By Les Conklin
It was a lot of work, when Liz Stapleton Ogden sat down at her kitchen table in 1983 and wrote, proof read, laid out, and typed – with carbon copies – the first issue of A Peek at the Peak magazine (The Peek). And now, decades later, the Scottsdale Public Library and the Greater Pinnacle Peak Association (GPPA) are taking on the even bigger job of preserving the local history that was captured in the hundreds of Peak issues that were printed since Liz’s first edition.
GPPA donated all the back issues of The Peak magazine to the library in 2012 and since then the two organizations have been cooperating in adding the old issues of The Peak to the library’s digital collection that is available online to the public for free. Frankly, GPPA cannot think of a better way to thank the many Peak contributors, living and deceased, than to make their articles available to future generations. The names of some of those contributors will be familiar to many north Scottsdale residents, such as 
Nancy & Ralph Knight, Herb Drinkwater, Don Schoenau, Nancy Lukas, Cynthia Lucas, Bob Mason, Dennis Liddell, and Tony Nelssen. Others, whose names are not as familiar, wrote many articles that captured Pinnacle Peak as it existed during their time.
You can review the issues that have been digitized and are now part of the library’s online collection by clicking on the link below.
Review Scottsdale Library Digital Peak Collection
GPPA Needs a Volunteer (or Two)
Saving the old issues of The Peak is a big job! You can help us speed the process, which will take years at our current rate of progress, by volunteering to scan some old issues into PDF files that we can then provide to the library for their processing. If you are interested in helping and would like more information, call The Peak at 480-361-6498 or email lesconklin@gppaaz.org.
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