Southern Arizona’s climate seems like an unlikely choice for a winery. But in the Sonoita area, soil has tested nearly equal in quality to the soil in Burgundy, France — wine capital of the world. In 1973, Gordon Dutt, a soils and agricultural scientist, established the first experimental vineyard within the Sonoita and Elgin…
PEARCE, Ariz. – Chances are, if you’ve enjoyed a chile pepper or any type of chile product recently, those peppers can trace their origins back to the 1500 acres that make up Ed Curry’s farm in the Sulfur Springs Valley, 80 miles southeast of Tucson. Curry Farms is, and has been, the center of chile…
There are a lot of gold diggers in Arizona. More specifically, Arizona is host to a mine’s worth of gold legends. These legends are so common in the Southwest because of Spanish and Anglo influences, according to Bill Hartmann, a planetary scientist who has written books on the Coronado era in Arizona. “These Americans come…
On the tarmac at Davis-Monthan AFB, iconic military warbirds cast shadows across the tarmac against the fearsome, sharp, raptor-like features of modern stealth fighters and air-superiority specialists, facing off against each other for a short time before they join together in seamless synchronization in the sky. The roar of their engines, some of which are…
Warren Ballpark was named after Bisbee’s most renown drunk. George Warren was a man who bet the equivalent of $20 million today that he could beat a horse in a foot race. The results didn’t end in his favor. The field is named after him because he was a figure in the mining industry and was…
