Month: May 2021

‘PEACEFUL UPRISING’ & ‘A.L.E.C.’… COMPLICATED ADVERSARIES …by Jim Stiles (FLASHBACKS #2 OCT 2012)

Peaceful Uprising is a grassroots environmental group based in Utah that was founded by activists Tim DeChristopher and Ashley Anderson. DeChristopher received world-wide media attention when he disrupted a federal BLM oil and gas lease auction in December 2008.  DeChristopher,…

The Best of the April/May Comment Section…

Paige's Bismarck Team. The first champions of the National Baseball Congress at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.

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…

ZEPHYR AMERICA: Edna Fridley’s Signs of the Times…

US 89 at the Utah State Line. NOVEMBER 1961. Photo by Edna Fridley

Our regular readers know that we began a new project at the Zephyr last 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 keep up…

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

Delicate Arch. Photo by Harry Reed

July 21st, 1941 Travel this month, 494 Travel to date, 2881 Weather The usual brand of hot summer weather has been our lot, with a few days of high temperatures and occasional rainstorms. Fortunately the evenings are nearly always cool…