We have been here at least once (I get confused!). I love to read the history of real people in the West. The most colorful are the best.
The one BIG thing I have noticed in out travels is that the West and especially the southwest has so many interesting places that the crowds are smaller. Judge Bean's is not a destination place, but one where you stop, if it is on the way.
An example is the HOT SPRING at Big Bend. That place was hopping years ago, thousands of tourists came here to sit and bath in the 'healing' waters. Sherry and I hiked out to it and sat by ourselves for about 15 minutes. From the hot springs you can put your arm over in the Rio Grande.
But for today we are satisfied to Show Mark the Pecos and a well-kept Judge Roy Bean Law West of the Pecos hall of justice. As most know, Judge Bean was a big admirer of Lilly Langtry. The little community is called Langtry. Roy Bean died 1903 in the little billiard hall adjacent to the court and bar and buried here in Del Rio.
We did not go to the burial site today, but Sherry and I have been there.
Interesting stuff. Look how cute Sherry is!!! Yall keep exploring. We holding things down over here.
I love 'armchair traveling' along with you and your wife. We moved into our new place (temporary for a year) and hope to do a bit of traveling late next year. Hubby has never been west of WI so he has lots to explore. I remember reading about Judge Bean and find the history very interesting.
That is a great view of the Pecos river there. Nice to can enjoy the company of your son on this trip. It's always a joy to have great traveling companions. There is a lot of history in the west and it should not be forgotten.
I know I got the travelers bug due to my lil sis and I having taken our roadtrip through 10 states a month ago. So much to see, read and remember. Our little piece of USA is full of amazing history. I've never been that far south in TX but might have to venture there again. Going through TX is like traveling 4-5 of our smaller states. Hang onto those fine memories. I loved Judge Roy Bean's Jersey Lilly. My kind of place. Enjoy being a tourist!
It looks like a great area to explore! A lot of history down there too!
Great pictures, Jack! All the years I lived in Texas, I never had a yen to explore Judge Roy's stomping grounds. Still, I recall your interest in reading of such denizens. Perhaps, after this getaway, Mark will have a new-found interest like his dad!


Narine bowls a wide and the ball beats the wicket-keeper to race away to the boundary. Not an entertaining match at all as Chennai Super Kings clinched it with seven wickets in hand. They go on top of the table with that victory.
Rash shot from Raina results in his fall. Goes for a maximum over long-on but Piyush Chawla runs well and takes a good catch. Narine strikes!
OUT! A half-tracker from Narine and Watson was on two minds, whether to hit it above the square-leg fielder or play it on the ground. He drags it straight to the fielder. Goes after making 17.
KKR finish with 108/9 on the board.
KKR's last pair has showed more restrain with the bat than most of the other batsmen in the team. Russell was dropped earlier but he has made most of the chance he got. What a knock from him. Fifty from him. A calmn knock this one. They should be happy that they crossed the 100-run mark and also that they were not bowled out.
We will be soon back with the chase. CSK need 109 to win. Won't be too easy.
SIX! In his zone and Russell smashes it over the deep mid-wicket. 25th six of the tournament for him. He is again in pain. His wrist hurts. This also brings up 100 for KKR but it brings worry too as Russell is not comfortable.
DROPPED! Russell gets the second chance, he sat on one knee and wanted to heave it to the leg side, ended up hitting it miles up in the air but did not have the elevation, Harbhajan called for it but could not hold on to it on the mid-on region.
First powerplay up. Just 29 runs and four wickets gone. Trouble for KKR and DK, who is battling this out in the middle. Huge chance for young man Gill to raise his hand and change KKR's fortunes in this game.
Chennai Super Kings XI: Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w/c), Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Scott Kuggeleijn, Deepak Chahar, Harbhajan Singh, Imran Tahir.
TOSS NEWS: MS Dhoni wins toss and Chennai Super Kings have opted to bowl first.
That's all from today. Thanks for joining our blog and hope you have enjoyed our coverage. Not a great game but that's what life and cricket is all about. We will back again tommorow so do join us then. Thank you and good night!
"I knew I'll play a lot of matches this season so I practised a lot. I worked on my slower balls and yorkers. I spent a lot of time with MS while playing TT. I have got to learn a lot from him."
MS Dhoni, CSK captain: Been here (Chennai) for a long time, a lot of good things have happened here including my Test debut. CSK crowd have adopted me. This (track) became like the first game, we cribbed about the track but ended up winning the game. I don't think we want to play on this wicket. It is more difficult when you are batting first. Age is on their (Harbhajan and Tahir) side. Bhajji has done well. Imran has done well. Bowling unit looks good. If boundaries are small, we have to see what is our best combination. Hopefully, Bravo gets fit soon. Imran is a complete package. He executes plans.
Who would be your Player of the Match?
"Not enough runs on the board. It's a tricky game when you don't know what's a good score. We kept losing wickets but credit to Andre Russell for playing that knock. I don't think it was lack of concentration from the boys. Haven't thought about the next match. Will tell my players to forget about today's result."
Despite some tight bowling effort by KKR, in the end job well done by CSK. Faf showed his experience and stayed till the end. He knock did not allow any sort of scare in the CSK dug-out during the run chase.
CSK have now won 16 matches out of last 17 at home in IPL.
Well the match is almost done now. Du Plessis took the initiative after a free-hit and hit two back-to-back boundaries off Gurney. They just need four now to win the match.
