A Visual and Verbal Narrative of Arizona's Salt River
November 12, 2023 – As I kept exploring and researching the Salt River, new places to visit continued to reveal themselves, sometimes in surprising ways. One of these sites, the Tres Rio Wetlands, popped up on my computer one day, and I made a trip to visit it along with a few other places on …
July 26, 2023 – With temperatures soaring past 110 °F in the Salt River Valley the past month, it has been too hot to do any exploring. I felt it was wiser to work indoors on the stack of research materials that are piling up in my office and wait for cooler weather. And then …
May 24, 2023 – The Phoenix-area canals are one of the central stories of the Salt River. Dating back more than 1,500 years to Hohokam times, the story of the lower Salt River is inextricably linked to the story of the canals that are fed by it. No story of the Salt River would be …
February 21, 2023 – The next day we turned our attention from searching for petroglyphs to visiting the ruins of a Hohokam village called Pueblo Grande. (Pueblo Grande has since been renamed S’edav Va’aki.) Pueblo Grande lies in the heart of Phoenix, next to Sky Harbor International Airport. Around 600 CE, the people of the …