Tucson COVID Tales No. 4: Petey Mesquitey’s Pandemic Report, by Petey Mesquitey

Petey Mesquitey was born and raised in Kentucky and came west to attend the University of Arizona. In the spring of 1980, after some years of college and ten years of playing country music in bars around the Southwest, he applied for a job as a laborer in a wholesale nursery. As he likes to say, 40 years on, “Doggone it, I’m still a laborer in a nursery!”

In May 1992 he recorded and aired his first “Growing Native” radio show on KXCI-FM, our community radio station. Every week ever since, to this very day, he has regaled listeners with stories of the flora and fauna found in the wild borderlands of southeastern Arizona.

Petey and Mrs. Mesquitey live on a small homestead near the Chiricahua Mountains with their dogs and cats and various other critters both domestic and wild.

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