Camelback High School - Shield Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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T T The Purple Sky OU61'1l407I7l7l767lT Valley JACK SLRETH Qlaces Gwen Qlicle CQoclQ On dark nights when the wind screams over barren rock and down stark canyons one can almost hear the echoes of the angry seas that raged over the land in remote ages past. This is the high plateau country of northeastern Arizona, land of swirling sand dunes, land of slick rock, land of sun and wind, land of storm and dramatic skies, land of lonely miles and empty distances, a harsh land but a land of bold and pulsating colors, terrifying in a way but above all a land of vivid beauty. It seems as if the story of all eternity can be read here. A fossil deposit tells of oceans that once Hooded the land when earth was a'makingg dinosaur tracks recount days of lush mire when those ponderous monsters were the lords of all creation, a forest of petrified logs is mute evi- dence of swirling floods turning the land topsy-turvy, towering cliffs, sculptured magnificence against blue skies, bear witness to the fury of cataclysmic forces that tossed mountains skyward and gave the land the outward appearance it has today, canyons, cruelly carved in sandstone, form a scroll upon which is written the timelessness and patience of the elements at work on eartlfs crusty surface with their sharp and remorseless tools. Buttes and mesas, leaning against the horizon, are a brooding diary of a million years of the restless wind. Compared to the aeons of earthis story told here, man's history is that of a few happy-lucky- gov moments measured in a handful of lazy centuries. There were the Anasazis, the ancient 0nes,', their mud dwellings in crevices of high cliffs, dusty and sunbaked evidence of their lives and times. Then came the Navajos and then the traders and then the tourists. The land changes, the people change, but only the skies over slick rock never change. The Sappl1ire5 071 the Ledge - Canyon de C belly aw me - :W ' :W- C. F. STOODY 5 f FOLLOXX INK l XXI l ' It Snowtd I fmlV1gl1t ln Mommzem Valley RAY max LP x

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