
Sedona & Beyond I
Five pages are listed on the banner at the top of the Home page which capture a few highlights of a recent road trip to Sedona, Arizona. Jerome (located in the Black Hills of Yavapai County, Arizona) is an old mining town said to be haunted. Several photographs capture old buildings and equipment of the late nineteenth century copper mining era. Lake Powell is an artificial reservoir formed by building a dam across Glen Canyon (Page, Arizona) which created the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Lake Powell). Montezuma Castle National Monument (Camp Verde, Arizona) are multi-story dwellings within the concavity of a carbonate (limestone) ridge built by the Sinagua people, a pre-Columbian culture closely related to the Hohokam and other indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States, between 1100 and 1425 A.D. (Anno Domini). Sunset Creter National Monument (north of Flagstaff, Arizona) is a 340m/1,120 ft high cinder cone located within the San Francisco volcanic field. The roughness of the terrain fabric is composed of Aa basaltic lava flows, and is well-captured in the photographs. Tuzigoot National Monument is located east of Clarkdale, Arizona. It was built and inhabited by the Yavapai: ʼHaktlakva, Western Apache: Tú Digiz; between 1125 and 1400 C.E. (Common Era). The structures are 120 ft/37 m above the Verde River floodplain.