot of rain in Arizona.
is for Victorian. Talk about
‘over-the-top’. A typical
Victorian home (a period
which covered the reign of
England’s Queen Victoria, from 1837-
1901) boasted more household items
per square foot than today’s IKEA. Tables
laid for teas and suppers rivaled the
Royal Navy for hardware – lemon forks
and pickle forks and olive forks – you
get it. While furnishings were numerous
(photos from those years look like
warehouse interiors, not parlors) the
millwork, ceramics and textiles were
outstanding. Think non-judicious use
of carving, marble, cut glass, fringe,
and even wicker. Names to look for in
furniture are Herter Brothers, Eastlake
and Horner. The Victorians took the
‘more is more’ look to dizzying heights.
is for Wall Pockets. Collectors
love wall pockets – those
ceramic vases with a fl at back
one sees hung in hallways and dining
rooms – and while they’re not as easily
found nowadays, if you do a bit of
ABC's, Continued from page 8 digging you’ll be rewarded.
All of the big pottery houses
made them from the ‘20’s
through the Fifties, though
they’ve been around forever
and were originally used, in
canvas or wood versions,
to hold anything worth
reaching for – scissors,
matches or spoons. Popular
designs were made by
Noritake, McCoy, Weller
and Shawnee, and the ones
created by Roseville are truly
lovely. And yes, wall pockets
in good condition do hold
water, which make them
perfect for a fl oral spray in
your boudoir. Recent ‘sold’
listings on eBay ran from
six to ninety-nine dollars
each, depending on style
and rarity.
are for those undefi nable things
we just can’t categorize. I’m talking
about those items that touch us in a
personal way when we stumble across
them at a tag sale or antiques shop.
A Pyrex bowl with green fl owers
reminds us of Mom and those crazy
barbeques; the Lesley Gore ‘hit single’
on a 45 rpm record that blared at the
fi rst school dance we attended; a shiny
Zippo lighter just like Grandpa carried
in his pocket. We keep the past alive
not only through memories, family
stories and photographs, but by things,
too. If you’re lucky enough to come
across something which reminds
you of home, or of someone once
close – or even if the item has no
relevance, its only stamp of worthiness
is that it’s ‘cool’, then go for it. We live in
changing times, and occasionally it’s a
comfort to have something solid, with a
patina, to hold onto.
This concludes the GlobeMiami
Times four-part series on the ‘ABC’s of
Antiquing’. See you at the shops!
10 Summer 2013
By Linda Gross and Jessica Doong
Peter Bigfoot’s “Book of Ancient
Natural Remedies: Healing Yourself
and Others with Herbs and Hands” is
a detailed yet concise guide on herbal
remedies and Chinese acupressure.
Written by a man who has trekked
85 miles solo across the Sonoran Desert,
has spent the last thirty years studying
the ability of nature to cure, and has
tested the effi cacy of what he has
learned on himself, the book is a literal
“how-to” of natural healing methods
handed down and tested over time
from those who have relied on
nature rather than high tech western
medicine to heal.
Getting bitten by snakes, stung
by scorpions, impaled on spines are
common dangers for anyone living
in the Southwest and all of these are
addressed in Bigfoot’s book.
He describes how to prepare and
apply localized natural healing agents
like willow bark, cactus, and comfrey,
to heal bites and stings and use Chinese
acupressure to heal headaches and
stomach cramps.
Bigfoot has been stung over thirty
times by a bark scorpion, and says he
found a remedy which works very well
on these stings. Nonetheless, he started
experimenting with others – just so
he could compare results. It turns out
his favorite concoction won out over
all the others. He calls it his “Scorpion
Sting Remedy.”
Last spring, 92-year-old Minnie
Hicks was bitten on the bottom of
her foot by a brown recluse, one of
the nastiest of all critters making the
Southwest their home.
Common treatment by those in the
medical fi eld includes elevating the
affected limb, providing ibuprofen and
tylenol and often resorting to surgery
and hospitalization to cut out the
affected area.
Yet, in Hicks’ case, after weeks in
the hospital with all the skills Western
medicine could afford, her foot
continued to worsen and her daughters
said they were worried she might loose
her foot, or her life. Doctors told them
they had done all they could.
That was when one of the sisters,
Janet Cline, called Bigfoot. He brought
desert willow bark to soak her foot and a
Peter Bigfoot, Continued on page 11
Summer 2013 11
The Making of a NaturalistBy Jessica Doong
Bigfoot was raised in suburban New Jersey. His parents moved there from farms, so they had a big garden in their backyard. As a kid, Bigfoot would often get sick, seemingly at the worst times. Sometime around his junior year in high school, he grew so tired of being ill that he vowed to do whatever it took to be healthy, even if it meant eating horse manure.
The next day he met someone who introduced him to natural healing and foods, and he continued to meet more people in the same vein. He began to read books and change his diet, which ended up changing his life. He was no longer sick all the time and was able to use the techniques he learned to self heal.
His education in other areas was also very hands-on. He traveled from place to place, learning practical trades that he had an interest in, like construction. Wherever he stayed for any signifi cant length of time, he would set up a garden for himself. Eventually, he landed in Phoenix.
He recounted how he had always envied animals like deer, bears, and eagles, which could go wild and free
without having to haul a bunch of things around. Whatever they needed they would fi nd in nature.
So in July 1976, he got inspired to walk 85 miles across the Sonoran Desert, bringing no food or water with him but instead lived completely off of the land. He walked alone for 15 days in the scorching Arizona heat; temperatures reached above 135 degrees in the daytime. Water sources were 14 miles apart, and he contracted hepatitis from drinking water that had animal carcasses fl oating in it. Fortunately, he was able to handle his condition with wild herbs.
His trek gotten written up in the newspaper, and he started getting calls from people who wanted him to teach survival skills. He put a
hold on that for a few years while
he attended the natural healing
school Jim Marinakis had started.
Once he fi nished there, Bigfoot opened
up his own natural healing practice
in Phoenix.
At the prompting of Marinakis
and others, Bigfoot fi nally began
teaching survival skills in the spring
of 1978. It was at the end of a trek
with his students that he came across
the abandoned farm that would later
become Reevis Mountain School.
Reevis Mountain School started
off in 1980 as a new age community
focusing on self-suffi ciency and
survival skills, but it has evolved
into a sanctuary, organic farm,
and homestead. The Bigfoots now
have interns that come to stay with
them in the northeast corner of the
Superstition Wilderness, and they
also teach short classes in wilderness
survival and herbology. It is a place
where they not only grow food, but
help people grow.
Reevis Mountain bottled remedies
and salves can be ordered online
through www.reevismountain.org
or purchased through Hoofi n’ It Feed
and Tack.
Peter Bigfoot, Continued from page 10
tincture made of black walnut
bark and chaparral.
“We immersed her foot in
the willow bark soak and the
stuff that came out of there was
amazing. It instantly bubbled
up all the (toxins),” says Cline.“
It pretty much saved her life.”
As Bigfoot has discovered
over the years, most everything
you need to make tinctures,
salves, poultices and soaks to
heal yourself is readily on hand
in nature, close to the source.
“The accessibility of herbal
remedies seems to be a part
of a greater natural design for
healing. It is a phenomenon whereby remedies are often
found precisely where they would be needed,” he explains.
“For example, prickly pear, which is used as a remedy for
sunburn, is found in the desert. Barrel cactus, a remedy for snakebites, tends
to grow where snakes live. Wild grape tends to grow along with poison ivy, and
purslane is a common garden weed used to treat bee stings.“
Unfortunately, this natural design was disregarded by scientists in the early
19th century, who began to extract and modify the active ingredients from
plants as soon as they were able. This led to chemists later making their own
versions of plant compounds. Eventually, the use of medicinal herbs declined,
mostly supplanted by these new drugs.
Bigfoot is not shy when it comes to his dim opinion of pharmaceutical
companies.
Antibiotics damage the body’s own
natural defenses and come with side
effects, he points out.
“So many conventional treatments
are only meant to reduce symptoms;
they do not promote the body’s natural
healing,” adds Bigfoot’s wife Patricia.
Their philosophy is a simple one: if
you remove the cause of a sickness and
promote a healing atmosphere, the
body will heal itself.
That healing atmosphere begins
with drawing on nature to fi nd the
cures to what ails us.
“It’s just too much money [involved in the business],
and the stuff hurts you more than it helps you,” he asserted.
“As a matter of fact, I think [pharmaceuticals] are
designed to hurt a person.”
Peter andPatricia Bigfoot
Minnie's foot after being
treated with a tincture made
of black walnut bark and
chaparral.
Minnie's foot after she spent weeks in the hospital being treated with Western medicine for a brown recluse bite.
12 Summer 2013
By Linda Gross
Nearly 60 years of movie memories
under the big open skies is coming to a
close this Fall when the Apache Drive-In
will lock its gates forever.
“We’ve known this day was coming,”
says Bobby Hollis whose family owns
the fourplex cinema in town as well
as the Apache Drive-In. “We thought
about closing it (the drive-in) last year,
and decided to run it for one more
season,” says Hollis.
“But it is getting harder and harder
to get the 35mm fi lm and it would
cost nearly $150,000
to convert to digital.”
