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SPRING 2011
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Farmer's Market, Continued on page 29
et’s be clear. This is not a story about the movies which
have been fi lmed in Superior. However, the
latest eatery to open on Superior’s
main drag got it’s beginning in
the movie industry and draws inspiration from
Hollywood's ability to create a time capsule.
It began with the 1997 movie "U-Turn" starring
Jennifer Lopez and Sean Penn and fi lmed in Superior. The set
designer, Billy Holmquist, was asked to design a ‘70s roadhouse cafe in
which most of the movie takes place. He did. Vinyl benches, linoleum lunch
counter, old stools that swivel, a mural of the southwest painted on the wall,
cool lighting. Although the B-movie fl opped at the box offi ce and Lopez,
Penn and Holmquist went on to much bigger things, Holmquist fell in love
with Superior while working on that project and relocated his warehouse
from LA to Superior. He now works his magic in a large sprawling warehouse
on Superior’s main drag...and champions the causes of Superior by leading
the fi ght against slum lords while working to attract new business to
downtown Superior.
What good soil looks like and ooohh the sweet smell!
Uptown Cafe, Continued on page 28
A Superior CafeMaking a 'U-Turn' at Superior
Boyce Thompson Arboretum
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Chrysocolla InnPage 9
Ron HughesPage 20
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Serving Up The Harvest
Serving Up The Harvest
rowing up in the Midwest or on the East Coast
you could easily believe in your innate ability
to grow things. Everyone back East, it seems,
is blessed with a green thumb. Homes are fi lled
with healthy house plants and prolifi c
backyard gardens. Seemingly, gardening
takes little skill outside of the brute force
required to rototill frozen ground in Spring.
Overall, you can count on more rain,
richer soil and more humidity. Plus
you don’t have to import your worms.
In fact, back East the main problem is not growing stuff, it is fi nding enough neighbors who
aren’t already growing their own to take your overfl ow zuchinni, tomatoes and apricots.
Ahhh, but that was then, and this is now. Now, you are in Arizona, where day and night time
temperatures swing wildly in the Spring and by Summer remains at 90 degrees even when the
sun goes down. The soil is alkaline. It rarely rains, and when it does, the rains come in big,
late afternoon downpours which threaten to rip young plants from their precarious march
towards maturity.
“A good cook knows that it’s not what's on the table that matters, it’s who is in the chairs.” – Leigh
Oh, and worms are not found in the soil...unless
you import a few.
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Visit Bob Jones Museum, operated and managed by the Superior
Historical Society. Located at the home of Arizona's sixth Governor,
Robert Taylor "Bob" Jones, explore the rich history of Superior,
including its culture, relation to mining, minerals, and pioneer
families. Make sure you stay for the showing of "Silver, Copper
and Sweat – The Story of Superior," playing every hour. Visit
us.geocities.com/superiorhs/museum.html for more information.
Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum131 N Plaza Circle • Miami
(928) 473-3700First Friday Programs: Presentations of historic interest are
presented on the First Friday of each month, September through June,
at the Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum in Miami, at 6pm unless
otherwise noted. These programs are sponsored by the Bullion Plaza
Cultural Center & Museum and the Gila County Historical Museum,
and are made possible through the Arizona Humanities Council.
Gila County Historical Museum1330 N Broad Street • Globe
(928) 425-7385The museum will begin hosting it's monthly hamburger fry on April 29th.
Join us on the lawn for this community tradition. Everyone is invited. The
Museum offers 4,000 photographs, historical documents, texts and displays
plus a complete line of books from local authors and others who have written
on the history of this area.
Gila Historical Museum in the old Mine Safety Building
Scheduled to Open Spring 2011
Cutting the grade for the Arizona Eastern Railway to access the Old Dominion Mine – 1911
A Steam Crane helps get a rail car on track – 1907
The mine smelter and inspiration school – 1930's. Courtesy of Bullion Plaza Museum
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Harley Dosela is one of the busiest men in Peridot,
Arizona, a small town of 1300 people approximately
ninety miles east of Phoenix. His home is fi lled with the
sounds of his sewing machine, with buckskin hides and
yards of colorful cotton readied for transformation into
custom Apache moccasins and camp dresses.
Harley’s mother and great-grandmother of Whiteriver
were both well-known cradleboard makers. These are the
mesquite slat and cloth carriers in which Apache infants are
held and transported. While Dosela is also known to create
durable and pretty cradleboards, his dressmaking skills are what keep his machine
humming. He not only creates camp dresses – the two-piece time honored dress
of Native American women, but his traditional moccasins are well known and
sought after. Traditional Apache moccasins are made of buckskin or elk hide, with a
latigo or ‘hair on hide’ sole, an extended, upright ‘toe’, and the requisite adornment
of fringe, beads, and conchos. In addition, he produces buckskin dress outfi ts for
the Apache Sunrise Dance (a sacred four day ceremony marking the passage of a
young girl to womanhood). Finally, he also creates
the lovely beaded ‘T’ necklaces (so named
because they resemble a capital ‘T’ while
laying fl at) and the shawl necklaces,
which are beaded strands which
drape over the shoulders.
The Native American art of
cradleboard making is “going
away,” Harley says. “There are only
three of us on the Reservation – me
and two ladies – who make them.
It’s hard, but it keeps us busy.” He
was able to talk one of the women into
continuing, at least for now, when she
considered retirement.
When it comes to buckskin outfi ts and
moccasins, it’s the beading which takes most of the time. Harley meets with the
customer to discuss color choices, and then he gets to work. He likes to “choose
colors that work together; then I start with the light colors and fi nish with the
darker ones.” He prefers #11 or #13 beads (which are tiny- the higher the number,
the smaller the bead) to decorate the buckskin garments. The result is more
than ornamental- it can be dazzling.
While Dosela accepts that there are more and more fi rst-time moccasin
makers, “some people are making them on their own,” he confi des. He also stresses
that his art takes time to learn – the cutting, the beading – and he’s received a lot
of help from his friends over the years. “My friends have shown me – pushed me.
It’s better – and easier – when we all help each other,” Dosela claims. “It’s easier when
we keep each other busy.”
Walk A MileIn My Moccasins:
Harley Doselaby Darin Lowery
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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand,
there is no art.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
he best antidote I know of
for all the bad news coming out
of Washington and the world-at-large
today is to be around people who are
busy creating, producing, expanding
and building things. And in this issue we
feature several people who are doing just
that! In the process they are contributing
to that sense of community we all enjoy
in Globe-Miami and adding value where
there was none. They remind me of what
is right with the world of ours! Just as
nature does at this time of year, when
I look out on a barren landscape one
morning and see a few green buds on my
trees and later fi nd, seemingly overnight,
an entire blanket of green!
The Rooney’s, who have restored the
old ‘Home Hotel’ over on Sycamore and
Ron Hughes who will be putting the
fi nishing touches on a 1930’s Mobile
Station in Miami, can be said to
have spun silk purses out of a sows
ear. But others, like Cindy Levi,
have injected life and comfort
food into a once empty space in
downtown Superior which now
hosts both locals and travelers
seven days a week at the new
Uptown Cafe.
And Tim Harmon has quietly been
perfecting his avocation while working
his day job as a contractor. He was
recently inducted into the Western
Artists of American this January
where he took the gold for his bronze
sculpture, “Switchback.”
All of them share several traits
inherent in successful ventures. It is
an all-out, hands-on effort by each of
them to create ‘art’ from their respective
chunks of clay. And, while never loosing
sight of the big picture, they all have
created the wow factor because of their
attention to the small things.
As Michelangelo once said, “Trifl es
make perfection, and perfection is
no trifl e.”
