Seven Short Stories Featuring My Friend “Doc,” Story #5
Unforgettable Boat Ride to Harold’s By Dave Wells Who can ever forget Carefree-Cave Creek parades in the springtime, especially Greasewood’s creative entries in the parade each year. Dave Wells can remember one boat trip which unfortunately went ashore from the start. We all met at Greasewood on an early Saturday morning. Greasewood Flat was to be well represented in the parade by a boat named “The Mardoc.” It...
Seven Short Stories Featuring My Friend “Doc,” Story #4
Charity Auctions at Greasewood Flat By Dave Wells One Sunday afternoon, Nancy and Dave Wells invited their friends, Jim and Marian McIntyre of Mesa, to join them at Greasewood Flat for one of the famous charity auctions. At the time, Jim had a sister visiting from Florida, so we all headed up to Greasewood. The bidding started, fast and furious, and everything was going for top dollar, especially a piece of greasewood autographed by...
Seven Short Stories Featuring My Friend “Doc,” Story #3
Reata Pass – Hell, There’s Two of Them By Dave Wells One Sunday during the summer of 1993, Doc invited Dave Wells to go on a jeep ride through the Bloody Basin and over to Humboldt. Doc had just purchased a new Jeep and wanted to try it out. They started going north through the Tonto National Forest and quickly left the main road. Doc wanted to show Dave a roustabout that he had found. Doc later moved it piece by piece to...
Seven Short Stories Featuring My Friend “Doc,” Story #2
The Burial of Tiger Wells By Dave Wells Shortly after Nancy & Dave Wells moved to Arizona in 1992 with three dogs, namely Rudy, Brandy, and Tiger. Tiger, a 17 year old Yorkshire Terrier, was beginning to show his age, and the painful decision was made to put Tiger down. A few weeks before, Marge had very kindly suggested that when Tiger leaves us, Tiger could be buried in the Greasewood Flat Pet Cemetery. So, we called and Doc and...
A Year of Walking
By Marilyn Schletzer What’s the one exercise that your body was designed for, that you were doing naturally by the time you were a year old, and that you can do even in your sleep? Walking! It may just be life’s most perfect physical activity. You can do it anywhere, it doesn’t require fancy equipment, and you’ll probably be able to do it for many years to come, not to mention the fact that it burns calories, helps lower...
Seven Short Stories Featuring My Friend “Doc,” Story #1
Dave Wells Meets Greasewood Flat, and Some Guy Named ‘Doc’ By Dave Wells Note from Editor. This is the first in a series of seven articles. To read other stories in the series, use the links at the bottom of this article. To mark the closing of Greasewood Flat, The Peak published this series of articles, one article at a time, during the first week of April. Have a story about Greasewood or “Doc?” If so, send...
Artists’ Loft: The Holland Fine Art Gallery
By Natalie Keller I noticed fellow artists were exhibiting at a gallery and discussing it on Facebook. I wasn’t familiar with the gallery and wanted to know more about it; I wondered where it was located. Later, a friend of mine was having an exhibition at the same gallery and my curiosity was peaked again! I went to the exhibition and was impressed by the climate and the activity. I called another artist who was involved with...
History of the Gold Mine Thrift Store
Courtesy of A Ministry of Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church, Cave Creek, AZ By Tony Kulina, December 2013 The roots of the Gold Mine can be traced back to the beginnings of the Good Shepherd of the Hills parish in 1947. The church, originally a mission outpost, was the only one in town and it was meant to be the center of the community serving all the various needs, both spiritual and physical. As with many churches, it was...
Artists’ Loft: Bela Art Studio
By Natalie Keller Bela Fidel is an artist who eventually migrated to the United States from Brazil where she was born. Before moving to the US, she lived and studied in Israel for eight plus years and was fascinated with the architecture of the old homes and the mosques with minarets. She began drawing and painting what she saw and she experimented with different mediums. Bela predominately painted Surrealist style and used her inner...
Your Seeing and Doing
Tell use what you’ve been seeing and doing at home or away. Have you been somewhere special or done something here at home that you’d like to share with others? To contribut to Your Seeing and Doing send a maximum of three large, 72 dpi , 96 dpi, JPEG attachment photos and a description or essay of up to 750 words to info@thepeakaz.org. All submissions are subject to editing. We will contact you when your...
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