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Farmer's Market, Continued on page 29

et’s be clear. This is not a story about the movies which

have been fi lmed in Superior. However, the

latest eatery to open on Superior’s

main drag got it’s beginning in

the movie industry and draws inspiration from

Hollywood's ability to create a time capsule.

It began with the 1997 movie "U-Turn" starring

Jennifer Lopez and Sean Penn and fi lmed in Superior. The set

designer, Billy Holmquist, was asked to design a ‘70s roadhouse cafe in

which most of the movie takes place. He did. Vinyl benches, linoleum lunch

counter, old stools that swivel, a mural of the southwest painted on the wall,

cool lighting. Although the B-movie fl opped at the box offi ce and Lopez,

Penn and Holmquist went on to much bigger things, Holmquist fell in love

with Superior while working on that project and relocated his warehouse

from LA to Superior. He now works his magic in a large sprawling warehouse

on Superior’s main drag...and champions the causes of Superior by leading

the fi ght against slum lords while working to attract new business to

downtown Superior.

What good soil looks like and ooohh the sweet smell!

Uptown Cafe, Continued on page 28

A Superior CafeMaking a 'U-Turn' at Superior

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Serving Up The Harvest

Serving Up The Harvest

rowing up in the Midwest or on the East Coast

you could easily believe in your innate ability

to grow things. Everyone back East, it seems,

is blessed with a green thumb. Homes are fi lled

with healthy house plants and prolifi c

backyard gardens. Seemingly, gardening

takes little skill outside of the brute force

required to rototill frozen ground in Spring.

Overall, you can count on more rain,

richer soil and more humidity. Plus

you don’t have to import your worms.

In fact, back East the main problem is not growing stuff, it is fi nding enough neighbors who

aren’t already growing their own to take your overfl ow zuchinni, tomatoes and apricots.

Ahhh, but that was then, and this is now. Now, you are in Arizona, where day and night time

temperatures swing wildly in the Spring and by Summer remains at 90 degrees even when the

sun goes down. The soil is alkaline. It rarely rains, and when it does, the rains come in big,

late afternoon downpours which threaten to rip young plants from their precarious march

towards maturity.

“A good cook knows that it’s not what's on the table that matters, it’s who is in the chairs.” – Leigh

Oh, and worms are not found in the soil...unless

you import a few.

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including its culture, relation to mining, minerals, and pioneer

families. Make sure you stay for the showing of "Silver, Copper

and Sweat – The Story of Superior," playing every hour. Visit

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Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum131 N Plaza Circle • Miami

(928) 473-3700First Friday Programs: Presentations of historic interest are

presented on the First Friday of each month, September through June,

at the Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum in Miami, at 6pm unless

otherwise noted. These programs are sponsored by the Bullion Plaza

Cultural Center & Museum and the Gila County Historical Museum,

and are made possible through the Arizona Humanities Council.

Gila County Historical Museum1330 N Broad Street • Globe

(928) 425-7385The museum will begin hosting it's monthly hamburger fry on April 29th.

Join us on the lawn for this community tradition. Everyone is invited. The

Museum offers 4,000 photographs, historical documents, texts and displays

plus a complete line of books from local authors and others who have written

on the history of this area.

Gila Historical Museum in the old Mine Safety Building

Scheduled to Open Spring 2011

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Harley Dosela is one of the busiest men in Peridot,

Arizona, a small town of 1300 people approximately

ninety miles east of Phoenix. His home is fi lled with the

sounds of his sewing machine, with buckskin hides and

yards of colorful cotton readied for transformation into

custom Apache moccasins and camp dresses.

Harley’s mother and great-grandmother of Whiteriver

were both well-known cradleboard makers. These are the

mesquite slat and cloth carriers in which Apache infants are

held and transported. While Dosela is also known to create

durable and pretty cradleboards, his dressmaking skills are what keep his machine

humming. He not only creates camp dresses – the two-piece time honored dress

of Native American women, but his traditional moccasins are well known and

sought after. Traditional Apache moccasins are made of buckskin or elk hide, with a

latigo or ‘hair on hide’ sole, an extended, upright ‘toe’, and the requisite adornment

of fringe, beads, and conchos. In addition, he produces buckskin dress outfi ts for

the Apache Sunrise Dance (a sacred four day ceremony marking the passage of a

young girl to womanhood). Finally, he also creates

the lovely beaded ‘T’ necklaces (so named

because they resemble a capital ‘T’ while

laying fl at) and the shawl necklaces,

which are beaded strands which

drape over the shoulders.

The Native American art of

cradleboard making is “going

away,” Harley says. “There are only

three of us on the Reservation – me

and two ladies – who make them.

It’s hard, but it keeps us busy.” He

was able to talk one of the women into

continuing, at least for now, when she

considered retirement.

When it comes to buckskin outfi ts and

moccasins, it’s the beading which takes most of the time. Harley meets with the

customer to discuss color choices, and then he gets to work. He likes to “choose

colors that work together; then I start with the light colors and fi nish with the

darker ones.” He prefers #11 or #13 beads (which are tiny- the higher the number,

the smaller the bead) to decorate the buckskin garments. The result is more

than ornamental- it can be dazzling.

While Dosela accepts that there are more and more fi rst-time moccasin

makers, “some people are making them on their own,” he confi des. He also stresses

that his art takes time to learn – the cutting, the beading – and he’s received a lot

of help from his friends over the years. “My friends have shown me – pushed me.

It’s better – and easier – when we all help each other,” Dosela claims. “It’s easier when

we keep each other busy.”

Walk A MileIn My Moccasins:

Harley Doselaby Darin Lowery


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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand,

there is no art.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

he best antidote I know of

for all the bad news coming out

of Washington and the world-at-large

today is to be around people who are

busy creating, producing, expanding

and building things. And in this issue we

feature several people who are doing just

that! In the process they are contributing

to that sense of community we all enjoy

in Globe-Miami and adding value where

there was none. They remind me of what

is right with the world of ours! Just as

nature does at this time of year, when

I look out on a barren landscape one

morning and see a few green buds on my

trees and later fi nd, seemingly overnight,

an entire blanket of green!

The Rooney’s, who have restored the

old ‘Home Hotel’ over on Sycamore and

Ron Hughes who will be putting the

fi nishing touches on a 1930’s Mobile

Station in Miami, can be said to

have spun silk purses out of a sows

ear. But others, like Cindy Levi,

have injected life and comfort

food into a once empty space in

downtown Superior which now

hosts both locals and travelers

seven days a week at the new

Uptown Cafe.

And Tim Harmon has quietly been

perfecting his avocation while working

his day job as a contractor. He was

recently inducted into the Western

Artists of American this January

where he took the gold for his bronze

sculpture, “Switchback.”

All of them share several traits

inherent in successful ventures. It is

an all-out, hands-on effort by each of

them to create ‘art’ from their respective

chunks of clay. And, while never loosing

sight of the big picture, they all have

created the wow factor because of their

attention to the small things.

As Michelangelo once said, “Trifl es

make perfection, and perfection is

no trifl e.”

Our piece on 'Serving up the Harvest',

focuses on the 'art' of growing fresh

produce and the folks who are working

to bring a new Farmer’s Market to Globe-

Miami this summer. Plus the unique

relationship between Simply Sarah’s and

Reevis Ranch in providing fresh organic

produce for customers - at a dress shop.

My friend Sarah believes in

“cultivating beauty in a multitude of

mediums”, and I get the feeling that she

sees no distinction between displaying

an elegant jacket in her shop...or a fl at of

freshly harvested peaches.