Our piece on 'Serving up the Harvest',
focuses on the 'art' of growing fresh
produce and the folks who are working
to bring a new Farmer’s Market to Globe-
Miami this summer. Plus the unique
relationship between Simply Sarah’s and
Reevis Ranch in providing fresh organic
produce for customers - at a dress shop.
My friend Sarah believes in
“cultivating beauty in a multitude of
mediums”, and I get the feeling that she
sees no distinction between displaying
an elegant jacket in her shop...or a fl at of
freshly harvested peaches.
Looking back on it, I believe, the folks
who garden, and those who restore old
things share something in common.
Both pursuits take inordinate
amounts of time, energy and talent.
If you do it right, it is a beauty to
behold....and it only gets better in
the sharing.
So here’s to those visionary, hands-on,
creative ‘Do-ers.’
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers,
T
GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 5
The Hidden Second Half of SpringThe second half of spring, that is to say, April and
most of May, is not for the timid. The perennial plants
that fl ower and fruit during these late spring months
are case-hardened desert dwellers that never ask for
a break from the heat and wouldn’t get one even if
they did. They don’t aspire to be the wimpy annual
wildfl owers that germinate in the fall and then spend a
few leisurely winter months fattening up, only to rush
through their life cycles and die back in the stressful
fi rst weeks of April.
Brittlebush is a bit smug because it is a crossover.
It’s a perennial plant that can germinate and grow in
great quantities just like an annual, often covering
entire hillsides in a near monoculture of yellow fl owers
in April, like it did in 2008 and 2010. And then, to leave
no doubt as to its well-rounded character, it hunkers
down with the rest of the surrounding jojobas, chollas,
creosotes, prickly pears, and palo verdes, and stays the
course, bravely taking on the brutality of six months of
summer. Its Achilles’ heel is its lack of frost tolerance,
but it makes up for this trifl ing handicap with a fast
spring recovery and a reputation as one of the Sonoran
Desert’s most drought-resistant plants.
Over time, the fl owering plants of the second half of
spring have developed an attitude and who can blame
them? They prove their beauty and unfl agging resolve
year after year, yet they’re underappreciated by the
great proportion of year-round residents who quickly
trade perspiration for refrigeration, and the seasonal
B o y c e T h o m p s o n A r b o r e t u m
By Kim Stone
A blue yucca in full fl ower emerges from the mass of volcanic rock that surrounds it. Agaves, aloes, and prickly pears grow from their own adjacent crevices and help to balance and unite this engaging scene near the Children’s Garden.
Living architecture. With rosettes of stiff, radiating leaves pushing out in all directions against a waning blue sky, all are softened by native and exotic fl owers that are as perfectly composed as they are well-adapted to this prominent location just outside the front entrance.
snowbirds that fl ee aridity for
humidity. It’s quite possible
that many long-time winter-
only residents that have been
coming to Arizona from Minnesota or Alberta – even for dozens of years -- have never seen
a cholla fl ower, or the velvety orange petal of a mariposa lily, or even the magnifi cent white
fl owers crowning Arizona’s most famous cactus. These warm-weather gems and many
others like them are reserved for the rest of us.
Even with the best of intentions, life cycles progress quickly in the desert and it’s easy to
miss the passage of fl owering events without some measure of predictability. Who wants to
wait until next year? I’ve kept decades of records and I refer to them often. Rules-of-thumb are also helpful: Flowers of foothill palo verdes always
follow blue palo verdes; ironwoods, saguaros, and
soap tree yuccas begin to fl ower right around Mother’s
Day; and saguaro fruits are ripening just as I’m licking
the stamp to send off my Father’s Day card.
At the Arboretum, where plants from arid regions
all of over the world intermingle copasetically with
natives, the color wheel is whirring non-stop with plant
combinations unlikely to be found anywhere else. April
is the time for the pink-orange-coral-fl owered aloes of
southern Africa to be at their peak, and they’re often
surrounded by complimentary yellow brittlebush and
desert marigolds. Most of our succulents, cacti, and
yuccas are all fl owering during this period and many
of them are artfully arranged, combining both muted
and saturated colors that only a skilled artist with a
fully stocked palette of Grumbacher paints could ever
hope to replicate.
Even with all of this color and excitement, heat is
still heat, so we’ll be going to our summer hours of 6am
– 3pm starting May 1. We have many events planned
throughout April and May, including a nighttime
photography class, and lizard, butterfl y, dragonfl y,
geology, and plants of the bible walks. We also have a
once-a-month dog socialization walk and a children’s
book reading every Sunday. Check out our website for
more info. arboretum.ag.arizona.edu.
Sometimes spring is a state of mind. In the beginning, it seems stand-offi sh and unapproachable; then it rushes at you in an untamed charge, fi lling each moment to capacity from March through May, before it quickly – and inevitably -- decays into summer.
Before I made Globe my home, I lived
in the Valley of the Sun for fi ve years.
After almost a lifetime spent in
the Midwest, my fi rst winter in
the Valley was certainly a
change. No boots, no
snow, no shovels. Nary
a piping hot cup of
cocoa to be found.
While it wasn’t
warm enough (for
me) to swim, I
certainly loved to
sit on the patio by
the pool and call all
of my freezing friends
back home.
“Hi! Yeah, it’s Darin- I’m
calling from Arizona and I’m sitting by
the pool in a tank top, drinking iced
tea with lots of ice and watching the
blazing sunlight bounce off the sparkling
water of my built-in swimming pool!
And man, you should see these palm tr-
no, it’s Darin. D A R I N. We were in the
same class in third grade- I wore glasses?
Yes- that’s me! No, I’m not showing
off, for God’s sake- just calling to say hi!
Well, sure, forty years is a long ti- Yeah.
Fine. Bye.”
Valley living soon lost its appeal.
While unloading groceries from the
Ford one sweltering July day- the air
temperature was an astounding 157
degrees, a carton of eggs slipped from
the plastic bag and hit the asphalt.
Within two minutes a dozen perfect
sunnyside up smiley faces gazed up
at me. All I needed were waffl es and
coffee and I could’ve had the ‘Dante
Special’. The once novel weather was
explosive in its cloying and unbearable
hotness- and that was at night.
The traffi c, never manageable, was a sea
of SUVs, an army of soccer moms on
cell phones.
The upkeep of the pool and yards
took up valuable me-time (I’m an
inveterate, incurable junker, hitting
eight or nine thrift shops before lunch,
and I don’t want to be bothered with silly
chores like re-hanging a busted garage
door or wrestling with a ruptured,
gushing hot water heater). Free time was
meant to be enjoyed, not spent rushing
to the ER with a home-related injury.
My choice spots for shopping are
thrift stores. Sorry, but because I have
scruples, you’ll never fi nd me at a garage
sale. Used baby clothes and boxed
VHS sets of The Simpson’s
leave me cold, and 1970’s
eight tracks are just
plain depressing. So
are elderly women
in lawn chairs on
driveways with
metal cashboxes,
who chain smoke
and bark at each
other over prices
quoted or change given
(‘Dammit, Verna, the
man gave you a twenty, not a
fi fty!’). Yes, I’m a fool, probably missing
out on a gilded demitasse set from
Napoleon’s brother’s pied-a terre, priced
at six dollars. But I have my sanity, and
because this is not a very
deep well, I hold on to
what I can.
It’s a known
fact the Valley
has 13,736 thrift
stores. Globe has
two; Miami lost
theirs last year.
So I ‘bite the bullet
and buy retail’, as
my Aunt Sylvia would
say. There is a wealth of
product to be found in the
twenty-six antiques shops in our two
towns, however, and because I know all
of the dealers I have a pretty good idea of
what’s going on the shelves.
