By Briannon Wilfong/El Inde As I pull up to the steps of rancher Chris Peterson’s home, four dogs come to greet me before I can even jump out of the truck. Peterson comes walking out of the house with a big grin on her face. It is a rainy February morning with clouds looming over…
By Nagisa Tsukada/El Inde Santa Cruz County residents have been discovering and savoring performances at the Benderly-Kendall Opera House in Patagonia since it opened in 2016. Young musicians from throughout the region have also found it to be a great place to showcase their musical abilities. That was part of the mission to begin with,…
y Ireland Stevenson/El Inde On June 1, 2018, Kathi Noaker, Linda Hirsch, and six other Voices from the Border volunteers trekked across the U.S.-Mexico border hauling bags of supplies in hopes of lending a hand and making a difference. When they arrived to see more than 100 migrants sitting on the floor at the port…
By Sasha Hartzell/El Inde In the high desert of southeastern Arizona, there is a vast range of grassland known by the local Border Patrol agents simply as ‘the valley.’ An aerial view of the region reveals a shape like cupped hands, the Huachuca and Patagonia Mountain ranges curving around a long, shadowed hollow: this is…
By Rocky Baier/El Inde Patagonia’s Tin Shed Theater is a simple, intimate space, with a stage of interlocking black foam squares covering the floor and three rows of chairs in the audience that seat 100. Red curtains hang over the walls, sectioning off the front of the room to create a mock backstage. The small…