Looking back on it, I believe, the folks

who garden, and those who restore old

things share something in common.

Both pursuits take inordinate

amounts of time, energy and talent.

If you do it right, it is a beauty to

behold....and it only gets better in

the sharing.

So here’s to those visionary, hands-on,

creative ‘Do-ers.’

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers,

T


The Hidden Second Half of SpringThe second half of spring, that is to say, April and

most of May, is not for the timid. The perennial plants

that fl ower and fruit during these late spring months

are case-hardened desert dwellers that never ask for

a break from the heat and wouldn’t get one even if

they did. They don’t aspire to be the wimpy annual

wildfl owers that germinate in the fall and then spend a

few leisurely winter months fattening up, only to rush

through their life cycles and die back in the stressful

fi rst weeks of April.

Brittlebush is a bit smug because it is a crossover.

It’s a perennial plant that can germinate and grow in

great quantities just like an annual, often covering

entire hillsides in a near monoculture of yellow fl owers

in April, like it did in 2008 and 2010. And then, to leave

no doubt as to its well-rounded character, it hunkers

down with the rest of the surrounding jojobas, chollas,

creosotes, prickly pears, and palo verdes, and stays the

course, bravely taking on the brutality of six months of

summer. Its Achilles’ heel is its lack of frost tolerance,

but it makes up for this trifl ing handicap with a fast

spring recovery and a reputation as one of the Sonoran

Desert’s most drought-resistant plants.

Over time, the fl owering plants of the second half of

spring have developed an attitude and who can blame

them? They prove their beauty and unfl agging resolve

year after year, yet they’re underappreciated by the

great proportion of year-round residents who quickly

trade perspiration for refrigeration, and the seasonal

B o y c e T h o m p s o n A r b o r e t u m

By Kim Stone

A blue yucca in full fl ower emerges from the mass of volcanic rock that surrounds it. Agaves, aloes, and prickly pears grow from their own adjacent crevices and help to balance and unite this engaging scene near the Children’s Garden.

Living architecture. With rosettes of stiff, radiating leaves pushing out in all directions against a waning blue sky, all are softened by native and exotic fl owers that are as perfectly composed as they are well-adapted to this prominent location just outside the front entrance.

snowbirds that fl ee aridity for

humidity. It’s quite possible

that many long-time winter-

only residents that have been

coming to Arizona from Minnesota or Alberta – even for dozens of years -- have never seen

a cholla fl ower, or the velvety orange petal of a mariposa lily, or even the magnifi cent white

fl owers crowning Arizona’s most famous cactus. These warm-weather gems and many

others like them are reserved for the rest of us.

Even with the best of intentions, life cycles progress quickly in the desert and it’s easy to

miss the passage of fl owering events without some measure of predictability. Who wants to

wait until next year? I’ve kept decades of records and I refer to them often. Rules-of-thumb are also helpful: Flowers of foothill palo verdes always

follow blue palo verdes; ironwoods, saguaros, and

soap tree yuccas begin to fl ower right around Mother’s

Day; and saguaro fruits are ripening just as I’m licking

the stamp to send off my Father’s Day card.

At the Arboretum, where plants from arid regions

all of over the world intermingle copasetically with

natives, the color wheel is whirring non-stop with plant

combinations unlikely to be found anywhere else. April

is the time for the pink-orange-coral-fl owered aloes of

southern Africa to be at their peak, and they’re often

surrounded by complimentary yellow brittlebush and

desert marigolds. Most of our succulents, cacti, and

yuccas are all fl owering during this period and many

of them are artfully arranged, combining both muted

and saturated colors that only a skilled artist with a

fully stocked palette of Grumbacher paints could ever

hope to replicate.

Even with all of this color and excitement, heat is

still heat, so we’ll be going to our summer hours of 6am

– 3pm starting May 1. We have many events planned

throughout April and May, including a nighttime

photography class, and lizard, butterfl y, dragonfl y,

geology, and plants of the bible walks. We also have a

once-a-month dog socialization walk and a children’s

book reading every Sunday. Check out our website for

more info. arboretum.ag.arizona.edu.

Sometimes spring is a state of mind. In the beginning, it seems stand-offi sh and unapproachable; then it rushes at you in an untamed charge, fi lling each moment to capacity from March through May, before it quickly – and inevitably -- decays into summer.

Before I made Globe my home, I lived

in the Valley of the Sun for fi ve years.

After almost a lifetime spent in

the Midwest, my fi rst winter in

the Valley was certainly a

change. No boots, no

snow, no shovels. Nary

a piping hot cup of

cocoa to be found.

While it wasn’t

warm enough (for

me) to swim, I

certainly loved to

sit on the patio by

the pool and call all

of my freezing friends

back home.

“Hi! Yeah, it’s Darin- I’m

calling from Arizona and I’m sitting by

the pool in a tank top, drinking iced

tea with lots of ice and watching the

blazing sunlight bounce off the sparkling

water of my built-in swimming pool!

And man, you should see these palm tr-

no, it’s Darin. D A R I N. We were in the

same class in third grade- I wore glasses?

Yes- that’s me! No, I’m not showing

off, for God’s sake- just calling to say hi!

Well, sure, forty years is a long ti- Yeah.

Fine. Bye.”

Valley living soon lost its appeal.

While unloading groceries from the

Ford one sweltering July day- the air

temperature was an astounding 157

degrees, a carton of eggs slipped from

the plastic bag and hit the asphalt.

Within two minutes a dozen perfect

sunnyside up smiley faces gazed up

at me. All I needed were waffl es and

coffee and I could’ve had the ‘Dante

Special’. The once novel weather was

explosive in its cloying and unbearable

hotness- and that was at night.

The traffi c, never manageable, was a sea

of SUVs, an army of soccer moms on

cell phones.

The upkeep of the pool and yards

took up valuable me-time (I’m an

inveterate, incurable junker, hitting

eight or nine thrift shops before lunch,

and I don’t want to be bothered with silly

chores like re-hanging a busted garage

door or wrestling with a ruptured,

gushing hot water heater). Free time was

meant to be enjoyed, not spent rushing

to the ER with a home-related injury.

My choice spots for shopping are

thrift stores. Sorry, but because I have

scruples, you’ll never fi nd me at a garage

sale. Used baby clothes and boxed

VHS sets of The Simpson’s

leave me cold, and 1970’s

eight tracks are just

plain depressing. So

are elderly women

in lawn chairs on

driveways with

metal cashboxes,

who chain smoke

and bark at each

other over prices

quoted or change given

(‘Dammit, Verna, the

man gave you a twenty, not a

fi fty!’). Yes, I’m a fool, probably missing

out on a gilded demitasse set from

Napoleon’s brother’s pied-a terre, priced

at six dollars. But I have my sanity, and

because this is not a very

deep well, I hold on to

what I can.

It’s a known

fact the Valley

has 13,736 thrift

stores. Globe has

two; Miami lost

theirs last year.

So I ‘bite the bullet

and buy retail’, as

my Aunt Sylvia would

say. There is a wealth of

product to be found in the

twenty-six antiques shops in our two

towns, however, and because I know all

of the dealers I have a pretty good idea of

what’s going on the shelves.

And while the Valley, with its wealth

of junk and junque shops had its

good points, Globe is a bit more

manageable. Two blocks separate the

two thrift stores.

