PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
"AUTHOR ELIZABETH ANNE DEWVEALL JONES has been playing the flute since her days when growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation at the Kaibeto Trading Post. A lifelong Arizonan with an interest in the state's past, she also became a source for history of the Kaibito region for the period since 1936, when she was born to trader parents. Childhood activities and observations on the reservation -watching Natives and Anglos interact with and among themselves and with their land and livelihoods, witnessing extremes of weather, exploring the desert landscape, learning some Navajo words and about Native customs as well as her own, herself trading as a young merchant, and imagining-all this was the early learning foundation for Elizabeth Anne's life. Formal schooling both on and off the reservation and at times at home in the trading post were added, some of it in Leupp and much of it in Winslow where she lived with her Aunt Zada's and Uncle John's family during the academic year, going home to the trading post for holidays and summer vacations. From Winslow High School she went on with her education at Arizona State University and Northern Arizona State University where she took courses in the flute and journalism. Married, she went back with her husband to manage the trading post where she grew up. Remarried, she lived for a time in Leupp, where many years before she had gone to school with her Aunt Zada as her teacher. She has provided memories and historical photographs to the Old Trail Museum of Winslow and contributed letters to Arizona Highways. Elizabeth Anne now lives in Mesa, Arizona, surrounded by friends and family members including three children, five granddaughters and twelve great grandchildren. We editors have as our main qualifications having experienced the Kaibeto Trading Post as boys when Anne was growing up and keeping ""in the loop"" with our cousin who lived there while also receiving family letters telling of the family's daily lives about what seemed to us adventures. The Reverend Bob Jones is a minister living in California at Guerneville on the Russian River who has written varied books on religion and reports of the lives of those in his home town and in Scranton, Pennsylvania as well as a long stint writing a newspaper column. We editors have as our main qualifications having experienced the Kaibeto Trading Post as boys when Anne was growing up and keeping ""in the loop"" with our cousin who lived there while also receiving family letters telling of the family's daily lives about what seemed to us adventures. Bill Jones worked as a geologist and for the National Park Service as a ranger and naturalist and park planner with assignments that included Canyon de Chelly and Chaco Canyon parks on the Navajo Reservation and has also been an editor and a published author of magazine articles and books."
"""Intriguing"", as one museum curator called Elizabeth Anne's account, a ""project of such historical merit and deep personal interest!"" noted another reviewer. ""Her life story is fascinating and she was a witness to an important aspect of US-Native history...the memoir should be published,"" from one university editor and this from another, ""Elizabeth Anne experienced an unusual and special youth that, beyond an individual life, can reveal much about Kaibeto and Navajo life in the mid-twentieth century..."""