And while the Valley, with its wealth
of junk and junque shops had its
good points, Globe is a bit more
manageable. Two blocks separate the
two thrift stores.
The following exchange occurred at
Sam’s Good Junk Bakery last week, when
I ran into ‘Madame X’, a vintage dealer-
we were drinking Costa Rican coffee and
trading war stories:
“Darin, I found the bottom half of
a mermaid costume last week- gold
sequins galore, you know, like scales-
the fi ns are three feet wide, and-“
I interrupted her. “What about
the top half?”
She looked at me blankly and
shrugged. “Beats me. Maybe she lost it.”
“Honey,” I replied, “there is no top
part to a mermaid costume!”
We had a little chuckle over that for a
few days. I’m known for my nonstop wit.
My problem, if you want to call it
that, is an innate inability to say no to
any shiny trinket, any colorful tidbit- a
trait I share with newborns. Yes, I know
all of the magazines say to pick one
or two things (antique Persian rugs,
soothing Roseville pottery, 1970s Rubik’s
cubes) and concentrate on building a
collection. I’ve tried- to no avail. Why
have one or two collections, when you
can have seventy-fi ve? If one item is
good, how ‘bout fourteen? And how
about one in every color?
While perusing a junk store once
I literally stumbled across a green
marbleized bowling ball and before
you can say ‘strike’, I’ve got
a collection of fi fteen
of them. They make
the dogs nervous,
but the colors are
fantastic. They
look like oversized
Jawbreakers on my
living room fl oor,
scattered around
the coffee table.
It would be tempting
to provide a top ten list of
the coolest shops in our area,
but that would be unfair. Check the map
in the middle of this paper and discover
the area, fi rsthand. Every shop in Globe-
Miami has something fun, unusual or
silly to offer: colorful Bakelite fl atware
and Bauer or Fiesta dinnerware; wacky
mid-century barware, goofy 40’s
ceramic planters and delicate, hand
painted china tea sets. You’ll fi nd old
hammers, vintage fox stoles, beat up
tricycles and big honkin’ jukeboxes;
loads of dance records with outstanding
cover art; bottles and stamps and dice
and buttons, Bibles and beer signs. Stop
for a cup of coffee and a pastry, and then
pick up where you left off.
You’ll fi nd pretty much whatever
you’re searching for in the Globe-Miami
area, and eventually, you may fi nd one
in every color.
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One In Every Colorby Darin Lowery
GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 7
Hobo HoedownSunday May 1st begins at 5pm $15
This is the last day of a successful 4th season of the Copper Spike Excursion Railway and we're throwing a party!
Easter Parade April 23 • 9amCheck in at the Historic Train Depot 9-9:30
Stroll Broad Street in your best
Easter Finery! Judges will be on hand and Prizes will be awarded!
The Bawdy Broad Street Tour is
baacck by Demand!Friday, May 13th;Begins at 6:30pm
At the Old Jail
Meet at the Old Jail where you will discover the sad tale of Fancy DeLaRue and enjoy a
guided tour of Globe's famous "Fancy Ladies."
$5 DONATION
Summer YouthMusical Theatre
“Alice inWonderland"
Performance datesJuly 7th-9th,15th &16th
TICKETS $10
The Copper Cities Community Players are proud to announce the audacious production of
April 29 & 30May 6 & 7 at 7pm
A play which brings
out the best of theworst. A comic romp
of epic proportions.
"The Third GreatCourse Acting Show"
We are here to answer questions and direct you to the many great things
to see and do in the Historic District.
E-mail thedesk@cvarts.org or
call 928-425-0884.
Monday-Friday10am-5pm;
Saturday 10am-4pm; Sundays 12-4pmClosed Holidays
www.cvarts.org
Barbecue hosted by Adobe Ranch Outfitters! Hobo Bingo!Beer Garden on the Train along with Mohave Muleskinners making an appearance before the 2:30pm train! Dustbowl Croquet! Fun for the Whole Family!Come dressed in your Hobo Finest and share in the festivities!
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"This time, like all times,
is a very good one, if we but know
what to do with it." – Emerson
GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 9The Chrysocolla Inn may be the
newest of Globe’s bed and breakfasts
but the property itself has a long history
in the area. In it’s heyday it was known
as Mack’s Home Hotel and served as a
boarding house and dining room for
many of the local visiting elites, local
miners, youth attending school from
nearby towns and visitors here for
dealings with the assayers offi ce, which
was just next door.
Margaret McLean purchased
it in 1915, at a time when
Globe’s business climate
was booming and over
35 mines were operating in the area
with the Old Dominon Mine leading the
copper production for the nation. The
downtown district had just completed
a ten-year phase in which a new grand
commercial building went up almost
every few months, and money fl owed in
from East Coast monied interests.
A fi ne time to operate a
“Home Hotel.”
The property which
sat just one block
off the downtown
district enjoyed a
brisk business at the
turn of the century,
and by 1929, the
McLeans decided to put
on a third fl oor. Although
the timing of the expansion
couldn’t have been worse with the
onslaught of the Great Depression and
the closure of the Old Dominion Mine in
’31, the Home Hotel pulled through and
continued to operate into the 40s.
Over the ensuing seventy years,
the building changed hands several
times. The McLeans sold it sometime
in the 40’s, and from there it’s history is
somewhat sketchy. While it continued
to serve as a boarding house and later
as small utility apartments, by the mid
‘80s, it was unfi t for human habitation
and sat empty for nearly 15 years.
“My sister would walk by the place
during high school and say, “I love that
building! She always wanted to own it,”
says Holly Rooney, whose family now
owns the property.
By the time the Rooneys purchased
it in 2000, nearly 20 years later, the
building was a shell of it’s former self.
The years of neglect had not been kind
and the property looked more like an
aging bag lady from LA rather than
the Grand Dame of Globe it had once
been. Paint no longer protected it’s
plaster walls, rusting refrigerators sat
in junk heaps on abandoned patios and
porches where they had been dumped.
Signs of sagging fl oors and walls hinted
at structural issues, and wood beams,
now dried and cracking, were beyond
any simple repair.
“When we fi rst went to look at
the inside of the building, my sister
immediately changed her mind,”
laughs Holly. “It was just too far gone
she thought, and she didn’t want to Few could have looked at this property eight years ago and seen it’s potential to become the elegant Bed and Breakfast it has become.
Holly Rooney at work on the custom tile in one of the showers. Each tile selection and pattern is coordinated with the overall design of each bedroom.
Chrysocolla Inn, Continued on page 10
Coming Back From The BrinkThe Chrysocolla Inn prepares to open its doors this Spring
PAGE 10 GLOBEMIAMITIMES
do it. But, I decided I did want to. I’d
always thought that this would make a
great B&B.”
Looking back now, after eight years
of renovations it seems Heidi might
have been right.
Recently, the property was on the
home tour (in March) and many people
asked if the renovations had cost a
hundred thousand dollars. Holly laughs
and says, “We only wish it had cost that!”
“Of course, we made it more
expensive than it had to be,” admits
Holly, “because we would get into
something and decide it could be even
better if we did something more than
just what was required.”
A good example are the stairways in
the home. Meticulously fabricated by
Tim Harmon, a master craftsman and
key to much of the home’s elegance,
Harmon has been on the project since
the Rooneys purchased the building. It
was Harmon who replicated the original
design of the staircase on the north side
and made a matching set for the south.
He also fabricated additional clothespin
balusters to replace ones which were
beyond repair, and re-worked the stair
treads, ordering more Douglas Fir
out of California to match that of the
original wood. All the windows in the
three- story boarding house had to
be re-worked, and Harmon built the
windows in the kitchen to match that of
the original windows throughout.
