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  • Dose of HistorySmall Town Scene

    Quartzsite’s Legend of A Camel Driver

    By Sam Lowe
    September 21, 2009
    The thing most people notice right away when they enter the Quartzsite Cemetery is a stone pyramid topped by a copper camel, and there's ...
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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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  • Dose of HistoryNorthern ArizonaSmall Town Scene

    How did Show Low Get its Name?

    By Andrea Aker
    July 27, 2009
    Early day settlers Corydon E. Cooley and Marion Clark had been neighbors for a short time, living among the lush, green ponderosa forestland along ...
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  • ArtOdd ObservationsSmall Town Scene

    The Painted Rocks at Chloride

    By Sam Lowe
    July 20, 2009
    CHLORIDE - Up around here, the painted rocks are known simply as "the Mural." Roy Purcell, the artist, called the work “The Journey” and ...
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  • Dose of HistorySmall Town Scene

    Old Clifton Jail: A Real Hole-in-the-Wall

    By Sam Lowe
    July 14, 2009
    It's not much to look at, just a hole blasted into a huge rock, but Clifton's first jail is worth taking a look at ...
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  • ArtOdd ObservationsSmall Town Scene

    Sixty-Ton Frog Greets Drivers Along Highway 89

    By Sam Lowe
    July 7, 2009
    Just about a half mile north of downtown Congress, the old frog squats in the desert sun on a hillside along Highway 89. ...
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