Producer Margaret Dillard has been involved with local television since the late 1980s. Host Gary Dillard started his journalism career in Cochise County in 1971.
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For more information on Sierra Vista visit the city’s website.
If you want to learn more about cowboy action shooting, go here. For Arizona clubs affiliated with the Single Action Shooting Society, go here.
A show of Ted DeGrazia’s Bisbee-related art is under way at the Muheim Heritage House in Bisbee. DeGrazia married into the family which owned many of southern Arizona’s movie houses and spent a few years running the Lyric Theater in Bisbee in the 1930s. During these years, he painted some uniquely Bisbee works. The Muheim House is open Friday-Tuesday, 10-4. Guest docents include:
• Jan. 30: Ted DeGrazia daughters, Lucia DeGrazia and Kathleen DeGrazia Bushroe;
• Feb. 7: Richard Graeme, Bisbee native, senior vice president, Lumina Copper S.A.G. Lima, Peru;
• Feb. 13: Lance P. Laber, executive director, DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, Tucson, on authentication of DeGrazia paintings/prints;
• Feb. 20: Christine Rhodes, Cochise County recorder, Larry Elkins, Bisbee photographer on documentation of DeGrazia Bisbee properties.
The Tombstone Association of the Arts Annual Quilt Show gets under way Jan. 28 and runs through Feb. 24. Held at the Tombstone Art Gallery, 317 E. Allen Street, the show features original modern and traditional quilts of all sizes and patterns. Some are for sale and some are family heirlooms and are for display only.
According to the calendar at the Land of Legends website, with which you will want to become familiar, there’s a “cowboy/cowgirl roundup” Sunday at the Singing Winds Book Shop at Benson. (Here’s an old story from the Arizona Republic.) It starts at 1 p.m. and will feature an afternoon of readings and music by poets and writers who will satisfy your cravings for western history and culture. Admission is free.
Keep in mind the Bisbee Chocolate Tasting, a fund-raiser for the Copper Queen Library in Bisbee, will be held Feb. 13.
And the 18th annual Cochise Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering is almost at hand. It will be running Feb. 12th through 14th this year. This major Sierra Vista event got its start back in 1992 through the efforts of John Shaver and Bud Strom and has grown into an event that draws thousands of afficianados to Cochise County.
We closed out the calendar of upcoming event featuring another musical group with ties to Cochise County, Desert Reign, which also has achieved national prominence. The country gospel group will be performing Saturday night and Sunday morning at the First Baptist Church in Bisbee. In early January, Desert Reign did a week-long revival over in Tombstone, where we shot the accompanying footage. And next month, Feb. 1st, 2nd and 3rd, it’ll be back at the Tombstone Baptist Church by special request and the following week, Feb. 7-14, will be doing a revival at the First Southern Baptist Church up in San Simon.