The following exchange occurred at

Sam’s Good Junk Bakery last week, when

I ran into ‘Madame X’, a vintage dealer-

we were drinking Costa Rican coffee and

trading war stories:

“Darin, I found the bottom half of

a mermaid costume last week- gold

sequins galore, you know, like scales-

the fi ns are three feet wide, and-“

I interrupted her. “What about

the top half?”

She looked at me blankly and

shrugged. “Beats me. Maybe she lost it.”

“Honey,” I replied, “there is no top

part to a mermaid costume!”

We had a little chuckle over that for a

few days. I’m known for my nonstop wit.

My problem, if you want to call it

that, is an innate inability to say no to

any shiny trinket, any colorful tidbit- a

trait I share with newborns. Yes, I know

all of the magazines say to pick one

or two things (antique Persian rugs,

soothing Roseville pottery, 1970s Rubik’s

cubes) and concentrate on building a

collection. I’ve tried- to no avail. Why

have one or two collections, when you

can have seventy-fi ve? If one item is

good, how ‘bout fourteen? And how

about one in every color?

While perusing a junk store once

I literally stumbled across a green

marbleized bowling ball and before

you can say ‘strike’, I’ve got

a collection of fi fteen

of them. They make

the dogs nervous,

but the colors are

fantastic. They

look like oversized

Jawbreakers on my

living room fl oor,

scattered around

the coffee table.

It would be tempting

to provide a top ten list of

the coolest shops in our area,

but that would be unfair. Check the map

in the middle of this paper and discover

the area, fi rsthand. Every shop in Globe-

Miami has something fun, unusual or

silly to offer: colorful Bakelite fl atware

and Bauer or Fiesta dinnerware; wacky

mid-century barware, goofy 40’s

ceramic planters and delicate, hand

painted china tea sets. You’ll fi nd old

hammers, vintage fox stoles, beat up

tricycles and big honkin’ jukeboxes;

loads of dance records with outstanding

cover art; bottles and stamps and dice

and buttons, Bibles and beer signs. Stop

for a cup of coffee and a pastry, and then

pick up where you left off.

You’ll fi nd pretty much whatever

you’re searching for in the Globe-Miami

area, and eventually, you may fi nd one

in every color.


One In Every Colorby Darin Lowery


Hobo HoedownSunday May 1st begins at 5pm $15

This is the last day of a successful 4th season of the Copper Spike Excursion Railway and we're throwing a party!

Easter Parade April 23 • 9amCheck in at the Historic Train Depot 9-9:30

Stroll Broad Street in your best

Easter Finery! Judges will be on hand and Prizes will be awarded!

The Bawdy Broad Street Tour is

baacck by Demand!Friday, May 13th;Begins at 6:30pm

At the Old Jail

Meet at the Old Jail where you will discover the sad tale of Fancy DeLaRue and enjoy a

guided tour of Globe's famous "Fancy Ladies."

$5 DONATION

Summer YouthMusical Theatre

“Alice inWonderland"

Performance datesJuly 7th-9th,15th &16th

TICKETS $10

The Copper Cities Community Players are proud to announce the audacious production of

April 29 & 30May 6 & 7 at 7pm

A play which brings

out the best of theworst. A comic romp

of epic proportions.

"The Third GreatCourse Acting Show"

We are here to answer questions and direct you to the many great things

to see and do in the Historic District.

E-mail [email protected] or

call 928-425-0884.

Monday-Friday10am-5pm;

Saturday 10am-4pm; Sundays 12-4pmClosed Holidays

www.cvarts.org

Barbecue hosted by Adobe Ranch Outfitters! Hobo Bingo!Beer Garden on the Train along with Mohave Muleskinners making an appearance before the 2:30pm train! Dustbowl Croquet! Fun for the Whole Family!Come dressed in your Hobo Finest and share in the festivities!


"This time, like all times,

is a very good one, if we but know

what to do with it." – Emerson

GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 9The Chrysocolla Inn may be the

newest of Globe’s bed and breakfasts

but the property itself has a long history

in the area. In it’s heyday it was known

as Mack’s Home Hotel and served as a

boarding house and dining room for

many of the local visiting elites, local

miners, youth attending school from

nearby towns and visitors here for

dealings with the assayers offi ce, which

was just next door.

Margaret McLean purchased

it in 1915, at a time when

Globe’s business climate

was booming and over

35 mines were operating in the area

with the Old Dominon Mine leading the

copper production for the nation. The

downtown district had just completed

a ten-year phase in which a new grand

commercial building went up almost

every few months, and money fl owed in

from East Coast monied interests.

A fi ne time to operate a

“Home Hotel.”

The property which

sat just one block

off the downtown

district enjoyed a

brisk business at the

turn of the century,

and by 1929, the

McLeans decided to put

on a third fl oor. Although

the timing of the expansion

couldn’t have been worse with the

onslaught of the Great Depression and

the closure of the Old Dominion Mine in

’31, the Home Hotel pulled through and

continued to operate into the 40s.

Over the ensuing seventy years,

the building changed hands several

times. The McLeans sold it sometime

in the 40’s, and from there it’s history is

somewhat sketchy. While it continued

to serve as a boarding house and later

as small utility apartments, by the mid

‘80s, it was unfi t for human habitation

and sat empty for nearly 15 years.

“My sister would walk by the place

during high school and say, “I love that

building! She always wanted to own it,”

says Holly Rooney, whose family now

owns the property.

By the time the Rooneys purchased

it in 2000, nearly 20 years later, the

building was a shell of it’s former self.

The years of neglect had not been kind

and the property looked more like an

aging bag lady from LA rather than

the Grand Dame of Globe it had once

been. Paint no longer protected it’s

plaster walls, rusting refrigerators sat

in junk heaps on abandoned patios and

porches where they had been dumped.

Signs of sagging fl oors and walls hinted

at structural issues, and wood beams,

now dried and cracking, were beyond

any simple repair.

“When we fi rst went to look at

the inside of the building, my sister

immediately changed her mind,”

laughs Holly. “It was just too far gone

she thought, and she didn’t want to Few could have looked at this property eight years ago and seen it’s potential to become the elegant Bed and Breakfast it has become.

Holly Rooney at work on the custom tile in one of the showers. Each tile selection and pattern is coordinated with the overall design of each bedroom.

Chrysocolla Inn, Continued on page 10

Coming Back From The BrinkThe Chrysocolla Inn prepares to open its doors this Spring


do it. But, I decided I did want to. I’d

always thought that this would make a

great B&B.”

Looking back now, after eight years

of renovations it seems Heidi might

have been right.

Recently, the property was on the

home tour (in March) and many people

asked if the renovations had cost a

hundred thousand dollars. Holly laughs

and says, “We only wish it had cost that!”

“Of course, we made it more

expensive than it had to be,” admits

Holly, “because we would get into

something and decide it could be even

better if we did something more than

just what was required.”

A good example are the stairways in

the home. Meticulously fabricated by

Tim Harmon, a master craftsman and

key to much of the home’s elegance,

Harmon has been on the project since

the Rooneys purchased the building. It

was Harmon who replicated the original

design of the staircase on the north side

and made a matching set for the south.

He also fabricated additional clothespin

balusters to replace ones which were

beyond repair, and re-worked the stair

treads, ordering more Douglas Fir

out of California to match that of the

original wood. All the windows in the

three- story boarding house had to

be re-worked, and Harmon built the

windows in the kitchen to match that of

the original windows throughout.