In order to
understand the
economics of fi lm
just consider what
LA Weekly writer
Gendy Alimurung
wrote last April in
her article, “Movie Studios
Are forcing Hollywood to
Abandon 35mm Film.”
“There is a war raging in
Hollywood; a war between formats.
In one corner...are defenders of 35mm
fi lm. Elegant in its economy, for more
than 100 years fi lm has been the
dominant medium with which movies
are shot, edited and viewed,” she wrote.
“In the other corner are backers of
digital technology - a cheaper, faster,
democratizing medium, a boon to both
creator and distributor.”
Alimurung points out that it costs
about $1,500 to print one copy of a
movie on 35mm fi lm. When multiplied
by 4,000 copies – one for each movie on
each screen in each multiplex around
the country – it is easy to see that the
numbers start to get ugly.
By comparison, she points out,
putting out a digital copy costs a
mere $150.
The Apache Drive-In has the unique
distinction of being one of the last
four drive-ins operating in the state
and the only single-screen among the
four. Operating on 35mm fi lm, it has
been facing it’s last days for years as
more and more of the movie industry
converts to digital.
The Tale of Two CinemasThe Hollis fourplex Cinemas in
downtown Globe was built on the
ground which used to house the
Pioneer Hotel and the original Globe
Theater before the Pioneer Fire in 2005
destroyed both structures in a 3-alarm
fi re believed to have started on the third
fl oor of the hotel.
The downtown theater built in the
1930’s had been a classic ‘old-style’
cinema with one screen, running 35mm
fi lms. Although a tragic loss in many
ways, the fi re presented one silver lining;
it was the opportunity to rebuild from
the ashes for a new era of movie going.
Hollis rebuilt on the original site
and was able to expand the footprint to
include four screens - and a new digital
format. Construction on the new theater
was begun in 2008 and the fourplex
opened on Thanksgiving Day 2009.
This season, as the Cineplex
celebrates it’s fourth year in business,
the Apache Drive-In is set to close it’s
doors after nearly 60 years in operation.
Even taking into account the loyal
following of those who have considered
the Drive-In their favorite form of
entertainment throughout the summer,
there is not enough business to justify
the huge outlay of cash it would take to
upgrade to the new digital.
It is time to say good-bye.
Apache Drive-In, Continued on page 13
The end of an era comes to the Apache Drive-In
CELEBRATING THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
Summer 2013 13
This fall the drive-in will host their regular
showing in early September. As usual it will be a
double header – for $10 a carload. The concession
stand will be offering up their famous red chili
enchiladas, hot dogs and popcorn, as locals fi nd
their favorite spot to settle in for the last time to
watch the silver screen under the stars at their
favorite hometown drive in.
And then, like all good acts, there will be an encore.
GlobeMiamiTimes has teamed up with the
Apache Drive-In to host the ‘last picture show’
featuring perhaps the most iconic fi lms of all drive
in movies, "American Graffi tti!” Starring Ron
Howard, Harrison Form, Cindy Williams Suzanne
Somers, and WOLFMAN JACK, this 1973 fi lm opened to critical
acclaim and was nominated for best picture.
Tickets on sale now! With only 200 tickets available for this last salute to
the Drive-In, the event is sure to sell out quickly, so please
reserve yours today. Tickets available only online at: lastpictureshow.eventbrite.com.
Early bird tickets will go on sale July 10th and offer savings
of 40%. For the full details see the Eventbrite listing.
Your ticket will come with a commemorative copper key
fob, a collectors tin of popcorn and an evening of fun and fi lm, including a Fashion
and Fenders contest, Wolfman Jack contest and more.
Plan to bring your own 'tailgate' food and beverage or purchase from a great
selection the night of the event.
Apache Drive-In, Continued from page 12
Apache Drive-In was featured on the front cover of Arizona Highways just last year for their focus on Retro Az. Hollis says all the cars came from the local car club and the image of Elvis on the screen was photoshop'd .
14 Summer 2013
By Jenn Walker
It took approximately
three years of Tom Foster's
life to move an 1882
salvaged steam hoist from
the Harqua Hala gold mine
in western Arizona to the
Bullion Plaza Museum and
Cultural Center. In order to
do so, Foster, the museum's
executive director, had to
disassemble it completely,
to the last nut and bolt. In
total, Foster estimates that
the hoist weighs about 2500
pounds, the base plate alone
weighing about 1000 pounds.
Any part that weighed less
than 100 pounds was moved
by hand from 170 feet below
ground to the surface. It
is likely the museum's
largest exhibition.
Each exhibition requires
a level of dedication. If you
ask Foster how long it takes to complete
an exhibit at the museum, he'll tell you
it takes as long as it takes.
SInce 2001, Bullion Plaza, a
501(c) nonprofi t, has housed some of
Globe-Miami's best-kept treasures
and stories. Prior, however, it served a
different function.
With its tall columns and large white
steps, Bullion Plaza must have been
intimidating on the fi rst day of school.
Situated at the end of Sullivan Street,
just before the Highway 60 veers out of
downtown Miami, Bullion Plaza opened
as a grammar school in 1923. Once upon
a time, it was the school where Mexican
and Apache children got swaddled for
speaking their native tongue.
The school also produced doctors,
lawyers and teachers, remembers
Joe Sanchez, who is president of the
museum's board and grew up in Miami.
"Those students were very
disciplined, but there was a reason for
it," he says.
During that time, neighborhoods
were separated by culture.
"In those days, even when they
buried the dead, there was some
segregation," Sanchez says with a laugh.
"The Croations have a section, the
Serbs have a section, and the Hispanics
have a section."
Bullion was built by architect Henry
Charles Trost, whose architectural
fi rm Trost and Trost also designed the
Divine Grace Church and the Miami
High School (demolished) in Miami, as
well as the Railway Station, East Globe
School, Hill Street School, Elks Building
and the Masonic Temple in Globe.
That corner of Miami, where Bullion
Plaza sat, was the center of activity.
Once, there was a ballroom in front of
it. If there was any type of celebration in
town, it was in front of Bullion Plaza.
In 1994, Bullion Plaza was deemed
no longer safe as a public school, and
closed. Three years later the town of
Miami bought it in a public bid. The
town collectively decided through
public hearings and survey that the best
use of the building would be a museum.
Bullion Plaza opened as a museum and
cultural center in 2001.
"When we fi rst started, the whole
thing had been abandoned," says Linda
Carnahan, fi rst vice president of the
museum. "There was water pouring in
from the roof when we got it."
To this day, there is still water
damage upstairs from where it leaked.
More than $326,200 later, the museum
has since gotten a new roof. Last
summer was spent replacing windows,
Bullion Plaza, Continued on page 15
A museum and cultural center, Bullion Plaza houses local history, keeping stories alive
MIAMI'S GEM
Tom Foster has been working with Bullion Plaza since he moved to Miami in 2001. He became executive director in 2009, and now oversees thecreation of all exhibitions in the museum.
Summer 2013 15
fi lling holes in the ceiling and painting
the exterior of the building. There is still
more to be done, however.
"There are places that you can't even
make coffee without blowing a breaker,"
Carnahan says.
In addition to Foster's hoist, the
museum houses an impressive Slavic
exhibit, put together by members of
the Slavic Cultural Center. The walls are
covered Slavic fl ags, encased garb, and
professionally-displayed exhibits that
include photos and family histories of
many of Globe-Miami's earliest Slavic
immigrants. Housed in the same room
is the new Rose Mofford collection.
The display represents half of the vast
collection which has been donated to
this region and split between Bullion
Plaza and Globe's Center for the Arts.
Other large displays refl ect the
region's mining, ranching and
military history, with the help of local
individuals who contribute their own
pieces of history to the museum. A new
room is being designed with artifacts,
which will soon be exclusively Apache.
In the mineral hallway you can spot
minerals native to Globe-Miami and
San Carlos, like chrysocolla, quartz,
olivine and vanadinite, loaned by the
Arizona Historical Society. On the way
to the hoist is the mining hallway, lined
with mining relics, like a coiled air hose,
air-powered drills, a clay and shale
crusher, a wheel barrow, copper-bearing
ore and a pick.
The hoist itself was reassembled
onto a subfl oor, where the acoustics
are different. Upon entry a visitor
should feel as though he or she is
underground in a mine. There are life-
sized enlarged black and white photos
from the Miami Copper Company
arranged on the surrounding walls. The
hoist cable feeds from the hoist into a
hole pierced in one of the photos, giving
the exhibit a sense of a dimension.
Other attractions in the museum
include the McCusick tile artwork,
as well as an old linotype, the
machine used to print newspapers
and magazines.
Carnahan is a second generation
Globe-Miami resident. She's been
with Bullion Plaza for the last 14 years,
and offers her own perspective on
the museum.
"We decided to make our museum a
'people museum'," she says.
There is no one story to tell, she
explains. The story of Globe-Miami, and
of Gila County, is a conglomeration of
individual stories.
Each exhibit tells the story of what
it was like to grow up in a small mining
town, which, in those days, wasn't so
small, Sanchez adds.
"We are trying to tell the history of
all the different cultures that came here
from all over the world," he says.
That includes the Irish, the Cornish,
families from Mexico and parts of
South America, black families, the
Slavs, Asians, and of course the Native
Americans who were already here.
