by stiles • • Comments Off on CITIZEN COMMENTS ON THE MOAB CITY HALL STORY (“WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE”)
…Last issue’s 14,000 word investigative report on the hiring of Moab City Manager Rebecca Davidson generated a record number of comments on our web site. Here is a compilation of most of them. To read these and other comments,…
In the annals of southern Utah history, September 17, 1946 was a day to be remembered. With proper pomp and circumstance—even the San Juan County High School Band—the Hite Ferry was dedicated. With the completion of the ferry it was…
by stiles • • Comments Off on The Great John DePuy: His Life’s Work Now on Exhibit in Taos
Don’t miss this rare opportunity. The Life Work of JOHN DEPUY is at the HARWOOD MUSEUM TAOS, NEW MEXICO through MAY 1, 2016 CLICK HERE for More Information The Harwood Museum of Art is honored to present the expressionist paintings…
Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Proverbs 29:18 The ancient pueblo ruins at the Lowry archeological site are about nine miles due west of Pleasant View, Colorado, and they go back to 1060 C.E. They lie on…
by stiles • • Comments Off on Before & After: US 191 at Arches
US 191 AT ARCHES NATIONAL PARK 1940s and Today Until the 1950s, when the road from Crescent Jct to Moab was finally paved, just covering those 30 miles could be an ordeal. In this image, taken in the late 1940s,…
by stiles • • Comments Off on Herb Ringer’s American West: ‘SUMMER CAMP.’ 1944-1952
‘SUMMER CAMP’ 1944-1952 HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West, from the Canadian Border to the Rio Grande and from the Big Sur coast to the High…
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