Additional elbow grease was
provided by Holly’s aunt and uncle, Pat
and Howard Baldwin, who helped with
the initial demolition, the making of the
90 window screens, the refi nishing of
nearly 40 original doors and many other
projects throughout the eight years. All
the bedroom doors were in surprisingly
good shape for being nearly 100 years
old, but all had to be refi nished and the
original hardware with keyhole locks
refurbished to good working order.
When the Rooneys purchased it
in 2000, Holly had just launched her
new family practice and her mother,
Rosemary, was involved in another
project involving an adobe home, so the
“Home Hotel” sat for almost a year.
“We also had to take some time to
think about just what to do with it,”
said Holly.
They eventually began by doing
demolition on the bottom fl oor and
within months discovered unsettling
issues such as wooden beams which
had been cut off midway and no longer
went to the ground fl oor for support.
Globe’s new building inspector, Chris
Collopy, suggested they would need a
structural engineer and the building
again sat for another year while they
looked for an engineer who would come
to Globe and assess their “treasure.”
That report revealed structural issues
with the third fl oor which had been
poorly constructed. The entire weight
of the roof and third fl oor were being
borne by just the outside walls. And
beams could be seen bowing under the
weight, threatening the entire structural
integrity of the entire place. “We were
told that we need to have ‘major footers
measuring 2ft x 2ft x 2ft with support
beams running from the bottom fl oor
to the roof,” said Holly. “So that whole
summer, that’s all my mom and I
worked on, is digging out those footers
so the fl oor could be poured.”
Holly describes a huge rock
pile that accumulated just from
that project alone. Typical
of ground anywhere in this
area, any attempt to just
dig out six inches, would
invariably include a tussle
with an immovable rock
boulder which might
take half a day to get out
and result in a hole two
feet deep.
Holly says this is one
of her mother’s fortes. “She’s just been
a major gardener all her life,” said
Holly. “She’s always been able to get her
crowbar in there and get any rock out
of the ground! Plus, she’s just a very
hard worker.”
Skills which were vital to the
renovation of the old Home Hotel.
When asked if she or her mother
ever had serious doubts about their
decision to purchase the place, Holly
says her mother would often wonder
aloud if this had been a good idea. Holly
“less so.” But even at the end of very
long days when both were exhausted,
Rosemary was known to smile and say,
“This is kinda fun.”
Together, they laid the black and
white tile on the lower fl oor, and all the
brickwork. They did all of the tiling for
the showers, and the custom plastering
on the interior walls.
The work on the home took over
eight years during which both mother
and daughter continued to collect
furnishings, artwork, hardware and
construction items to be used in the bed
and breakfast. “Almost 90 percent of all
the furnishings came from local antique
shops and residents,” Holly says.
The home boasts 19 chandeliers- all
unique- and all gathered from the local
area. The buffet in the main dining
room came out of the renowned Copper
Hills Restaurant which operated from
1954 to the late 1990’s. While much of
the upholstered pieces came out of
local shops, it was the talent of Colleen
Beck and the fabric collection of mother
and daughter which resulted in over 40
upholstered pieces gracing bedrooms
and common areas.
While all of the beds serve to refl ect
the time period of the home itself, two
in particular have direct ties to local
lore. Two of the iron beds came out of
the Sang Tai Restaurant on North Broad,
a well-known, Chinese establishment
which operated from the late 1800’s up
into 1960 when the son took over the
property and changed the name to the
Chrysocolla Inn, Continued from page 9
Rosemary and Holly Rooney at the entrance to the kitchen/dining hall
The buffet in the dining hall came out of the Copper Hills Restaurant.
There was ample need of lifts during the restoration, especially rebuilding the multiple porches which jut out from the 2nd fl oor. Here Rosemary, and Tim are in the bucket.
Daughter, Heidi (right) originally thought the building was too far gone to save. There were times during the 8-year renovation when Rosemary and Holly agreed with her.
Star Buffet. The beds were purportedly
used by working girls on the 2nd fl oor
during some point in the building’s
history although much of the details
have been lost to history.
The property dates back to the late
1800’s when Modesto Borques owned
it from 1896 to 1909. When he passed
away, his estate was settled and the
property went to Charles Clark. It
continued to go through several hands
until 1915 when Margaret
McLean purchased it from
R.L. Alderman and the family
renovated the property into a
hotel for travelers.
“We have always believed it
was built in the late 1800’s because
in photos from that time period
you can see a two story structure
behind the post offi ce,” says Holly.
“We also believe the property may
have been where Big Nose Kate had
her boarding house after she split from
Doc Holliday.” Although the history
books are not clear on the details, Holly
says several people stopped by during
the eight years they worked on the place
to talk about it’s history. One older man
said his mother used to manage it and
that it defi nitely belonged to Big Nose
Kate. And another
historian pointed out
a document which
states her place was
“off Broad”, (not on
Broad Street as some
have suggested),
lending credence to
the possibility that
this was home to the
famous madame.
However, a majority of the home’s
historical information came from
a McLean son, now in his 80’s, who
stopped by during the construction
to share some stories about the place.
Seems Mrs. McLean was a cook of some
renown, and the Hotel offered meals not
only to guests, but the local population
as well. According to the son, “...the
line at meal time used to
stretch all the way down
the street to Hill Street,
and back in those days
the clientle included the
Mayor of Globe and other
important people."
Today, the Rooneys
have big plans for the
place including a full
service bed and breakfast,
and hosting special events
and small weddings. They have named
their place, “The Chrysocolla Inn” as a
nod to the mineral wealth of the area.
They plan to serve full breakfasts and
Holly explains there are also plans to
extend food services to the general
public next Fall.
“I’d like to look into doing a brunch,
and/or dinner...maybe two days a
week.” she says. “I’m not sure exactly
how many days or what the menu will
look like, but we defi nitely want to
expand into that next Fall.”
The Rooneys expect to open the B&B
by the end of May or early June and will
be launching a website this summer
for the bed and breakfast. However,
in the meantime, if you’d like more
information about the rooms, rates and
event information, visit their business
profi le on www.gmteconnect.com
under Bed and Breakfasts.
GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 11
The staircase leading to the 2nd fl oor was meticulously re-created by Tim Harmon including fabricating matching clothespin balusters reminiscent of the original “Home Hotel”
The Society Page
Angel & Louisa Medina and Pam Burruel check in guests at this years annual Lincoln Dinner.
Dr. Nelson, Superintendent of Globe Unifi ed School District, and Jennifer Kinnard, Director of Business Operations, received an award for excellence in “Effective Government” for their work at the school district.
Rebecca and Carl Williams, of Dream Manor Inn, are usually at all the ‘high society’ events. They are just usually working behind the scenes hosting them! The couple received the 2011 Success Award of Gila County from the Arizona Small Business Development Center Network.
The Lincoln Dinner
Dream Manor Inn
Wedding
Chano Castellanos, Rosemary Mancha, Eddie Castellanos, Cindy Fletcher and Pat Castellanos
Christian De La Torre, Andy Perez, Robert Cano, Eddie De La Torre, Javier De La Torre and Joey De La Torre
Sandra and Javier De La TorreParents of the Bride, Pat and Ruben Mancha, with Javier and granddaughter Trinity.
Nea Mancha, Xavier Mancha, Dylan Mancha and Alana Mancha
PAGE 12 GLOBEMIAMITIMES
Mancha-De La TorreMarch 26
GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 13
The Society PageOut & About
Marie Brantley-Gregg and husband, Andy, enjoyed the ambience of Valentine's event "Romancin' the Rails" on the Copper Spike. Marie is headed to LA this Spring with a recording contract to sing back up for Adele and Anastasia. Kudos!
Virgil and Pat Dodd on board the Copper Spike.