Downtown Miami was once a hub
of commerce and a magnet for work,
with groceries, shoe repair shops,
restaurants, the company store and
barber shops.
Many immigrants came to work in
the mines, Sanchez says, while others
opened grocery stores, restaurants
and laundromats, or found work in
the schools and hospitals. The Italians,
great stone masons, came to build
the Roosevelt Dam. Others became
ranchers.
"I don't know how they got word
from half way across the world," he
says. "But we had a need for a little bit
of everything.
Not too long ago a Slavic woman
came to the museum from Oregon,
Carnahan recalls, looking for a photo
of her grandfather. Carnahan left
her to the room to fi nd it. When she
came to check on the woman, the
woman was there crying.
"That's a success story," Carnahan
says, "because we were trying to elicit
that emotion."
"We should celebrate people who
have risen above adversity, the people
who had to get beyond that prejudice
and work together," she adds. "When
people don't understand what being
Slavic is, they can go in and see."
None of this would have been
possible, Foster points out, without
donations of time, money and materials
from: Freeport MacMoRan, Gila
County Board of Supervisors, Wings Like
Eagles Foundation, Arizona Historical
Society, United Fund, RAM Specialists
and Kino Floors.
To add to its trove of stories, currently
the board is planning a Hispanic cultural
exhibit, similar to the Slavic Cultural
Center exhibit.
Next, the board is planning to
expand the museum above and below.
Soon, new exhibits on the former
schools and local service organizations
of the area will be built upstairs.
This will include local unions, which
brought better working conditions to
the mines. Sanchez hopes to develop a
full-fl edged mining exhibit to imitate
how mining was done in the area prior
to the 1950s — underground.
"What is most important is the
fact that we were able to save the
building, because it's a depository
of history for the Globe-Miami
community," Sanchez says. "Beyond
that, we have a place where folks
can relive history."
Bullion Plaza, Continued from page 14
Board members Joe Sanchez and Charlie Snow put a new coat of paint on the entryway.
The Slavic Cultural Exhibit includes authentic dress given to the museum.
16 Summer 2013
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Kelly Byrne, Cyndi Mugridge, Manuel Romero and Kelly Jones serve up a variety of home made ice cream to raise funds for homeless teens in the area. The event raised close to $300.
Out & AboutSolstice Cemetery Tour
June 22Created by Globe Main Street Program
and the Center for the Arts, the cemetery tour attracted over 300 people who bought tickets for the 45-minute tour. Actors in period clothing told the tales of those buried in Globes' fi rst cemetery established in 1878.
Jonelle Brantley gave voice to one of many deaths which were never marked with a gravestone.
Joe Wilson and 'Diablo'Austin Stratton and Bre Webb served as 'way fi nders' for the evening.
Desi Baker as Phineas Clanton points out to the crowd that he was not with his brothers at the OK corral.
Rudy Amador tells the story of a miner who lost his life in the Interloper Fire.
SummerfestJune 29 ~ Downtown Globe
Enjoying fun and games in downtown Globe at the annual wet and wild
Summerfest, hosted by Globe Main Street and a bevy of volunteers.
Ice Cream SocialSt. Joseph's
Episcopal ChurchJune 1
Summer 2013 17The Society Page
Celebrating Rose's 90that Bullion Plaza
June 1
*Photos are available online for purchase at www.pictage.com moffordluncheon. A portion of all sale
proceeds will go to Bullion Plaza Museum. Relay for LifeJune 7-8 ~ Harbison Field, Globe
Thea and Robert Sharette before the event, this was the fi rst year they participated.
Copper Rim Team walked for Deborah Bradford.High Desert Team ready to rock n roll!
The survivors who took the fi rst lap of the evening.
Last First Friday
June 1The First Friday Lecture
series wrapped up the season with a concert on the
steps listening to the Sounds of Miami.
The last event of the First Friday Lecture Series was a concert on the steps of Bullion Plaza by Miami's Big Band Sound, who is Joe Sanchez, Cruz Mendoza, Linda and Keith Guftason, George Sanchez, Troy Porter, Neto Vasquez and Manuel Gonzales.
18 Summer 2013
The Bowie Beer RunFourth of July came this Sunday, and low and behold, there was not a lick of beer in
sight! The Sunday train had not come – that precious car load of beer was still sitting
on the side track at Bowie. Thank goodness for those boys in Globe, they ponied
up the money – enough to pay for a special engine and train crew – to make the
125 mile trip to Bowie and bring beer back to Globe in time for the Fourth.
At 2 o' clock they had wagons waiting on Pine Street for the special delivery.
The minute the car stopped on the tracks the boys unpacked the cases and got them
into the saloons.
They didn't even wait for it to get cold. The Fourth was saved!
[A GMT adaptation of that memorable Fourth of July in Globe, originally written by Clara T. Woody and Milton L. Schwartz in "Globe, Arizona." The actual year this took place was not identifi ed in Woodys' account, although with the reference to wagons we suspect it would have been in the early 1900s. This book and others by local authors can be found at the Gila County Historical Museum and Globe Public Library.]
Summer 2013 19
APACHE GOLD CASINO & RESORTSummer 2013Welcome To
By Jenn Walker
Every year, Apache Gold Casino
gives away money. And lots of it.
Last year, they gave away more
than $30,700.
While it is not just for anyone’s
taking, if you are a nonprofi t
organization or a town or county
agency in the area looking for a boost,
you might just try applying for a
“12D grant” this year.
Thanks to Proposition 202, passed
in 2002, each year Indian tribe is
required to contribute 12 percent of
their annual gaming profi ts to causes
that benefi t the general public, either
by handing the money to the state
or administering it directly to cities,
towns and counties.
The San Carlos Apache tribe
elected to do the latter with Apache
Gold funds, and has been doling
out cash every year since 2006. The
casino, along with representatives
from the San Carlos Apache Council
and the Tribal Gaming Offi ce, gets
to choose recipients from a list of
eligible applicants. Last year there
were 25 applicants, and the year
before there were 41. With all of the
good causes out there, it’s a tough call
deciding who to choose.
“We try to share the wealth,” says
Christabelle Mull, the operations
support director at the casino. Rather
than handing all of the funds over to
one applicant, the committee looks
to divide the funds amongst several,
she explains.
For instance, last year’s grant was
split between Graham County and
the town of Miami. Graham County
received approximately $16,500
to assist low-income homeowners
in need of health and safety home
repairs. The town of Miami received
the remainder, approximately
$14,100, to purchase new radios,
a station computer, and other
updated technology for the Miami
fi re department.
In 2011, more than $39,000 were
split amongst Pinal County, the Globe
Police department, the Globe fi re
department, and Canyon fi re district.
Other recipients in prior years
include Gila Community College,
the Pinal Mountain Youth Football
League, and South Eastern Arizona
Behavioral Health Service.
Back in Graham County, they are
using the 2012 funds to purchase
materials. The funds were passed
directly from the county to the
nonprofi t Helping Hands for
Graham County, a volunteer-run
effort dedicated to making low-
income households safer through
health and safety repairs. If a county
resident does not have the means
to make a repair in their home,
Helping Hands will collect the
materials and volunteers needed to
make the repair. It can take one to
two months, depending on whether
it is a plumbing, septic, electric or
other issue.
As a result, they recently replaced
a water heater that went out for a
man in Bylas, says John Bonefas,
president of the organization. They
replaced the evaporative cooler that
rusted out in an elderly woman’s
home. On another occasion they
fi xed a Bylas woman’s roof. It had
been disintegrating over the years
from the sun, wind and rain.
Globe Fire Department Chief
Al Gameros oversaw the allocation
of the Miami Fire Department’s
funds last year. The town of Miami
has a volunteer fi re department,
so they can use all the help they
can get.
The money was used to
buy fi ve P25 compliant digital
narrowband radios, which are
around $2500 a piece. These
replaced the ‘old style’ radios
they had been using, Gameros
says. The remaining funds
will be used to buy a new
station computer.
In 2011, Globe Fire used the
approximate $13,700 they received
to buy fi ve new sets of turnout gear
– the heavy uniforms fi refi ghters
wear in fi res to protect them from
getting burned. Turnout gear can’t
be used beyond ten years, and theirs
needed replacing.
The Globe Fire Department was
also a recipient in 2008. That year they
bought an ISI 3500, a thermal imaging
camera that allows fi refi ghters to
differentiate temperatures in a
building and identify heat signatures.
“It’s well worth it,” says Deputy
Chief Nick Renon.
“Instead of tearing down a wall,
guessing where the heat is worst, you
can see it,” he explains.
It’s also useful to fi nd people in
a room full of smoke. Because the
camera can pick up different heat
signatures, if someone is laying in a
corner on the fl oor, they will show up
on the camera.
“Any fi re we go to, the camera goes
with us,” Renon says.
That said, there is still enough
time to apply for this year’s grant.
The guidelines to apply are fairly
straightforward:
• The application needs to be in by
this year’s deadline, October 11!
• The funds must go to a city, town
or county.
• The funds must go to a government
service that benefi ts the general
public, i.e. public safety, promotion
of commerce and economic
development, mitigation of the
impacts of gaming, etc.
• You can get the application online.
Once completed, turn it in to the
tribal council secretary via mail, fax
or scan.
The committee considers all
applications based on impact and
meeting the above criteria.
