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Hummingbirds galore
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The Independent - London
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June 16, 1996
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Copyright informationCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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WHEN Shirlene DeSantis's parents died eight years ago, she
inherited a tumbledown mountain house near Arizona's Mexican
border. She was in her late forties at the time, living in Alaska,
and fed-up with the northern dark. So she traded her job for
sunshine and moved into the old family home on the edge of Ramsey
Canyon. But work in Southern Arizona is about as plentiful as
daylight in Anchorage. The canyon had only one thing going for it,
hummingbirds galore. So why not, Shirlene deduced, convert those
hummingbirds into cash-cows?
"That," Shirlene explains, "was how the world's first
hummingbird b&b got started." She tugs vaguely at her springy red
hair, points to the mass of birdlets ...
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