Podcast – Ep92: Bruce Aiken: The Artist Who Lived At The Bottom Of The Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon Hiker Dude Show For 33 years, Bruce Aiken and his family called Roaring Springs home—5 miles and 3,500 feet below the North Rim. From maintaining the park’s lifeline water system to creating world-renowned paintings of the Canyon, Bruce’s story is as [...]
Podcast – Remembering the North Rim with Bruce Aiken, on Arizona Highways
Arizona Highways Podcast In Episode 19 of the Arizona Highways podcast, host Steve Goldstein and Arizona Highways editor Robert Stieve talk with artist Bruce Aiken in the wake of the devastating Dragon Bravo Fire, which destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge, many of the historic cabins and so much [...]
Re-Entry
By Bruce Aiken In the late fall of 1974 my wife, Mary, and I had just completed our second season at Roaring Springs. The National Park Service had laid me off from my job at the pump house in late November. Job prospects were grim, [...]