Southwest Gas employees volunteered a Saturday to help put in new ground cover for the Salvation Army Day Care Center.
The Bridges, from Indiana, travel with Flat Stanely – seen here with Engineer Earl Knoob. They were in town to ride the Copper Spike and send pics back to their grand daughter. They were two of the 11,000 passengers that rode the Copper Spike this season. Donna Anderson, local historian and
train employee now hosts the "Freight Offi ce" where she answers questions and showcases a 20 minute video on the history of rail travel in the region.
Grace Whalen operates her "Stonehouse B&B" in Wyoming during the summer months and works for the Copper Spike during winters in Globe.
Bill Quintera is the always friendly 'master of cermonies' on the train. Here, he cross checks dinner reservations.
Thomas the Train hosted over 15,000 riders in just two weekends in March here in Globe, breaking all previous records for the company.
PAGE 14 GLOBEMIAMITIMES
A Good Read By Linda Gross
The Tuesday Afternoon Book Club has been
meeting for over 60 years and discussing books
and lives at their bi-monthly meetings between
September and May. It is by invitation only
and I’m glad to be among the newest members
having been ‘inducted’ a few years ago. It is
through this group that I’ve discovered many
books I might not have otherwise picked up.
This new column will serve to highlight my
new found discoveries, beginning with a
recommendation for "Sometimes the Blues."
The book by Susan Clardy is more than
the sum of original diary entries garnered
from her great-grandfather, Frank Hammon,
who lived in Globe and Phoenix between 1882 and 1889. Thanks to Clardy’s
exhaustive leg work in researching the context and historical accuracy
of his diary entries we are treated to a rare, unvarnished look at what life was
like in Globe around 1882. We have the benefi t of the narrowed perspective of a
man writing about life as it unfolds, as well as the broader perspective in looking
back on ‘history.’ Hammond’s life intersected with many, more famous of Globe’s
early residents including Judge Hackney, Gene Middleton and the Tewksburys.
He fell in love and married in Globe, worked in the mines and on nearby
ranches, and as Deputy Sheriff was a fi rst hand witness to the famous Pleasant
Valley War between the Tewksburys-Grahams. This is a must-read for anyone
who has a passing interest in Globe, the Pleasant Valley War or life as it was in
this Arizona Territory.
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BLUE MULE GALLERY
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CITY PARK
HWY 60TO GLOBE
SULLIVAN STREET
COPPER TOWNSPORTS BAR
GRANDMA”SHOUSE
BOOK BANK
CREEKSIDE COFFEE
BULLION PLAZAStraight Ahead
GUAYO’SEL REY
COPPERMINERS’ REST
CITY HALLCOPPERMINE
PICTURECAFÉ
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MIAM
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GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 19
This advertisement for Good Year tires was one of the only pages salvaged from a copy of the Leslie’s Weekly which had been used as insulation in the walls of a Globe home.
Uncovered when the owners re-modeled these pages helped to date the house atleast as far back as 1918, the date of this issue.
The Weekly was an illustrated literary news magazine founded in 1852. By 1897 it enjoyed a circulation of 65,000, up from it’s initial fi rst printing of 30 copiers. It continued to publish until 1922 and often featured patriotic editorials and the works of now famous illustrators including Norman Rockwell.
LOST & FOUND
PAGE 20 GLOBEMIAMITIMES
Driving along Highway 60 as
you come and go through Miami,
you can’t help but notice what looks
to be an old gas station of your
Grandfather’s vintage. Except this
one looks like it did back in 1934.
This is no accident. It is by design.
And the man behind that design
is Ron Hughes, who owns Soda
Pops Antiques in Miami and has
Rescuing. Rebuilding. Restoring. A Labor of L ve
been the creative genius and hands-on
talent for several of Miami’s most
memorable remodels.
The property you see on the highway
was originally a Mobile service station
with a showroom for International
Trucks on one side and Chrysler cars
on the other side. Just across the street
was a Plymouth and Dodge Dealership.
Although the dealerships closed, one-by-
one, with the last one shutting the doors
in 1952, the gas station remained another
ten years, although it changed hands and
became a Chevron Dealership before
closing in ’62.
The building was later used as a
taxidermy business, muffl er shop, U-Haul
offi ce and a garage for a diesel mechanic.
When Hughes bought the property
several years ago it had seen better days
and one could be forgiven for thinking it
might be best just to tear it all down.
Not Ron.
He can see things as they can be - not
as they are. He has a warehouse full
of cool, old things that have long since
lost their shiny luster, their chrome
handles and their bright colors. They
are rusted, bent and broken. But in
Ron’s hands they come to life again.
When he gets time. Which is
always in short supply with Hughes.
At any one time, he is working on a
dozen projects, while wife, Marcia
runs their store, Soda Pop’s on Sullivan
street. Currently, his primary focus
is restoring the old gas station to it’s
1930’s prime.
Ron Hughes stands next to a ’51 Henry J which he is rebuilding as a station wagon. He rescued it from the desert where it had been used as target practice.
GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 21
When he fi rst took over the property
six years ago, he discovered the tenant
who had been in the building previously
had kept dogs locked inside on the
carpeted fl oor. So the fi rst order of
business was to rip out all the fl ooring
and pour a granite-like fl oor with an
embedded image of the Mobile Oil
horse in the center.
The large plate glass windows
came out of a Target store which was
being dismantled and Hughes picked
up nearly 40 thousand board feet of
red oak from a TGIFs which was being
dismantled. He and his stepson and
a friend spent several weekends and
hauled out fi ve 16 ft trailers
of oak which have gone into
refurbishing the Mobile Station
and outfi tting a shop.
“I took the bar, which was
three inch solid oak," he says,
pointing to over 30ft of bench
with neatly racked bins that
serves as the nerve center
for a man who is continually
restoring, fabricating or
repairing something.
Hughes is standing next
to his latest project involving a
1941 Ford Cab Over Engine which
originally served as the go-power
for a two-ton wrecker. Ron took a
torch welder to it recently and has cut
up the back half to make way for a
new oak fl at bed. When it is done, it
will have new chrome, a new paint
job and oak fl at bed and will serve
as an eye candy to help entice traffi c
off of Hwy 60 and into downtown
Sullivan street.
“At one point," Ron says, “the Town
of Miami would give you an entire
block of Sullivan Street of you brought
a business to Miami.” That was in 1972.
By the time Ron and his wife, Marcia,
began shopping around for a place to
retire, that deal was off the books, but
the buildings here were still affordable,
the lake was nearby and they loved the
small town charm.
Their antique store, Soda Pop’s
Antiques, could hold it’s own in any
market and many are surprised to
discover the quality and quantity of so
many restored antiques. When people
visit for the fi rst time, many just gawk,
prompting Hughes to put up a sign,
“This ain’t no museum. This junks for sale!”
The Mobile Station is slated for
completion this Fall and Hughes,
has already had inquiries from car
clubs, motorcycle groups and local
organizations to use the place. He is
happy to oblige. After all, what good
is restoring something to this level, if
people aren’t around to enjoy it?
He’s fi shing around for a name
and says he thought of naming it after
his dad, Sam, who had fi ve fi lling
stations at one point and as a master
craftsman himself, has provided
much of the inspiration for Hughes
own efforts. But then again, he might
just name it after the local creek bed:
Bloody Tanks Service Station.
You can be sure, that whatever
name he decides on will look like it has
been there since 1934.
Ron Hughes' father, Sam, was featured in the 1998 Arizona Highways for his work in restoring radios and clocks.
