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Last year, I became aware of a new (at least to me) environmental/progressive activist in Moab named Darcey Brown. She’s become a voice for “New Moab” and has been a frequent contributor to the Letters section of the Moab weekly, the Times-Independent; I read, with curiosity, her inflammatory public comments. And when a few Moabites told me she’d come from a prominent family in my favorite New West town Aspen, Colorado, I decided to respond to some of her remarks via a short essay in The Zephyr.
LINK: http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/06/01/take-it-or-leave-it-on-the-facts-darcey-brown-moab-then-now-by-jim-stiles/
I didn’t get angry or call her names. In fact, I even suggested that she probably “meant well.” But I took issue with Brown’s claim that grassroots environmental groups lived in semi-poverty and offered some hard financial numbers (via the IRS) for the likes of SUWA and the Grand Canyon Trust. I also noted that, coming from a very powerful and wealthy Colorado family–her father played an influential role in the Aspen ski industry— it might be difficult to relate to the issues and concerns of working class people in Grand County. And I noted that she manages a non-profit foundation herself, with assets of almost $5 million.
In response, Ms. Brown went through the roof…
To read more of Jim’s article, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/a-reply-to-darcey-brown-and-the-insularity-of-the-erudite-part-1-by-jim-stiles/
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Pete and I were married at La Sal, June 7, 1933 by Bishop Leland Redd. Pete’s Father and Mother and two of his brothers and his sister and my Dad and his five younger children and my two children were there at the wedding. It was a nice day and the sheep were feeding in a big field close by so Felix could be with us too.
As soon as the wedding was over Pete and I took the sheep back to Coyote Wash and spent our first few days of married life at the sheep camp. What a way to spend a honeymoon. But then people did a lot of things they would not have done if we had not had that depression…
To read more of Verona’s Personal History, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/my-personal-history-part-8-verona-and-pete-get-married-by-verona-stocks/
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Click the image below to see how the Meador House has changed over the years…
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/before-after-the-meador-house/
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AN EXCERPT FROM HIS JULY 15, 1979 ADDRESS TO THE NATION:
“In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.
“We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.”
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http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/blog/2012/12/20/jimmie-carters-speech-human-identity-is-no-longer-defined-by-what-one-does-but-by-what-one-owns-july-15-1979/
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Excerpt:
For years now Jim Stiles has been writing about the metamorphosis of Moab, Utah, from an isolated yet welcoming uranium mining village to a high end municipality: welcoming to streams of tourists yet unaffordable for mere mortals to live in. And focusing particularly on the economic boom that has made it so. The increases in two-to-four wheeled traffic and visitation that have accompanied this juggernaut have obliterated the treasured spiritual solitude that Arches and Canyonlands national parks once offered while leaving their physical beauty untouched (good for smart phone photographs).
As he says, the amenities economy has come…
To read more of Scott’s article, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/green-vinyl-liberalism-adventures-in-erstwhile-change-by-scott-thompson/
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“Warp speed space travel that will allow us to travel between galaxies could be a reality in the next 100 years…This is according to Professor Geraint Lewis, from the University of Sydney, who claims the idea of warp speed is, in theory, possible.
He claims the futurist concept was part of Einstein’s theory of relativity, which describes how we can bend space and time.”
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3203772/Warp-speed-reality-100-years-Star-Trek-like-travel-galaxies-possible-claims-astrophysicist.html
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