In This Issue… Take it or Leave it: Authoritarian America–It’s the Little Things …by Jim Stiles Snowfall and the Religion of Grief …by Tonya Audyn Stiles July 4, 1961: Murder & the Enduring Mystery at Dead Horse Point (Part One)…by…
Last summer, Tonya and I were traveling through some remote New Mexico landscape, trying as always, to escape the grip of 21st Century “civilization,” or at least the aspects of it we find the most loathsome. Out there, on those…
I felt it again, like clockwork, with the first snow. The snow was only a dusting, not even an inch, but I still thought of Dad. His pleasure in loading the plow onto the front of our car. The delight…
Note: A much shorter version of this article first appeared in the June/July issue. After that piece was published, I was contacted by the granddaughters of Charles Boothroyd and the surviving daughter of Jeannette Sullivan. The information that Carolyn Boothroyd,…
Click Here to Read Part One… THE SEARCH From the moment Leonard Brown passed Aragon on the road on Tuesday evening, no one had seen a trace of the 1955 Ford or Aragon or Dennise. Despite multiple roadblocks and alerts…
Nine-tenths portion of the civilized human family almost shudder at the thought of sleeping on the ground in open air; or even in a well regulated tent. “You will take your death of cold;” or get the rheumatism they will…
Some stories are worth an entire column; some are worth telling, but not worth the (whole) space. Here are a few of those vignettes, all of which involve first responders. Over time as a reporter, I came to realize just…
Since the publication of my last article in the Zephyr two months ago, the water level at Lake Powell has dropped another two feet. That’s actually less than the typical declines in the fall but the lake has now dropped…
Two years away from the U.S. and here I go again, this time on a plane from Frankfurt to Seattle. It’s one of those big planes, identified by large numbers and a letter or two, but I never go for…
I cannot pinpoint the exact moment when the payphone became ancient history, when it became obsolete and antique. It was clearly not a moment at all, but it happened over the past 20 years and it felt as though it…