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		<title>The Big Indian Head of Winslow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Wolf Toth arrived in Winslow in 1979, intent on adding one of his art works to the city's landscape. When he left about four months later, he had turned a single ponderosa pine log into a 30-foot tall Indian head, and he left it there for posterity. The work was one in Toth's series of giant heads that he carved in every state and four Canadian provinces. He called the effort "The Trail of the Whispering Giants," and dedicated it to what he considered the mistreatment of Native Americans by early settlers and the federal government.
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		<title>The (Mis)Truth About Montezuma&#8217;s Castle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the history of Montezuma Castle is pretty well documented, considering that nobody wrote down much of anything when it was a hot spot of ancestral civilization, there's this one thing that sticks out as a case of mistaken identity. Or make that, mistaken transplantation.
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		<title>The Big, Bad Bulldog of Winslow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dog parks are not unusual in Arizona, but there's one in Winslow that takes the concept up to a higher level. It's called Bulldog Park because it's home to what may be the world's largest bulldog. The site is on a strip of land that covers no more than 150 square feet and was formerly a weed-filled boulevard. But a local committee cleaned it up and installed what appears to be a giant guardian to make sure nobody messes around with the park. Or in it.
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		<title>Elephant Feet in Northern Arizona?</title>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2010/03/elephant-feet-in-northern-arizona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then, as I search across Arizona for things of an unusual nature, something pops up as a complete surprise, something I'd never heard about even though I thought I'd seen 'em all. Several of them did that to me recently as I wandered across the northern part of the state, and they involve elephants. Or things that evoke mental images of elephants.
They're actually rock formations, but they look like elephant feet. Great big elephant feet.
Two of them stand along Highway 160, at Tonalea some 20 miles east of Tuba City on the Navajo Reservation. They're giant sandstone pillars and they look so much like elephant feet that you don't even have to squint your eyes to get the picture. The fact that the pillars are grayish white and brownish red instead of gray does not affect the illusion. Nor does the fact that they're about 20 feet tall make any difference. Who knows how big them desert-stompers were billions of years ago?
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		<title>Ghost Stories and Mysteries of Coal Mine Canyon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coal Mine Canyon is one of Arizona's lesser-known treasures because it's easy to miss. And, perhaps, because of the ghosts.
There are no signs pointing to the canyon; the only markers are a windmill and watering tank on the side of the road southeast of Tuba City. But those who find it will be entranced by the multicolored hoodoos that rise sharply form the floor of the canyon to create a many-hued splash in an otherwise dull brown flatland. The hoodoos, shaped like those in Utah's Bryce Canyon, are the result of underground fires and eons of erosion. They and the sidewalls of the canyon are colored in different layers. The black layer just below the rim is a seam of coal; the others are probably the result of combustion that caused some of the coal layers to burn so intensely that the shale turned red.
Overnight camping is allowed at the site but those who plan to stay after dark should know about the ghost stories told by both Native Americans and Anglos.
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		<title>Know the Origin of the Highway 89 Screamers?</title>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2010/02/know-the-origin-of-the-highway-89-screamers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under normal circumstances, I can readily find the origins of weird things in Arizona, but there's one north of Flagstaff that puzzles me. No one seems to know anything about what it is, why it's there and who put it there. It is three weathered tree trunks (they look like junipers) standing next to each other, and someone painted strange faces on them. The images on the two smaller trunks are badly faded, but the face on the tallest one is still in relatively good shape. It resembles "The Scream," the famous expressionist painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893.
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		<title>Antelope Canyon: An Abstract in Sandstone</title>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2009/11/antelope-canyon-an-abstract-in-sandstone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite spots in Arizona is Antelope Canyon, a magnificent sandstone sculpture created by time and nature. Located near Page on the Navajo Reservation, the slot canyon is a photographer's paradise because the waters that roar through it after a desert rainstorm have washed away portions of the canyon walls. What's left behind are gentle swirls and abstract patterns on the remaining sandstone, enhanced by brilliant colors that multiply when the sun peeks over the rim.
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		<title>A Scary Glimplse Down the Skywalk at the Grand Canyon</title>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2009/10/a-scary-glimplse-down-the-skywalk-at-the-grand-canyon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking down into the Grand Canyon has always been a test for those vertigo because it's thousands of feet from the top to the bottom.
And now, in what would appear to be an attempt to make it even scarier, the Hualapai Indians have the Skywalk, a glass-bottomed walkway that allows those with a high queasiness quotient to view the Canyon from 4,000 feet while they're jutting out over the sheer drop into the thin air that surrounds the gorge.
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		<title>How did Show Low Get its Name?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early day settlers Corydon E. Cooley and Marion Clark had been neighbors for a short time, living among the lush, green ponderosa forestland along Arizona's Mogollon Rim. The two became concerned about one encroaching on the other's privacy. Perhaps on a clear day one could see a wisp of smoke rising from other's country. Whatever the reason Cooley and Clark agreed it was getting too crowded and one of the two parties had to move.
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		<title>Does Prescott Still Have Small-Town Charm?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Downtown Prescott oozes charm. A network of 100-year-old brick buildings frame the the Yavapai County Courthouse at the center of town. Growing up there, the grassy park surrounding the Back to the Future-like edifice was a hub of tourists and town folk alike (and still is today). Droves turned out for art shows, pint-sized parades and Christmas carolers. An eclectic, steady stream of cowboys and city slickers filtered into saloons along the infamous Whiskey Row...
Fast forward a couple decades. The rolling green hills that led into town have been swallowed by a sea of corporate logos. Home Depot, Cracker Barrell, In-and-Out and Westcor now welcome drivers into the city.]]></description>
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