Firefi ghter Kendall Cormack suits up in his turnout gear. Turnout gear, which protects fi refi ghters from thermal burns, can't be used beyond ten years, and the Globe Fire Department was due for replacements. In 2011 department received approximately $13,700 in 12D funds for fi ve new sets of gear.
The Graham County nonprofi t Helping Hands lays shingles down on a home. The safety of the home had been compromised by several bare spots on the roof where water was seeping into the ceiling. The nonprofi t makes safety and health-related repairs on homes below the poverty level throughout the county. Last year they received more than $16,500 in 12D funds to spend on building materials.
Globe Fire Department's ISI 3500, a thermal imaging camera bought with 12D funds. The camera picks up heat signatures; here it picks up a hand print made on the wall seconds before.
APACHE GOLDPAYS IT FORWARDCasino gives money away to the community
APACHE GOLDPAYS IT FORWARD
20 Summer 2013
Tournament Raises Money For Scholarships
On June 1, the Apache Stronghold Golf Course hosted the 9th Annual
Scholarship Golf Tournament for the Gila Valley Section of the Society for
Mining Metallurgy and Exploration (SME). The tournament raised over
$7,000 which will be used to provide scholarships for local high school
students interested in pursuing degrees in the fi elds of mining and
engineering. One hundred fi fty-nine golfers on forty teams participated
in the tournament which consisted of a four-person scramble, an
on-course lunch, and a putting contest followed by a banquet and
awards ceremony at the Apache Gold Casino conference center.
The fi rst place team, with a score of 58, consisted of Jeff Masterson,
Tim Towers, Ray Vega and Sam Roose. Second place, also with a score
of 58, went to the team of Will Brown, James Seballos, Brandon Martin
and Pat McNew. Third place, with a score of 59, went to Garret
Hoisington, Bart Hoisington and Andy Mack.
80 Tons of sand wait on the pavement behind the Casino. The sand will be used to rebuild the bunkers on the course this summer.
For current listings go to
www.apache-gold-casino.
com/jobs.html and
download a job application.
Catch us on the RadioWe are proud to announce that you can catch us on the new San Carlos
radio station : KYQY 91.1 every week from 6-7pm when General Manager,
Gary Murrey is on live. The project to build a radio station was begun by the
Tribe in 2009 when they received FCC approval. Construction was completed
earlier this year and the new station went live on the air last month.
Job Openings!Find out more about Job Openings at Apache Gold and join
our Award Winning Team for your future career.
Enjoy great benefi ts including:
Medical • DentalVision • Free Life insurance
Paid Time off and more
Rocking CelebrationPlanned for Independence Day
By Linda Gross
Nobody does live music and BIG entertainment venues better than
the Apache Gold Casino, and this Independence Day they are pulling
out all the stops to bring you the local community a big day of live
music, summer fun and Independence Day celebration.
All of it is free.
“This is the fi rst year we have developed a day long schedule of
events and entertainment for the community instead of just our
fi reworks show in the evening,” says General Manager, Gary Murrey.
“We do a lot of concerts throughout the year and other paid events
which not everyone can attend, so we wanted to design something that
everyone in the community could come to. So we are making the whole
day is free. From the opening act at noon to the concert-after-the-
fi reworks by country superstar, John Michael Montgomery, the events
and entertainment throughout the day are FREE.
It’s a way we can give back to the community and say thank you to
our customers and the community, says Murrey.
The day will include performances by four well known bands
including Bo Titla playing folk music at 12:30 p.m. followed by
Clairvoyant playing Reggae at 2:00 p.m. and local favorite, Greywolf,
performing classic rock & country from 4:00-5:00 p.m.
At 6:30 The Tommy Ash Band will take the stage. The band who was
in San Carlos to open for the Tracy Lawrence Concert last November
(and more recently for Dwight Yoakam,) have gained fans wherever
they go.
The Phoenix New Times says of the band “The Tommy Ash Band
draws on enough modern sass and classic freight train beats to appeal
to fans of both traditional and new country.”
Closing out the evening is nationally known recording artist (Over
18 million records sold, 36 top ten hits...and the list goes on!) John
Michael Montgomery who will perform right after the fi reworks display
from 9:30 to 10:45 p.m.
The day kicks off at NOON when the waterslides open and a hot dog
and pie eating contest will determine who has the fastest sweet tooth in
the West! Later a chili stew and fry bread cook off will attract both cooks
and tasters with the judging to take place at 5pm.
And of course, we can’t forget the fi reworks display which will
launch at 9 p.m.! So please mark your calendar and let us entertain you
this Independence Day!
Espresso Stand
Look for our all new Espresso Stand
out on the highway offering hot and
cold drinks, plus ice cream to go!
Snack Bar
We are expanding our snack
bar located inside the Casino
to include a short order Grill
and more features to serve
you better!
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Apache Gold Casino rocked the house this year
in Relay for Life, not only raising the most money
individually and as a team for the American Cancer
Society, but also contributing to its overall success
of the event by hosting the kick off event in May,
underwriting a two-month billboard promotion,
providing the BIG stage and bringing in new
sponsors, Shamrock and Swire Coca-Cola.
In addition, general manager, Gary Murrey
stepped up as master of ceremonies, which is no
small feat considering whoever has the job has to
be ‘on’ from the 6 p.m. kick off on Friday evening to
the fi nal lap at 7a.m. on Saturday morning.
According to Gail Lennox, chairperson for the
relay, the local chapter is expected to bring in close
to $60,000 and TEAM Apache Gold led the way
raising the most money and having the top two
individual fund raisers. The Casino donated $5000
to Relay and Apache Gold’s own director of gaming,
Linda Michels whose daughter Rikki Gentry was
diagnosed with cancer just months ago raised
$1,105. Murrey was close behind with $1,110 raised.
The day of the event saw a sea of red shirts
on the fi eld from team Apache Gold with more
than 70 people attending the opening ceremonies
in bright red shirts emblazoned with the names of
those fi ghting cancer and those who have been lost
to the disease.
In a moving show of support the Apache Gold
team took to the track after the survivors walk.
Spreading out and holding hands, they participated
in The Unity Lap, showing their support as
‘the AGCR family’ for the many who have been
touched by cancer.
“We want to show our support for this event
and the American Cancer Society,” said Murrey.
“There is a lot of cancer among the tribe
and we want to get the attention of both the
American Cancer Society and the Apache
Community in order to bring awareness of the
programs available to community members and
encourage ACS to provide more programs to
the Reservation.
A Show of UnityA Show of Unity
Danny Michels holds up one of the T-Shirts designed by the Apache Gold team for the event. The shirt included names of Apache Gold employees and family members affected by cancer.
Rob Eastlick, Gary Murrey, and Danny Michels at the start of Relay for Life.
The Apache Gold family raised nearly $8,000 for the event this year including a $5,000 check from the casino and an additional $2,700 from individuals.
Danny Michels congratulates chairwoman Gail Lennox for a great turn out to this years' event.
Gail Lennox recognizes individuals who raised over $1,000 each for Relay.
Marie Brantley-Gregg took the stage to sing the National Anthem.
Over 70 people from Team Apache Gold participated in the "Unity Lap"
22 Summer 2013
Summer 2013 23
By Jenn Walker
A Gila County Sheriff once said, “Globe was the wildest, wooliest place
that it was ever my good fortune to see.”
Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to spend a day in
the boots of a sheriff ‘back in the day’? We have, too; that’s why we started a
Facebook series several months ago called, “History of Law and Order”. We
began tracing the stories of Gila County’s earliest sheriffs, starting with WM
Lowther, who served from 1881 to 1882.
Since then, we’ve taken our readers back to the days when prisoners dug their
way out of confi nement from beneath the adobe walls of the jail, and Black Jack and
Bronco Bill gangs robbed trains and banks.
We recovered the story of former
Sheriff Alf Edwards, who drove a
convict through saguaro, ocatilla,
cholla “and every other known
kind of cactus” in his Studebaker,
outsmarting a 500-man ambush to
get him to a fair trial safely. Those
were the days when Edwards would
spend days at a time roaming rural
Gila County in his Studebaker to
catch crooks.
Want to read more about law and
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Photograph of Frank Haynes, Gila County Sheriff from 1913 to 1916
24 Summer 2013
By Linda Gross
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website these days you will
notice a lot has changed.
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and the feel of our previous
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maintained since 2009) have all been remapped and
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fun you associate with us: GlobeMiamiTimes.com.
The new site includes a wider range of content
than what we cover in our quarterly print publication,
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Summer 2013 25
Globe Unifi ed School District Welcomes YouHome of the Tigers
My mother’s generation born
in the ‘20s and schooled through
the ‘30s and ‘40s grew up on the
Bobbs- Merrill Readers, which were
textbooks used by a large number
of school districts at the time. They
taught more than reading and
writing. Every lesson included a
take-away on being a good citizen.
It asked students to think how the
lessons of the classroom applied
to their own lives and that of the
community. Social responsibility
was considered a cornerstone of
an education.
And then something happened
along the way. Teaching to the
test happened. AIMS (Arizona’s
Instrument to Measure Standards)
happened. And citizenship became
an elective.
The emphasis on testing
was seen for a time as progress
which would lead to excellence.
