Arizona Spun Stories
Jr
Rangers, an adventure for all ages at Arizona State Parks
As parks
and recreation professionals, we accept a tremendous challenge when we
design
programs for children. We live in a world where television, computers,
and
video games seem to dominate children’s play hours. Arizona
State Parks (ASP)
may have a program to tempt children and adults into the outdoors.
“They need to change the name of the program – Jr.
Rangers – at first it was embarrassing,” said Ron
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Tie-n-Knots at the Territorial Prison
Does the thought of your impending wedding have you dreaming of wearing stripes when you tie the knot with your old ball and chain? Then Yuma Territorial Prison just might be the perfect site for your nuptial sentencing. Much like many another other fine old institution, the Territorial Prison at Yuma has brought a warm and wonderful reformatory elegance to everyday life. Rumor has it that guests from all over the territory once came to the candlelit cells for very long visits. >>> read more
Destination Wickenburg: The Hassayampa River Preserve
Saturday morning, 10:00 am, and after spending most of my $43.78 paycheck fueling up my car I head for Wickenburg. My mission; write a travel story with a pivotal emotional experience. Personally, I firmly believe that driving constitutes an emotional experience since my fifteen-year-old 528E needs a new rear axle. For the first twenty miles I fear that the new relationship my horoscope promised is with a tow truck, but shortly out of Surprise the desert expands forcing me to forget the shimmying beneath my seat and focus on my travel assignment. <<< read more
Gender Bending In The Old West
“The only other people with that kind of idle time were, well, prisoners.”
As the golden age of Victoria spun out the doctrines of womanly virtue and value, Prisons of more physical substance rose up in the American West. One the lesser lies about a proper young woman’s education was the absolute need for instruction in fancy needlework. << read more
Families Gather Along The Colorado River
Phoenix AZ -- December 8, 2003) On a clear, mild date in November, the great, great grandsons and daughters of Yuma’s steamboat pioneers sprawled across the grass on Yuma Crossing State Historic Park grounds where some of the families first lived and worked. Yuma Crossing State Historic Park, in conjunction with the Arizona Historical Society gathered the descendants of families employed with the Colorado River Steamboat operations for the “Colorado River Steam Navigation Pioneer Reunion.” <<< read more