Unspoken agreements

It was an unspoken agreement among the 30,000 residents of Sedona to never speak ill of their community. Bad things happened to people who said bad things about Sedona. It was, after all, a land considered sacred by the Native Americans that once populated area.

No one would have lived in Sedona at all if the sluggish National Park Service had acted more quickly or had been more lavishly funded by the United States Congress. With its amazing array of soaring red rock formations, it should have been a national park. By the time this dawned on the people running the National Park Service, too much of the territory was already in the hands of private landowners and the agency didn’t have a large enough checkbook to buy them out and turn the red rocks into a national preserve. Over the years Sedona flourished on its own accord and turned into a community dominated by five groups: retirees, tourists, real estate agents, artists and those who believed in the New Age (a movement characterized by alternative approaches to Western culture, with an interest in spirituality, mysticism and all things holistic).

@copyright/Mike Consol

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