From Mudd, Stiles and the Heath Monitor Files… Computerised contact lens will keep you up to date with news and texts Imagine catching up with your texts, social networking and perhaps the news without having to log on…
Young Ballerina Young Ballerina… As Hitler’s troops advanced, the Russian Ballet troupe was evacuated from Moscow. Half of the dancers went to St. Petersburg and half to Perm. After waiting out the war, the company returned to Moscow. but families…
Welcome to the Dimformation Age! notes from the desk of Ned Mudd reporting from the crawlspace of history “Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as…
The View From Above A 1957 aerial photograph of Arches National Monument, including Abbey’s trailer. U95 bridge at Hite in Glen Canyon A new million dollar home, built on SITLA lands near Moab. Tarantula Mesa, just east of the…
The Wilder West: The Art and Wit of Dave Wilder Occupy Christmas Occupy Christmas ‘Twas some months before Christmas when all through the Land People took to the streets with signs in their hands. They…
The Zephyr Gets Married! Though many people thought that pigs would fly before my husband married, Jim and I tied the knot on October 1st, surrounded by our nearest and dearest friends and family. It was a warm and breezy…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT: UTAH WILDERNESS DEBATE…part 1 “Does Anybody Still Care?” –By Jim Stiles The Utah Wilderness Debate reminds me of the Vietnam War. For those of us who lived through that strange time, it was one of…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please be sure to read Lynn Jackson’s “Wilderness Quandary: Does ‘Pretty’ Make Wilderness?” elsewhere in this issue. The retired Utah BLM staffer offers his views on another aspect of the wilderness debate–the nuts and bolts of the…
February 2, 1968 In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover. -Wendell Berry I can’t help but…
The Wilder West …the Art & Wit of Dave Wilder “Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower “The future ain’t what it used to be.” – Yogi Berra When I was…
DAY of SEVEN BILLION by Kathleene Parker The United Nation’s choice of October 31, 2011, as the “Day of Seven Billion”—the day when Earth will attain a population of 7 billion—is spooky beyond just its falling on Halloween.…
“Offshore wind is one of the very few things that makes nuclear power look cheap.” Professor Dieter Helm, an economist from the University of Oxford. BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14412189 In 1995, no state had an obesity rate…
SHELL HIGHWAY MAP…1934 Before there were iPods or WiFi or cell phones or Sirius… or even FM, there were AM radio stations scattered across the country… Shell Oil compiled a list of stations for interstate travelers… (Click the photos…
I n s t a n t M o a b …the Polaroid Wizardry of Terry Knouff Dugout Ranch – As I was walking through the luscious brush, I came upon a magnificent rock-mass. It was as if it…
On the Consistency of Bullshit: an Ever-Swirling Tale By Scott Thompson I think that at least 90% of what the public sees about climate change on television or reads in right-leaning books and publications is bullshit. And by that…
State Of Nature, II A few years ago Bruce Anderson printed a piece of mine, “State Of Nature,” in his fine paper, the Anderson Valley Advertiser. Well, the situation has gotten worse, much worse. The state of nature…
POINT BLANK THE HOUSE on ALMOND AVENUE (You can never go home again) by Greg Gnesios The little house on Almond Avenue was a quiet and welcome sanctuary when I most needed one. I rented it when I first moved…
MY PERSONAL HISTORY Life & Times in Southeast Utah by Verona Stocks EDITOR’S NOTE: When Verona Stocks died in June 1993, she left a big hole in Grand County. Born on April 1, 1905, Verona watched southeast Utah transformed…from a…
Magoo “Magoo, my toy poodle, is now 13 years old. When he was 3 years old I heard of an organization called WAGS, which stands for Wonderful Animals Giving Support. It is a group of…
THE WILLOWS of LA JARA CREEK Following Ghosts Along the Old Spanish Trail by Loch Wade There is nothing remarkable about La Jara Creek. There are hundreds of minor tributaries in the San Juan basin, or even in the…
“IT’S THE AESTHETICS, STUPID.” (Or is it?) By Jim Stiles Many years ago, during one of my first trips to the canyon country, I made the dusty drive to Grandview Point on the Island in the Sky. The road…
The sun was especially hot one day last week. I was up early to watch the village wake up and to watch the clouds grow and shift, building up into the afternoon thunderstorms I have learned to expect daily…
THE WILDERNESS QUANDARY or Does “Pretty” Make It Wilderness? By Lynn Jackson, BLM, retired Are you confused by the wilderness process? I’m confused. Do you wonder if it will ever be resolved in Utah? I wonder. Let’s start at…