PAGE 22 GLOBEMIAMITIMES
Hobo Terms used 'til the 1940'sAccommodation Car – the caboose of a train
Barnacle – a person who sticks to one job for a year or more
Big House – prison
Bindle Stick – collection of belongings wrapped in cloth and tied around a stick
Blowed-in-the-glass – a genuine, trustworthy individual
Bone Orchard – a grave
C,H & D – indicates an individual is Cold, Hungry and Dry (thirsty)
Chuck a Dummy – pretend to faint
Catch the Westbound – to die
Cover with the moon – sleep out in the open
Glad Rags – one’s best clothes
Hoboes developed their own coded language for the road. Here are just a few. Discover more during the Hobo Hoedown where we will be using symbols for a Hobo Bingo - for adults and kids !
Being referred to as a “knight of the road” was a very
respectful term that related to the honor and
trustworthiness of most hobos”
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Although hoboes existed long before the Great
Depression, so many more people were displaced during
the Depression, and forced to become migratory workers
and vagabonds that the term is often associated with
the ‘30s. Many were good, honest people down on their
luck, just trying to get by. They even established their own
code of ethics at a Hobo Convention held 40 years earlier
in the small town of Britt, Iowa. The code of conduct,
voted on at that convention in 1889 still guides those who
live the hobo life today. It begins with, “Decide your own
life, don’t let another person run or rule you.”
While some people lump tramps, bums and hobos into
one category, the great writer H.L. Mencken in his book
“The American Language” published in 1937 clarifi ed the
difference between each class of people this way;
The code of ethics for Hobos1. Decide your own life, don't let another
person run or rule you.2. When in town, always respect the local law
and offi cials, and try to be a gentleman at all times.
3. Don't take advantage of someone who is in a vulnerable situation, locals or other hobos.
4. Always try to fi nd work, even if temporary, and always seek out jobs nobody wants. By doing so you not only help a business along, but ensure employment should you return to that town again.
5. When no employment is available, make your own work by using your added talents at crafts.
6. Do not allow yourself to become a stupid drunk and set a bad example for locals' treatment of other hobos.
7. When jungling in town, respect handouts, do not wear them out, another hobo will be coming along who will need them as bad, if not worse than you.
8. Always respect nature, do not leave garbage where you are jungling.
9. If in a community jungle, always pitch in and help.
10. Try to stay clean, and boil up wherever possible.
11. When traveling, ride your train respectfully, take no personal chances, cause no problems with the operating crew or host railroad, act like an extra crew member.
12. Do not cause problems in a train yard, another hobo will be coming along who will need passage through that yard.
13. Do not allow other hobos to molest children, expose all molesters to authorities, they are the worst garbage to infest any society.
14. Help all runaway children, and try to induce them to return home.
15. Help your fellow hobos whenever and wherever needed, you may need their help someday.
16. If present at a hobo court and you have testimony, give it. Whether for or against the accused, your voice counts!
HOBO HOEDOWNCelebrating the American Traveling Worker
“A hobo, or ‘bo’ is simply a migratory laborer. While he
may take some longish holidays, he eventually returns to
work. On the other hand, a tramp never works if it can be
avoided. He just travels. And a bum, neither works or travels,
unless it's to run from the police.”
There were some famous hobos, including the poet
Carl Sandburg and writer Jack London, but many more
were faceless and included over 8,000 women and 200,000
children during the Great Depression. According to one
study done in 1906, the hobo population was around 500,000
and later statistics show that this population exploded to
millions during the Great Depression.
In his book, “Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with
America’s Hoboes, (1984)” writer Ted Conover reports that
as many as 20,000 hobos were still riding the rails in the US.
“It was suggested by one writer that the reason you stopped
seeing hobos riding trains was once the railroads switched
over to diesel engines and retired the steam locomotives,
trains moved much faster and no long slowed for the coal
and water stations. Although trains can still be boarded in
rail yards, the presence of police and railroad employees
make this a tricky affair.
Today, the Chamber of Commerce in Britt, Iowa,
still hosts the National Hobo Convention the second
weekend in August. It is the largest gathering of hobos,
rail-riders and tramps who gather to celebrate the
American traveling worker.
Here in Globe, the Historic Mainstreet Program is
wrapping the Hobo tradition into the last weekend of
the Copper Spike Excursion Railway. They will be hosting
their own ‘celebration of the American traveling worker’
with a Hobo Hoedown on Sunday, May 1st. It will include
our own hometown version of Hobo Bingo, Dustbowl
Croquet, and a barbecue on the front ‘lawn’ and a beer
garden in the Mardi Gras car.
Check out the events calendar at gmteconnect.com for
the full details on this not-to-be-missed event!
My experiences made me a lot more humble and I appreciate
the smaller things in life – like a good bed and something to eat.
– Archie Frost, Missouri
Grease the Track – to be run over by a train
Honey Dipping – working with a shovel
Possum Belly – to ride on the roof of a passenger car. One must lie fl at, to not be blown off
Rum Dum – a drunkard
Sky pilot – a preacher or minister
Spear biscuits – looking for food in garbage cans
Yegg – a traveling professional thief
PAGE 24 GLOBEMIAMITIMES
Tim Harmon may just give up his
day job and pursue his avocation full
time this year.
Recently, the lanky, soft spoken
contractor from Globe, was invited
to join the Western Artists of
America and showcase his work
at the Seventh Annual Western
Artists show in Corsicana, Texas
in January. Admission to W.A.A. is
by invitation only and the show
contained forty of the top Western
Artists in the nation working in
a variety of mediums from oils
to bronze sculpture. Harmon
took the Gold in his category,
with his bronze sculpture titled,
“Switchback,” and his booth,
featuring over a dozen pieces, also won the Best Presentation Award. Not bad for a
guy who grew up cowboyin’ and started sculpting just eight years ago.
Harmon, who grew up around here, worked for uncles in Tonto Basin and
Mammoth before moving just outside of Magdalena, New Mexico where he married
and started raising two boys. At the time, he says he kinda wanted to be a veterinarian
but ended up as a medic instead and was sent to Korea during the Vietnam war.
When he got out, he went to work for some large ranches laying in watering
holes for cattle, and later came back to Globe where he helped to dismantle the
old Sleeping Beauty mine. He eventually got his contractors, license and has
been building and remodeling homes in the Globe area with his main focus for the
last several years being on the historic Chrysocolla Inn
which is slated to open the end of May.
Through it all he has dabbled in artistic
pursuits as time would
allow; whittling
wood pieces,
doing pencil
sketches, trying
his hand at oil
painting and
fabricating custom
spurs. But it wasn’t until
eight years ago when he picked
up sculpting that all his life
experiences and artistic pursuits
seemed to dovetail into...the
perfect groove.
It was 2003 when he
took his fi rst sculpting
class and learned how
to build armatures
(a framework on
which to mold the
TIM HARMONBronze Sculptor
Harmon at his shop in Globe.
"Helping Hands"
"Switchback"
GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 25clay) and from there he was hooked on clay. His very fi rst piece,
‘Burnin’ Daylight’ has won several awards and depicts a cowboy
headed out to saddle up. From the sweat hardened blanket to the
minute details on the bridle, spurs and chaps, Harmon depicts a life
he knows intimately.
Harmon’s knowledge of his subject is very much on display
in his work, “Switchback”, which shows two cowboys attempting
to navigate a steep switchback while bringing in a wild range
cow. From the facial expressions of both man and animal, to the
precarious position of all three, Harmon conveys an authenticity
which marks all of his works.
With his recent successes at shows and induction into the
Western Artists of America, demand for his sculptures is rising
and Harmon is looking forward to wrapping up his work on
the Chrysocolla Inn this Spring and turning his focus full time
to sculpting.
