Last year, I became aware of a new (at least to me) environmental/progressive activist in Moab named Darcey Brown. She’s become a voice for “New Moab” and has been a frequent contributor to the Letters section of the Moab weekly,…
“Although it is generally said that mountains belong to the countryside, they belong to those who love them.” – Zen Master Dogen, 13th century Seventy miles north of San Francisco Bay. Even on a bright day, from several miles inland…
I had taken many trips down the Colorado River through Glen Canyon, and I found many priceless experiences. But as 1963 approached, at 34 years of age, the dam’s effects thrust my mind into an upsetting quandary. That year the…
That fall of 1931 the snow came early and it was cold at the head of the valley. I had trouble finding wood I could cut for the sheep camp. Grandma sent me a chocolate cake and some apricot jam.…
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 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…
For More, Click Here to Read: ‘IN MEMORIAM…DEWEY BRIDGE’. 1982 photo by Dan O’Connor 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…
For five years I lived and thought one way; now almost over night all that was changed. My husband had died, my baby was one year old, my daughter was four, and my partner in the sheep business was 56…
Once again I reminisce and search my memory of past years and lay down a few meandering thoughts. The eventful Sixties surely stand out in my mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s book Nature became the bible of his own era’s Cultural…
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…