What History Has Taught Me: Scott O’Connor

What History Has Taught Me: Scott O’Connor

I grew up in Paradise Valley, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, in an adobe home my parents built in 1958 for $12,000. Mom and Dad helped incorporate the Town of Paradise Valley in 1961. My mother always told me: “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything.” The best way to be authentic is to say what you mean and mean what you say. The biggest break I ever got was being born into a pioneering Arizona family with two overachieving pa…