The big hole of Bisbee

Left with a hole, what’s a town to do? Bisbee – with its tunnel, red rock, hippies, stairs, the Copper Queen Hotel, motorcycle geeks singing Fleetwood Mac, slag, the coffee roaster with dreadlocks – is here because of a mile-wide hole on the town’s edge. The city built quickly around a hill that mining tore open. Now…

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Bisbee run a stairway to heaving

  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…

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Old Bisbee brewery makes bank one beer at a time

“What do you have that’s local?” is one of the first questions a visitor  asks as they take a seat in Doc Holliday’s Saloon after spending a day touring Tombstone. Tombstone Aces & 8’s Ale is the answer. The brew specially created by Old Bisbee Brewing Company Owner/brew master Victor Winquist has formed a profitable…

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El exterminador de abejas en Bisbee

Todos hemos visto los dibujos animados. Un personaje loco, sacudiendo sus brazos y brincando a un lago para escapar de un enjambre de abejas. Debido a que los enjambres de abejas africanas se han estado esparciendo más al norte de los Estados Unidos, les daremos un consejo: manténgase lejos del agua. “Ahí las abejas te…

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