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Arizona Centennial Celebration & Tucson Gem Show Fever

It’s the Arizona Centennial – what better way to celebrate then through the 2012 Tucson Gem, Mineral, Fossil, Rock and Bead shows’ madness underway now through February.  This great event has been around since the mid-1950s, when two rockhounds from … Continue reading

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With Apologies to the NY Times

So happy to see my former hometown newspaper sending a wave out west to Tucson. It seems New Yorkers have a fondness for the Old Pueblo, this city of desert and mountains and magical culture. New Yorkers also have a fondness for … Continue reading

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