Short ball but no trouble for du Plessis. He pulls it to the fine-leg for back-to-back boundaries.
Both CSK batters are now showing intentions of not dragging the game too far from here. Just formalities left now. I have to say, under the circumstances and with the wet ball, KKR bowlers have done well to hang around in this match thus far.
Free-hit and du Plessis makes best use of it. Full toss from Gurney and the batsman sends the ball over covers.
Last over from Prasidh Krishna. After two singles, du Plessis tries to up the ante but he doesn't get the boundary. He cuts the third ball and runs two while the fourth ball is sent towards covers for another two runs. The final ball also results in two runs thanks to some good running between the wickets.
16 require from last four overs.
Change of ball due to dew. Chawla bowls and Ambati Rayudu looks for a big shot in the first ball, goes for the drive and ends up sending the ball into the air. Prasidh Krishna runs well but drops the catch. But it doesn't matter much as Rayudu goes for a horrible-looking slog in the 4th ball and gives away his wicket. New batsman Kedar Jadhav starts off his innings with a four. An eventful over!
Off with a four! Kedar Jadhav finds the gap over deep mid-wicket and sends the ball to the boundary.
Kuldeep up for his final over. Faf du Plessis does well to find space on the off side and he runs two. The wrist-spinner gives away four runs in the over and his bowling figures for the match reads 4-0-16-0.
At this point, it is too easy for the two CSK batters to rotate strikes and get close to the target. Surprised to see Karthik is not bringing more fielders inside the circle. He needs to find ways of blocking these singles.
Chawla comes to bowl his third over. Sensible cricket from du Plessis and Rayudu. They know the target is not big and on this pitch, you need to keep check on the big shots. Chawla concedes five singles in the over. Time's running out for KKR here. They need to find ways to pick wickets.
KKR need to rethink their strategy!
Narine comes back into the attack. A slight misunderstanding during running between the wickets almost proved costly. Nothing significant happened as both batsmen complete the single. Six balls and five singles.
Kuldeep continues from the other end. Faf du Plessis aims to break the shackles and suceeds. Pierces the gap between long-on and deep mid-wicket with precision and gets the much-needed boundary. Six runs from the over.
Faf du Plessis goes for the leg-side and beats the long-on fielder with a crisp shot.
Harry Gurney comes to bowl his first over in the match. As expected, starts with a slower delivery on the leg side. The batsmen seem content with taking singles. Rayudu gets a four finally after he beats the fielder on the off side with his trademark cut. One more single from the final over. 10 overs gone, CSK need 52 from the next ten.
Slower ball from Gurney but it's wide and Rayudu beats the point fielder to get four runs.
It will be interesting to notice how Harry Gurney bowls on this pitch. The slowness on the surface suits his kind of bowling. With his cutters and slower one, Gurney can be hard to pick.
Sluggish track, sluggish over-rates, sluggish cricket.
Kuldeep Yadav with his second over. The slow nature of the pitch and the turn is making life difficult for the batsmen. They are struggling for timing, but the main thing is CSK have wickets in hand. Just three singles from this over.
Piyush Chawla back into attack. Faf du Plessis tries the scoop off the first ball but there's just no pace in the delivery. Just two runs from the shot. He connects the fourth ball with a sweep but the fielder is there at the right spot. Three runs from the over and CSK need 63 from 72 balls.
Kuldeep Yadav comes into attack! Watchful cricket from both Faf du Plessis and Ambati Rayudu as they don't want to take any risks against the wrist-spinner. Just three runs from that over.
It was a brilliant ground work by Piyush Chawla to take that catch. Another threat removed by Narine and KKR still in the hunt. Now, it is all about how Kuldeep bowls here. On this pitch he is expected to make trouble the batsmen. But, so far in this IPL, the left-arm wrist spinner has struggled with his length and speed. He needs to raise his game tonight.
Prasidh Krishna bowls a no-ball after three good deliveries. The free-hit results in a boundary with Rayudu picking the slower ball and sending it to the mid-wicket boundary. Just five runs from the sixth over.
Free hit! Slower ball from Prasidh Krishna but Rayudu picks it and sends the ball over mid-wicket.
Superb second over from Narine. He creates pressure in the first five balls, conceding just two runs, which includes a wide. Raina looks to break the shackles in the final ball with a maximum over long on, but he fails to time it and Piyush Chawla takes a good catch near the boundary.
Ok, Narine has struck. Watson was hitting the ball cleanly and taking the game away. That wicket keeps KKR in the match. However, Raina has got into his strides quickly. Looks like CSK want to finish this as early as possible. The visitors need 2-3 more wickets in quick successions in order to make this game interesting. Karthik needs to attack with Kuldeep.
Some pace from Prasidh Krishna. Starts off with a 144 kmph ball which results in two runs. Raina sends the fourth ball to boundary with his typical shot over covers. Prasidh comes back well to concede just two runs from the final two balls.
Sunil Narine is off to a good start in his first over. He removes Shane Watson albeit from a half-tracker, but then concedes a six against Suresh Raina. Raina does well to make some room and send the ball over long off.
Suresh Raina is off the mark with a maximum. Makes some room and sends it over long-off.
Prasidh Krishna gears up for the second over. He starts off well and concedes just two runs in the over. Two good balls from Krishna as he beats du Plessis with pace and bounce.
