Roberto Bedoya: Executive director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council
How do you survive summers in Tucson?
“I lie low and catch-up on my reading coupled with a few vacation days where I get to the ocean and/or a running river.
“When the monsoons arrive, if I’m home… I open the doors and windows and listen to the rain and enjoy that wet dirt smell. No matter where I’m at when the rains come, I take pause of what I’m doing and enjoy this wonderful show of nature. (Finally) I give in to the heat and just slow down.”
Summer tip:
Helene Woodhams, a librarian at the Dusenberry-River branch of the Pima County Public Library, has a slew of suggestions for good summer reads. Among them: “In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette,” a nonfiction by Hampton Sides. Woodhams calls it a “compulsively readable account of an ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole by sea. … Hampton Sides is a master of narrative nonfiction — his research is exhaustive, and his gift for description will give you the shivers — and in a Tucson summer, that’s a treat.”
