When we recently watched “Planet of the Humans,” the new controversial environmental documentary produced by Michael Moore, we felt like we were re-living a number of our articles from the last couple decades. In addition to Jim’s written response, we…
June 23rd, 1941Mr Hugh M Miller, SuperintendentSouthwestern National MonumentsCoolidge, Arizona Dear Hugh: It is hot enough today to fry eggs on the “slickrock”, but there are things to be done so I may as well ignore the heat and get…
Herb Ringer discovered his love for the West in 1939. He had traveled from his home in Ringoes, New Jersey to Reno, Nevada to procure a quick divorce, and spent that winter working in a local market, occupying a cramped…
Someday we may decide we’d like to look back at this historical period, and the past three months particularly, which contained a measure of horror and absurdity that surpasses understanding. Thankfully, Facebook was there to capture it all for posterity……
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Most of this issue was already ‘in the can’ and ready to post, when the world suddenly turned upside down last month. We wondered if our stories were so insignificant by comparison, that we should even hold back this issue. But…
“Let the word go forth, from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans…”— JFK I was sleeping soundly, oblivious to the cares of the world, and…
When the swamp gas clears…and the weather balloons are safe in their weather-station beds …and all the super-secret spy planes have spun their alley-oops and jittered their non-ballistic shuffles through the clouds for the night…and you’re on some wide stretch…
The following excerpt is 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…
I can’t write about my time in Moab without providing a little backstory on why I loved the place so much, and how happy, no, giddy, I was to move there. I grew up in Santa Barbara, California, during the…