It hasn’t necessarily worked out
that way. Instead we seem to be
struggling with a break down of
common civility and good manners,
which seem to also be treated as
an ‘elective.’ Yet without a social
contract – it is hard for learning to
take place.
The Globe Unifi ed School
District is betting big on this return
to basics and recently hired The
Flippen Group to bring a district-
wide approach to education called
“Capturing Hearts.” The program
has been gaining ground and
receiving kudos from those school
districts who have implemented
the program.
This July nearly 250 educators
and district personnel went
through the three-day training,
which emphasizes relationships
built on respect and mutual goals
between students and teachers.
This fall students will be asked to
sign contracts with teachers which
hold both teacher and student
accountable for achieving success
in the classroom.
School Board President, Jacque
Griffi n says the board gave the go-
ahead on the $80,000 investment
because it promises to usher in
a solid foundation of consistent
expectations, levels of accountability
and social skills which lead to a more
productive learning environment
for all.
“This is a long term investment
and a cultural shift at school,”
she says.
“When you come to school it
is about business. We want you to
learn. We’ll help you to learn. We
understand that educating our kids
is best for everyone. But if my kid is
disrupting it’s not helping him, or
the teacher or the other kids.”
“Right now we have
consequences.” she continues. “But
they are at the extreme end.”
She cites the recent example of
the math teacher and coach of 28
years in Mesa who was recently put
up on charges of assault when two
teens were sticking their fi ngers
in his face and taunting him. He
slapped one of the kids.
Griffi n says that incident should
never have gotten that far. The goal
is to not get to that point, and those
lessons have to start early. These
re social life skills. How to handle
problems before they escalate.
How to give your word and follow
through. How to show respect to
another even if you disagree.
The new program will help
students construct this “social
contract” in each of their classrooms.
The students will ‘sign on’ to
that contract which spells out how
they will treat others and want to
be treated. They will be displayed in
the classrooms.
Griffi n says that the school
wants to raise kids that are socially
responsible; who have the education
and social skills to understand
appropriate behaviors so that they
are employable.
School district superintendent
Jerry Jennex believes the effort
to raise the bar and teach social
responsibility and good citizenship,
involves not just the students and
teachers and administrators of
GUSD, but parents and community
members. That is why, as part of
the new program, GUSD will also
be hosting a half day seminar for
parents and the community on
Thursday, July 25th in the High
Desert Middle School Auditorium
entitled, “Building Champions."
The seminar focuses on the role
parents and community members
play in education. The District is
underwriting the cost and hoping
for a strong turn out for the four hour
program. GUSD Superintendent
Jerry Jennex encourages those who
care about building a better learning
environment for kids to attend. The
tools taught are designed not just to
help the school district and it’s kids
succeed, but provide coping and
management tools which can be
used in the workplace or at home
to bring about better results in
diffi cult times.
You’ve heard the saying
before, “It takes a village to raise
a child.” Everyone needs to be
involved,” says Jennex. And GUSD
has embarked on an ambitious
program to make education
everyone’s job, from the janitors to
the students themselve, and from
teachers and local business people.
It was this way once at GUSD. Just
ask the Alumni.
And it all begins this fall.
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving
your community and world better than
you found it.”
GUSD ReturnsTo Basics
GUSD ReturnsTo Basics
With District-wide Program “Capturing Hearts”
By Linda Gross
26 Summer 2013
First class of graduates from Globe High School was composed of all girls and was held at Central School.
The Old Dominion Mine closes. 91 jobs are lost and the school district faces severe cutbacks. Several schools in the district are closed and the 1931-32 school yearbook is not published.
1910
First volume of the Papoose Yearbook published. It was published continuously except in 1918 (WWI and the Spanish Flu) and 1932 (Depression). The name was changed to the Wigwam in 1926 and remains the Wigwam today.
1913
1914 Construction of a new high school began. At the time it held about 250 students from 7th thru 12th grades.
1921The school mascot
became the Tiger. It has been portrayed in various
renditions through the years. This one can be seen on the wall of the
gymnasium today.
Coached by one of the most influential coaches in school history, Parke Vickery, Globe wins the state tournament in basketball. At the time there were no divisions. All schools competed in the tournament from small to large schools.
1922
1931
Centennial Committee Makes
Plans for 100th Anniversary
2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of the dedication of Globe High School and the GHS Alumni Association. In cooperation with GHS administration, faculty and student body, the City of Globe and the Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce is planning an anniversary celebration to take place in September 2014.
The building initially served 250 students grades 7th-12th when it was fi rst dedicated in 1914. Today Globe High School serves over 1,600 students.
The Centennial Committee is hard at work planning a week-long series of events next September to celebrate the school's 100th Anniversary which will include:
• A semi-formal Centennial Ball with a crowning of a king and queen (and of course a dance card!)
• A century of popular Music programs: Bringing in bands including jazz, swing and country western, rock-n-roll... all the way to punk rock, disco and hip hop.
• A street party and dance on Oak Street.
• Current GHS students will dedicate a time capsule to be uncovered in the next 100 years.
• A musical event of the GHS Sing It Again Chorus and GHS Players.
NOTE: If you would like to schedule an event during the Centennial, please be sure to fi ll out an application by August 5. Applications are available on our Facebook page or through the GHS Centennial Committee. Graduating classes throughout the years are welcome to organize their reunions during this week.
If you wish to make a donation to
the Centennial Celebration, please make your check payable to the GHS Alumni Association. Indicate "Centennial" in the memo area and mail to 1152 E. Blazer Drive, Globe, Arizona 85501. For further information contact Eloise Price, Centennial Committee Chairperson at 425-8587 or Darlene Medina, GHSAA Chairperson, at 473-1490. Join us on Facebook: search Globe High School Centennial.
GHS Through the Ages
School colors were officially designated as black & orange
1916
Summer 2013 27
The war years were reflected in the yearbooks with names like the Ground Crew, Radio Men, and Sailorettes. GHS star athlete Rose Mofford plays for the Cantaloupe Queens in Madison Square Garden.
1947
1942-1945
Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company makes an actual copper kettle to be given to the winner of the Globe Miami football rivalry. The tradition though dates back to 1923 The rivalry stands today at 50 wins for Globe/ 3 ties.
1961Don Decker, choir director, produces four exceptional Broadway Musicals with GHS students which include Lil’ Abner starring Brian Bunny as Abner and Melouise Cline as Daisy.
1978District purchases land from the BLM at a cost of $2.50 per acre, which is developed into Copper Rim Elementary and Harbison Track.
James Lopez, Marine Sergeant returned from 444 days of captivity in the Iran where he was taken hostage. He was a ’76 graduate and had just been assigned to guard the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran when it was over run by Iranian students.
1931 "G" Hill was established and future classes of freshman, like this one, were tasked with repainting it each year.
1964“...The year of the band. For the tenth year in a row the GHS Band received a superior rating at the University of Arizona. They were the sole Class A Band to receive straight ones from all the judges in the marching competition. On December 13th this band played before a gigantic crowd for a Rams-Packers NFL game. The pre-game and halftime shows gave much national publicity to Gila County and Globe High School...”
1981
2009 Jim and Nancy Phillips, along with others established the Globe High School Alumni Association.
28 Summer 2013
Inspired Learning Academy Comes to GUSD? Discussions are underway and the Board votes July 10th
By Linda Gross
When the Inspired Learning
Academy announced it was closing
you could hear a collective gasp from
parents who felt they were being set
adrift on the educational landscape
once again after fi nding their
niche in this creative charter school
which began in 2009 after Holy
Angels closed.
According to local education
advocate, Debbie Leverance, ILA
began in 2010 as a group of families
and educators who wanted to provide
an education alternative in the Globe
area. They soon outgrew the
old Tuffy Tiger which was
their original home. The
learning community entered
into a partnership with
Arizona Virtual Academy
and expanded, with younger
students housed in Tuffy
Tiger and upper grades
moving to the building
at Broad and Ash. After
extended negotiations,
the group was moved to the
old Holy Angels campus at the
top of Cedar Street. Now, in
the summer of 2013, the families
of ILA are searching for a new
partnership and a new home...
With the AZVA / ILA partnership
dissolved and faced with no charter
of its own, it looked like the school
may close for good. That is when
Carrie Guerena, site director and
the glue holding ILA together, got
a call from GUSD Superintendent,
Jerry Jennex, who reached out and
asked her to consider an idea. “We
have unused space at High Desert
Middle School,” he said. “I know
some people have some problems
with the location but just come and
take a look,” he said.
They did and Guerena says she
and others were pleased with what
they saw. It could work she said and
so she reached out to 98% of her
families and most of them indicated
they were all ready to sign on if they
could keep the ILA going by taking a
leap of faith and going with Jennex’s
proposal. The details are still being
worked out and the GUSD School
Board has to vote on the whole thing
in early July, but things seem to be
moving forward.
It is being called a school-within-
a-school which will be separate and
autonomous from the way the larger
public school is operated. It will
plan and run its own program and
have its’ own staff and students. It
will receive a separate budget and
will negotiate the use of common
space like the gym, auditorium and
playground with High Desert.
Guerena herself says she will
consult with Jennex and the Board
to help make the transition, but
currently doesn’t plan on taking a
role with the new school.