Additional elbow grease was

provided by Holly’s aunt and uncle, Pat

and Howard Baldwin, who helped with

the initial demolition, the making of the

90 window screens, the refi nishing of

nearly 40 original doors and many other

projects throughout the eight years. All

the bedroom doors were in surprisingly

good shape for being nearly 100 years

old, but all had to be refi nished and the

original hardware with keyhole locks

refurbished to good working order.

When the Rooneys purchased it

in 2000, Holly had just launched her

new family practice and her mother,

Rosemary, was involved in another

project involving an adobe home, so the

“Home Hotel” sat for almost a year.

“We also had to take some time to

think about just what to do with it,”

said Holly.

They eventually began by doing

demolition on the bottom fl oor and

within months discovered unsettling

issues such as wooden beams which

had been cut off midway and no longer

went to the ground fl oor for support.

Globe’s new building inspector, Chris

Collopy, suggested they would need a

structural engineer and the building

again sat for another year while they

looked for an engineer who would come

to Globe and assess their “treasure.”

That report revealed structural issues

with the third fl oor which had been

poorly constructed. The entire weight

of the roof and third fl oor were being

borne by just the outside walls. And

beams could be seen bowing under the

weight, threatening the entire structural

integrity of the entire place. “We were

told that we need to have ‘major footers

measuring 2ft x 2ft x 2ft with support

beams running from the bottom fl oor

to the roof,” said Holly. “So that whole

summer, that’s all my mom and I

worked on, is digging out those footers

so the fl oor could be poured.”

Holly describes a huge rock

pile that accumulated just from

that project alone. Typical

of ground anywhere in this

area, any attempt to just

dig out six inches, would

invariably include a tussle

with an immovable rock

boulder which might

take half a day to get out

and result in a hole two

feet deep.

Holly says this is one

of her mother’s fortes. “She’s just been

a major gardener all her life,” said

Holly. “She’s always been able to get her

crowbar in there and get any rock out

of the ground! Plus, she’s just a very

hard worker.”

Skills which were vital to the

renovation of the old Home Hotel.

When asked if she or her mother

ever had serious doubts about their

decision to purchase the place, Holly

says her mother would often wonder

aloud if this had been a good idea. Holly

“less so.” But even at the end of very

long days when both were exhausted,

Rosemary was known to smile and say,

“This is kinda fun.”

Together, they laid the black and

white tile on the lower fl oor, and all the

brickwork. They did all of the tiling for

the showers, and the custom plastering

on the interior walls.

The work on the home took over

eight years during which both mother

and daughter continued to collect

furnishings, artwork, hardware and

construction items to be used in the bed

and breakfast. “Almost 90 percent of all

the furnishings came from local antique

shops and residents,” Holly says.

The home boasts 19 chandeliers- all

unique- and all gathered from the local

area. The buffet in the main dining

room came out of the renowned Copper

Hills Restaurant which operated from

1954 to the late 1990’s. While much of

the upholstered pieces came out of

local shops, it was the talent of Colleen

Beck and the fabric collection of mother

and daughter which resulted in over 40

upholstered pieces gracing bedrooms

and common areas.

While all of the beds serve to refl ect

the time period of the home itself, two

in particular have direct ties to local

lore. Two of the iron beds came out of

the Sang Tai Restaurant on North Broad,

a well-known, Chinese establishment

which operated from the late 1800’s up

into 1960 when the son took over the

property and changed the name to the

Chrysocolla Inn, Continued from page 9

Rosemary and Holly Rooney at the entrance to the kitchen/dining hall

The buffet in the dining hall came out of the Copper Hills Restaurant.

There was ample need of lifts during the restoration, especially rebuilding the multiple porches which jut out from the 2nd fl oor. Here Rosemary, and Tim are in the bucket.

Daughter, Heidi (right) originally thought the building was too far gone to save. There were times during the 8-year renovation when Rosemary and Holly agreed with her.

Star Buffet. The beds were purportedly

used by working girls on the 2nd fl oor

during some point in the building’s

history although much of the details

have been lost to history.

The property dates back to the late

1800’s when Modesto Borques owned

it from 1896 to 1909. When he passed

away, his estate was settled and the

property went to Charles Clark. It

continued to go through several hands

until 1915 when Margaret

McLean purchased it from

R.L. Alderman and the family

renovated the property into a

hotel for travelers.

“We have always believed it

was built in the late 1800’s because

in photos from that time period

you can see a two story structure

behind the post offi ce,” says Holly.

“We also believe the property may

have been where Big Nose Kate had

her boarding house after she split from

Doc Holliday.” Although the history

books are not clear on the details, Holly

says several people stopped by during

the eight years they worked on the place

to talk about it’s history. One older man

said his mother used to manage it and

that it defi nitely belonged to Big Nose

Kate. And another

historian pointed out

a document which

states her place was

“off Broad”, (not on

Broad Street as some

have suggested),

lending credence to

the possibility that

this was home to the

famous madame.

However, a majority of the home’s

historical information came from

a McLean son, now in his 80’s, who

stopped by during the construction

to share some stories about the place.

Seems Mrs. McLean was a cook of some

renown, and the Hotel offered meals not

only to guests, but the local population

as well. According to the son, “...the

line at meal time used to

stretch all the way down

the street to Hill Street,

and back in those days

the clientle included the

Mayor of Globe and other

important people."

Today, the Rooneys

have big plans for the

place including a full

service bed and breakfast,

and hosting special events

and small weddings. They have named

their place, “The Chrysocolla Inn” as a

nod to the mineral wealth of the area.

They plan to serve full breakfasts and

Holly explains there are also plans to

extend food services to the general

public next Fall.

“I’d like to look into doing a brunch,

and/or dinner...maybe two days a

week.” she says. “I’m not sure exactly

how many days or what the menu will

look like, but we defi nitely want to

expand into that next Fall.”

The Rooneys expect to open the B&B

by the end of May or early June and will

be launching a website this summer

for the bed and breakfast. However,

in the meantime, if you’d like more

information about the rooms, rates and

event information, visit their business

profi le on www.gmteconnect.com

under Bed and Breakfasts.


The staircase leading to the 2nd fl oor was meticulously re-created by Tim Harmon including fabricating matching clothespin balusters reminiscent of the original “Home Hotel”

The Society Page

Angel & Louisa Medina and Pam Burruel check in guests at this years annual Lincoln Dinner.

Dr. Nelson, Superintendent of Globe Unifi ed School District, and Jennifer Kinnard, Director of Business Operations, received an award for excellence in “Effective Government” for their work at the school district.

Rebecca and Carl Williams, of Dream Manor Inn, are usually at all the ‘high society’ events. They are just usually working behind the scenes hosting them! The couple received the 2011 Success Award of Gila County from the Arizona Small Business Development Center Network.

The Lincoln Dinner

Dream Manor Inn

Wedding

Chano Castellanos, Rosemary Mancha, Eddie Castellanos, Cindy Fletcher and Pat Castellanos

Christian De La Torre, Andy Perez, Robert Cano, Eddie De La Torre, Javier De La Torre and Joey De La Torre

Sandra and Javier De La TorreParents of the Bride, Pat and Ruben Mancha, with Javier and granddaughter Trinity.

Nea Mancha, Xavier Mancha, Dylan Mancha and Alana Mancha


Mancha-De La TorreMarch 26


The Society PageOut & About

Marie Brantley-Gregg and husband, Andy, enjoyed the ambience of Valentine's event "Romancin' the Rails" on the Copper Spike. Marie is headed to LA this Spring with a recording contract to sing back up for Adele and Anastasia. Kudos!

