Feb. 3, 2012 - Drove 37 miles into Benson this morning to look around and see what we could find. (There is a lot of space between towns in the Arizona desert.) We found the Singing Wind Bookshop, a bookstore in two front rooms of a ranch house, down a half-mile dirt road. The 82-year-old ranch wife started the bookshop many years ago to make southwest books available to readers. The books are shelved on thick mesquite boards from floor to ceiling. There was also a Used Bookstore in Benson with a vast selection of books. If we ever choose an area to park our RV for months at a time, I'd stay near Benson so I could keep coming back to the bookstores.
Back at the RV, we relaxed and read before going into Sierra Vista for the main stage performance of the Cochise Cowboy Poetry & Music Gathering. It was a great evening of music, poetry, and stories. We sat next to a woman with a stack of programs on her lap and found out that her husband and his horse were pictured on the cover of the program. We also got to talk to Chuck Pyle (one of our favorite singer-songwriters) and his wife when I was buying his CDs after the show. What an evening!
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| Program for the Cowboy Poetry Gathering |
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