Forty
years ago, stifled by life in a small Michigan town, Jacqueline
Guevara's vibrant, fun-loving mother loaded her 1972 Cadillac Coupe
de Ville and hit the road with her teen-aged daughter for a new
start in Palm Springs. Driving into this desert oasis was Jacque's
first experience with desert.
Cathy
Snodgrass was born and raised near Galveston, Texas. Her first
experience with desert was watching western
movies.
In
1976, driving through what was then Joshua Tree National Monument,
Cathy rounded a mountain and found herself looking down on the
'quaint' town where she and her then Marine husband
would...