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24 November, 1981 If you hold out your hand, cup it deeply, and then tilt it so it slants toward you, it will resemble nothing so much as a great, wrinkled canyon. Where the fingers join the palm, Sedona nestles quietly into the lower end of Oak Creek Canyon, slashed into the southern margin of the Colorado Plateau and merged into the northern reaches of the Verde River Valley. It has a pleasant country highway that makes a great tour of the valley, then circles up and around the long meadows on the lower slopes of Mingus Mountain. It climbs sharply over a ridge and is gone into the tree-studded slopes of the country beyond, leaving the little, almost-hidden place to its own devices. Fifteen years ago, Sedona was a small, unincorporated place with a population of 1,200, retaining much the same pace and atmosphere as when it was founded in 1902. The days and the seasons moved along with an unhurried gait. In the past decade, the little town has grown in much the same way: It has retained the slow pace and the understated, quiet, Western atmosphere. I reached the coffee shop and thumbed idly through a sheaf of post cards while I waited for a pot of tea and my 10 o'clock appointment. "Just look for an old cowboy," he'd said. He shambled in, a few minutes late, and recognition came easily. Bob Bradshaw—writer and photographer—has served as liaison, stand-in and movie
From left: One of Sedona's children enjoying an Oak Creek apple. Bill Garland with a local weaver. Ray Glade, local historian and author. Mary Margerite with the tool of her trade. Desert 25
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