Lawrence Cheek

Jul 18, 2023 | arizonahighways.com | Lawrence Cheek

Back in the summer of 1977, John Schaefer would sometimes slip out of his Tucson office in the middle of the workday, drive the dozen-odd miles to Mission San Xavier del Bac and spend a couple of hours photographing the lovely 18th century church.

Jul 14, 2023 | arizonahighways.com | Lawrence Cheek

The first time I visited Tucson, in 1973, I stayed in a comfortable downtown hotel, interviewed for a reporting job in a downtown newsroom and went for a downtown walk with the city editor. He showed me the new art museum and symphony hall, an ambitious new maze-like shopping and office complex, and a surrounding ring of historic neighborhoods that seemed primed for a preservation wave.

May 4, 2023 | woodenboat.com | Lawrence Cheek

One spring afternoon in 1928, The Seattle Daily Times dispatched one of its reporters—a “veritable landlubber,” in the writer’s self-description—to amble over to nearby Lake Union Dry Dock Co., step aboard an imposing 42′ motoryacht, and with a few minutes’ instruction, drive the vessel across Lake Union, navigate the Seattle Ship Canal and the Ballard Locks, then motor 4 miles across Puget Sound to the nearest island.