Blogs from Tucson, Arizona, United States, North America - page 11

Hi all, Not too much to tell, but I do have a few pictures to show you. On Wednesday last, we went to the 'Desert Museum' in Tucson. There was a chill in the air and a very brisk (cold) breeze. We arrived early and there were only a few cars in the parking lot. We went in (and I guess) due to the lack of visitors at that time, we had a personal guide for about the first hour. We learned a lot. The animals are outdoors in their natural habitats and some were reluctant to come out in the cold. Hope you enjoy the pics! Merry Christmas! Tomorrow I will be baking pumpkin/spice muffins and making pasta salad for our neighbors Christmas Eve party....and Tuesday, we will have Christmas dinner in the clubhouse, it ... read more

Thank you to my family and friends for all your Christmas cards!! I just opened our mail from earlier today and I thank you, though we are far away, we still receive our mail on a regular basis, and I love knowing we are still in your thoughts. Lots of love. Linda... read more

Hello all, We are settling into the rhythm of life in our RV park. I really like it here. It is fairly small as far as RV parks go but the space for our RV is double what you would normally get at most any other RV park. Plenty of room to spread out. It is really quiet and very low key. They do not have an activities 'director' and not a lot of scheduled activities. Monday morning is coffee & donuts & weekly update in the clubhouse at 9 am. Tuesday morning, if you wish, meet at the clubhouse for a hike through the desert. Wednesday a 'caravan' trip somewhere. Thursday & Friday, I don't even remember. Saturday night is a bonfire in the back of the clubhouse and Sunday is a 'free' day, which ... read more

JOHN PAGE John Hempstead Page landed in Arizona in the spring of 1857. He was among a party of Henry Crabb’s Filibusters. The filibusters were California gun thugs who were promised land in Mexico if they agreed to back Pesquiera’s bid for the governorship of Sonora. As it turned out Pesquiera rose to power without having need for his imported gunmen. When Crabb and his army arrived in Caborca to meet Pesquiera they were all murdered. It was good fortune for the group that John had joined that they were a couple of weeks behind those gala festivities. The Crabb Massacre stuck in their craw, and the surviving filibusters took pleasure, when drunk, in abusing and intimidating any Mexican they saw. One day in 1858 they rode through the Sonoita Valley spreading terror wherever Mexicans were ... read more

BIG SYCAMORE On February 10, 1871 Eskiminzin’s mixed band of Yavapai and Pinal Apaches perhaps 400 to 500 strong had grown weary of being chased by the soldiers during the Cochise War. At his direction a group of five old women, that were apparently considered to be dispensable, were sent as emissaries for peace to the soldier fort at Camp Grant near the confluence of Arivaipa Creek and the San Pedro River about 70 miles north of Tucson. The commanding officer, First Lieutenant Royal Whitman, offered them protection as prisoners of war, extended to them rations of beef and flour, and requested further instructions from General Stoneman’s headquarters at Drum Barracks in California. In the meantime the Apaches were set to work cutting and stacking hay and cutting and thrashin... read more