Visit www.timharmonwesternbronze.com or pick up this
year’s catalogue of Western Artists of America to see more of
Harmon’s work.
www.timharmonwesternbronze.com
PAGE 26 GLOBEMIAMITIMES
It contains several famous historical fi gures including Al Sieber who was
a leader of Scouts for the U.S. Army and Sheriff Glenn Reynolds. Sieber was
killed while supervising construction on the Roosevelt Dam in 1907 and
Reynolds was killed while attempting to transport the Apache Kid to
the Territorial prison in Yuma. There are now markers throughout the
cemetary which point out the fi nal resting place of history's signifi cant
few. But there are many more which simply invite refl ection. The Buffalo
Soldiers are buried here. So are the members of the Woodmen and all the
Fraternal orders which played a part in Globe's history. There is even a Chinese
cemetery in the lower portion which was established in 1946 when Chinese
businessman, Dea Gin Foo, had all the chinese graves dug up and moved to the
new site. A writer once said," cemeteries are more than old bones and marble
stones. They are a link to our past." You can visit the old cemetery by taking
Hackney and following the signs.
Visiting the Past...The old Globe cemetery was established in the
1800's and later purchased by the City fathers who purchased more land over the years and expanded
it's footprint.
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“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 27
"Education is not fi lling a bucket but
lighting a fi re."– Wlliam Butler Yeats
PAGE 28 GLOBEMIAMITIMES
So it was not surprising that the
owner of the building which had allowed
the movie folks to turn his old building
into a set, sought out Holmquist a few
years ago when he was ready to sell the
building. Turns out, he had boarded up
the place after "U-Turn" was fi nished
fi lming and never set foot inside again.
When Holmquist took off the boards,
the interior of the building was
exactly as he had left it nearly 15
years earlier.
He bought the building
and began looking for the
right person to run the place
as a restaurant. After all, it
had already had the lunch
counter and looked the part!
It just didn’t have any real
restaurant equipment.
He put a notice on
Craigs List and got a call
from a caterer out of
the Valley who thought
running a full scale eatery
in Superior would be just
the ticket. But the Universe
had other plans. While those
negotiations stalled, another
restaurant savvy entrepreneur
was looking for her next project. After
putting in 35 years in the restaurant
business and running a high-traffi c,
themed restaurant, Cindy Levi was
looking for new opportunities.
She’ll tell you that she really started
looking at strip malls in the Valley to
Uptown Cafe, Continued from page 1 open up her own place, but nothing
there struck her right. No personality.
Her friend Cathy Roberts kept
suggesting she look at this place in
Superior that belonged to one of
Roberts’ neighbors...Billy Holmquist. It
took months of gently prodding to get
her to look at the building.
Levi kept insisting that she wanted
to stay around Mesa. Roberts response?
“If you are asking God for
Guidance, don’t turn around and give
him directions.”
She fi nally talked Levi into taking
a ride up to Superior to look at the
building last October and as soon as
they walked in, Levi was hooked on
the place.
By November Cindy Levi had a deal
on the place, and two months later she
opened on January 26th.
The Uptown Cafe has loads of
personality and ambience of course,
but you gotta love the atmosphere
generated by the staff; from the cook-
who operates in full view of the patrons,
to the wait staff – many of whom
followed Levi to her new ventures. They
all know each other. They like what
they’re doing, and they like each other.
You can feel the vibe created by people
who like their job, their boss and know
their stuff. They know how to move as an
orchestrated team and handle a packed
house or one single diner with the same
effi ciency and friendliness. This is a
good thing, since opening in January
the Uptown Cafe has had several
packed nights. The Cafe operates seven
days a week and serves breakfast, lunch
and dinner. Levi expects to make her
place a destination attraction in the
area and judging by the fi rst several
months she has all the right ingredients
to do just that.
Cindy Levi, shown here with her daughter, Hope, and Superior's Town Manager, Melanie Oliver
Friend Cathy Ferguson encouraged Cindy to look at Superior.
Superior Police Chief Lou Digirolamo
GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 29
So why would anyone try to garden here?
Driven on by memories of successful gardens
and the pure deliciousness of home grown
produce, we persist. We plant. We water. We
wait. But if, like me, all that planting,
watering and waiting gets taken away
in a nano second of forgetfulness (as
in, I forgot to water today), or swarms
of aphids or wild javelinas attack your
little garden plot ...then take heart.
Master gardeners and community
stakeholders have been conspiring with a
VISTA volunteer to bring a fi rst rate Farmers
Market to Globe-Miami, and this summer will
mark the third season of fresh produce at Simply
Sarah’s where her store becomes an outlet for fresh,
organic produce brought in from Reavis Mountain
Ranch just an hour or so east of Globe.
Sarah Bernstein, who is a business woman,
mother, wife, and artist in equal measure, runs her
store as she does her life. Practically. With an eye
towards quality, beauty, value and common sense. So
when her friend, Peter Bigfoot was fi shing around for
a local outlet for his fresh organic produce that made
sense with all the other demands he was juggling, Sarah
came up with a plan.
“I had tried Farmers Markets,” Bigfoot says. “I like
supporting them.” But he fi nds it hard to justify sitting
at a booth to sell a few fl ats of apricots when there are
over a hundred fruit trees, fl ocks of chickens, turkeys
and ducks and a half acre garden to keep up and
classes to teach. Plus, with gas getting so expensive,
it is impossible to even break even selling lettuce,
unless you happen to be going that way already.
Sarah’s idea would take both things into account.
She would make room on her counters and shelves
for whatever fresh produce Peter wanted
to bring into town while he was running
errands. That way it wouldn’t cost any
more gas than he was already going to use
for errands, and she would work with her
customers to let them know when produce
had arrived. The money for the produce
goes to the Ranch. For both Sarah and Peter,
the arrangement is primarily a community service
since if either of them ever tracked the amount of
time, gas, fl oor space or any other measure of cost
of goods you normally apply to a venture like this,
it would hardly make sense.
Each week or so when Peter delivers produce at the
store, Sarah will assess the bounty and call customers
she knows will be interested. She even remembers
that ‘so-n-so’ loves arugula, or that another said they
would like a dozen eggs. So these are her fi rst calls
when items arrive but she makes a dozens calls each
time and within a few days the produce has fl own out
of the store and onto someone’s kitchen table.
So, this summer, as you are shopping at Simply
Sarah’s for a linen blouse, or elegant evening wear, you
may surprise yourself by walking out with persimmons.
Persimmons? Hmmm, you wonder to yourself while
standing in the store staring at a fl at of acorn shaped
wrinkly fruit. You quickly search your midwest memory
bank for anything resembling persimmons...and come
up blank. That’s when Sarah walks over. “Oh yes!” Sarah
says, as if reading your mind, “these are wonderful.”
It is the same enthusiasm she has when describing
the heirloom fabrics found on her latest collection of
clothing from Afghanistan. She then launches into the
fi ner points of picking persimmons when they are ripe
and suggestions for preparing them.
Your mind begins to see the fruit in a new light.
These small wrinkly morsels are beginning to look
more and more like the “fruit of the gods” - the ancient
Greek meaning of the word. Yes, those Greeks knew
what they were talking about, and now you can see
clearly what you have been missing. You take a dozen.
Or take mixed greens. Those big beautiful
“bouquets” of lettuce and other greens may seem a
little overwhelming until you listen to Sarah talk about
the best way to cook up a batch of greens. “...Just heat
your pan and then roast some walnuts,” she says and
then pauses. “Better yet,” she suggests, “roast the
walnuts by drizzling some lemon olive oil from Queen
Creek on them. Then throw in your greens and wilt
them just slightly and add fresh ground pepper and
sea salt.” She pauses again to let the image and aroma
of that sink in. She smiles as you contemplate your
newfound appreciation for ‘greens.’
"Please give me two bags of the fresh greens and
some of the Queen Creek olive oil.”
