Stories Published in Arizona Foothills

Durango: Land for All Reasons

Arizona Foothills, May-June 2008

“At the Glacier Club community north of Durango, Colo., we sit on the second-floor porch of our cliffside cabin. Above us, midsummer stars ignite, and the lights of luxury residences peek from 7,800-foot-high ridgelines. Tomorrow morning, a half-mile or so down in the valley below, we will hear the whistle – and see the steam plumes – of the day’s first train as it climbs to Silverton, the once booming mining town. . . . ” And that’s just the first stop of this trip: Tickets, please.

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Wright or Wrong?

Arizona Foothills, October 2004

In the 1950s, Frank Lloyd Wright designed what would have been the most spectacular state capitol building in the country — set amidst the landmark Papago Buttes in Phoenix. As with so many of the architect’s before-their-time designs, that building was never built. More than a half century later, a savvy Phoenix-based developer placed one of the many spires intended for that project as an intersection focal point for his shopping complex in Scottsdale. Wright or Wrong? Inspiring, or not?

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