An eventful first over. Chennai opening batsmen Watson start off with 12 runs. The first ball goes for a four thanks to a terrific cover drive from the Australian. He picks two from the second and a six from the fifth ball. The ball was bit short and Watson pulled it over deep mid-wicket. Good batting from the Australian.
SIX! A bit short from Piyush Chawla and Watson goes on backfoot to send the ball over deep mid-wicket.
FOUR! First ball and a boundary from Shane Watson. A good cover drive!
Shane Watson and Faf du Plessis walk to the middle. Not a big target but it can be tricky because of the nature of the pitch.
It is the sheer brilliance of Russell, which has helped KKR to cross the 100-run mark. But overall this has been a poor outing for the KKR batters. They should look back at their shot selections. On a pitch like this, some of the top-order batsmen should have taken their time early.
Well, 108 is certainty a below-par score, especially with the heavy dew around. But Karthik should look to drag this game as long as possible, from the net run rate point of view.
IPL 12 Match 23 CSK vs KKR at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai: GAME OVER!
Narine bowls a wide and the ball beats the wicket-keeper to race away to the boundary. Not an entertaining match at all as Chennai Super Kings clinched it with seven wickets in hand. They go on top of the table.
IPL 2019, CSK vs KKR, Today's Match Preview: Match number 23 of IPL 2019 will see the two top sides of the tournament so far battling out in the middle at the MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai. Dinesh Karthik-led Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), who currently sit at the top of points table, will take on MS Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings (CSK), who are placed at second position. Needless to say that the two teams have been playing the best cricket in the current season.
For KKR, both batting and bowling have clicked in the 12th edition of the tournament. Andre Russell, however, has been one of the big factors in their successful campaign so far. Other batsmen like Nitish Rana, Chris Lynn and Robin Uthappa have participated with good contributions. Sunil Narine, as usual, has been dangerous for opponents at the top of the batting order. In Prasidh Krishna, Karthik always has a bowler he could turn to at any stage of the game and with Harry Gurney performing well in his debut game in IPL against Rajasthan Royals, his worries have lessened with the bowling unit. KKR have always been a very good spin bowling attack.
Chennai have a great side too. Dhoni, however, would be worried for two reasons. One, the Indian pace bowling department has been not up to the mark. Shardul Thakur and Mohit Sharma have leaked runs every now and then. He would want them to be a little disciplined. Second, the absence of Dwayne Bravo, who is out for two weeks, was felt in the last game by CSK. They would want someone else step up and be counted when the situation arises.


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In an effort to theorize educational logics that are oppositional to capitalism, this article explores what it means to study like a communist. I begin by drawing out the tight connection between learning and capitalism, demonstrating that education is not a subset but a motor of political-economic relations. Next, I turn to the concept of study, which is being developed as an educational alternative to learning. While studying represents an educational challenge to capitalism, I argue that there are political limitations to studying for which we need to account. Specifically, studying is not in itself political, but only represents the possibility of politics. To make this claim and to address these limitations, I turn to Jodi Dean's work on the communist Party. Dean posits the Party not as a master, director, or prophet, but as an infrastructure of affective intensity that maintains a gap in the order of things. I show that the Party is one way to organize and to defend study. Throughout the article, I illuminate the ways in which educational philosophers can contribute to political movement building by showing, developing, and refining the educational components of politics that many organizers and theorists neglect.


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From Phoenix to Flagstaff, I-17 is home to interesting exit signs with the names of random, small towns throughout Arizona. Most places are fairly well known to Arizona residents, like Black Canyon City, Camp Verde and Munds Park. However, other places remain a mystery to the typical driver, whether the person is an Arizona native.
Just over 70 miles from Phoenix lies an exit with a McDonald's, a Shell gas station, a Subway and a Family Dollar Tree. Ask anyone, the majority of people will refer to it as Cordes Lakes or Cordes Junction, the turnoff you take if Prescott is your destination.
For others, the turnoff is more than a rest stop. It leads to home.
Home is a place that's not exactly a city, but not really a town either, considering the population is currently a whopping 72 people that fluctuates consistently.
This place holds an idea, a dream, a theory all developed by one Italian architect by the name of Paolo Soleri.
This place is called Arcosanti.
Nestled on 25 acres of 860 acres of preserved land in the somewhat dry, central Upper Sonoran grasslands, Soleri purchased the mesa in 1969. Construction started in 1970, and it's been continuing ever since.
To fully grasp the idea of Arcosanti, one must go back to an era of hippie communes, utopian communities and bell bottom jeans.
Soleri was born and raised in Turin, Italy where he spent the first 28 years of his life. In 1946, he received his doctorate in architecture from the Turin Polytechnic and then traveled to the United States the following year to work under Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West in Arizona.
Upon returning to Italy in 1950, Soleri was in charge of a large ceramics facility. Here, he learned how to create exquisite ceramic and bronze bells, which are ultimately a primary funding resource for Arcosanti today.
After six more years in Italy, Soleri finally settled in Scottsdale in 1956, Arizona with his wife, Colly. Here, he established the Cosanti Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to education, exploration, and experimentation with urban planning.
This urban planning derives from Soleri pursuing a philosophy he developed while working with Wright called arcology. It literally means to mesh the ideals architecture and ecology together.