“There is so much that can be
done with this type of blended
learning,” says Debbie Leverance,
who is excited about the potential it
brings to local education and choice.
She goes on to explain how there
are some effective and fi nancially
feasible blended learning programs
available that offer placement
testing, along with both teacher-
led and individualized online
instruction components. These tools
are adaptable, allowing teachers to
tailor individual, small group and
whole group learning in multi-age
classrooms. The proposed blended
learning model stresses that students
will be expected to apply what
they are learning in novel, exciting
ways. It is about acknowledging and
working with student learning
differences and providing
the tools for both teachers
and kids to work as a team.
The school will balance
the best of online learning
with the best of project
based learning with a
community focus.
Working under the
umbrella of the Globe
School District, ILA
hopes to continue as
an innovative education
model combining
online activities and the support
of face-to-face instruction in a
traditional learning community
for kindergarten through 8th grade
students. If the school board gives
the green light for this project,
there will be challenges. Classes will
begin shortly, qualifi ed, enthusiastic
teachers and support staff need to
be in place, logistics organized and
classrooms prepared. Common use
of certain facilities, maintenance,
transportation and scheduling need
to be arranged with the district and
High Desert Middle School. All the
preparation for a new school year
will be faced in a short time span.
But, if the history of the ILA school
community is any indication,
families will show their commitment
and make it happen.
For more information please
call Carrie Guerena at 928-200-0491
or the GUSD offi ce. Stay informed
or message the school through its
Facebook page – Inspired Learning
Academy (https://www.facebook.
com/K12atILA)
Building Champions Event at High Desert Middle School
Thursday, July 25th • 12:30-4 p.m. Learn personal and team building skills to apply in your personal and
business life and with your children. Sponsored workshop, paid for by
the District and free to parents and community members. Limit 250
participants. Please call Marcy at the district offi ce (402-6011) to RSVP
and reserve your spot!
Summer 2013 29
Demolition Derbies let drivers do
things in public that they might get
in trouble for otherwise says derby
competitor Forrest Waggoner. “The key
to winning boils down to how far you’re
willing to go - how far you can push the
envelope and what you do to prepare
your car for competition.”
This fall the Gila County Fair will host
their second Demolition Derby this year
thanks to the overwhelming success of
last years event. Although it was not well
publicized last year, the Derby event still
ended up being the top draw to the Fair
in 2012, bringing in over 2000 people on
Saturday night.
Waggoner who recently moved
to Globe from Payson where he was
well known on the track for his crowd
pleasing antics, says to expect a better
track this year.
Both the Fair committee as well
as the derby drivers themselves are
working together to make the track
better for both spectators and drivers.
And both hope to attract for entries
and spectators.
When it comes to being a derby
contestant it is common knowledge
that anything that isn’t in the rule books
means you can try it. And most drivers
will push the limit on this.
“You might get called on it (your
modifi cation), says Waggoner, “and then
it’s up to the other drivers to decide
whether or not they will allow it.”
“But it will probably show up as rule
number 124 next year!”
Favorite Derby vehicles come from
the ‘60s and ‘70s which were known
for larger, heavier and more robust
frames than later versions. In fact, the
‘64-66 Chrysler Imperial is said to have
“achieved near-legendary status for its
crashworthiness and is still banned from
most derby events.” Pickup trucks and
SUVs used to be rare in Derby events but
have become popular lately and it’s the
trucks which reign in the Gila County
Fair Derby.
If all that ramming and bumper-
grinding seems dangerous that’s
because it is, which is which is why
drivers are required to sign waivers
releasing promoters from liability. Safety
rules are put in place to mitigate damage
to the driver like removing all the glass
and from the vehicle and making it
illegal to ram the driver’s side door. In
addition drivers have their own tricks to
stay in the game and while few will tell
you what these are they include some
standards like stocking parts you know
are going to get broken, and pre-denting
the frames which increase the overall
strength of the vehicle to take hits.
Once on the fi eld, the success is really
in the hands of the driver- how smart he
is in damaging his opponent’s vehicle
while keeping his vehicle safe from harm,
how well he knows what his vehicle
can take, and how aggressive he can be
without committing a fatal move.
A tactic known as sandbagging –
hanging back to let other drivers take
each other out and then rush in at the
end - is seldom successful. Once other
drivers realize this is happening they go
after the sandbagger.
Although Waggoner has never won
fi rst prize at these derbies, he has taken
home the award for being the ‘Crowd
Favorite’ and the ‘Most Aggressive
Driver’ for his antics.
The Demolition Derby will begin at
six p.m. on Saturday night. Tickets are
$5 per person at the gate, or $10 per
carload if you pre-pay and get your gate
tickets before September 18th at the
Chamber of Commerce. You may also
get discounted Carnival tickets from
the Chamber.
PLUS! This year, if you don’t
want to swing by the Chamber, you
can now buy pre-paid gate tickets
on line at Eventbrite. See gilacountyfair.
eventbrite.com. There is a small
courtesy fee added to the online
tickets. Cut off date for purchasing
online tickets is September 1 and the
Fair Committee will mail you your
gate tickets.
For more details of
all Fair Events look for
this QR code or go to
www.gilacountyfair.com.
Gila County Fair Hosts DEMOLITION DERBY
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Summer 2013 31
Pinal Mountain Little League has
been a fi xture in the Globe-Miami
community for over 60 years. Every year
from March through June, hundreds of
local kids from ages fi ve through 12 don
brightly colored uniforms bearing the
names of their local business sponsors
and join in the tradition.
This year the league; which
includes co-ed T-ball and coach pitch
divisions, as well as minor and major
divisions for both baseball and softball;
saw close to 500 kids playing on its
fi elds. On any given evening during
those months, the Little League fi elds,
nestled between the Wal-Mart lot and
Claypool United Methodist Church,
were home to multiple games.
The fi rst teams of kids would begin
to warm up while the sun was still
out, and the last ones would fi nish up
well after the sky grew dark. Parents,
grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings,
and cousins alike would fi nd their spots
in the bleachers once games started.
Those with trucks would angle for
shaded spots around the outfi eld and
settle into their truck beds or camping
chairs to root for their players.
Teens meandered about the
complex with their friends. Little ones
squealed as they toddled around,
some chasing each other wildly and
others climbing the bleachers or
trees around the fi eld. Some savvy
families brought playpens and toys to
occupy their younger kids. Old friends
visited with each other and caught
up on local news and gossip as they
watched the game.
On the softball fi eld, singsongy
chants carried on the gentle breeze, as
the girls supported their teammates
from the dugouts and cheered the
satisfying clang of the bat connecting
with the ball.
As the sky turned midnight blue,
the stadium lights illuminated the
fi eld, lending the games an aura
of secret importance. Businesses
around town may have been
closing up shop, but business on the
fi eld would continue.
On the sidelines, parents and
grandparents sat engrossed in
the games, perhaps munching on
sunfl ower seeds as they watched and
throwing out encouragements and
advice for their kids and other players.
“Just like you’re playing catch,
son!” one mother exhorted towards
the pitcher’s mound. Her son seemed
Little League, Continued on page 32
PINAL MOUNTAIN LITTLE LEAGUEStory by Jessica Doong | Photos by LCGross
32 Summer 2013
nervous at fi rst, but he remained
extremely focused, got into a groove,
and became nearly unstoppable as the
game went on. His proud grandmother
recounted how the family discovered
the strength of his arm when he was
throwing Nerf balls as a kid.
For many families Little League
is a serious affair. It may be a family
tradition, like it is for board president
Wes Sukosky’s boys. Sukosky grew
up playing on the same fi elds his son
Jonathan played on before moving
onto junior high and now high school
ball with the Globe Tigers. His younger
son Jake carries on the tradition.
Stories like this are common
in the area – coaches who were
coached by their own dads in
the same league, coaches who
stuck around to coach both their sons
and grandsons, spectators who used to
coach, and the like.
Sukosky explained how the league
has changed in recent years, making
the switch from 12-game seasons
to 20+ games per season to give the
kids more practice for district and
state playoffs.
Some kids thrive on the competitive
nature of the league, aspiring to play at
the college and even professional levels
one day. They look up to the handful
of local-grown players like Dave
Stapleton, Don Lee, and most recently
Brady Wager, who got drafted in the
9th round by the Baltimore Orioles last
year and has quickly worked his way
up to their A Advanced team, the
Frederick Keys.
Sukosky made it clear that that
kind of ambition requires a great deal
of sacrifi ce and commitment on the
part of the parents and kids alike. But
that’s something many Pinal Mountain
families seem to be familiar with.
“We pretty much eat, live, and
breathe baseball and softball from
March through July,” said Chastity
Van Buskirk, who has three kids in the
league and was an assistant coach for
her daughter’s team and now for the
11/12 softball All-Star team this year.
For some families, being at
practices and games nearly every night
can be trying, especially when they
sense unfair treatment by coaches.
One family complained about how
demoralizing it was for kids on their
team when the coaches seemed to give
more playing time to kids who were
not attending practices than to those
who did.
Others had choice comments about
the coaching styles of various coaches,
particularly in the majors, who they
felt yelled too much, argued too
much with umpires, or engaged in
too much fi nger pointing and not
enough positive reinforcement.
