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April/May 2021

The April/May Issue of the Zephyr!

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 0 Comments

In this Issue… Take it or Leave it: A Personal Postscript to Bill Davis’ DOXOL FIRE Story …by Jim Stiles Safe at Home: Learning to Love Baseball …by Tonya Audyn Stiles “(Still) ‘Enough Rope’”: (A Reporter’s Moab Memories. 1978-1984) #7…

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April/May 2021

Take it or Leave it: A Personal Postscript to Bill Davis’ DOXOL FIRE Story …by Jim Stiles

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 3 Comments
Damage at the Slickrock Campground. Photo by Jim Stiles

Regular Zephyr contributor Bill Davis sent us an extraordinary detailed account of one of Moab’s worst disasters, the Doxol explosion and fire on July 31, 1981. Bill was the chief reporter for the Times-Independent and his story in this issue is the…

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April/May 2021

Safe at Home: Learning to Love Baseball …by Tonya Audyn Stiles

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 5 Comments
The Reds and the Giants. Crosley Field. Cincinnatti. Photo by James Stiles, Sr

Either you learn to love baseball as a kid or else you don’t learn to love it. Right? It’s just too big. It’s like any other behemoth cultural institution—Catholicism, for example. I can speak to this as a Catholic. That…

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April/May 2021

“(Still) ‘Enough Rope’”: (A Reporter’s Moab Memories. 1978-1984) #7 The Doxol Fire …by Bill Davis

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 1 Comment
The strain of the long night of the Doxol fire can be seen in this photo of two Grand County Fire Dept. volunteers. Flames can be seen around the propane storage tank in the background, but much reduced in size from the peak of the fire.

Author’s note: One of the major “news values”—factors that generate media attention—is “impact”: How much of your audience is affected, and to what extent? A low-impact story, such as a flood of sewage into the basement of a single home,…

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April/May 2021

The Slovenly Wilderness: Anatomy of a Zoom Town …by Stacy Young

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 10 Comments

A year ago, I wrote about the development of the Little Valley area of St. George in southwest Utah. What I tried to do in that piece was use words, pictures and numbers to provide a specific example of what…

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April/May 2021

Our Friends Were Dearer Then: Doc and George Bell …by Jim Stiles

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 4 Comments
Doc (right) and George (left) Bell. Photo by Jim Stiles

While sheer numbers of tourists can overwhelm the most patient of park rangers, even I would acknowledge that among those masses could be found some of the best people on the planet.  I haven’t worn a badge and a smoky…

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April/May 2021

THE OPEN ROAD: Motel Signs …Words and Photos by Paul Vlachos

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 2 Comments
Moab, Utah - 2002. Photo by Paul Vlachos

# # # # # I would like to say that my whole photography career began with shooting motel signs, but that would be a lie on a few counts. First, it’s not really a career. Not a paying one,…

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April/May 2021

In Town …by Damon Falke

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 1 Comment
"The Port." Photo by Charlie Henry

Here we are at the end of March, and I am thinking about December. Well, not really December. I am thinking about town and how I sometimes go there to write. Town can be a location and an idea. In…

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April/May 2021

Finding Value in Hardships …By Harvey Leake

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 1 Comment
Stuart Young’s photo of the expedition members just after they forded the swollen San Juan River. Back row, left to right: Byron Cummings, William Blum, Neil Judd, Edgar Lee Hewett, Dogeye Begay. Front row: Malcolm Cummings, Randolph, Donald Beauregard, and John Wetherill.

