Arizona Illustrated

Episode 624

Re-opening During a Pandemic (short pkg) We hear from small business owners in Tucson about re-opening at this time. Sugar Hill Neighborhood association president, oral historian and local archivist Sadie Shaw gives us an intimate look inside Tucson's historically black Sugar Hill neighborhood. Art Interrupted UA students in the BFA and MFA arts programs have been working hard all year to have their thesis projects exhibited at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, only to have their shows upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Bono Buys Gleeson Vietnam veteran and former Gleeson, AZ resident, Joe Bono, shares his personal history with the once thriving mining town and how he came to be the owner.