The idea of arcology stems from an alternative idea to the hustling and bustling cities most Americans see littered across the US. A quick, seven minute video presented to tourists at Arcosanti, explains how cities are decaying at a rapid pace due to mass urban sprawl. As the US built out around the time Soleri began Arcosanti, the cities were seeing decay, the presence of community between people lacked significantly, and relying on cars became the norm.
Soleri's answer to urban sprawl was massive beehive megastructures with multidimensions and layers throughout that were built vertically in order to prevent using land mass.
"He was influenced by the architecture of medieval market towns, European Italian hill towns," said Christopher Alexander, a local designer in Flagstaff who spent time at Arcosanti in the '80s.
Soleri attempted to take this vision to a whole new level when sketching his arcology city. In his book, The City in the Image of Man, Soleri's sketches show how he implemented different aspects of a city, like parks, shopping, agriculture and living spaces, into a high-density structure.
The start of these structures took place at Cosanti in Scottsdale back in 1955. At the time, Scottsdale wasn't the bustling city it is today. In the '50s, it was a sprawling Sonoran desert filled with abundant fruit orchards and horse stables. When Soleri began to build Cosanti, the city of Scottsdale was beginning to grow to the size it was today. Soleri described how he could see the construction moving closer on his skyline.
The word Cosanti comes from the Italian terms "cosa" and "anti," and when put together, it means, "before (or against) things." The chosen name represents Soleri's idea of abandoning materialism and embracing and preserving the nature that surrounds human beings.
Cosanti was also Soleri's home, a place where architecture was the main focus and the ceramic and bronze bells were made daily. Like Arcosanti, the bio-climatic environmental structures located just off Double Tree Road on a 5-acre piece of land is largely unknown even to Arizona natives.
The site has five different apses, a semicircle structure typically found in churches, and other unique architectural structures, each with its own purpose. The apses are there specifically for passive heating, collecting the energy from the sun as it rises and sets. The rest of the buildings are arranged in a specific manner, such as building below ground level while surrounded by heaps of earth in order to keep buildings insulted enough to retain heat in the winter, and to cool down the interior during the summer.
To build these apses, Soleri used an earth-casting technique that's also used with the ceramic bells. Essentially, concrete is poured over previously shaped molds in the earth. Once it's dry and solid, the concrete is dug out from the earth, revealing the apse that's left.
These apses are also seen in Arcosanti, and they are just the beginning of his vision for the massive, beehive-like structures seen in his sketches and models.
The general perception of Arcosanti is a mix of suspicion or appreciation. Many people who have studied Arcosanti or Paolo Soleri have an admiration for Soleri's ideal for an urban laboratory. However, people who have visited the property and only once, or have just heard rumors, have a negative view of it.
Soleri is controversial in some ways. Not necessarily for the presence of Arcosanti but for the original design of it. The original design of Arcosanti looks like something out of the Star Wars franchise but much, much larger.
Local designer, Christopher Alexander's perception of Soleri's arcology models reflect those of many who walk through Arcosanti.
At Arcosanti, there is a large model in the visitor's center showing the vision of a 5,000 person city. Alexander explains the scale of the structure does not work for a population of that many humans.
Regardless of criticisms, Soleri and made sure to travel back and forth between his home at Cosanti to Arcosanti often. He began construction in 1970 and the property has been in constant construction since then. Soleri worked on the project from 1970 until his death in 2013.
The buildings are not professionally — meaning they weren't built by certified and professionally trained construction workers or contractors — built because for over four decades, Soleri enlisted other architects, students and volunteers from all over the world who simply believed in the idea to help him construct his arcology town. Arcosanti was Soleri's baby: A forty-something year-old child that he poured his heart and soul into for the sake of mankind.
Then Arcosanti has lost its father. Paolo Soleri passed away April 9, 2013, and with him went the passion, backbone, and ideology of Arcosanti.
Left are the people. The people who believed in him. The people who were inspired by him. And the people who decided to take a chance on him and on a sustainable community in central Arizona.
For now, each person does his or her part in order to work toward the future of Arcosanti, and to attempt to achieve Soleri's dream.
How much money does it take to run an experimental city?
For any non-profit organization, finances are an important factor. For a non-profit organization like Arcosanti, finances mean everything.
One of the first questions asked about Arcosanti is how it survives.
Looking at its financial statement from 2014, the Cosanti Foundation has a revenue of approximately $1.2 million, and about $7.21 in assets. For a place that's constantly building itself, you'd think there would be more money in the bank.
Clearly, this is one of the setbacks that Arcosanti faces.
A second question asked about Arcosanti is what and how it receives this $1.2 million each year, especially because visitors can go there for free.
Arcosanti refers to its income as an annual operating budget. About 25 percent of this budget comes from contributions and grants. The rest of the income comes from various categories.
In the hospitality sector, Arcosanti receives about 35,000 visitors a year. However, only 11,000 of these visitors take a tour.
Site tours are $10 for students and $15 for regular visitors. It also offers architecture and planning tours that run $15 for students and $25 for regular visitors.
About 35,000 visitors end up eating at the Arcosanti café for either breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
Breakfast is continental at $5 a person, and then lunch and dinner are both $10 for an all-you-can-eat buffet.
The more expensive tourist part are the guest rooms, but there are only about 3,000 overnight stays annually. These rooms range based on size and bathroom options, and all come with a complimentary continental breakfast.
If a single traveler wishes to stay, his or her options range from $30, $35, and $40. This changes based on the room size, small or regular, and if the bathroom is shared or private.
