Part One 1926. The sheep are looking good and a few lambs are big enough to ship. Bob is going around them and once again showing them to the baby. She too is growing and feeling good. Mary and Jack…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT.…By Jim Stiles * Was Cactus Ed’s Last Joke On US? SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles ‘WHY I HATE WESTERNS’ THE DOG OF THE MONTH!!! FUZZY (1992-2012) So long to my old cat…Stiles GAINING PERSPECTIVE: Two Years in…
We’ve had a longstanding—let’s call it a “discussion”—in our house over the fact that I won’t watch Westerns. My dear husband, who I am sure holds the same position as most of our readers, loves Westerns. He loves John Wayne.…
Fuzzy 1992-2012 We don’t choose our cats. They choose us. One afternoon in the late autumn of 1993, a small grey cat appeared on my back porch and would not leave. I tried to chase her away—I was not a…
“After several centuries of experiments and false starts, the foundations of modern Puebloan society emerged from the crucible of post-Chaco chaos: egalitarian, ritually based, anti-hierarchical.” – Archaeologist Stephen Lekson, 2008 It was one of those old motels, shaped like an…
“The wilderness once offered men a plausible way of life. Soon there will be no wilderness. Soon there will be no place to go. Then the madness becomes universal… and the universe goes mad.” Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang…
Glen Canyon Dam (Under Construction) HERB RINGER made so many trips to the desert Southwest, he could barely count them all. From 1956 to 1963, Glen canyon Dam was under construction on the Utah/Arizona border. Herb checked in from time…
John DePuy: Let me read you something. It says it all. It’s all I have to say. “Madman and seer–– Painter of the Apocalyptic Volcano. Campañero, I am with you forever in the glorious fraternity of the damned.” Jim Stiles:…
I went West to find Edward Abbey in the 1970s, determined to give him a drawing I’d done in his honor. It was a doodle of Glen Canyon Dam in serious disarray. A few weeks later, The Monkey Wrench Gang…
BILL KOCI came to Moab in the late 70s and was a familiar and colorful presence in town for decades. He ran the Parkside Trailer Court until his death in January of this year. I miss Bill… MARIE LARKIN, brilliant…