The most inaccessible, least known, and roughest portion of the Navajo Reservation is bounded by the Navajo, Colorado, San Juan, and Piute canyons. […] Buttes, mesas, and small domes predominate and are so tightly packed that the base of one…

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April/May 2021

THE MOTORSHIP GILA MONSTER & OTHER ADVENTURES, 1948-49 …by Gene M. Stevenson

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 0 Comments
Prospector Marshall Long showing boys how to pan for gold in La Plata Creek

The following excerpts are from the book: CANYON COUNTRY EXPLORATIONS & RIVER LORE: The Remarkable Resilient Life of Kenny Ross, by Gene M. Stevenson. The book was written about Kenny Ross, one of the forgotten personalities on the Colorado Plateau…

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April/May 2021

ZEPHYR AMERICA: Canyonlands National Park with Edna Fridley

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 0 Comments
Angel Arch. Canyonlands. 1970. Photo by Edna Fridley

Our regular readers know that we began a new project at the Zephyr in the past year–called “Zephyr America.” We’ve been slowly wading through the massive Zephyr archives of historic photos and digitizing them to share with our readers. To…

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April/May 2021

What I Learn from Watching The News…with Walter Cronkite …by Jim Stiles

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 1 Comment

I have always been a news junkie. I grew up with Huntley/Brinkley and Walter Cronkite. It was always a matter of debate in our family, and others as well, whether Cronkite was a Republican or a Democrat. The consensus over the…

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April/May 2021

“IT’S THE AESTHETICS, STUPID.” (Or is it?) …By Jim Stiles (FLASHBACKS #1 OCT 2011)

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 1 Comment
The Latigo Wind Project at Monticello, UT. Photo by Jim Stiles

Note: This article first appeared in the October/November 2011 Zephyr… 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 was…

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April/May 2021

Dick Smith: He lived (and flew) Life to the max… by Larry Davis (From the 1997 Archives)

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 1 Comment
Dick Smith from Windsinger by Gary Smith

Author’s Introduction, from 1997:A year or so ago Jim Stiles came by for a visit and in the course of the conversation we talked about Indian ruins and how they were being vandalized. We wondered if, at the present rate…

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April/May 2021

The Best of the Zephyr Comment Section…

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 0 Comments
John Wetherill on the right with his successor at Navajo National Monument, Jim Brewer

Here at the Zephyr, we’re pretty proud of the articles we publish each issue. We’ve said this before, but we think we’ve assembled the best collection of writers we’ve ever had, all of whom are writing at a level that…

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April/May 2021

Herb Ringer’s American West: A 1948 Train Ride from Chama to Antonito

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 0 Comments
The train waits at Chama, New Mexico. 1948. Photo by Herb Ringer

HERB RINGER and his parents, Sadie and Joseph, traveled across the American West and into the Canadian Rockies on numerous trips, from the 40s through the 70s. Herb was devoted to rail history, and was particularly fond of the historic…

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April/May 2021

HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, April 1941

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 0 Comments
Harry Goulding, founder of Goulding's Trading Post in Monument Valley, driving at Arches in the early 40s. Photo by Harry Reed.

April 22, 1941 Dear Hugh: This report is going to be a bit brief because I am at present confined to bed with a severe cold, and am attempting to think and write clearly while lying almost flat on my…

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April/May 2021

A Full Year of Backbone Supporters! Please Join!

by stiles • March 31, 2021 • 0 Comments

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February/March 2021

The February/March Issue of the Zephyr!

by stiles • January 31, 2021 • 1 Comment

In this issue… Take it or Leave it: The Insta-Facebook West …by Jim Stiles The Love of Maps …by Tonya Audyn Stiles A Satisfied Mind …By Harvey Leake “(Still) ‘Enough Rope’”: (A Reporter’s Moab Memories. 1978-1984) #6 The Pot Plane…

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February/March 2021

Take it or Leave it: The Insta-Facebook West …by Jim Stiles

by stiles • January 31, 2021 • 13 Comments
Horseshoe Bend. c/o NPS

NOTE: Though I have begun to lose my appetite for reporting “the news,” the last two months have been tumultuous, and it’s clear they will have a direct bearing on life in southeast Utah. Consequently, I had reluctantly planned to offer…

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February/March 2021

The Love of Maps …by Tonya Audyn Stiles

by stiles • January 31, 2021 • 14 Comments
Detail from the 1940 Utah Pictorial Map

The oldest surviving map of the world—the Babylonian Imago Mundi—circumscribes a landmass between the Mediterranean and Caspian Seas. The world it describes is only as long as the Euphrates River. At its center lies the city of Babylon. To the…

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