Our Valentine's gifts to you this month include a preview of
the Arizona Water Settlements Act forums in Silver City on Feb. 18. If you've
been confused about exactly what "AWSA" means to you and the water
from your tap, you'll lap up writer Jim Kelly's lucid explanation.
But that's just the beginning, sweetheart. (Read that last
line in your best Humphrey Bogart imitation for full effect.) Also in this
issue, Hiking Apacheria author Jerry Eagan recounts his true-life brush with
disaster on the trail, and how he crawled from a bone-breaking fall to rescue.
Another series, Going to Palomas, continues with a fresh installment of
Victoria Tester's journals and photos from that troubled border town. History
buffs will enjoy a real eye-opener in "The Lost History of Pinos
Altos," as you learn that everything you think you know about that onetime
gold boomtown is, well, wrong. And Jay Sharp continues his chronicles of birds
of the Southwest with a look at the charismatic Roadrunner—the real one, not
the cartoon prey of Wile E. Coyote.
