The weekend of Helldorado Day’s is a lifeblood for Tombstone. But, many are asking, could that be threatened after the shooting during a staged street fight. Helldorado board member Barbara Furnas seems confident it won’t. “Helldorado will still go on.” The festival is Tombstone’s biggest event of the year. It symbolizes the end of a slow,…
Tombstone continues to work to preserves its Wild West roots, but has the historical town forgotten a piece of the puzzle? In a dusty town of miners, cowboys and wide-brimmed hats, fine dining is not the first image that comes to mind. But, with the success of the silver mines more than a century ago…
On a cold, rainy, Saturday morning that I would’ve rather spent in the comfort of my own bed, I drove two hours to Bisbee to compete in the only competitive stair climb in the United States. When I first agreed to participate in the 25th annual Bisbee 1000 Great Stair Climb to write this…
One insight struck Chia-Lin Pao Tao when she arrived in Tucson in 1976. She was most surprised by how few Asians she saw along with little, if any, marks of Chinese legacy in the area. Today, she knows differently. The Chinese have a long connection to Arizona’s past, playing substantial roles in the state’s development…
The town is noticeably quieter, the streets more empty. Allen Street hasn’t felt the same since the shooting in the Helldorado festival. “Tombstone just hasn’t felt like Tombstone without gun skits in the streets,” said Councilman Armando Villa. In a gun reenactment skit held by the Tombstone Vigilantes, a nonprofit that holds outdoor gun skits…
