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  • Totem in Winslow
    ArtNorthern ArizonaOdd Observations

    The Big Indian Head of Winslow

    By Sam Lowe
    July 23, 2010
    WINSLOW - Peter Wolf Toth arrived in Winslow in 1979, intent on adding one of his art works to the city's landscape. When he ...
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  • ArtNorthern ArizonaOdd Observations

    Know the Origin of the Highway 89 Screamers?

    By Sam Lowe
    February 2, 2010
    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 ...
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  • ArtSouthern Arizona

    Giant Crosses Watch Over Cochise County

    By Sam Lowe
    January 11, 2010
    Two huge Celtic crosses keep silent watch over the landscape of Cochise County. One graces the Holy Trinity Monastery, a Benedictine community just south ...
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  • ArtDose of HistorySouthern Arizona

    Courthouse Diversity in Tucson

    By Sam Lowe
    December 17, 2009
    The Pima County Courthouse has been a Tucson landmark for eight decades, but it took a long time for the community to accept it ...
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  • ArtSmall Town Scene

    A Unique Shrine of Concrete and Rocks in Yarnell

    By Sam Lowe
    December 2, 2009
    Nobody can say for sure if any miracles have actually happened at the Shrine of St. Joseph in Yarnell, but the story behind its ...
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  • ArtDose of History

    Giant Skull in Yavapai County

    By Sam Lowe
    October 30, 2009
    Skulls are usually hidden away where they're hard to find, but the Giant Skull of Date Creek is right out in the open, and ...
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  • ArtSouthern Arizona

    Yuma’s Water Tank Art

    By Sam Lowe
    September 30, 2009
    Most communities adorn their water towers and tanks with either the town's name or first initial, but in Yuma they opted for something more ...
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  • ArtValley of the Sun

    Giant Kachina Guards Carefree Subdivision

    By Sam Lowe
    September 1, 2009
    The world's largest kachina is a 39-footer that stands guard over the Tonto Hills subdivision about sevel miles north of downtown Carefree. This giant ...
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  • ArtSouthern Arizona

    A Rattler Over Tucson’s Broadway

    By Sam Lowe
    August 27, 2009
    The Diamondback Bridge in Tucson can probably lay claim to a variety of different titles -- "the world's longest rattlesnake," "the world's largest rattlesnake" ...
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  • ArtSmall Town Scene

    The Helping Hand Helps Superior

    By Sam Lowe
    August 18, 2009
    The town square in Superior isn't very big. In fact, it's not even a square; it's a triangle. A small triangle. So small that ...
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