And so it goes through the growing season, with
Sarah providing the counter space, connections and
conversation to keep produce fl ying out the door, and
Peter supplying what he can, when he can...which still
equates to a bounty of fresh produce at Simply Sarah’s.
First up. Asparagus in April.
Farmer's Market, Continued from page 1
Peter Bigfoot with Reavis Ranch and Sarah Bernstein proprietor of Simply Sarah's in Globe, have a somewhat unusual arrangement, turning a corner of her dress shop into a small bounty of fresh produce throughout the summer months.
Knowing how to compost is a vital skill for any gardener. Cayci shows off her sizeable compost pile which goes into her own sizeable gardening efforts each year. The Backyard Growers workshop was held here in January. Farmer's Market, Continued on page 30
Simply Sarahs is not just clothing. The store offers a wide array of cookware, cook books and gourmet products
Wilted greens with walnuts
PAGE 30 GLOBEMIAMITIMES
Globe-Miami Farmer’s Market
Another group has been hard at work
establishing the framework for a new - and
improved - Farmer’s Market which is scheduled
to launch this summer in downtown Globe. Yes,
Globe has had a succession of Farmer’s Markets
over the years with varying success, but this
new evolution of a Farmer’s Market promises to
kick off with all the right ingredients. It began
with Laura Gottschalk, who was assigned to
the community through the AmeriCorps VISTA
Volunteer program to help launch a Farmer’s
Market. She put in months of legwork to
research the needs of the community and pulled
together the many stakeholders who could
help not only get the thing off the ground but
sustain it over time.
Two of those stakeholders, Pat and Manuel
Romero, who operate the Sunrise and Sunset Chili
and Herb garden, have spent summers visiting
Farmer’s Markets in several states and talking
to market managers to fi nd out what makes one
successful and another not. It seems a key to
many successful markets is an active board made
up of people who are growers themselves...and
a charming, but fi rm market manager who can
effectively coordinate the needs of the vendors
and buyers, enforce the rules and regulations set
forth by the Board, and serve as part cheerleader,
part principal for the enterprise.
That is where Paul Buck comes in.
The 6-ft soils specialist has a winning smile and a
passion for home-grown, community projects having
volunteered his time and talents for multiple projects
over the years from laying brick pavers, painting old
buildings, cleaning up trash along the roads and
scouting locations for a community garden. Although
he was willing to take on the role for free. They insisted
on paying him 5% of the proceeds from the market.
He will earn it.
His role includes coordinating, marketing and
managing...with some cajoling thrown in here
and there. He is currently working closely with
Laura Gottschalk and the Board to get everything in
place for June.
“We want the emphasis on fresh garden
produce grown in this area ,” says Buck. Although
the Market will accept arts, crafts and baked goods
as well, Buck makes it clear that the number one
rule guiding this Farmer’s Market is “NO re-sale.
You have to grow it, make it, or bake it yourself.”
Vendors will be required to fi ll out an application
which details what can and cannot be sold, who
is required to have a business license or health
department permit, how disputes will be handled,
what items need to be juried before being accepted
and the requirements of booths, etc. Thanks in large
part to the research by Gottschalk and the previous
experience of some Board members, the application
leaves no stone unturned, including, for
instance, a rule against “amplifi ed music.”
No boom boxes.
“Music will be restricted to live
performances only.....and must be approved
prior to Market by the Market manager.”
The goal of the regulations is to establish
a framework which will provide a good
experience for both Vendors and Buyers.
This winter, the Board sponsored
two Backyard Growing workshops
with the fi rst one held in Globe on
January 29th, the weekend the
temperatures dropped into the teens
and pipes broke all over town. Laura
Gottschalk still smiles about that
event. “Honestly, I was thinking we
might get 30 people,” she says. “But my
phone rang all the time! We cut it off after 122 people
signed on, and we scrambled to restructure the day
so each speaker/educator could talk to a group of 20+
people and there would be more of an opportunity to
interact with each group. Topics included soils and
composting, designing irrigation in desert climes,
building cold-weather frames, starting seeds, and
working with the Farmer’s Market.
“We had Board members pitching in to park cars,
register people, and answer questions and because
of having to split into groups, each speaker gave their
talk fi ve times that day! Yet, it all went so smoothly!
I just didn’t realize that many people in Globe were interested in gardening!” she says.
But Gottschalk is quick to point out the attendance
wasn’t just Globe people. Jeffery Ferns who owns
Triple C Coffee House in Superior, brought a group
over from Superior who are interested in growing...
and supporting the Globe-Miami Farmer’s Market.
He has offered his commercial kitchen to those in
Superior who want to make items to sell this summer
and she hopes all of this will encourage more cross-
marketing between the sister communities.
Cayci Vucksanovich, who owns Matlock Gas and
ran her own successful nursery/feed store business
for nearly 15 years, is one of several Master Gardeners
helping to spearhead the new market. In addition
to serving on the Board and agreeing to participate
weekly, Cayci said a real benefi t of having the master
gardeners on-hand during the
market is their expertise. Cayci,
who is also a well- known voice on
KIKO radio where she hosts a weekly
garden program and answers people’s
questions about growing things in
this area says the presence of Master
Gardeners at the Farmer’s market this
summer will make it easy for people
to stop by and get answers to a host
of questions people have about
growing in this region.
There will be a Vendor Orientation barbecue on June
4th down at City Hall’s “Centennial Park” and potential
vendors are invited to come down to meet the Board
and fellow growers. Those interested in participating
this year can pick up a registration form at the
event, or download the form by going to: www.
gmteconnect.com/businessdirectory/FarmersMarket.
The Farmer’s Market is scheduled to open on
June 25th in downtown Globe, in front of City Hall.
Hours are 8 am-noon and the Market will run for
16 weeks through October 1. You can check out the
latest information on the Market by visiting their
facebook page: Globe-Miami Farmer’s Market, or
logging on to www.gmteconnect.com, where they will
be hosting a market page with updates, downloadable
forms, and photos.
Farmer's Market, Continued from page 29
Paul Buck will take on the role of market manager for the new Farmer’s Market which will offi cially open June 26th. The job comes with few, if any, perks. Pay is minimal – 5% of whatever the market brings in.
Pat Romero and husband, Manuel grow over 3000 plants each year for their “Sunrise Sunset Chili and Herb Garden” out on Six Shooter road. They start over 60 varieties of tomatoes and chilis each year from seed and sell locally.
GLOBEMIAMITIMES PAGE 31
The Secret of Success Seeing the bounty of fresh produce which
comes out of Reevis Mountain School of
Self-Reliance might lead you to believe that
founder and chief architect, Peter Bigfoot has
some special talent for growing big, beautiful
produce. But spend just 15 minutes with him
discussing his ‘secrets’ and you’ll discover it is just
plain hard work.
And years and years of cultivating.
Since 1980, he has been expanding the
capacity of the 13 acre ranch property to provide
a self-sustaining harvest. Each year he hauls four
dump truck loads from large dairies in Mesa,
preferring cow manure over anything else and
during the summer he says he uses up 15,000 to
20,000 gallons of water a day to maintain his one-
acre garden and over 75 fruit and nut trees.
He competes with the local bird populations
for the fruit harvest and has discovered that
by rigging up a propane “gun” on a timer and
cutting plastic feedbags into long snake-like
strips he hangs in the trees, he can manage to
scare them away long enough to get his fair share
of the harvest.
This summer he will start off with asparagus
which will be up in April, and move on to kale,
collard greens, lettuce and arugala. Later there will
be tomatoes, beans, cucumbers and sweet corn,
plus fruits from the orchards, including apricots,
pears, peaches and fi gs. For more information,
visit www.reevismountain.org.