Tag: Jim Stiles
Take it or Leave it: THIRTY YEARS (“It’s not the years. It’s the mileage”)… by Jim Stiles
This is what’s happened between blinks of the eye…. Shortly after The Zephyr’s first issue appeared on newsstands, in mid-March 1989, I was at the old Main Street Broiler, eating one of Debbie Rappe’s wonderful cheeseburgers and overheard a spirited…
Sowing Clover: Ringer and the Road…by Tonya Audyn Morton
You’re either a person who can sit still or a person who can’t. A person who loves what you can already see, or one who wonders what you might see around the bend. Probably the former type lives the more…
From There to Here: Meeting Jim Stiles and Writing for The Canyon Country Zephyr…by Damon Falke
It can be problematic writing about how we grew-up, about people we met in our younger days, and about those places that meant something to us. Essentially, many of us believe we are not capable of objectivity when reflecting upon…
RANGER STILES’ WILDLIFE OBSERVATIONS #3 (Arches NP 1975-1986)
“The Devils Garden Overlord & Cactus Ed” (photos by the author except where noted) Author’s Note: For more than three years , I have spent most of my keyboard time writing “informational/investigative” long form articles (some might suggest ‘long-winded’) about excruciatingly…
ED ABBEY: THIRTY YEARS LATER…by Jim Stiles
Two weeks ago, many of us remembered and commemorated the 30th anniversary of Edward Abbey’s death on March 14, 1989. What would Ed think of our world in 2019? And what would the World think of him? Here are a…
‘A SENTIMENTAL TOUR of MOAB: What else is gone? Who else is missing?’ …by Jim Stiles
(from the 2008 archives) Note: This is Part one of ‘A Sentimental Tour.’ It was first written in 2008 and is re-published here. Look for the sequel or sequels to it in upcoming issues of the Zephyr… The demise of…
HOW LONG HAVE YOU READ THE ZEPHYR?
As we approached our 30th anniversary, we asked some of our readers how long they’ve been reading The Zephyr and how they first found us. Here are some of the responses. We’d like to add your memories to our list.…
“We HATE the Zephyr, but we LOVE the ads!”
For 20 years, The Zephyr was a print publication. We needed almost $5000 in revenue each issue just to break even. The printing cost alone, for 15,000 copies, was over $2500. Consequently, we had to sell a lot of ads.…
BRAVE NEW WEST (The Comic Strip) Episode #5: MOABLAND…The ‘Rich Weasel Vortex?’…by Jim Stiles
Click Here to Read the Previous Installments of Brave New West (The Comic Strip)… Jim Stiles is Founder and Co-Publisher of the Canyon Country Zephyr. To comment, scroll to the bottom of the page. Don’t forget the Zephyr ads! All…