30 YEARS AGO…FIRST BIG SIGNS OF CHANGE And the first Zephyr Christmas 1989 in Moab January of ’90… 20 Years Ago: Christmas from 1999 11 Years ago…Wait, what? (It’s worth it for the) PERFECT MOMENTS: CHARLES MILLER…HUNTLEY, ILLINOIS “May, 1955.…
If there is one inexplicable thing in our lives, it must surely be the dreams we all experience almost every night we lay our heads on the pillow and drift toward sleep. Often we forget them, sometimes we’re haunted by…
Though none of us realized it at the time, October 1988 would be one of Moab’s last quiet Autumns. The colors had already peaked on the La Sal Mountains and hunting season had begun. The magnificent old sycamore tree that…
From the 1992 Zephyr Archives… this article is rated R – not suitable for reading by children due to the sensitive subject matter. If you’re like Ol’ Flocko, you probably wonder what to do with the Easter Bunny after you…
Late on a Friday night last October, word came to me that my best friend, Bill Benge, had died suddenly of a massive heart attack. I came to realize that Life for many of us who knew and loved Bill…
From the April/May 1999 Zephyr: My cousin, Zeke, is about two years older than I am. I only saw Zeke on infrequent visits from San Francisco, when we traveled back to the old Flocko homestead in French Lick, Mississippi, where…
(From the 2003 Zephyr Archives) In the 1960s and into the early 70s, an island of civility, culture, beauty and joie de vivre flourished in the upper reaches of Castle Valley—a veritable Camelot known as Porcupine Ranch. This paradise was…
One of my favorite incidents in sports history happened at a boxing match several years ago between Michael Spinks and Mike Tyson. Tyson ended the fight in about 50 seconds of the first round by knocking Spinks out. Spinks remained…
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…
The much anticipated Millennium came and went; Y2K didn’t happen; the world would not start to fall apart in earnest for another 20 months, and I saw The Zephyr, as an economically viable business, peak… and then start a slow…
