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Arizona Legends and Mysteries
By Nicole Marques
Christmas season is over but did you know each year the perfect tumbleweeds are gathered to create the 35-foot traditional Christmas Tree in Chandler, Arizona? An event taking place since 1957. About 1500 tumbleweeds (carefully chosen ) are gathered to build the tree who stands 40 feet high! 25 gallons of white paint are needed to cover tree, flame retardant and 65 pounds of glitter! Tumbleweeds (Russian Thistle) actually are not really native of Arizona even though they might be seen as the symbol of the Wild West! ♥ Since we are on the subject of Christmas Trees, every year some mysterious group of people decorate a large Juniper tree around Cordes, AZ. This tradition has been taking place for the last twenty years or so! The identity of the people decorating this tree is unknown, mysterious elves at one point were suggested? Of course we, Arizona residents also report strange groupings of lights in the Arizona night sky on a regular basis! :-) The phenomena known as the "Phoenix Lights" is still drawing questions from people around the world! While visiting Petrified Forest in Northern Arizona, taking a few rocks with you is certainly not allowed but worse, there is apparently a curse and serious bad luck awaiting you! The "curse" legend is still going strong as apparently Rangers at Petrified Forest receive packages on a regular basis with some petrified wood stolen from the site. Apologizing for it people describe the kind of bad luck they experienced while in possession of the stolen rocks! Arizona also is the home of the legendary "Lost Dutchman Mine" in Apache Junction. Did Jacob Waltz, a Prussian Immigrant, found a rich deposit of gold in the Superstition Mountains? Or did he find the Peralta (two wealthy Mexican landowners) mine or find some of the scattered Peralta gold? Is it ONLY a myth? To this day people are still going treasure hunting in the Superstition Mountain! So the next time you happen to visit the State Of Arizona, check out all the places mentioned above and know that we also have plenty of other interesting sites. Arizona has a rich folklore and legends like the "Tombstone ghosts", the "Thunderbird creature" that supposedly had been captured near the town of Tombstone around 1890. A few more ghosts in the town of Jerome, a haunted museum club in Flagstaff amongst others and please don't skip on Westbound legendary Route 66 for many more mysterious surprises and most of all outstanding beauty. My personal favorite: Tombstone is also the home of the oldest rose bush in the world, 120 years old with 800 square feet of roses, holding that title still, in the Guinness Book Of World Records. To be visited in April for the heavenly scent!
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Contributor's Note
The ©2008 personal digital photographs below show the "Tumbleweed Christmas Tree" built each year by the town of Chandler, Arizona.
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This intel first appeared on: http://digitalartofnicolelmarques.blogspot.com/
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http://www.burlingtonnews.net/arizona.html
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Great article with lots of interesting info on Arizona! It's such an interesting place and it's great that some mysteries are still unsolved!
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