By Bellah Nelson/El Inde Over 50 years ago, Ann Stewart, a 47-year old teacher from Flowing Wells, Arizona, was fired for allegedly teaching witchcraft to her high school English students. Stewart had long ash-blonde hair and a widow’s peak—a V-shaped hairline that is passed on genetically. Her eyes were blueish-green and her favorite colors to…
By Mackenzie Payton / El Inde It’s 6:30 a.m. in the little town of Cave Creek, Arizona, and unlike most preteens his age– Stockton Caswell is ready for chores. Many understand a child’s chores as doing the dishes, taking out the trash, or maybe feeding the family dogs. While feeding Sketch and Gracy, two corgis…
By Clara Migoya/El Inde Antonio Tapia, 79, stands on the porch of his southside Tucson home, scanning a sepia drawing through thick, smoky glasses. His eyes move from a tall poplar tree in the picture, to the small adobe building, the tin-shed house, a horse pasturing, the dirt street at the border of the wire…
By Laura Fuchs/Arizona Sonora News Shaun runs the “cart master” during the morning shift at the Walmart on Wetmore Road in Tucson. The four-wheeled, battery-operated shopping cart pusher is controlled with a hand-held remote. Once he has the first steel cart in place, Shaun can nest up to 20 carts with a long red nylon…
Story and photos by Kirshana Guy/Arizona Sonora News In 2011, a nine-year-old boy in Vermont named Milo Cress undertook widely credited research which estimated that Americans use approximately 500 million plastic straws every day. He did this by simple reporting: he called manufacturers of plastic straws and asked for production estimates. One result was a…