Virgil and Pat Dodd on board the Copper Spike.

Southwest Gas employees volunteered a Saturday to help put in new ground cover for the Salvation Army Day Care Center.

The Bridges, from Indiana, travel with Flat Stanely – seen here with Engineer Earl Knoob. They were in town to ride the Copper Spike and send pics back to their grand daughter. They were two of the 11,000 passengers that rode the Copper Spike this season. Donna Anderson, local historian and

train employee now hosts the "Freight Offi ce" where she answers questions and showcases a 20 minute video on the history of rail travel in the region.

Grace Whalen operates her "Stonehouse B&B" in Wyoming during the summer months and works for the Copper Spike during winters in Globe.

Bill Quintera is the always friendly 'master of cermonies' on the train. Here, he cross checks dinner reservations.

Thomas the Train hosted over 15,000 riders in just two weekends in March here in Globe, breaking all previous records for the company.


A Good Read By Linda Gross

The Tuesday Afternoon Book Club has been

meeting for over 60 years and discussing books

and lives at their bi-monthly meetings between

September and May. It is by invitation only

and I’m glad to be among the newest members

having been ‘inducted’ a few years ago. It is

through this group that I’ve discovered many

books I might not have otherwise picked up.

This new column will serve to highlight my

new found discoveries, beginning with a

recommendation for "Sometimes the Blues."

The book by Susan Clardy is more than

the sum of original diary entries garnered

from her great-grandfather, Frank Hammon,

who lived in Globe and Phoenix between 1882 and 1889. Thanks to Clardy’s

exhaustive leg work in researching the context and historical accuracy

of his diary entries we are treated to a rare, unvarnished look at what life was

like in Globe around 1882. We have the benefi t of the narrowed perspective of a

man writing about life as it unfolds, as well as the broader perspective in looking

back on ‘history.’ Hammond’s life intersected with many, more famous of Globe’s

early residents including Judge Hackney, Gene Middleton and the Tewksburys.

He fell in love and married in Globe, worked in the mines and on nearby

ranches, and as Deputy Sheriff was a fi rst hand witness to the famous Pleasant

Valley War between the Tewksburys-Grahams. This is a must-read for anyone

who has a passing interest in Globe, the Pleasant Valley War or life as it was in

this Arizona Territory.

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This advertisement for Good Year tires was one of the only pages salvaged from a copy of the Leslie’s Weekly which had been used as insulation in the walls of a Globe home.

Uncovered when the owners re-modeled these pages helped to date the house atleast as far back as 1918, the date of this issue.

The Weekly was an illustrated literary news magazine founded in 1852. By 1897 it enjoyed a circulation of 65,000, up from it’s initial fi rst printing of 30 copiers. It continued to publish until 1922 and often featured patriotic editorials and the works of now famous illustrators including Norman Rockwell.

LOST & FOUND


Driving along Highway 60 as

you come and go through Miami,

you can’t help but notice what looks

to be an old gas station of your

Grandfather’s vintage. Except this

one looks like it did back in 1934.

This is no accident. It is by design.

And the man behind that design

is Ron Hughes, who owns Soda

Pops Antiques in Miami and has

Rescuing. Rebuilding. Restoring. A Labor of L ve

been the creative genius and hands-on

talent for several of Miami’s most

memorable remodels.

The property you see on the highway

was originally a Mobile service station

with a showroom for International

Trucks on one side and Chrysler cars

on the other side. Just across the street

was a Plymouth and Dodge Dealership.

Although the dealerships closed, one-by-

one, with the last one shutting the doors

in 1952, the gas station remained another

ten years, although it changed hands and

became a Chevron Dealership before

closing in ’62.

The building was later used as a

taxidermy business, muffl er shop, U-Haul

offi ce and a garage for a diesel mechanic.

When Hughes bought the property

several years ago it had seen better days

and one could be forgiven for thinking it

might be best just to tear it all down.

Not Ron.

He can see things as they can be - not

as they are. He has a warehouse full

of cool, old things that have long since

lost their shiny luster, their chrome

handles and their bright colors. They

are rusted, bent and broken. But in

Ron’s hands they come to life again.

When he gets time. Which is

always in short supply with Hughes.

At any one time, he is working on a

dozen projects, while wife, Marcia

runs their store, Soda Pop’s on Sullivan

street. Currently, his primary focus

is restoring the old gas station to it’s

1930’s prime.

Ron Hughes stands next to a ’51 Henry J which he is rebuilding as a station wagon. He rescued it from the desert where it had been used as target practice.


When he fi rst took over the property

six years ago, he discovered the tenant

who had been in the building previously

had kept dogs locked inside on the

carpeted fl oor. So the fi rst order of

business was to rip out all the fl ooring

and pour a granite-like fl oor with an

embedded image of the Mobile Oil

horse in the center.

The large plate glass windows

came out of a Target store which was

being dismantled and Hughes picked

up nearly 40 thousand board feet of

red oak from a TGIFs which was being

dismantled. He and his stepson and

a friend spent several weekends and

hauled out fi ve 16 ft trailers

of oak which have gone into

refurbishing the Mobile Station

and outfi tting a shop.

“I took the bar, which was

three inch solid oak," he says,

pointing to over 30ft of bench

with neatly racked bins that

serves as the nerve center

for a man who is continually

restoring, fabricating or

repairing something.

Hughes is standing next

to his latest project involving a

1941 Ford Cab Over Engine which

originally served as the go-power

for a two-ton wrecker. Ron took a

torch welder to it recently and has cut

up the back half to make way for a

new oak fl at bed. When it is done, it

will have new chrome, a new paint

job and oak fl at bed and will serve

as an eye candy to help entice traffi c

off of Hwy 60 and into downtown

Sullivan street.

“At one point," Ron says, “the Town

of Miami would give you an entire

block of Sullivan Street of you brought

a business to Miami.” That was in 1972.

By the time Ron and his wife, Marcia,

began shopping around for a place to

retire, that deal was off the books, but

the buildings here were still affordable,

the lake was nearby and they loved the

small town charm.

Their antique store, Soda Pop’s

Antiques, could hold it’s own in any

market and many are surprised to

discover the quality and quantity of so

many restored antiques. When people

visit for the fi rst time, many just gawk,

prompting Hughes to put up a sign,

“This ain’t no museum. This junks for sale!”

The Mobile Station is slated for

completion this Fall and Hughes,

has already had inquiries from car

clubs, motorcycle groups and local

organizations to use the place. He is

happy to oblige. After all, what good

is restoring something to this level, if

people aren’t around to enjoy it?

He’s fi shing around for a name

and says he thought of naming it after

his dad, Sam, who had fi ve fi lling

stations at one point and as a master

craftsman himself, has provided

much of the inspiration for Hughes

own efforts. But then again, he might

just name it after the local creek bed:

Bloody Tanks Service Station.

You can be sure, that whatever

name he decides on will look like it has

been there since 1934.

Ron Hughes' father, Sam, was featured in the 1998 Arizona Highways for his work in restoring radios and clocks.


Hobo Terms used 'til the 1940'sAccommodation Car – the caboose of a train

Barnacle – a person who sticks to one job for a year or more

Big House – prison

Bindle Stick – collection of belongings wrapped in cloth and tied around a stick

Blowed-in-the-glass – a genuine, trustworthy individual

Bone Orchard – a grave

C,H & D – indicates an individual is Cold, Hungry and Dry (thirsty)

Chuck a Dummy – pretend to faint

Catch the Westbound – to die

Cover with the moon – sleep out in the open

Glad Rags – one’s best clothes

Hoboes developed their own coded language for the road. Here are just a few. Discover more during the Hobo Hoedown where we will be using symbols for a Hobo Bingo - for adults and kids !

