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The Tellin' Takes Me Home
Remembering the Canyon Country...#4
Thirty year Moab resident Bill Benge died
in 2006, but I just recently discovered an old box of his color slides.
I've started scanning them and am pleased to share the first batch with
Zephyr readers. You may spot some familiar faces among the red
rocks...JS
photographs by BILL BENGE
Bill, in deep thought, above the Colorado River. The guy immediately to his right may be IZZY NELSON.
A young and skinny world-class climber BEGO GERHARDT
* "THE TELLIN' TAKES ME HOME" By Utah Phillips
And I'll sing about an emptiness the East has never known,
Where coyotes don't pay taxes and a man can live alone,
And you've got to walk for ever just to find a telephone.
It's sad, but the telling takes me home.
From Renny Russell, the author of...
"Renny Russell's Rock Me on the Water is
at its heart courageous. To return to the same power of nature that
took his brother thirty years previous—to be with it, to confront it,
to take solace in it, and to be inspired and healed by it—is remarkable
in itself. His book is, as well, a testament to the evocative rhythms
of the wilds. In this complicated dance, this profoundly personal
journey, Renny Russell also gives us an amazingly spirited tour of one
of the truly great landscapes of the American West and a keen
understanding of its power to shape a life."
Robert Redford
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