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Matt Jaffe

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 16, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Arizona Highways
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Jul 14, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · By Matt Jaffe | Photographs by Bill Hatcher

    For Heaven's Sake | Arizona Highways (opens the original)

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    Shortly after dawn, the sky swirled with the pink remnants of Hurricane Odile as Father Paul Gabor, S.J., and I headed east from Tucson along Interstate 10. Our journey, first to Safford and then up to the Mount Graham International Observatory, was a modest drive but also a road trip into the universe. An astrophysicist and Jesuit priest, Gabor serves as vice director for the Vatican Observatory Research Group, which operates the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) on Mount Graham. Thi

  2. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · By Matt Jaffe

    The First Photographer of Third Mesa | Arizona Highways (opens the original)

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    To tell the story of artist and photographer Kate Thomson Cory, you start in the middle, not at the beginning. In 1905, Cory was 44, less than halfway through what would turn out to be a long, long life. Small and wiry, with piercing blue eyes and a prominent nose that commanded a pale, serious face, Cory was an accomplished artist in the New York scene and was in her creative prime. She was unmarried — a spinster, in the parlance of the day. Cory worked as an instructor at Cooper Union, a priva

  3. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · By Matt Jaffe

    Thick & Thin | Arizona Highways (opens the original)

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    WHAT A GLORIOUS RACKET IT MUST HAVE BEEN. What an incredible clamor filled a Chiricahua Mountains forest one August day in 1904, when a flock of as many as 1,000 thick-billed parrots (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) descended on Bonita Canyon near Cochise Head. These birds, one of only two parrot species native to the United States, are not the retiring kind. They chatter and call, sometimes in single, high-pitched squawks audible more than a mile away, other times with staccato bursts that many peo

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