George Johnson will discuss clams and pearls during a presentation at the Rockton Township Historical Society on Aug. 25. Johnson, who is now 89, said he remembers when he would dig up clams in the ...

We’ve all heard, or read, about pearl button factories located years ago in many towns along the River, including Montrose.

The morning sun dances off the Verde River on a hot July morning. Nostalgia drove Sray Campanile to travel more than an hour and half from her home in Buckeye to this spot in Tonto National Forest.

The gathering of freshwater mussels in North America goes back into the unrecorded past making the discovery of river pearls date back to prehistoric times. Prehistoric cultural groups of Indians ...