By Amaya Gayle GregoryWhen I thought I was somebody I had a role to play, impressions to maintain — mostly impressions inside my head. No one else really held onto images of me. They were too busy hanging onto images of themselves. In a way, it was a suicide, killing the real, the authentic expression aching to get out, in favor of the make-believe, the one I thought would make it possible to be loved.Now that I am nobody, I am free to be anybody, like a chameleon taking on whatever role appears. Being nobody there is no need to…
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Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 12th and join us on Main Street in Historic Downtown Clarkdale for our 11th Annual Car Show sponsored by the Clarkdale Downtown Business Alliance and the Clarkdale Foundation.From 9am to 2pm we’ll be featuring cars, trucks and motorcycles. There will be beer, food and a live remote broadcast with Yavapai Broadcasting. Come stroll Main Street and enjoy another fun event in Clarkdale.For more information on the event, to volunteer or to register your vehicle please visit www.clarkdalecarshow.comRegistration is limited to the first 150 vehicles.
Wupatki National Monument will be conducting three overnight backcountry hikes in April 2022 to the Crack-in-Rock pueblo site. These hikes will be offered: Saturday April 2 & Sunday April 3 Saturday April 16 & Sunday April 17 Saturday April 23 & Sunday April 24 Online applications are currently being accepted through Tuesday March 1st and participants will be chosen via lottery system. Each hike is limited to twelve participants to preserve fragile resources, and preference is given to applicants who have not participated in the past three years. The cost for the hike is $75 per person and paid on…
On Saturday, March 12, 2022 the annual St. Patrick’s Parade returns for its 50th anniversary celebration and the city hopes you’ll join the many organizations, groups and businesses that have made this event possible over the past 50 years in creating a memorable experience for both the participants and spectators. The parade will begin at 10:30 a.m. and travel down its traditional route of Jordan Road from the Sedona Heritage Museum to Mesquite Avenue.The city’s Parks and Recreation Department seeks parade entrants and volunteers to assist with continuing this special event.Parade registration is open until 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 21,…
… one of the key elements of photographic art is the skill of cropping an image. For a lot of the wildlife photography I do, my crops will normally include the entire creature, but there are those times when you delve more into the purity of art and showcase just a portion of the creature and obtain some very powerful and dramatic effects that you do not otherwise get. A good friend of mine focuses on the crop in his images for the purpose of creating very dramatic images and he reminds me from time to time on the benefits…
Yavapai County Elections Director, Lynn Constabile, would like to announce that the hiring of poll workers for the upcoming August 2nd Primary and November 8th General elections has begun. Those interested in working as a poll worker may submit an application via the Yavapai County Elections website: https://apps.yavapaiaz.gov/PollWorkerApplication/Applicants will receive a confirmation email that their submission has been received by the Elections Department and may be contacted in the months leading up to the elections. Not all applicants are offered a position as there is a limited number of poll worker positions available.
Join Keep Sedona Beautiful on Wednesday, February 9, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. for its monthly Preserving the Wonder™ Speaker Series. This event will be held via Zoom. Please visit the KSB website, www.keepsedonabeautiful.org for details. The evening’s speaker is Lichenologist Garry Neil whose topic is “What the Heck is a Lichen?” Simply put, lichens are symbiotic organisms composed of both a fungus and either a green alga or blue-green alga, and in some species both types of algae. According to Mr. Neil, “Lichens are generally ignored by the public, with greater interest focused on flowering plants and trees. However, I…
The Sedona Heritage Museum is hosting the next in its Living History speaker series on Thursday February 10 at 10:00 a.m. at the Museum when Bob Erb will present “Medicine of the Civil War and Frontier Military Outposts”.The medicine that was practiced during the Civil War and at military frontier forts such as Fort Verde was quite crude compared to today’s standards. Images that come to mind are bone cutting saws, blood covered operating tables, scary looking surgical tools, ghastly dental practices, and bloody aprons worn by doctors with little medical knowledge.Bob Erb, Fort Verde Historic State Park’s current Hospital…
… the days are short and the shadows long … cold winds howl and dedicated photographers take to the air before sunset to catch it all. The image above was taken on January 8th of 2017 about 20 minutes before sunset. Rogers Lake had a lot of water/ice, snow covered the ground and the winds aloft were in excess of 50 knots … check out the clouds ripping off the San Francisco Peaks and the beautiful lenticular cloud formed from high winds ricocheting off the stable air mass near the surface behind the peaks. Think of it as a sine…