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Herb Ringer’s American West: Herb’s Amazing Life…in the Blink of an Eye.
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…
(Zephyr Extra!) SOLITUDE LOST…OR UNWANTED? Part 2…by Jim Stiles
I’ll sing about an emptiness the East has never known, Where coyotes don’t pay taxes and a man can live alone… And you’ve gotta walk forever, just to find a telephone. It’s sad, but the tellin’ takes me home. -Utah…
DEPUY: From the Great Southwest Artist’s Online Gallery
A New Regular Feature, Updates from the Great Southwestern Artist: “His work is unique and strongly individualistic, though, at once indigenous to this land. For he has probed, with his cutting mind, beneath the deserts and mountains, into the…
News Flash: Right Wing Fires Scientific Tradition… by Scott Thompson
“An honest read of climate science doesn’t provide answers that society wants to hear.” – Doug Meyer A danger we may face with the new red-state led Congress is that over time we’ll become so tired of their banality and…
Before and After: Moab’s East Side, 1990 & 2014
Top photo by Stiles. Bottom photo courtesy of Google Earth. To see the PDF version of this article, click here. To comment, scroll to the bottom of the page. Don’t forget the Zephyr ads! All links are hot!
The February/March Issue of the Zephyr!
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…JIM STILES ’SKETCHY ANDY’ SAYS HE’S ‘GUILTY’ AFTER ALL.. GETS SLAP ON WRIST &…IN DEFENSE OF ‘WELFARE BUMS’ & ‘LAZY LOAFERS’ SOWING CLOVER…TONYA STILES ‘The Blessings of Uncertainty’ THE GALLERY DEPUY! Our Favorite Southwest Artist &…
Take it or Leave it: ‘SKETCHY ANDY’ SAYS HE’S ‘GUILTY’ AFTER ALL…GETS SLAP ON WRIST…by Jim Stiles
For the last couple of years, The Zephyr has been following, with a sense of bewilderment and amusement, the life and times of extreme sports entertainer, Andy “Sketchy Andy” Lewis. Most recently, we’ve been keeping an eye on his…
Sowing Clover: The Blessings of Uncertainty…by Tonya Morton
When I was a kid, I heard about my imagination constantly from adults–”What an imagination you have!” “Did that all happen in your imagination?” “Don’t worry. That’s just your imagination.” Sometimes these were meant as compliments. Sometimes they clearly were…
Take it or Leave it: REGARDING ‘WELFARE BUMS’ & ‘LAZY LOAFERS’…by Jim Stiles
Until the day my father died, he and I agreed on practically nothing. Once, almost two decades ago, on a visit home, he and I crossed swords on the issue of welfare. While I’ve never quite been the bleeding-heart liberal…
THE ‘NEW WEST/PROGRESSIVE’ PARADOX: Can ‘Liberal/Greens’ Still Possess an Honest Social Conscience in New Moab, Utah?’…By Jim Stiles
NOTE: Some of the information in this story can be found in my book ‘Brave New West’ and in previous Zephyr articles, dating back to 1998…JS On the evening of October 31, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced a standing-room…
From the Flying Knouff Family (The Bro)…Photos by Terry Knouff
Green Chev : A local’s classic. Not as many local “daily driver” classics in Moab as there once were. Atomic Motel : Stayed here a couple of times. Yes it was funky, and by funky I mean moldy.…
From the Flying Knouff Family (The Sis)…Photos by Becky Knouff
All photos were taken using an iPhone. Becky Knouff has lived in Moab, Utah for the last 27 years. She is a third generation house painter following in the footsteps of her father, grandfather, uncles and brothers. She…
(From the Zephyr Archives) Establishment Environmentalism and “Change Without Changing” By Scott Thompson
Sometimes a radical movement ignites a spark of passion that captures the public’s imagination. After awhile powerful people, assuming they have some foresight, come to recognize that in order to protect themselves the group must be granted a bona fide…
Vlachos’ Views…Photos and Captions by Paul Vlachos
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… I am currently on the road and I don’t have access to…
Ken Sleight Remembers, Part 3: The Early 1950s, War and the Longing for Red Rocks.
At twenty-one years of age, in 1950, I went through a hellish year, as national and international events seemed to pull me into areas in which I had little control. Distractions were many. Continuous war talk left my mind immobilized,…
Willie Flocko’s Country Kitchen: Voodoo Hotdogs…by Bill Benge
As some of you no doubt know, Old Flocko’s ancestral home is French Lick, Mississippi, not too far from the Louisiana border, so I grew up with some acquaintance with things “voodoo.” However, I had never heard of this recipe…
DEPUY: From the Great Southwest Artist’s Online Gallery
A New Regular Feature, Updates from the Great Southwestern Artist: “His work is unique and strongly individualistic, though, at once indigenous to this land. For he has probed, with his cutting mind, beneath the deserts…
A Full Year of Backbone Supporters! Please Join!
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Herb Ringer’s American West: Herb in Reno, 1941-1945
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…
(From the Zephyr Archives) The Professor of Professor Valley… by Lloyd Pierson
He was known as an eternal optimist, a wanderer, dreamer and sometime impractical pioneer. His name was Sylvester Richardson. The west of the post-Civil War era was filled with ambitious men out to conquer the west, get out of the…