The double occupancy rooms also range, but from $40, $45 and $50. Once again, the room size of small or regular and shared or private bathrooms play a factor in price.
The next option is a room with kitchen that comes with twin beds and a private bath for $65, no matter the occupancy.
The last option is the Sky Suite and it runs for $100 a night. This allows for multiple people (sleeping pads are offered), as well as a living room, kitchenette and two bedrooms.
Other ways Arcosanti makes money for accommodation is off of co-use money from the residents. Typically, this is about $200 a month for each person.
After tourism and hospitality, there is the sale of goods, such as the bronze and ceramic bells.
The bells are made both at Cosanti and Arcosanti. Bells are sold at various ranges, from double digits to tens of thousands of dollars.
Arcosanti residents and employees will say the bells are the number one source of commission. However, in regards to revenue on the financial statement specifically for goods (bells, tiles, other items sold), the non-profit showed up in the negatives for at least $3,400.
When asked about records of financials, Sue in the archive room claimed they didn't have any officials records because they didn't keep track of that section of the non-profit. This seemed very peculiar considering the archive room kept track of basically everything else involving Arcosanti, Soleri and Cosanti.
Perhaps the bells help provide for the workers, but in reality, there is no evidence it's actually helping Arcosanti survive.
The real funding behind Arcosanti are the workshops and educational programs provided.
There are nine workshops throughout the year, programs varying from five weeks, two weeks, and one week.
A five week workshop will cost someone $1,750. A two week workshop costs $1,075, and the one week workshop costs $700 because it's only a seminar.
Also, participants must put down a $50 deposit when applying for workshops.
These large fees cover the registration fee, meals, accommodation, tuition and the 'Arcosanti' experience as a whole.
Out of the approximate $830,000 under "program revenue," about $270,000 of this is from the accommodation category. The other $560,000 is from the workshops and any of the educational programs provided to schools and participating organizations.
The rest of the money lies in assets, meaning everything Soleri owned and everything the non-profit handles, such as the land of both Cosanti and Arcosanti, as well as Soleri's house and vehicle.
On the other hand, the expenses almost outweigh the profits.
The most money goes to paying out employees for wages, salaries, and benefits, as well as higher up officials and directors. The rest of expenses lies in fees such as occupancy, advertising, office expenses, and travel.
As a total for 2014, the Cosanti Foundation spent about $1.1 million, leaving about $116,000 to play with.
For a non-profit focused on education and construction, that isn't much money floating around. If it wasn't for the workshops, Arcosanti may cease to exist.
However, Arcosanti is attempting to make strides.
For instance, it just partnered up with a university in Scotland for a study abroad program for architecture and engineering students. These students would live at Arcosanti for a semester, help out around the site, and ultimately learn how to build using arcology methods. And most importantly, this provides more income for the non-profit.
Another way Arcosanti attempts to make money is by having various events every year.
The site is known for having concerts, art shows, and festivals that are usually open to the public.
In April there is the Arcosanti Bluegrass Festival where attendees have to pay $10 to enjoy.
Some events, however, like Italian night, offer dinner and a concert which costs $40 per person.
Depending on the type of event, the ticket costs range from free, to about $85 which are typically for symposiums. Additionally, most of the events offer dinner, which helps add to Arcosanti's revenue.
After crunching the numbers, it makes sense why Sue never really wanted to keep track of financials.
The Cosanti Foundation might as well be on a ventilator, because it's barely alive.
Walking around the site, it's very possible to imagine. But after talking with residents, you'd think it was flourishing.
Unless a massive donation falls into the Foundation's lap, it's doubtful any progress will ever be made at Arcosanti.
When residents wake up in Arcosanti, they may be in several different places on the site based on their seniority. There are roughly 72 people of varying ages and backgrounds currently living in Arcosanti. Residents who have lived here since the urban laboratory's inception in the '70s are most likely in the best housing, while newer residents live in the smallest conditions. The better housing consists of sprawling lofts or multiple-roomed family housing, the smaller housing are smaller cubes.
If they are taking their workshop, they will be in the dorms, an area within the main site but still fairly isolated from the rest of the living quarters. The workshops are a program Arcosanti runs to teach participants about the concept of Arcosanti, learn about construction and the arcology — the mix of ecology and architecture.
Almost all current and former Arcosanti residents took a workshop before deciding to apply to live in Arcosanti. The registration fee is $50, a one-week seminar is $650, a two-week workshop is $1,025 and a five-week workshop is $1,700. Workshops can range from just one or two people to over 50 and a lot of the people on the workshop are international architecture or sustainable communities college students.
Sue, a return resident of Arcosanti and the manager of the Arcosanti archives, rooms full of Soleri's old materials, drawings and sketches, had her workshop in 1978 and it was fairly similar to the structure now. She says she owes her interest in Arcosanti to one thing.
Sue moved in a couple months after her tour and has lived in Arcosanti on and off since then.
To actually be considered to live in Arcosanti, prospective residents must write a letter of intent stating why they want to live here and what their role in the project would be. The project is sometimes how the people of Arcosanti refer to the property as if it were something constantly changing and something with a finite end date.
"We don't encourage slackers or you know people that just want to come and hang out," Sue said.
However, she said when someone is here for five weeks it becomes obvious whether or not they are able to get along in Arcosanti. The letter of intent goes to the community council, which a group of people who live on the property, deal with the day-to-day activities at the site and are separate from the Cosanti foundation.
