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A
Sense of Place
from Minding A Sacred
Place by Sunnie Empie
Photography by Hart W. Empie |
"Must
sell my beautiful pile of boulders near
Carefree, Arizona," read the August 1974 advertisement in The
Carefree Enterprise, a small community newsmagazine. The caption was
an eye catcher to Hart W. (Bill) Empie, a
third-generation Arizonan who has an affinity for the high country
of the Sonoran Desert. I share his enthusiasm for open spaces. Bill's
Arizona beginnings are in his blood memory, and he longed to return.
His father, Augustus W. Empie, was born in Arizona Territory before
statehood, and Bill was born in Safford, Arizona. For him, the call
of the desert was loud and clear." |
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"In
the distance, we finally caught sight
of the enormous outcrop of boulders thrusting upward from the relatively
flat desert terrain. It was beautiful, but this was no mere 'pile
of boulders.' The spectacular congregation of stone dominated the
landscape with its majestic presence. An awesome sight and, certainly,
far beyond our expectations as to what we would encounter on our
desert adventure. The jumbled mass of stone covered nearly an acre
of land and included some monoliths that towered as high as a four-story
building."
"We
stopped the car. Without a spoken word,
Bill and I knew that we had found our special place."
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Minding
A Sacred Place is 210 pages, 10.08" w. x 12.32 h. x .97",
with 150 four-color photographs, captions, bibliography, index, and Library
of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Boulder House Publishers,
2001. The stunning jacket is matte finish with embossed varnished image
and embossed lettering. ISBN 1-931025-03-7 $60
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to Order
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