Marla Gaines Lawrence remembers walking Gilbert’s dirt roads as a child to head to Good Eats Dairy Bar for cheap burgers and root beer sold by the gallon. Gaines Lawrence, born in Gilbert in 1955, lived there when the town that now boasts more than 275,000 residents was still a rural farming community, with a single streetlight, nestled on the outskirts of Phoenix.
In our 2022 Culture issue, out April 24, T followed a group of artists musicians, chefs, designers, writers and others throughout the course of a day, exploring the intimate moments of their lives that contribute, in ways small and large, to their creative process.