but it’s not the wound that matters, it’s the soul, the soul that must be heard not the wound -Anne Michaels a last fish There was another creek on the other side of the mountain where I…
Elsewhere…by Damon Falke
Month: June 2018
(From June 1994) MOAB’S PORK BELLY HOUSING BOOM…by Jim Stiles
2018 PROLOGUE: My worries about housing prices in Moab and my community’s future, back in 1994, seem almost quaint when placed in today’s context. But this was the beginning of the change, the transformation–the transmogrification— that put Moab on a…
The Disaster at Cane Creek: An Excerpt…by Kymberly Mele
Kymberly Mele recently published Disaster at Cane Creek, a book about the tragic 1963 potash mine explosion near Moab, Utah. A narrative nonfiction, the book details the dramatic events that took place at the new Texas Gulf Sulphur potash mine…
A History of Dewey, Utah… By Herm Hoops
The bridge is gone, the station is gone. The people are gone, and what is left is concrete, asphalt, concrete and sameness! Not much is left of Dewey, Utah is along the Colorado River near the Dewey Bridge. Originally named…
SPRINGTIME IN MOAB!
We’ve talked about the crowds in Moab and at Arches National Park recently. But where is the “empirical evidence?” Thanks to the web cameras along US 191 (courtesy of UDOT) and a web camera at the Arches NP entrance station,…
Herb Ringer’s American West: HERB RINGER REMEMBERS CAMERON, ARIZONA —from the 1940s & 50s
“The first time I stopped at Cameron was when I had my 1946 Ford. It was going to be a long drive, from the South Rim all the way to Kanab. And so my father suggested we stop. We noticed…
BEFORE & AFTER: PAVING THE DELICATE ARCH ROAD AT ARCHES NP…1993
In 1993, Arches National Park started paving the Delicate Arch Road. The section from the main park road to Wolfe Ranch and the trailhead was paved that spring; the viewpoint road faced the asphalt a year later. While I worked…
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