Within a few weeks they will hear whether or not they are to become Arcosanti's newest member.
If they are a new member, then they are probably located in Camp, an area a couple hundred feet away from the site. Camp is where most of the younger and newer members of Arcosanti live and because of this it has more of a party atmosphere than the rest of the area.
Most people at Arcosanti, whether they have lived there for 20 years or two months have probably spent some of that time in Camp. Isaac, 21, a current Arcosanti resident for almost four years, spent his first two and a half years at Camp.
Most members of Arcosanti who lived in Camp at one point or another talk about it with this kind of wistfulness. "Camp" is a fitting name for it as it seems to conjure up feelings of nostalgia. Camp is, at least in terms of location, isolated from the rest of the worksite and unlike the rest of the site it is residential only.
"When we have quiet hours, usually we just go down to camp and continue the party there," said Laura, a resident of Arcosanti for three years and a tour guide. She also lived in Camp at the beginning of her residency here.
If they are living in Camp, then they may be living with several other people. Each bedroom space is an 8x8x8 cube and then the living area, bathrooms and kitchens are all shared spaces. As of March, 2016 there were 19 people currently living in Camp. Each individual space in camp is made to hold four separate people.
However, some newer members such as Clark, 28, instead live in the smaller housing all over the property. The 28-year-old has lived on the property since November of 2015 and lives under the visitors' center in a small cement room. The room resembles a prison cell without the window bars. The walls are cold and the room echoes with every sound.
If they are an older resident in Arcosanti — older meaning they've been on the property for a couple of years — they could live all over the site. Isaac, lives next to the vaults, while some other members live under or above community buildings.
If they have been here for the longest time — including the two residents living in Arcosanti since the '70s — then they live in the best possible housing. This housing may include loft-style with one bigger room room or with many separate rooms like a traditional house. Some of these housing options overlook one of the main amphitheaters or they may be more isolated and include a backyard.
Also unless they are one of the oldest — meaning they've lived here the longest — people here, they probably live with two or three other people. These people can be random roommates, close friends, their family members or their romantic partner.
Arcosanti, at it's most populated, has held 180 to 200 people. In this situation, residents were camping out next to the site in the desert instead of living inside the actual site. According to Sue, the site could comfortably house 150 people.
Chihiro, a part-time resident who did her workshop in 2006, works nine months of the year as a tour guide and spends the rest of her time volunteering in the archive room. She is part of the alumni group Japan and takes tour groups from Japan to visit Arcosanti.
When an Arcosanti resident says, "bye I'm going to work!" at Arcosanti, they may need to specify which job they are going to. Most people in Arcosanti have more than one job. For instance, many people might volunteer their time in the archive room or in public relations while also being paid as a tour guide or as a cashier in the cafe.
Also they may be a part-time, full-time or volunteer worker, which determines how much they pay for rent. If they volunteer 40 hours or more a week, then they don't pay rent. Full-time volunteers also have their meals subsidized.
"You're not really making any money but you're not necessarily spending any money either," explains Bemesderfer.
If they are a part-time worker, something they call 2020, they are most likely working part-time in the cafe or in the foundry while volunteering the other half of their time. This schedule is flexible so they could be volunteering and working as much as they want. If they are doing this, they pay about $200 a month in rent. This is the plan many of the Arcosanti residents use.
If they are a full-time worker, like Sue, then they pay the highest amount for housing but they are making a living wage. They are most likely employed as a manager of a certain part of Arcosanti, like Sue.
"The whole project is based on us bringing to it, not taking away from it," Sue said.
Both of these incomes, part-time and full-time, are fairly small. Part-time pay is minimum wage. But according to the residents, people come here to live not to make money.
"There's an understanding that you aren't going to be making $20,000 a year," Clark said.
And technically none of these people are actually paying "rent" they are paying a co-use fee, which is legally different. Also they could be employed by two different companies.
They may be working for Cosanti Originals Inc. This includes residents working making the Soleri windbells in the foundry or the ceramics studio, or working in the cafe as a cook or cashier, in the gallery doing tours or register, or guest services. If they are employed by Cosanti Originals, they are most likely being paid for the part-time work.
If they are employed by the Cosanti Foundation, then they are a little more rare. The Cosanti Foundation is where most of the volunteers work, however, paid positions are available for management. The Cosanti Foundation has: planning, construction, maintenance, agriculture, landscaping, archives or the information office.
And of course, they may just live at Arcosanti and be working on their own projects. Many residents are writing books, working on art projects or even independently studying architecture.
If they are a child in Arcosanti they may attend school. There are only three families currently living in Arcosanti and only two of those families have school age children. One child is homeschooled in Arcosanti while the other one goes to school in Mayer, which is the nearest city. When children go to school in Mayer 17 miles away, which several have throughout the years, they are either driven or bike to Cordes Junction so they can be picked up by a school bus.
Or they may be like Isaac and be in college. He attends Yavapai College in Prescott, so he has to leave Arcosanti four days a week. The site offered him an interesting housing opportunity as a way to work and live in Arizona while gaining residency.
He plans on leaving Arcosanti within six months to attend Northern Arizona University.
And no matter who they are in Arcosanti, they are attending daily meetings at 11:45 a.m. in the vault. Residents call out "morning meeting" in a sing-song voice all around the property. Non-residents are usually not allowed at morning meetings but tours sometimes go through there.
