Sharon Pulcinella The Kino Center was hopping on Aug, 30, when 30 members of The Women of Quail Creek showed up in their glad rags to learn about flappers, fads, and fashions of the Roaring Twenties era. The evening started with a fascinating presentation by Sharon Krueger that featured images and narrative capturing the history and…
Kiley Kennedy Love Affair: The 2021 Annual Show explores subject matter closest to the heart of award-winning painter Diana Madaras. “I have lived in Tucson for over 40 years, and continue to find infinite inspiration in the diverse landscape and wildlife surrounding us,” says Madaras. This year, her annual show will include 20 new works covering…
Deb Nesbitt The Photo Club of Quail Creek August photo contest focused on Signs. Eligible photos were taken within the last three years with only minimal post processing allowed. Tom Cadwalader once again took first place with Signs Ontario. This image was taken on a fishing trip to a fly-out lodge in Ontario, Canada. Tom arrived in…
Cheryl Palen Life’s surprises are illustrated well in Brant Vickers’ novel Fedor, and such surprises hold the key to the book’s appeal. Based on the life of a sideshow that performed in P.T. Barnum’s Circus in the late 1880s, Fedor Adrianovitch Jefticheff has long, thick, silky hair all over his body, just like his father—a…
Steve Ware At the Quail Creek Republican Club meeting on Sept. 17, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich shared numerous examples of the beautiful simplicity, and the checks and balances genius in our U.S. Constitution created by our Founding Fathers. He also discussed areas in which he feels that federal overreach has occurred. The Quail Creek Republican…
Ross Dunfee What is a Marine? A sailor? A soldier? Or an infantry or amphibious assault member? They are all—soldiers serving on ships ready for land action. Their history, etched in antiquity, has records in ancient Greece and Rome. In the 17th century, the English, in its wars with the Dutch, referred to Marine units as naval infantry. In 1739,…