Arizona Christmas

Thank you to the buyer from Goodyear, AZ! Enjoy the holidays!
Bowen Homestead with a Merry Christmas update! In Tucson, AZ One of the most... more

by Kathy Bassett

Title

Arizona Christmas

Artist

Kathy Bassett

Medium

Photograph - Photography - Photo Painting - Digital Art

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Thank you to the buyer from Goodyear, AZ! Enjoy the holidays!
Bowen Homestead with a Merry Christmas update! In Tucson, AZ One of the most popular attractions along the trail is the Bowen Homestead, also known as the stone house. The walls and foundation of the 1930s-era ranch house can be found 1.1 miles from the Camino de Oeste trailhead.Built of native stone that mingles quietly with its surroundings, the structure appears more grown than built. Large picture windows that lost their glass years ago frame sharp-edged escarpments and softly rounded, saguaro-dusted slopes while the footprints of living areas hint at a life far removed from 21st-century excess.
The Bowen Trail is a new addition to the Tucson Mountain Park and is only 0.8 miles long. A nice hike is to the Old Stone House. The house was built in the 1930's by Sherry Bowen, a typesetter and, later city editor for the Arizona Daily Star. Bowen brought his wife, Ruby, to Tucson from Rockford, Illinois, in the late twenties, hoping that the climate would help her serious heart condition. They homesteaded in the Tucson Mountains eventually owning two thousand acres. Ruby kept a diary of her first year in the Tucson Mountains. She wrote of the wild mountain sheep that came to the base of the cliffs nearly every evening to graze. A mountain lion would pace about when she was cooking meat and one time attempted to get in the window. The valley and their homestead became part of the Tucson Mountain Park in 1983.

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December 14th, 2017