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arizonahighways.com DECEMBER 2004 Grand Canyon National Park Kolb Studio {also inside} ASH FORK DECEMBER 2004 46 DESTINATION Heritage & Brazaletes Science Park Pueblo Ruin A Victorian home, a PHOENIX history museum and a TUCSON Chiricahua science center are Mountains HOLIDAY SECTION FOCUS ON NATURE among the attractions 4 36 in downtown Phoenix Distinctly Arizona: A Gathering of Ladybugs during the holidays. POINTS OF INTEREST During cold months, the tiny red beetles huddle FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE The Places That Define Us 48 HIKE OF THE MONTH up in the high mountains to await spring, the A diversity of magnificent landscape scenery— The Brazaletes Pueblo Ruin, time to feast and reproduce. canyons, mountains, forests, saguaros and once home to Sinagua Indians, is more—stands out as unforgettable symbols of our accessible by a good trail in the Tonto National Forest. many geographic personalities. Arizona Highways TRAVEL 2 LETTERS & E-MAIL brings you this portfolio of iconic photography 38 as our annual holiday greeting. Kolb Studio 44 HUMOR Celebrates 100 Years 3 ALONG THE WAY On a chilly December’s eve, about a year after the The cliffside structure erected at the Grand Canyon’s 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, a train station in Ash South Rim by photographers Ellsworth and Emery Kolb Fork became a testing ground between hatred and remains a monument to the brothers’ notable understanding. images and adventurous character. {more stories online} at arizonahighways.com GENE PERRET’S WIT STOP Sharing a tube of toothpaste is not as easy as border-sharing between states and countries. ONLINE EXTRA Settling the Town of Snowflake In 1878, a tired and hungry group of Mormons found a new home and relief from hardships when they established this place in east-central Arizona. WEEKEND GETAWAY Glendale Glitters At Christmastime, the spectacular lights of downtown Glendale make one of Arizona’s largest holiday displays. EXPERIENCE ARIZONA A listing of major events in the state is available online. {arizona highways on television} Watch for the weekly half-hour television show inspired by Arizona Highways magazine. Independently produced, the show airs at 6:30 P.M. Saturdays in Phoenix (Channel 12) and Flagstaff (Channel 2) and at 4:30 P.M. Saturdays and Sundays in Tucson (Channel 9). A Spanish version airs at 5 P.M. [THIS PAGE] Feathery clouds and a Saturdays in Phoenix (Channel 33). fiery sky at sunrise highlight the Popular TV news anchor Robin Sewell hosts the show. silhouettes of ponderosa pine trees on the slopes of Sunset Crater near Flagstaff. LAURENCE PARENT [FRONT COVER] Winter bestows a Photographic Prints Available Each month, prints of some snowy grace upon one of the West’s photographs from Arizona most recognizable scenes as Oak Highways will be offered for sale. The selected photos will be noted in the Creek flows past Sedona’s picture captions and will be available in two formats: Cathedral Rock at Red Rock Poster Prints: On heavy premium paper stock, these 22 by 28-inch posters Crossing. BOB AND SUZANNE CLEMENZ feature the magazine’s logo in the border. Suitable for framing. $29.95. [BACK COVER] Roiling clouds at Special Edition Prints: Premium images printed on photographic paper come sunset frame saguaro cacti along matted, ready to frame. About 11 by 14 inches, matted to 16 by 20. $79.95. Finger Rock Trail in the Santa Prints and a variety of framing options are available online at Catalina Mountains north of www.magazineprints.com. Or call toll-free (866) 962-1191. Tucson. GURINDER P. SINGH {letters & e-mail} by Helen H. Loving | illustration by Cindy Revell {along the way} DECEMBER 2004 VOL. 80, NO. 12 Publisher WIN HOLDEN Editor ROBERT J. EARLY Renewed Friendship mystery! I could feel the excitement and challenge Senior Editor BETH DEVENY Riding with the ‘Enemy’ on a Cold Christmas Night As a young girl in Fort Smith, Arkansas, I had a of that trip through the diary left by Bessie and the Managing Editor RANDY SUMMERLIN Research Editor MARY PRATT subscription to Arizona Highways. I loved the experiences of Dimock on the river. I think I’ll Editorial Administrator CONNIE BOCH here was an unseen passenger band whose music added to the holiday spirit magazine then and fondly remember my hours of enjoy the Grand Canyon from the rims and save the Administrative Assistant NIKKI KIMBEL on our crowded Trailways bus as it while we continued north to Ash Fork. studying it and dreaming of your beautiful state. I float trip—maybe in an inner tube—for a less- Director of Photography PETER ENSENBERGER pulled out of the Phoenix terminal that The last strains of “Noche de Paz” were just Photography Editor RICHARD MAACK T lost track of the