Why Jim Stiles Isn’t Normal: a Story That MUST be Told By Scott Thompson You should know that I’m a relative newcomer to The Canyon Country Zephyr. For me it started when Jim Stiles published several of my letters beginning…
In the first few years of the Zephyr, I drew a new cartoon to grace the front page of each issue. Here is a small sampling of those covers…JS Jim Stiles is the Founder and Co-Publisher of the Canyon Country…
The Zephyr has always been noted for its ’cartoon ads,’which Stiles initiated with the first issue. We believe we may be the only publication in America where readers consistently looked at the ads first, before they read the articles. Here…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘On the Eve of our 25th Anniversary’ ‘When The West said ‘NO’ to the Winter Olympics’ ‘Here’s my Life. Help Yourself— As facebook invades our privacy, the rest of us are giving it away’…
…As Facebook invades our privacy, the rest of us keep giving it away. During the holidays, Tonya’s mom came to visit and one evening we drove to a nearby community to look at the city park Christmas Lights. A few…
In 2014, at a time when the American West is being transformed into one vast recreational venue, where every high-risk, adrenalin-induced sport pours more fire (and money) on the tourist/sport economy that benefits from it, where even BASE jumping is…
PREFACE: This is a story about Change…about the transformation of a small part of the American Southwest. It’s about what happened to my old home town of Moab and what may happen next, just 55 miles south. Some say that…
I’ve never been a fan of extreme sports, especially when they use Nature as the venue. Even as a young man in my twenties, the idea of stunt climbing and extreme recreation didn’t appeal to me. I am of the…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT… THE CHRISTMAS of 1932…Jim Stiles COMING NEXT SPRING…THE ZEPHYR’S 25TH. SOWING CLOVER “Snowfall and the Religion of Grief” –Tonya Stiles CLINGING HOPELESSLY to the MAPS The 1941 Conoco “Touraide” Travel Guide From the 1993 Zephyr…
EDITOR’S NOTE: I’ve printed or posted this story two or three times over the past 25 years, but here it is again. I like the way these kinds of memories make me feel. Thanks…JS This time of year, I always…