On the other hand, parents also
expressed gratitude that their kids had
an opportunity to be active and social,
learn good sportsmanship, improve
their skills, and have fun.
It’s clear that differences in values
and perspective are a common source
of confl ict when it comes to coaching
styles, and managing all the different
voices is no easy task. Sukosky described
how hard the board works to give the
kids a memorable experience and to
keep all involved parties happy. These
volunteers begin attending meetings
across the state as early as October, and
once the season starts they expect to
be at the fi elds every weekday evening.
Board members, some of the coaches,
and other volunteers often spend
weekends painting and helping to
maintain the fi elds. He implored those
with complaints to fi ll out volunteer
applications at the concession stand
and help be part of the solution.
Sukosky is grateful for the band
of committed people he’s worked
with for the past fi ve years and
credited them with much of the
league’s success. He shared stories
about Sandy Rodriguez (vice president)
working tirelessly at the concession
stand, Darryl Dalley (equipment
manager) driving all around the Valley
picking up equipment donations,
and Jenica Wager (treasurer)
being “the girl who is pretty much
behind everything.”
The recent additions of County
Attorney Brad Beauchamp as player
agent and Brandon Powell as coaching
coordinator have been a huge help
to Sukosky. Likewise, the installation
of Frank Grice as vice president of
softball operations has been integral
in addressing the concern of unfair
treatment towards the girls in
the league.
Though there are still complaints,
some softball families have noticed an
improvement over this past season.
Sukosky admitted that the softball fi eld
needs quite a bit of work, and he said
that is a priority for the board. They
have already done a good amount of
painting, are putting in new sprinklers
and working on improving the grass,
and will need to raise money ($12,000)
to replace the fence.
One softball coach also mentioned
a recent concern over the dip at home
plate that has caused multiple injuries,
most notably a bad leg break.
Little League, Continued from page 31
Little League, Continued on page 33
Summer 2013 33
Of course, as Sukosky noted, none
of these issues can be addressed
without contributions of time or
money. “If I had to keep the lights on
myself, the lights would be out right
now,” he said, pointing to the fi eld
lights, which are paid for by the county.
Sukosky expressed gratitude to all
of the organizations and individuals
in the community without whom
Pinal Mountain Little League would
not be possible.
He also credited his team with
being proactive in soliciting donations,
especially in light of the February fi re
that forced them to tear down the
old concession stand/club house.
Thanks to the material and fi nancial
contributions from the likes of the
Arizona Diamondbacks, Freeport-
McMoRan, BHP, APS, Mid-State Pipe &
Supply, Pinal Lumber, Ace Hardware,
Rodriguez Roofi ng, other Little
Leagues, and Wal-Mart, the league is
primed to rebuild the structure on its
old foundation.
The new version will feature
equipment storage downstairs
and a conference room and
announcer’s booth upstairs. It is slated
for completion by July 15, so Pinal
Mountain Little League can represent
the community well when state
playoffs for 9- and 10-year-olds start
here on July 16.
In the meantime, though the regular
season concluded on June 17 with a
celebratory closing ceremony, the All-
Star team s are already hard at work.
All-Star teams are composed of the best
players from each team, as nominated
and voted on by all the coaches. On the
boys’ side, there is a 9- and 10-year-olds
team, a 10- and 11-year-olds team, and
an 11- and 12-year-olds team. The girls
have a 9/10 team and an 11/12 team.
These teams began practicing
right after the regular season ended,
sometimes twice a day, in preparation
for the district tournament, which
began at locations across District 11 on
June 28. (The boys’ 10/11 team and all
the girls play in Globe, while the boys’
11/12 team travels between Hayden
and Duncan and the boys’ 9/10 team
between Kearny and Morenci.) The
locations for the district championships
are yet to be determined.
If Pinal Mountain’s teams do as well
as expected at the district level, the girls
will advance to state playoffs in Tuscon
(11/12) and Flagstaff (9/10), while the
boys will do so in Mesa (11/12), Gilbert
(10/11), and right here in Globe (9/10).
All of the teams at the boys’ 9/10
level from all 14 of Arizona’s Little
League districts will convene to do
battle at Pinal Mountain Little League
fi elds July 16 through July 25, which
means there will be a huge infl ux of
visitors to Globe-Miami during those
dates. Guayos on the Trail will be
selling burros at the fi elds, but an event
of this size can prove to be a lucrative
opportunity for other businesses in the
community as well.
Little League, Continued from page 32"As a team sport which includes a community of players, parents, coaches and spectators, Little League softball can bring out the best and sometimes the worst
of people as anyone knows who has been at a Little League game. We'd like to take this opportunity to say that whether kids are starters or advance to All Stars or
play at State, every kid who played this Spring contributed to the game, the team and the League. And for that we say congratulations to each of you. Well played!"
– GlobeMiamiTimes
34 Summer 2013
By Tara Celentan
Throughout the hot season, there is at least one outdoor activity in
Globe you can count on to heighten your spirits!
Sprawled on the front lawn of the downtown Globe Municipal
Building, Globe-Miami Farmers' Market vendors show up
early on Saturday mornings, hug and catch up while they
erect their tents and tables and set up their displays.
Market manager Holly Brantley rings the handheld bell at
8 a.m., and customers who have arrived early are fi nally able
to make their purchases after greeting their most cherished
vendors and scouting out specialty items.
The regulars know the drill. Well into its third season, the
market is still going strong, hosting city space for three hours
at the end of every week for members of the community to
shop, relax, connect with one another and let their kids play.
The items vendors cart to the market range from produce
to baked goods, homemade soaps and spices to jean purses. It is the only place within Globe-Miami city
limits that customers can be assured they are buying local produce and they have the chance to get to know
their farmers and producers, and gain cooking advice. “Market kids” are even allotted their very own table and
chaperone, and shoppers enjoy live music while they weave through the different booths.
It is as if this small square of city property transforms into a happiness haven every Saturday morning for
the duration of the summer; and at 11 a.m., when Holly rings the closing bell, we look forward to next week.
Please join us every Saturday from 8 to 11 a.m. until October 5th: 150 N Pine St. Globe, AZ 85501.
The Senses
Farmers' MarketDelightsMarket manager, Holly Brantley rings the bell at 8am signaling the start of the market.
Summer 2013 35
Amongst other things, Piccoli
devoted himself to renovating the
church, I was later told. A carpenter by
nature, Gino was constantly building
and repairing.
“There had been nothing done
since the early 1900s,” says Piccoli’s
brother Richard. “Everything you see in
the church, he did.”
Piccoli and his two siblings hailed
from Chicago, where he was born
in 1940. His family later relocated to
Arizona. At age 13, he told his parents he
was going to Santa Barbara to become a
priest, and he left home. As promised,
he was ordained a Franciscan priest
by 1965. He came to the Diocese of
Tucson in June 1997, following
assignments as close as California and
as far as Guatemala.
He also traveled to Japan and Peru.
Then he came to serve at San Carlos.
“He was a very devoted
priest,” Richard says of his brother.
“He wanted to live like St. Francis, for
the poor.”
He was eager to help people,
Lorena Denver recalls. Denver spent
years working as an accountant at the
church alongside Piccoli. Whenever
someone from the tribe came to
him asking for help, whether it was
to buy gas, groceries, Pampers or an
electric bill, he wrote checks from his
personal account.
As he became familiar with San
Carlos and its residents, Piccoli began
to incorporate Apache traditions into
Mass, and restructure the church to
represent Apache culture.
He changed the church with the
seasons, used feathers and yellow
pollen to bless the bread, burned cedar
leaves, and arranged the chairs in a
circle facing each other.
He encouraged members to say the
name of the Father in Apache, which
Denver could never get the hang of. He
even started using an Apache drum,
she remembers.
Piccoli’s efforts to reinforce Apache
tradition through the church did
not sit well with everyone, and some
churchgoers began to leave to attend
other churches in Globe or Miami.
“I was alright with it, I thought it was
good,” Denver says. “He told us that this
was our culture, our tradition, that we
should pray in our own language.”
He also painted Mary and Jesus in
the ‘Apache way’.
“He was trying to show us we can
worship Jesus in our own image,”
Denver says. “I thought that was neat.”
In addition to making
transformative changes throughout the
church, he was constantly repairing. He
covered the exposed ceiling. He redid
the kitchen and the hall.
Father Gino, Continued from page 1
"When I fi rst came here and to some extent even today, the Apaches said they cannot
mix the Catholic Church, or any church for that matter, with their culture and life.
One Apache told me that 'When I'm in church, I'm Catholic, when I'm outside the church, I'm Apache.' Man Apaches here feel that you
cannot be Apache and be Catholic at the same time because that is what they were taught in the past. But I tell them that following Jesus is a WAY OF LIFE not just random religious ceremonies."
– Father Gino
Father Gino showing a painting done by a priest-artist by the name of Giuliani. He copied the picture and painted a red Apache headband on it and framed it. It now is hung on the podium from which he gave his sermons every Sunday.
Father Gino, Continued on page 37
36 Summer 2013
The year was 1904 and S.M. Barrett
was acting as an interpreter between
English and Spanish. Geronimo took
a liking to him after Barrett confi ded
that he had once been wounded by a
Mexican. Geronimo, whose family had
been killed by Mexican soldiers when
he was barely twenty, maintained his
hatred of Mexicans his entire life.