During these meetings, residents do make announcements, usually concerning workshops they are holding, welcoming new members and saying goodbye to departing ones. There are healing, welding, architecture, cooking, yoga, health and even essential oil workshops that residents were holding for the benefit of other residents.
During morning meetings, members are scattered all around the amphitheater area, sitting on the ground or on benches or parts of the dome-like structure they are under. No one person controls the meeting, although a lot of the main news comes from Arcosanti co-presidents Jeff Stein and Mary Hoadley.
Residents may fall in love and start a family at Arcosanti. Some residents, such as Clark, have a long distance relationship outside of the site. But many people meet a future spouse or partner here. Bemesderfer met her partner here and eventually moved with him to Portland.
Sue is a part of a three-generation family that resides in Arcosanti. And according to her, quite a few people meet, marry and moved away and started families after living together at Arcosanti.
But no matter how long they've been in Arcosanti, what housing they live in or what job they have, they feel that sense of community.
While Arcosanti is mainly known for its prolific leader, unique architectural style and ecological focus, the experimental city has a long and checkered history with music. This history includes multiple large music festivals in the '70s, a giant-car fire igniting the grasslands outside of the site and an annual exclusive three-day EDM festival.
In the early years, the festivals included more than just music. Arcosanti festivals were always themed and included workshops in addition to the concerts. In 1976 and 1977, Arcosanti held its first two festivals. Jackson Browne headlined the first two and they drew around 5,000 people each time.
"[The festival] would bring together a lot of people who ordinarily wouldn't meet each other or be talking to each other," said Arcosanti President Jeff Stein.
However, the first two festivals were nothing compared to the third in October of '78. Instead of the Jackson Browne as the sole headliner, the festival featured Stephen Stills, Todd Rundgren and Richie Havens. And instead of the 5,000 attendees, the festival attracted triple that amount with 15,000 people.
"The Arcosanti festivals brought together thinkers and doers, philosophers, artists, performing artists ... and the '78 festival really did that," Stein said.
The Oct. 7, 1978 festival was a two-day event featuring 25 performers of jazz combos, theater troupes, file singers, a laser light show and instrumental guitar groups. The headliners closed out both days: Stephen Stills on Saturday and Todd Rundgren on Sunday. The site was so incredibly crowded there was barely enough standing room, even for residents.
During Ralph Towner's solo guitar set on Saturday, several loud cracks, pops and bangs went off in the makeshift parking lot. The Arcosanti site sits on six or seven acres while the whole property is around 860 acres. Because of the 15,000 attendees, there were cars parked tightly on almost every part of the land.
"A lot of these cars in that era were first generation catalytic converters which got really hot in the cars and so during the middle of the concert these cars started exploding," Alexander said.
There is no official record of the fire. According to an article by the AZ Edge, neither Yavapai County Sheriff's Office, Mayer Fire Department, the Central Yavapai Fire District or the State Fire Marshal's Office has anything on it. However, the article also reports that volunteer fire departments from Mayer and Black Canyon City responded.
According to witness reports and articles from the time, one car went up in flames triggering many more. In the article with the AZ Edge, Stein said 55 cars exploded while other accounts say it was between 126 and 180 cars.
Firefighters had to hold back festival attendees from checking on their cars. Fire crews finally extinguished the flames around 7 p.m. that night. No one was injured in the fire but many cars were damaged or completely destroyed.
"The rumor was—and again I don't know if this was true—that after that the Yavapai county outlawed outdoor concerts of a certain scale," Alexander said.
The fields outside of Arcosanti were littered with car parts for years afterward: old tire parts, smashed radiators and charred bumpers. According to Alexander, the Cosanti Foundation had to pay out settlements to all the car owners and they weren't finished with these settlements to until the early '80s.
"We had an unfortunate experience last year with the fire and we're not prepared to have a full-scale festival this year," Colly Soleri, Paolo's wife, said in September 1979.
The annual arts events came to an end in the mid-'80s. Soleri and other leaders believed these would be the last of the large scale festivals.
These festivals had several unintended positive aspects as well. During Alexander's time in Arcosanti, those excess car parts were used for artistic purposes.
"For years there used to be all these rusted car parts out there. There was a sculptor who used to turn some of that stuff into art," Alexander said.
Alexander also described 'techno sweats' which was when residents would heat up the old car parts in Camp and use them to make a sweat lodge.
Arcosanti's festival days seemed over until Kate Bemesderfer and the band Hundred Waters visited Flagstaff. Bemesderfer came in 2012 to work for Arcosanti as public relations. At the time, Hundred Waters was working on their album and asked Bemesderfer if they could have a concert on the site. For that three-day show there were 500 people, mostly residents, and friends and family of the band.
That was the first FORM event and, now in 2016, the amount of FORM attendees is up from 500 to 1,200. Even after Bemesderfer left the site, she continued to work on the project until it became the annual three-day event it is today.
While Arcosanti may never have the scale of the infamous '78 festival, they are branching out into music once again. Also, despite major headliners such as Skrillex and Bonobo, the concert is relatively small, especially compared to other festivals. And most residents, such as Isaac and Clark, like the smaller size.
"If you've got 10,000 people watching you, then you can't really be yourself or try new musical things. And when it's only a smaller group they're more open to trying new things," Isaac said.
FORM is also completely free and people attend by applying. FORM is reminiscent of the old concerts, just with EDM instead of rock 'n' roll. Some of the older headliners are even returning to play again.