Being referred to as a “knight of the road” was a very

respectful term that related to the honor and

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Although hoboes existed long before the Great

Depression, so many more people were displaced during

the Depression, and forced to become migratory workers

and vagabonds that the term is often associated with

the ‘30s. Many were good, honest people down on their

luck, just trying to get by. They even established their own

code of ethics at a Hobo Convention held 40 years earlier

in the small town of Britt, Iowa. The code of conduct,

voted on at that convention in 1889 still guides those who

live the hobo life today. It begins with, “Decide your own

life, don’t let another person run or rule you.”

While some people lump tramps, bums and hobos into

one category, the great writer H.L. Mencken in his book

“The American Language” published in 1937 clarifi ed the

difference between each class of people this way;

The code of ethics for Hobos1. Decide your own life, don't let another

person run or rule you.2. When in town, always respect the local law

and offi cials, and try to be a gentleman at all times.

3. Don't take advantage of someone who is in a vulnerable situation, locals or other hobos.

4. Always try to fi nd work, even if temporary, and always seek out jobs nobody wants. By doing so you not only help a business along, but ensure employment should you return to that town again.

5. When no employment is available, make your own work by using your added talents at crafts.

6. Do not allow yourself to become a stupid drunk and set a bad example for locals' treatment of other hobos.

7. When jungling in town, respect handouts, do not wear them out, another hobo will be coming along who will need them as bad, if not worse than you.

8. Always respect nature, do not leave garbage where you are jungling.

9. If in a community jungle, always pitch in and help.

10. Try to stay clean, and boil up wherever possible.

11. When traveling, ride your train respectfully, take no personal chances, cause no problems with the operating crew or host railroad, act like an extra crew member.

12. Do not cause problems in a train yard, another hobo will be coming along who will need passage through that yard.

13. Do not allow other hobos to molest children, expose all molesters to authorities, they are the worst garbage to infest any society.

14. Help all runaway children, and try to induce them to return home.

15. Help your fellow hobos whenever and wherever needed, you may need their help someday.

16. If present at a hobo court and you have testimony, give it. Whether for or against the accused, your voice counts!

HOBO HOEDOWNCelebrating the American Traveling Worker

“A hobo, or ‘bo’ is simply a migratory laborer. While he

may take some longish holidays, he eventually returns to

work. On the other hand, a tramp never works if it can be

avoided. He just travels. And a bum, neither works or travels,

unless it's to run from the police.”

There were some famous hobos, including the poet

Carl Sandburg and writer Jack London, but many more

were faceless and included over 8,000 women and 200,000

children during the Great Depression. According to one

study done in 1906, the hobo population was around 500,000

and later statistics show that this population exploded to

millions during the Great Depression.

In his book, “Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with

America’s Hoboes, (1984)” writer Ted Conover reports that

as many as 20,000 hobos were still riding the rails in the US.

“It was suggested by one writer that the reason you stopped

seeing hobos riding trains was once the railroads switched

over to diesel engines and retired the steam locomotives,

trains moved much faster and no long slowed for the coal

and water stations. Although trains can still be boarded in

rail yards, the presence of police and railroad employees

make this a tricky affair.

Today, the Chamber of Commerce in Britt, Iowa,

still hosts the National Hobo Convention the second

weekend in August. It is the largest gathering of hobos,

rail-riders and tramps who gather to celebrate the

American traveling worker.

Here in Globe, the Historic Mainstreet Program is

wrapping the Hobo tradition into the last weekend of

the Copper Spike Excursion Railway. They will be hosting

their own ‘celebration of the American traveling worker’

with a Hobo Hoedown on Sunday, May 1st. It will include

our own hometown version of Hobo Bingo, Dustbowl

Croquet, and a barbecue on the front ‘lawn’ and a beer

garden in the Mardi Gras car.

Check out the events calendar at gmteconnect.com for

the full details on this not-to-be-missed event!

My experiences made me a lot more humble and I appreciate

the smaller things in life – like a good bed and something to eat.

– Archie Frost, Missouri

Grease the Track – to be run over by a train

Honey Dipping – working with a shovel

Possum Belly – to ride on the roof of a passenger car. One must lie fl at, to not be blown off

Rum Dum – a drunkard

Sky pilot – a preacher or minister

Spear biscuits – looking for food in garbage cans

Yegg – a traveling professional thief


Tim Harmon may just give up his

day job and pursue his avocation full

time this year.

Recently, the lanky, soft spoken

contractor from Globe, was invited

to join the Western Artists of

America and showcase his work

at the Seventh Annual Western

Artists show in Corsicana, Texas

in January. Admission to W.A.A. is

by invitation only and the show

contained forty of the top Western

Artists in the nation working in

a variety of mediums from oils

to bronze sculpture. Harmon

took the Gold in his category,

with his bronze sculpture titled,

“Switchback,” and his booth,

featuring over a dozen pieces, also won the Best Presentation Award. Not bad for a

guy who grew up cowboyin’ and started sculpting just eight years ago.

Harmon, who grew up around here, worked for uncles in Tonto Basin and

Mammoth before moving just outside of Magdalena, New Mexico where he married

and started raising two boys. At the time, he says he kinda wanted to be a veterinarian

but ended up as a medic instead and was sent to Korea during the Vietnam war.

When he got out, he went to work for some large ranches laying in watering

holes for cattle, and later came back to Globe where he helped to dismantle the

old Sleeping Beauty mine. He eventually got his contractors, license and has

been building and remodeling homes in the Globe area with his main focus for the

last several years being on the historic Chrysocolla Inn

which is slated to open the end of May.

Through it all he has dabbled in artistic

pursuits as time would

allow; whittling

wood pieces,

doing pencil

sketches, trying

his hand at oil

painting and

fabricating custom

spurs. But it wasn’t until

eight years ago when he picked

up sculpting that all his life

experiences and artistic pursuits

seemed to dovetail into...the

perfect groove.

It was 2003 when he

took his fi rst sculpting

class and learned how

to build armatures

(a framework on

which to mold the

TIM HARMONBronze Sculptor

Harmon at his shop in Globe.

"Helping Hands"

"Switchback"

GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 25clay) and from there he was hooked on clay. His very fi rst piece,

‘Burnin’ Daylight’ has won several awards and depicts a cowboy

headed out to saddle up. From the sweat hardened blanket to the

minute details on the bridle, spurs and chaps, Harmon depicts a life

he knows intimately.

Harmon’s knowledge of his subject is very much on display

in his work, “Switchback”, which shows two cowboys attempting

to navigate a steep switchback while bringing in a wild range

cow. From the facial expressions of both man and animal, to the

precarious position of all three, Harmon conveys an authenticity

which marks all of his works.

With his recent successes at shows and induction into the

Western Artists of America, demand for his sculptures is rising

and Harmon is looking forward to wrapping up his work on

the Chrysocolla Inn this Spring and turning his focus full time

to sculpting.