The two struck up a friendship and
Geronimo suggested to Barrett that “
if he would pay him and if the offi cers
in charge did not object, he would tell
Barrett the whole story of his life.”
Barrett agreed to the proposal, saying
he was intrigued at the prospect “...of
giving the public an authentic record
of the private life of the Apache Indians
and of Geronimo.”
The U.S. War Department was not
so intrigued.
Coming just twenty years after the
confl ict, the wounds of war, they said,
were still too fresh and the depredations
too costly.” They argued that the
Apaches did not deserve so much
attention, and one lieutenant went so
far as to tell Barrett “...that the Apache
might better be hanged than spoiled by
so much attention from civilians.”
Despite these obstacles, Barrett
continued to push his case for the
book to be published reaching out to
President Roosevelt directly. Roosevelt
had recently invited Geronimo to ride
at the front of his Inaugural Parade in
1905 much to the chagrin of those who
fought and lost against him. The newly
elected president was amenable to
allowing Geronimo to write his story.
Yet the War Department persisted
in trying to edit the fi nal manuscript,
writing this:
‘’The manuscript is an interesting
autobiography of a notable Indian,
made by himself. There are a number of
passages which, from the departmental
point of view are decidedly objectionable.
...The entire manuscript appears in a
way important as showing the Indian
side of a prolonged controversy, but it
is believed that the document, either in
whole or in part, should not receive the
approval of the War Department.”
They went on to note several pages
where Geronimos’ accounting of the
facts were at odds with offi cial reports
including his account of an attack upon
Indians in a tent at Apache Pass and
several criticisms of General Crook,
who he felt had acted in bad faith.
Yet, it would be Barrett who
would persist and prevail in having
the manuscript published without
interference. He pointed out that
Geronimo’s account of Apache Pass was
substantially confi rmed by L.C.Hughes,
Geronimo, Continued from page 1
Geronimo, Continued on page 37
Geronimo, a Chiricahua Apache; full-length, kneeling with rifl e, 1887. National Archives. Created by Department of the Army
of the private life of the Apache Indians
and of Geronimo.”
Th U S W D t t t
Photo from the original book showing S.M, Barrett in the fi eld
with Geronimo and Asa Deklugie, son of Whoa, who acted as interpreter.
Summer 2013 37Geronimo, Continued from page 37
For the last four and a half years,
Piccoli rarely had a moment of
rest. Thursday through Sunday he
was working on the church or in
Mass. Then on Sunday evenings he
would drive to Phoenix where he
cared for his ailing sister who had
Alzheimers until he had to return to
the reservation again.
He often worked from 5 in the
morning until 11 at night, Richard
remembers, eating maybe once a
day. He told Richard that “it was for
them [the Apaches] and for himself.”
Aside from Richard and
his sons, few people assisted
Piccoli. Denver recalls often
watching him work alone.
Nonetheless, his efforts were
far-reaching.
“After he died a lot of women
came here crying their eyes
out,” Denver says. “I didn’t think
there was that many people that
loved him, because he really
struggled.”
When he passed away, the
Apaches held a great ceremony
for him. They had a bonfi re
for him outside the church,
while someone prayed inside
throughout the night.
“It was quite the send off for
Gino,” Richard says.
Following that, Masses were held
in San Carlos and in Scottsdale at the
Franciscan Renewal Center.
“The church could only hold 300,
but there must have been 500 people
there,” he says.
Finally, the carpenter who
funneled all of his energy into
building something greater than
himself had been noticed.
Piccoli’s ashes are buried in Santa
Barbara by the Mission.
Father Gino, Continued from page 35
editor of The Star in Tucson Arizona and
noted that Geronimo’s criticisms of General
Crook were simply one man’s private
opinion of the General.
In the end the U.S. War Department
gave their permission for “In My Own
Words” to be printed as written. The only
edits and caveats in the book would be
those that Barrett himself
felt necessary to include.
The book “Geronimo’s
Story of His Life,” taken
down and edited by S.M.
Barrett, was released
in 1906.
A second release in 1909 is still in print
today and available at the Pickle Barrel
Trading Post. It includes an introduction
and further notes by Frederick Turner who
writes that Geronimo’s story is “a preliterate
and essentially a prewhite narrative.”
Nearly a hundred years later, author
David Roberts who would write eloquently
about the Apache wars and its leaders in his
book, “Once They Rode Like the Wind,” has
also said that there is a bit of Barrett himself
in the pages of his manuscript where he
has added his own words at times and
used Apache interpreters for the imprecise
adaptation of Apache language to English.
He further notes that Geronimo
appeared to be using the book to reach out
to President Roosevelt to gain his freedom
to return to Arizona – perhaps coloring
some of the accounts to put himself in a
better light. He points out the possibility
that with the U.S. War Department having
fi nal say over the content and the books
release Barrett perhaps was infl uenced in
what he chose to include or not include in
the fi nal book.
St. Charles Church in San Carlos led by Father Gino became a blend of Catholic & Apache cultures
Father Gino in his younger years
38 Summer 2013
Popular Arizona musician Hans
Olson brings his special brand
of growling, highway blues and
harmonica. Music in Motion showcases
Sedona songstress Rosemary Chavez
accompanied by Allan Ames and Bryan
Sinclair. Storytellers from Jerome,
Arizona, Ken and Lynn Mikell entertain
passengers with a wide variety of
musical instruments, illuminating the
music and poetry that followed the
western trails. Devon Bridgewater’s
Nuance Jazz Trio, a fan favorite, returns
with their bold brassy horns and big
band jazz. The Senators, a budding
young band from Phoenix, share foot-
stomping energy and banjo-swinging
enthusiasm with their signature blend
of vintage and modern Americana.
As Duo Vibrato, Joshua and Miray
Rhodes make a stunning ensemble,
captivating the audience with their
Mediterranean mix of gypsy jazz and
classical chamber music. Shawn Royer
and Rhonda Hitchcock are Penny Anty,
a Phoenix duo that entertains with
many of their own originals, as well
as cover-songs ranging from the Beatles
to Taylor Swift.
Bands will arrive early to sign
autographs and pose for photos
at the depot prior to the train’s
1:00 p.m. departure.
Passengers may opt for fi st-class
or coach accommodations for this
special four-hour concert in the
Canyon. First-class, $125 per person,
features comfortable living room-
style seating with overstuffed chairs
and loveseats, service at your seat, hot
and cold appetizers, Champagne toast
upon departure and full bar service
throughout the trip. Coach pricing
is $75 per person with classic
Pullman-style seating. Both classes are
climate-controlled and access open-air
viewing cars.
Why are there so many songs
written about trains? Because music
and railroads both keep a steady beat.
Fads and fashions may change from
year to year but true classics never go
out of style. Become part of the musical
history of railroading. Experience
Rhythm on the Rails.
Comfortable fi rst-class
accommodations lavish passengers
with luxurious living-room style,
including an abundant selection of
appetizers and attentive beverage
service right to your seat. Coach-class is
redolent of vintage-style passenger car
charm with a well-stocked snack bar.
Both classes have access to open-air
viewing cars, a favorite aspect to this rail
journey immersing passengers into the
sights, sounds and scents of this wild
western canyon.
Only two hours from Phoenix and
25 minutes from Sedona, Verde Canyon
Railroad is the perfect Arizona day-trip,
or if you plan to stay over, ask about our
Room, Ride and Meal packages. Trains
depart at 1 p.m. daily. Reservations are
accepted at 800.293.7245 or online at
verdecanyonrr.com.
Rhythym on the Rails, Continued on page 39
Rhythym on the Rails, Continued from page 1 It’s not the destination,it’s the musical journey.
The Senators
Summer 2013 39Rhythym on the Rails, Continued from page 38
The history of the Verde Canyon
Railroad extends back 100 years to when
a rail line fi rst served the copper mines
of Jerome. The 38 mile track was built
to move copper from Jerome’s labyrinth
of mining operations to the main rail
line and cost 1.3 million back in 1911
when construction began. Today that
stretch of rail would cost over $40
million to build.
The line continued to operate even
after the copper mines closed in ’53,
by carrying a variety of freight, livestock
and passengers along the Verde River to
destinations near and far. In the ‘80s and
‘90s short lines like this one were put up
to bid by major railroads who wanted
to divest themselves small operations
under 500 miles.
That was when Dave Durbano, a
railroad executive who owns Western
Railroad Builders bought the line.
Although he initially acquired it for the
freight business it took only one visit to
the Verde Valley for him to realize that
the spectacular scenery and history of
the line made it ideal for an excursion
operation. In 1990 he launched the
Verde Canyon Railroad, saying “ The
Verde Canyon Railroad was conceived
because of the beauty and serenity of
the canyon and its inaccessibility. The
way the track was constructed between
the canyon walls and the river enticed
me and it’s railroad features, including
the turn table bridge, S.O.B. Bridge, the
covered bridge at Perkinsville and the
680-foot man made tunnel were rare to
fi nd all within one line.”
Today both the excursion line
which was launched in 1990 and the
Clarkdale Arizona Central Railroad
freight operation (which hauls coal to
the Salt River materials Group) share
the same rails which wind through the
38 miles of the Verde Canyon.
BACKSTORY TO THE VERDE CANYON RAILROAD