Will the urban laboratory survive?
The question that pops up time and time again is: will Arcosanti survive? Did Arcosanti die with Paolo Soleri?
According to people both inside and outside of Arcosanti when Soleri died, the whole organization — both former and current members — grieved heavily. Soleri died at the age of 93 and his death was somewhat expected. He had been mostly hands-on until the end but had passed his control of the project to a group of co-presidents.
"It was kind of like when a grandparent passes away," Isaac said.
Shortly after he passed away, they held a memorial service inside the actual town. Former members and residents gathered together to celebrate the life of the influential man.
In a way, it seems as if the current and former residents of Arcosanti as well as their supporters are looking for a new champion for the experiment. Jeff Stein one of the presidents of Arcosanti now but he is more often than not referred to as the sole president. Stein is part of a seven-member committee that is in charge of the Cosanti foundation as well as the residents of Arcosanti.
The committee consists of co-presidents Jeff Stein, Mary Hoadley — who lives on the site and has been with the Cosanti Foundation since 1970 — Tomiaki Tamura and Roger Tomalty — also the husband of Hoadley. Russell Ferguson and Matteo DiMichele are also board members who work outside of the site.
However, Stein is seen by the residents as the de facto leader. He moves from Cosanti to Arcosanti in the same way Soleri would. But according to some residents, he doesn't have the same kind of power Soleri had over the site and it's future. Although Soleri has passed away, he still holds the power over Arcosanti.
Soleri is still actively part of everything Arcosanti does. During tours, Soleri is the main subject, and he is the main focus.
Genius is word thrown around a lot about Soleri. Residents and visitors always use it when referring to him, especially in terms of his architecture projects. When Soleri was alive, he would meet with the residents of Arcosanti at least once a week. He traveled up from his home in Cosanti, where he did most of his architectural and writing work. During these visits, he would walk around to the different departments and ask questions, get to know volunteers and ask if they needed help.
"He made himself very much available to people," said long-time resident and archive manager Sue.
He would also have something called School of Thought in the afternoon. This is where residents, former residents or even some visitors and tourists could ask him questions. According to Sue, there would always be these burning questions that were explored and they were all filmed. There are at least 12 years of films and one film for each weekly visit. When residents talk about these visits they do with a nostalgic smile, it is so evident they treasured those hours.
Yet, every article that talks about Arcosanti always addresses whether or not Arcosanti is a failure. Was Arcosanti the exact place that Soleri envisioned? The answer to that isn't clear.
Arcosanti does not house the 5,000 people Soleri had originally planned and four decades later his idea has clearly not spread so heavily that buildings are now constructed in his vision. Also some believe now that he has died, Arcosanti will be stunted. According to Alexander, Soleri never wanted to sell his project and would prefer that the project stay with his residents.
Many people even say Arcosanti was a failure before Soleri died, and that the prime of the experiment was in the '70s when it was first being built. A Wired article in April of 2013 described it as a failed experiment. That it had already died in the '80s.
McGirk spent time in Arcosanti when he was just an 18-year-old architecture student. He said later in his article that the project that is Arcosanti had been undone by the people who lived here. However, despite his criticism, he did say he suspects Soleri's time would come.
Alexander looks at Arcosanti in this way too. He is both hopeful and doubtful for the future of Arcosanti. He values his time there, but he believes that now Soleri has died Arcosanti and the site of the project will not continue.
But how do we measure failure? For the most part, the members of Arcosanti seem satisfied with their life. Most members actually believe Arcosanti would not be the same if it had a larger population and structure. Clark, a current five-month resident, and Kate Bemesderfer, a former 20-month resident, share this belief.
According to the people living there, Arcosanti is doing fine. They constantly have people cycling through the project as well as core members from the '70s and '80s staying consistent. The community still thrives although the overall goal may not.
"There was also this thing between Paolo and the people who live there, where the people who lived there wanted him to acknowledge and recognize that there was a community there already. And he always kind of had the point of view that the community is not really happening until the architecture was finished," Alexander said.
What also thrives are Soleri's ideas. His arcologies maybe be futuristic and sometimes overbearing, but his ideas of shrinking sprawling cities and reducing the impact on the environment have stuck around. His ideas ideas have especially taken flight with Dutch and Japanese architects. If you travel to each of these countries, you might something that looks like Arcosanti.
Maybe of the residents — current and former — see his ideas as discussion topics instead of hard-and-fast rules. Soleri's presence in the architecture world may have changed things for the better.
So when asking the question: is Arcosanti a failure?
Arcosanti is a different place at night. Because they are so isolated from any major city, the stars are very clearly visible from the sky. The surrounding valley is lit by the bright and numerous freckles of stars in the sky. It's almost magical.
On the roof of the east crescent amphitheater, residents sit on the Sky Theater. Huddled up together in blankets they watch the night sky, sometimes pointing out important star formations or sometimes just in silence. Their view is open, there are no buildings obstructing them, and they can see an expansive scene of the outcropping mesas. Soleri, when he was alive, would watch the stars with them in the same state of wonder.
The feeling of community is so strong when they are here, when they are silently gazing toward the heavens. All these individuals many times give up their jobs and houses to come here and be a part of this tight-knit group.
This powerful scene isn't visible to passersby on the freeway unless they turned off on Exit 263 and saw this great experiment for themselves.


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