My favorite book is Michener's Centennial. I like an author who can draw you into history through family lines stretching over decades or, better, centuries. I even commissioned artist Detha Phillips from Sedona to do three big oil paintings of scenes from Centennial expressly for me back in the late 1970s. They are still among my favorite artwork. I remember when Lake Havasu City was known officially just as Site Six and why. (The Army Air Force acquired it as an emergency landing during WW


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