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Even More Odd Street Names in Sedona 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
SEDONA -- A recent Arizona Oddities entry listing peculiar street names in Sedona drew responses from numerous readers. Mike Peach commented that all the streets in west Sedona have one name if you go...
Grand Canyon Steam Engines Powered by Cooking Oil 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
WILLIAMS -- The old steam engines that once chugged and their way across the nation are, for the most part, relics of a bygone era. Most were turned into scrap metal or shipped off to railroad museums...
Not Even A “Sometimes Tallest Fountain” In Fountain Hills Anymore 18 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
FOUNTAIN HILLS -- The Fountain Hills fountain used to be billed as the world's tallest because it shot a column of water as high as 562 feet into the air. Then a fountain in Illinois topped that mark,...
George Daves and Petra Edmunds: Tragic Tombstone Love Story May Not Be What It Seems 14 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Have you heard of George Daves and Petra Edmunds? Legend has it these lovers took part in an attempted murder-suicide in front of the Buford House in Tombstone in the late 1880s. However, our friends ...
Help Needed for Shrine of St. Joseph in Yarnell 10 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
YARNELL -- The deadly Yarnell Hill fire that killed 19 firefighters and caused heavy property loss in Yarnell also damaged the Shrine of St. Joseph of the Mountains. The shrine has been a Yarnell land...
Meteor Crater is One Big Roadside Attraction 6 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
NEAR WINSLOW – Just a short drive off I-40 between Flagstaff and Winslow, remnants of a 50,000-year-old collision are visible. “Visible,” I suppose, is an understatement. A massive crater – nearly one...
Artistic Flood Prevention in Clifton 2 Aug 2013 | 07:32 pm
CLIFTON -- The southern portion of Clifton suffered major damage when the San Francisco River overran its banks twice in the 1970s and again in 1983. To remedy that, the Army Corps of Engineers and th...
Wallace and Ladmo, Gone but Not Forgotten 30 Jul 2013 | 06:31 am
Q: My husband and I moved here almost a year ago. We were at a dinner not long ago with three other couples and everyone except us was talking about Wallace and Ladmo? Who are they? A: Alas, dear lady...
Arizona Geography Trivia 3: Can You Pass? 25 Jul 2013 | 05:54 am
Test your knowledge of Arizona geography with this short quiz, originally published in Marshall Trimble’s Official Arizona Trivia. Don’t scroll down too quickly. The answers are posted shortly below t...
Time Stands Still in Supai 20 Jul 2013 | 06:31 am
SUPAI -- This small village may be one of the few places left on Earth where time actually has stood still. It is the home of the Havasupai Tribe and it looks much the same today as it probably did mo...
