Blogs from Tubac, Arizona, United States, North America

This was a fun day trip about an hour south of Tucson on HWY 19. It is a cool artist colony with many interesting shops, art pieces, and artists to see. There is also the ruins to a very old mission here.... read more

THE WEEKLY ARIZONIAN Volume 1, Number 1 of Arizona’s first newspaper was published on Thursday, March 3, 1859 in Tubac. It was printed on a Washington hand press that was owned by William Wrightson, who also published the newspaper. Wrightson came from Cincinnati, Ohio and brought the printing press along with two additional newspapermen, Edward Cross and Thompson Turner. They came by wagon train down the Santa Fe Trail into New Mexico, and down the Rio Grande River to Mesilla, then over to Arizona by way of the Butterfield Trail. It was an arduous journey. William Wrightson had first come to Arizona with the party of surveyors who established the international boundary for the Gadsden Purchase lands. Wrightson was also an associate of Charles Poston as Secretary of the Sonora Exploring and Mining Company. ... read more

Last Saturday, we day tripped from Tucson forty miles south to Tubac; established in 1691 with a mission, followed by a presidio in 1752. I have an online friend in the Eons’ Barbecue Group who lives in Phoenix. Dave suggested that we meet up in Tubac on a weekend that he and his wife Mare were traveling there to pick up an iron work they had commissioned from the Clay Hands Gallery. He thought Nan and I would enjoy visiting what has become one of the Southwest’s leading art destinations. And he was right. We weren’t in town more than thirty minutes before we made purchases. Nan selected a nice jacket in which to sport about, and I selected an attractive poncho that marks me as an hombre. After walking the quaint streets of old town ... read more