Spring 2020 Issue – Joe Wilder’s Farewell

Journal of the Southwest is pleased to announce the release of its Spring 2020 issue, arriving a bit later than usual.  In it is a farewell by JSW’s founding editor, Dr. Joseph C. Wilder, who stepped down at the end of June.  We will miss Dr. Wilder hugely and are profoundly grateful for his creative and steady direction for the past three decades.  Archaeologist Aaron Wright’s essay, “The Stones of Taliesin West: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Petroglyphs of Paradise Valley,’ is an in-depth exploration of a little-known aspect of the Phoenix home of the famous urban planner and architect.

This issue also includes a history of food in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands, a look at cyberpunk and its ties to Chicano culture, and an edited version of Captain Augustus G. Tassin’s 1877 “Account of Natural Conditions and Historical Settlements on the Lower Colorado River.”  Finally, Spring 2020 brings us an edited diary (“A Saguaro Diary”) kept by Joe Wilder’s mother, Judith, from 1938 to 1939, when she and her husband Carleton moved with their young family to a small cabin in Saguaro National Monument East.  Carleton had landed a seasonal ranger post in the monument.  Accompanying the edited diary is a lovely reflection by Judith’s granddaughter, Elizabeth, called “Desert Timepiece.”  We hope you enjoy reading this issue half as much as we have enjoyed putting it together! 

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