Visit www.timharmonwesternbronze.com or pick up this

year’s catalogue of Western Artists of America to see more of

Harmon’s work.

www.timharmonwesternbronze.com


It contains several famous historical fi gures including Al Sieber who was

a leader of Scouts for the U.S. Army and Sheriff Glenn Reynolds. Sieber was

killed while supervising construction on the Roosevelt Dam in 1907 and

Reynolds was killed while attempting to transport the Apache Kid to

the Territorial prison in Yuma. There are now markers throughout the

cemetary which point out the fi nal resting place of history's signifi cant

few. But there are many more which simply invite refl ection. The Buffalo

Soldiers are buried here. So are the members of the Woodmen and all the

Fraternal orders which played a part in Globe's history. There is even a Chinese

cemetery in the lower portion which was established in 1946 when Chinese

businessman, Dea Gin Foo, had all the chinese graves dug up and moved to the

new site. A writer once said," cemeteries are more than old bones and marble

stones. They are a link to our past." You can visit the old cemetery by taking

Hackney and following the signs.

Visiting the Past...The old Globe cemetery was established in the

1800's and later purchased by the City fathers who purchased more land over the years and expanded

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“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”


"Education is not fi lling a bucket but

lighting a fi re."– Wlliam Butler Yeats


So it was not surprising that the

owner of the building which had allowed

the movie folks to turn his old building

into a set, sought out Holmquist a few

years ago when he was ready to sell the

building. Turns out, he had boarded up

the place after "U-Turn" was fi nished

fi lming and never set foot inside again.

When Holmquist took off the boards,

the interior of the building was

exactly as he had left it nearly 15

years earlier.

He bought the building

and began looking for the

right person to run the place

as a restaurant. After all, it

had already had the lunch

counter and looked the part!

It just didn’t have any real

restaurant equipment.

He put a notice on

Craigs List and got a call

from a caterer out of

the Valley who thought

running a full scale eatery

in Superior would be just

the ticket. But the Universe

had other plans. While those

negotiations stalled, another

restaurant savvy entrepreneur

was looking for her next project. After

putting in 35 years in the restaurant

business and running a high-traffi c,

themed restaurant, Cindy Levi was

looking for new opportunities.

She’ll tell you that she really started

looking at strip malls in the Valley to

Uptown Cafe, Continued from page 1 open up her own place, but nothing

there struck her right. No personality.

Her friend Cathy Roberts kept

suggesting she look at this place in

Superior that belonged to one of

Roberts’ neighbors...Billy Holmquist. It

took months of gently prodding to get

her to look at the building.

Levi kept insisting that she wanted

to stay around Mesa. Roberts response?

“If you are asking God for

Guidance, don’t turn around and give

him directions.”

She fi nally talked Levi into taking

a ride up to Superior to look at the

building last October and as soon as

they walked in, Levi was hooked on

the place.

By November Cindy Levi had a deal

on the place, and two months later she

opened on January 26th.

The Uptown Cafe has loads of

personality and ambience of course,

but you gotta love the atmosphere

generated by the staff; from the cook-

who operates in full view of the patrons,

to the wait staff – many of whom

followed Levi to her new ventures. They

all know each other. They like what

they’re doing, and they like each other.

You can feel the vibe created by people

who like their job, their boss and know

their stuff. They know how to move as an

orchestrated team and handle a packed

house or one single diner with the same

effi ciency and friendliness. This is a

good thing, since opening in January

the Uptown Cafe has had several

packed nights. The Cafe operates seven

days a week and serves breakfast, lunch

and dinner. Levi expects to make her

place a destination attraction in the

area and judging by the fi rst several

months she has all the right ingredients

to do just that.

Cindy Levi, shown here with her daughter, Hope, and Superior's Town Manager, Melanie Oliver

Friend Cathy Ferguson encouraged Cindy to look at Superior.

Superior Police Chief Lou Digirolamo


So why would anyone try to garden here?

Driven on by memories of successful gardens

and the pure deliciousness of home grown

produce, we persist. We plant. We water. We

wait. But if, like me, all that planting,

watering and waiting gets taken away

in a nano second of forgetfulness (as

in, I forgot to water today), or swarms

of aphids or wild javelinas attack your

little garden plot ...then take heart.

Master gardeners and community

stakeholders have been conspiring with a

VISTA volunteer to bring a fi rst rate Farmers

Market to Globe-Miami, and this summer will

mark the third season of fresh produce at Simply

Sarah’s where her store becomes an outlet for fresh,

organic produce brought in from Reavis Mountain

Ranch just an hour or so east of Globe.

Sarah Bernstein, who is a business woman,

mother, wife, and artist in equal measure, runs her

store as she does her life. Practically. With an eye

towards quality, beauty, value and common sense. So

when her friend, Peter Bigfoot was fi shing around for

a local outlet for his fresh organic produce that made

sense with all the other demands he was juggling, Sarah

came up with a plan.

“I had tried Farmers Markets,” Bigfoot says. “I like

supporting them.” But he fi nds it hard to justify sitting

at a booth to sell a few fl ats of apricots when there are

over a hundred fruit trees, fl ocks of chickens, turkeys

and ducks and a half acre garden to keep up and

classes to teach. Plus, with gas getting so expensive,

it is impossible to even break even selling lettuce,

unless you happen to be going that way already.

Sarah’s idea would take both things into account.

She would make room on her counters and shelves

for whatever fresh produce Peter wanted

to bring into town while he was running

errands. That way it wouldn’t cost any

more gas than he was already going to use

for errands, and she would work with her

customers to let them know when produce

had arrived. The money for the produce

goes to the Ranch. For both Sarah and Peter,

the arrangement is primarily a community service

since if either of them ever tracked the amount of

time, gas, fl oor space or any other measure of cost

of goods you normally apply to a venture like this,

it would hardly make sense.

Each week or so when Peter delivers produce at the

store, Sarah will assess the bounty and call customers

she knows will be interested. She even remembers

that ‘so-n-so’ loves arugula, or that another said they

would like a dozen eggs. So these are her fi rst calls

when items arrive but she makes a dozens calls each

time and within a few days the produce has fl own out

of the store and onto someone’s kitchen table.

So, this summer, as you are shopping at Simply

Sarah’s for a linen blouse, or elegant evening wear, you

may surprise yourself by walking out with persimmons.

Persimmons? Hmmm, you wonder to yourself while

standing in the store staring at a fl at of acorn shaped

wrinkly fruit. You quickly search your midwest memory

bank for anything resembling persimmons...and come

up blank. That’s when Sarah walks over. “Oh yes!” Sarah

says, as if reading your mind, “these are wonderful.”

It is the same enthusiasm she has when describing

the heirloom fabrics found on her latest collection of

clothing from Afghanistan. She then launches into the

fi ner points of picking persimmons when they are ripe

and suggestions for preparing them.

Your mind begins to see the fruit in a new light.

These small wrinkly morsels are beginning to look

more and more like the “fruit of the gods” - the ancient

Greek meaning of the word. Yes, those Greeks knew

what they were talking about, and now you can see

clearly what you have been missing. You take a dozen.

Or take mixed greens. Those big beautiful

“bouquets” of lettuce and other greens may seem a

little overwhelming until you listen to Sarah talk about

the best way to cook up a batch of greens. “...Just heat

your pan and then roast some walnuts,” she says and

then pauses. “Better yet,” she suggests, “roast the

walnuts by drizzling some lemon olive oil from Queen

Creek on them. Then throw in your greens and wilt

them just slightly and add fresh ground pepper and

sea salt.” She pauses again to let the image and aroma

of that sink in. She smiles as you contemplate your

newfound appreciation for ‘greens.’

"Please give me two bags of the fresh greens and

some of the Queen Creek olive oil.”

