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For once in my life as a Moab “Leave it Alone” recluse, I’m taking this opportunity to promote…yes, to PROMOTE! one of the great scenic attractions of Moab, the Colorado Plateau, the Southwest and, indeed, the World! Tribute is long overdue. And I stand humbly in his presence to praise the man who made it all happen…
A grateful community salutes Mr. Tom Arnold, the founder and curator of Tom Tom’s Volkswagen Museum–by his account, the most fantastic collection of VWs in the world.
Some ignorant fools have the temerity to call it junk…
To read more about TomTom and the VW Museum, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/tom-tom-vw-mechanicphilosophereconomistpilottroublemaker-by-jim-stiles/
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Nostalgia, from Greek nostos, a return, and algos, pain or grief. Somewhere in its long journey through languages the word, at least in American English, acquired a shift that turned pain and grief to something like sweet sorrow with an aura of wanting to return to the good old days. That was unacceptable of course, in an era of up-and-at-’em enterprise.
An antidote for such indulgences turned up: You can’t stop Progress. That’s interesting because progress is something quite new, intimately tied to the emergence of “market economy” (aka Capitalism) out of relatively static feudalism. By now, in these enlightened times, we are expected to know that the future is all and what it brings is the best we can expect of all possible worlds. The past is water under the bridge; we must move on…
To read more of Martin’s article, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/losing-solitude-the-importance-of-remembering-things-past-by-martin-murie/
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In the 21st century, it is ludicrous…indeed, quite tragic, to have to defend the actions taken by Congress on August 25, 1916 when it established the National Park System. The American people purposely, in the creation of National Parks, aimed to set aside and to preserve areas of great primitive beauty and scenic grandeur, areas of inestimable aesthetic and recreational value. Each national park or monument has some particular central feature of outstanding beauty and interest, or some prominent theme. The outstanding feature of Rainbow Bridge National Monument in Glen Canyon was the wondrous bridge itself and the adjoining canyons and living rivers. They all were indeed unique to all the world.
The American people directed its agencies to preserve these hallowed areas to keep them unimpaired, and unspoiled, so far as is humanly possible, for the benefit and enjoyment of its citizens and for future generations. It has been a source of inspiration for us all.
For this very reason was the Rainbow Bridge National Monument in Glen Canyon created…
To read more of Ken’s article, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/ken-sleight-remembers-rainbow-bridge/
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That was the case here. “Herb,” I said, “here are some photos of you and two girls on horseback, and in one picture, one of the girls is under her horse.”
Herb smiled. “Yes…yes, I remember her. Her name was Skippy and she was spending the summer in Virginia City. She bet me dinner that she could crawl under her horse’s front legs. As the photo shows, she earned herself a steak.”…
To read more, and see Herb’s classic photographs, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/herb-ringers-american-west-the-woman-who-would-sit-beneath-her-horse/
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On the night of February 7, 1999, three men waited outside a well-known gay club in Salt Lake City. When two men walked out of the Sun, the trio–Brian E. Hitt, 25, Scott Presley, 22, and Jason Millard, 25—allegedly started verbally taunting the men and then physically attacked them. Presley hit one of the victims several times in the chest and face; Millard punched the other man in the face.
The same three are also charged with approaching another bar patron on a different day and asking him, “Are you a faggot?” The victim jumped in his car, locked the doors and the gang started pounding on the car. The man jumped out of his car, ran back to the bar, and called the police. According to police reports, one of the attackers later admitted he had no explanation for the beating and they were just out for a good time. The three pleaded not guilty to assault charges…
To read more of Alexandra’s article, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/zephyr-archives-being-gay-in-utah-for-men-and-women-practicing-an-alternative-lifestyle-utah-is-a-pretty-intolerant-state-by-alexandra-l-woodruff/
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“…this is what is wrong with the conservation movement. It has a clear conscience….To the conservation movement, it is only production that causes environmental degradation; the consumption that supports the production is rarely acknowledged to be at fault. The ideal of the run-of-the-mill conservationist is to impose restraints upon production without limiting consumption or burdening the consciences of consumers.”
-Wendell Berry
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Jordan River
The rule is,
When I name a place
I always mean the one closest to Utah.
So Paris is a small town in Idaho;
The ancient gods dwell on Mount Olympus
high in the Wasatch Mountains;
Moabites sit down to weep by the Colorado River
in the land of redrock;
And Zion is in Dixie,
away down south near the Arizona border…
To read more of Amy’s poetry, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/more-poets-fewer-lawyers-poetry-by-amy-brunvand-5/
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I grow plants in the desert for planting in yards and in unirrigated revegetation project areas in SE and Central Utah. Almost every day from February through October I talk with people about how to water plants – how much, how often, and how it really is possible to kill a plant with too much water.
I know The Zephyr is usually not a venue for plant and gardening advice – and don’t worry, this won’t turn into a regular gardening column – but this topic seems relevant to people all over the west right now. Effective irrigation is relevant to Moab today, with the ground water study finally getting started, and also to areas throughout the West facing drought yet again this year…
To read more of Kara’s article, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/moab-ground-zero-by-kara-dohrenwend/
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