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I had already seen some nervous advertisers who took no comfort in our message and, as early as 1995, efforts to boycott The Zephyr and our advertisers had started. In one of my more defiant moments, I wrote, “If you’re an advertiser in this paper and you abhor the bizarre collection of opinions expressed herein, if you believe your association with this publication is destroying your reputation, if you think that the Zephyr has destroyed the local tourist economy by single-handedly altering international travel trends, then I think you have no choice but to withdraw your advertising immediately.” But, I warned, “remember this: if we really do have the power to alter international travel trends, we also have the power to turn you into a toad. Fair warning.”
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In the background, beyond the moonwalkers, he could see the endless empty, lonely, lunar landscape. Terra incognita. The first extraterrestrial wilderness area. How the kid envied them for that singular sensation. The ultimate solitude.
He didn’t know it at the time, but in just a few hours, the Kentucky Greenhorn would experience his own remote lunar landing…
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Lately, I’ve been thinking about St. Louis. It was surprising how long the news lingered on that Midwestern city this summer, after the shooting of Michael Brown. Surprising that we all lingered there, as a country, for a span of a couple weeks, to witness the anger and the confusion of a community that had long been broken, but only now had managed to push that brokenness into the sightline of the larger American culture. We witnessed it. I heard that word–”witness”–so often in the aftermath of Brown’s death. “A witness reports seeing x;” “Members of the press witnessed the police doing y;” “We protesters are bearing witness;” “Our viewers are witnessing this tragedy;” How passive it sounds, to witness. To just happen to see something. To be standing there, in the line of sight, as an event occurs. To consent to see what’s happening in front of you. Not to change anything. Not to stop anything. Just to see.
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A few months ago, as the reincarnation of the old Book Cliffs Highway project raised its head again, I read a comment from Castle Valley Mayor Dave Erley, who wrote, “I would like to add the irony of watching the 7 member council, we threw out the 3 member commission for proposing the same road, unanimously pass support for the feasibility study.”And when former councilman, and now candidate again, Chris Baird recently initiated a recall to remove Council chairman, Lynn Jackson, from office, he wrote, “For many, this is deja-vu. Grand County has been through this before. And, we know how to deal with it.”Well…that’s not quite right. Both Erley and Baird are invoking events of the past to explain their own actions; the problem is, their interpretation of Grand County’s history is not just inaccurate. It’s wrong. It isn’t what happened. Fortunately, there is an excellent record of the facts as they occurred between 1989 and 1993—from this publication. So let’s get the facts right…
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