The frail figure in black flitted from a plain, flat-topped desk to a red velvet Victorian sofa to a wooden garden bench. Some of the words she spoke were prose, some poetry; many sounded strange ...

She says people call her "The Hat Lady." Ball caps, straw hats, cowboy hats and crocheted hats — Barbara Russek wears them all, and as Tucson prepares for another sweltering summer, she hopes ...