And so it goes through the growing season, with

Sarah providing the counter space, connections and

conversation to keep produce fl ying out the door, and

Peter supplying what he can, when he can...which still

equates to a bounty of fresh produce at Simply Sarah’s.

First up. Asparagus in April.

Farmer's Market, Continued from page 1

Peter Bigfoot with Reavis Ranch and Sarah Bernstein proprietor of Simply Sarah's in Globe, have a somewhat unusual arrangement, turning a corner of her dress shop into a small bounty of fresh produce throughout the summer months.

Knowing how to compost is a vital skill for any gardener. Cayci shows off her sizeable compost pile which goes into her own sizeable gardening efforts each year. The Backyard Growers workshop was held here in January. Farmer's Market, Continued on page 30

Simply Sarahs is not just clothing. The store offers a wide array of cookware, cook books and gourmet products

Wilted greens with walnuts


Globe-Miami Farmer’s Market

Another group has been hard at work

establishing the framework for a new - and

improved - Farmer’s Market which is scheduled

to launch this summer in downtown Globe. Yes,

Globe has had a succession of Farmer’s Markets

over the years with varying success, but this

new evolution of a Farmer’s Market promises to

kick off with all the right ingredients. It began

with Laura Gottschalk, who was assigned to

the community through the AmeriCorps VISTA

Volunteer program to help launch a Farmer’s

Market. She put in months of legwork to

research the needs of the community and pulled

together the many stakeholders who could

help not only get the thing off the ground but

sustain it over time.

Two of those stakeholders, Pat and Manuel

Romero, who operate the Sunrise and Sunset Chili

and Herb garden, have spent summers visiting

Farmer’s Markets in several states and talking

to market managers to fi nd out what makes one

successful and another not. It seems a key to

many successful markets is an active board made

up of people who are growers themselves...and

a charming, but fi rm market manager who can

effectively coordinate the needs of the vendors

and buyers, enforce the rules and regulations set

forth by the Board, and serve as part cheerleader,

part principal for the enterprise.

That is where Paul Buck comes in.

The 6-ft soils specialist has a winning smile and a

passion for home-grown, community projects having

volunteered his time and talents for multiple projects

over the years from laying brick pavers, painting old

buildings, cleaning up trash along the roads and

scouting locations for a community garden. Although

he was willing to take on the role for free. They insisted

on paying him 5% of the proceeds from the market.

He will earn it.

His role includes coordinating, marketing and

managing...with some cajoling thrown in here

and there. He is currently working closely with

Laura Gottschalk and the Board to get everything in

place for June.

“We want the emphasis on fresh garden

produce grown in this area ,” says Buck. Although

the Market will accept arts, crafts and baked goods

as well, Buck makes it clear that the number one

rule guiding this Farmer’s Market is “NO re-sale.

You have to grow it, make it, or bake it yourself.”

Vendors will be required to fi ll out an application

which details what can and cannot be sold, who

is required to have a business license or health

department permit, how disputes will be handled,

what items need to be juried before being accepted

and the requirements of booths, etc. Thanks in large

part to the research by Gottschalk and the previous

experience of some Board members, the application

leaves no stone unturned, including, for

instance, a rule against “amplifi ed music.”

No boom boxes.

“Music will be restricted to live

performances only.....and must be approved

prior to Market by the Market manager.”

The goal of the regulations is to establish

a framework which will provide a good

experience for both Vendors and Buyers.

This winter, the Board sponsored

two Backyard Growing workshops

with the fi rst one held in Globe on

January 29th, the weekend the

temperatures dropped into the teens

and pipes broke all over town. Laura

Gottschalk still smiles about that

event. “Honestly, I was thinking we

might get 30 people,” she says. “But my

phone rang all the time! We cut it off after 122 people

signed on, and we scrambled to restructure the day

so each speaker/educator could talk to a group of 20+

people and there would be more of an opportunity to

interact with each group. Topics included soils and

composting, designing irrigation in desert climes,

building cold-weather frames, starting seeds, and

working with the Farmer’s Market.

“We had Board members pitching in to park cars,

register people, and answer questions and because

of having to split into groups, each speaker gave their

talk fi ve times that day! Yet, it all went so smoothly!

I just didn’t realize that many people in Globe were interested in gardening!” she says.

But Gottschalk is quick to point out the attendance

wasn’t just Globe people. Jeffery Ferns who owns

Triple C Coffee House in Superior, brought a group

over from Superior who are interested in growing...

and supporting the Globe-Miami Farmer’s Market.

He has offered his commercial kitchen to those in

Superior who want to make items to sell this summer

and she hopes all of this will encourage more cross-

marketing between the sister communities.

Cayci Vucksanovich, who owns Matlock Gas and

ran her own successful nursery/feed store business

for nearly 15 years, is one of several Master Gardeners

helping to spearhead the new market. In addition

to serving on the Board and agreeing to participate

weekly, Cayci said a real benefi t of having the master

gardeners on-hand during the

market is their expertise. Cayci,

who is also a well- known voice on

KIKO radio where she hosts a weekly

garden program and answers people’s

questions about growing things in

this area says the presence of Master

Gardeners at the Farmer’s market this

summer will make it easy for people

to stop by and get answers to a host

of questions people have about

growing in this region.

There will be a Vendor Orientation barbecue on June

4th down at City Hall’s “Centennial Park” and potential

vendors are invited to come down to meet the Board

and fellow growers. Those interested in participating

this year can pick up a registration form at the

event, or download the form by going to: www.

gmteconnect.com/businessdirectory/FarmersMarket.

The Farmer’s Market is scheduled to open on

June 25th in downtown Globe, in front of City Hall.

Hours are 8 am-noon and the Market will run for

16 weeks through October 1. You can check out the

latest information on the Market by visiting their

facebook page: Globe-Miami Farmer’s Market, or

logging on to www.gmteconnect.com, where they will

be hosting a market page with updates, downloadable

forms, and photos.

Farmer's Market, Continued from page 29

Paul Buck will take on the role of market manager for the new Farmer’s Market which will offi cially open June 26th. The job comes with few, if any, perks. Pay is minimal – 5% of whatever the market brings in.

Pat Romero and husband, Manuel grow over 3000 plants each year for their “Sunrise Sunset Chili and Herb Garden” out on Six Shooter road. They start over 60 varieties of tomatoes and chilis each year from seed and sell locally.


The Secret of Success Seeing the bounty of fresh produce which

comes out of Reevis Mountain School of

Self-Reliance might lead you to believe that

founder and chief architect, Peter Bigfoot has

some special talent for growing big, beautiful

produce. But spend just 15 minutes with him

discussing his ‘secrets’ and you’ll discover it is just

plain hard work.

And years and years of cultivating.

Since 1980, he has been expanding the

capacity of the 13 acre ranch property to provide

a self-sustaining harvest. Each year he hauls four

dump truck loads from large dairies in Mesa,

preferring cow manure over anything else and

during the summer he says he uses up 15,000 to

20,000 gallons of water a day to maintain his one-

acre garden and over 75 fruit and nut trees.

He competes with the local bird populations

for the fruit harvest and has discovered that

by rigging up a propane “gun” on a timer and

cutting plastic feedbags into long snake-like

strips he hangs in the trees, he can manage to

scare them away long enough to get his fair share

of the harvest.

This summer he will start off with asparagus

which will be up in April, and move on to kale,

collard greens, lettuce and arugala. Later there will

be tomatoes, beans, cucumbers and sweet corn,

plus fruits from the orchards, including apricots,

pears, peaches and fi gs. For more information,

visit www.reevismountain.org.

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