Culture & History / Southern Arizona

Rock Art

Riding on obscure Tuscon trails, we ran across amazing art that was created out of rocks carefully arranged in the sand to form very cool figures. A huge rabbit, a heart, a wolf howling in a moonlight, a horse, a hummingbird …. we also ran across the original artist, Karen Garno, who was busy working on her latest masterpiece. Listen […]

The Empire Ranch Homestead

A historical look at the ownership and the headquarters building of Empire Ranch. It started as a 4-room adobe structure that transitioned into a 29-room ranch home. All built in the late 1800s.

Sasabe: The history of a border town

At Sasabe, ~ 165 vehicles cross the US-Mexico border each day, making it the least used crossing. At one time, Sasabe was positioned to be one of the largest legal crossing points of the border, as large as that of Nogales, Arizona where billions of dollars of goods cross each year. Learn what did and did not happen. A must watch! But … […]