EDITOR’S NOTE: When Verona Stocks died in June 1993, she left a big hole in Grand County. Born on April 1, 1905, Verona watched southeast Utah transformed…from a pioneer town at the turn of the century, to a uranium mining…
Over the last 30 years, many sections of US 191 between Crescent Jct and the Utah/Arizona state line have undergone upgrades and reconstructions. A four mile section of highway between Monticello and Blanding, however, remained much the way it was…
WARNING: Some readers might find these photos disturbing. We all love pretty pictures and videos of “nature” scenes and wildlife frolicking together–myself as much as anyone. That’s why it can be shocking and unpleasant to realize that nature is generally…
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 Plains. We believe…
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In this Issue… TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Itching…A personal History SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles ‘LOSING OUR RELIGION’ (soon-to-be) BEFORE & AFTER Moab, Utah…then and now COMING TO DOWNTOWN MOAB IN 2016 THE HILTON ‘HOMEWOOD SUITES’ MOAB GROUND ZERO…FACTS &…
There’s no use in sugar-coating it: I can’t go to church services anymore. When an acquaintance died a couple years ago—a warm, funny and open-minded man—I thought we were right to go to his funeral. I was raised Catholic, after…
Introduction On September 4, 2012, I submitted a comment to the Zephyr on Lloyd Pierson’s article on “Moab’s Concentration Camp,” published in the June/July 2012 issue of The Canyon Country Zephyr. In his article, Pierson discussed a facility at a…
If you live in Southeast Utah and love the scenery, and if you have an appreciation for history, you need to do something now for yourself and your family: Take a couple hours off, and drive a few miles miles…
Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… 1. Wilson, NC – 2015 The hidden hand that painted this, the…
I returned from a few weeks away to a white wall on Main Street across the street from my driveway. A Homewood Suites has broken ground at Center near 100 N and since the hotel will be built to the…
THANKS to Tom McCourt & the Tibbetts Family. For years, I have been watching Moab move farther and farther away from its roots, to the point where it seems few people even know the history of the place anymore. Some…
Visitation at The Grand Canyon approached 5 million in 2014 and the numbers are expected to go even higher this year. But in the 1950s, in the years just after World War II, the pace was a lot slower. Here…
Pete’s Dad and Mother and Brother Dick left for their Home in Old La Sal about a week after Little Pete was born. John stayed a few more days to work in the mine with Pete. Puge moved his family…
There was a time in the not too distant past, when the vast tracts of public land in Southeast Utah seemed more than adequate to lose oneself in. If I wanted to climb out of the old truck and wander…
Cue in the piano and then, wait for it—Everytime we say goodbye, I die a little,/Everytime we say goodbye, I wonder why a little,/Why the Gods above me, who must be in the know/Think so little of me, they allow…
COMING TO DOWNTOWN MOAB IN 2016 THE HILTON ‘HOMEWOOD SUITES’ For decades, the lot adjacent to the old POPLAR PLACE bar sat empty. In recent years the folks at Wicked Brew offered excellent coffee via their drive-thru store (they still…
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In the last few years, the traffic on US 191, between Moab and Monticello has increased dramatically. Despite efforts to improve the safety of the highway (and with millions of dollars of construction upgrades planned or proposed), the 55 mile…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles The ‘Negro Bill’ Debate—What Isn’t Racism, and what IS (Flashbacks #1) Progress v development SOWING Clover…Tonya Stiles The End of Work BEFORE & AFTER—Moab, Utah…then and now The Meador House on Main Street GROUND…