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New Gold Mine Threatens to Open in Jerome AZ: 1980’s
Outfitted with overlarge Wellington boots, a hard hat with a flashlight and a self-rescue device, which would give us breathable air in case of a fire, Walter and I are ready to descend 1100 feet down...
View Article7-Up Billboard Bites the Dust in Jerome AZ—Love in the Wild 70’s
I interviewed Charles Matheus in 1996; he had come back to Jerome AZ to visit his mother. I asked him about what it was like to grow up with the hippies. He chose to tell me this story about his...
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Open Pit Gold Mine Protest Succeeds in Mexico.
In 2009, Vista Gold Corporation, a Canadian-owned company that was headquartered in Denver Colorado, announced plans for an open pit gold mine in the watershed of the Sierra Laguna, above the town of...
View ArticleThe Big Spliff: Jerome AZ Kids That Dared D.A.R.E.
(Short excerpt from Diane Sward Rapaport’s Home Sweet Jerome book.) About a year after the pot bust of 1985, the Clarkdale Elementary School set up a precursor to the Drug Abuse Resistance Education...
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Lament for Ghost Town Ruins in Jerome AZ
Ruins in the old ghost town of Jerome AZ are slowly disappearing. The grand hulks that became symbols of the ghost town that it became known for—hospital, elementary school, Daisy Hotel and Douglas...
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Mining in Jerome AZ after 1953
(Short excerpt from Home Sweet Jerome: Death and Rebirth of Arizona’s Richest Copper City by Diane Sward Rapaport.) Mining in Jerome AZ continued after the two great mines—United Verde Extension Gold,...
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Modern Anasazi Hand-stacked Wall Builders of Jerome AZ —Jane Moore
Most of this post is written by my ex-neighbor, Jane Moore. She lives two houses down from our previous home at the top of Deception Gulch. She wrote me a few emails commenting on the last two wall...
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Drag Race Between Camaro and Mustang in Jerome AZ
Son Max (now 36) just told me this story. Irresistible to not post. One of the handsomest teenage daredevils in Jerome was Zack Druen. He was notorious for rides on his skateboard on the steep streets...
View ArticleHonoring the Women in Jerome AZ: International Women’s Day
Anyone who has lived in Jerome for any period of time knows that its women are strong, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, accomplished at what they set out to do and passionately...
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Leaverite Society of Jerome AZ
In 1982, I showed an interesting rock that I found near Jerome to the President of the Mingus Gem and Mineral Club. “Could you please tell me what kind of rock this is?” “Young lady, what you have...
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