magazine over the years. intimidating river. December day in 1942. His name was Hatred. dying out when our bus braked into Ash Fork’s Art Director BARBARA GLYNN DENNEY I went to my doctor’s office this morning, and Jan Pettit, Cascade, CO Deputy Art Director BILLIE JO BISHOP It had been just one year since the Japanese old train station where the Atchison, Topeka in the waiting room there were several copies of Art Assistant PAULY HELLER surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and anger and Santa Fe Railway made a stop for passengers Map Designer KEVIN KIBSEY Arizona Highways. I was thrilled to see them. The Verde River against the enemy rumbled just below the taking the Peavine line south to Prescott and Arizona Highways Books photography was as beautiful as I remember. I Rose Houk captures well the beauty found along one WitWorks® Books surface of all our thoughts. eventually Phoenix. Big snowflakes drifted down have subscribed once again and can’t wait to start of Arizona’s last free-flowing rivers (“Verde River: Editor BOB ALBANO To all appearances, we were in a holiday onto the dirty platform. Pulling our coats Associate Editor EVELYN HOWELL my tradition of daydreaming all over again. A Treasured Emerald of the Desert,” July ’04). With Associate Editor PK PERKIN MCMAHON mood. Our crowded busload of travelers shared around us against the cold, we crawled out. At Amy W. Baker, Collinsville, OK water becoming an ever more precious commodity, Production Director CINDY MACKEY lunches and life stories as we rolled slowly last we could stretch our legs. this treasured jewel is under siege from every Production Coordinator KIM ENSENBERGER Promotions Art Director RONDA JOHNSON northward across the Arizona desert at And then I saw her. She had turned her Customs Search direction. To the credit of countless numbers of Webmaster VICKY SNOW a less than blazing speed of 35 mph, suitcase on its edge to provide herself a seat. This should warm the cockles of the poor old grassroots organizations working tirelessly for nearly Circulation Director HOLLY CARNAHAN the mandated speed that was meant There she sat, completely detached from her editor’s heart tremendously: The customs officer 20 years, we still have this natural wonder to Finance Director BOB ALLEN to save desperately needed rubber bleak surroundings, one gloved palm resting in in Munich, Germany, was so impressed with the appreciate. With the cooperation of our leaders, Fulfillment Director VALERIE J. BECKETT for the war effort. It also meant that the other, silken ankles crossed, smooth black pictures contained in my cousin’s Christmas present perhaps your portfolio of the Verde River will not Information Technology Manager the trip home to Flagstaff, my first hair daring the chill wind to disturb it. Dim (the bound volume of the year’s Arizona Highways) become tomorrow’s “snapshot” of the past. CINDY BORMANIS since taking a teaching position in lights outlined her beautiful, trim little body in FOR CUSTOMER INQUIRIES that he had to look at all 12 magazines before he Marsha Foutz, Clarkdale southeastern Arizona that fall, would its exquisitely fitted blue suit, matching shoes OR TO ORDER BY PHONE: let her take it home. Call toll-free: (800) 543-5432 be a long, slow one. on her tiny feet. In the Phoenix area or outside the U.S., She was still giggling about that when she Special Vacations Call (602) 712-2000 It was Christmastime, but it was also She stared straight ahead, still as a picture in phoned to tell me how much she appreciates In the past, we vacationed in one Northeastern Or visit us online at: wartime. Every seat on that bus a magazine, dark eyes studying something far, the magazine. state on the ocean for years. For a contrast, we arizonahighways.com held someone who knew far away to the west. Was she seeing a home For Corporate or Trade Sales: Beats me, though, why this present has to go decided to go to a state with no ocean, and DOLORES FIELD someone in a uniform. Those she had left behind? There she sat. Totally through customs. I wonder if that government we chose Arizona. Since then we haven’t returned Call (602) 712-2045 who had not already lost loved lovely. Totally perfect. Totally self-contained. department lies in wait of something to brighten its to the ocean. Arizona Highways still doesn’t do the E-MAIL “LETTERS TO THE EDITOR”: ones lived in dread of being And totally Japanese. The Enemy. Everything weary day. beauty and history justice, though you come close. [email protected] next to receive a “we regret to I hated. Regular Mail: Christa-Maria Dinkelman, Fort Collins, CO We plan to have a second home there, but we are inform you” telegram from Yet somehow this enemy didn’t seem so evil. Editor afraid we may not return to our primary home in New 2039 W.