Tag: the calm before the swarm

The Calm Before the Swarm #3—“What Can We Steal Today?”…by Jim Stiles

by stiles • April 1, 2012 • 4 Comments

Many Moabites were not quick to embrace the Mountain Bike Phenomenon. Local businesses geared to tourism were the first to see the benefit and tolerated the invasion, if not fully embracing it. Old Moab was not so generous. These guys…

THE CALM BEFORE the SWARM #2: The ‘Joy of Being Poor’ Gets Run Over By a Bicycle…by Jim Stiles

by stiles • February 1, 2012 • 0 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: For Part One of: ‘The Calm before the Swarm,” go to: http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2011/12/01/the-calm-before-the-swarm-by-jim-stiles/ After decades in operation, the Atlas Uranium Mill, once the lifeblood of the community, ground to a halt, closed in 1984 and never re-opened. The domestic…