Tag: Maxine Newell
Homestead Days, Part 1…by Maxine Newell
NOTE: Maxine Newell was a life long resident of the Colorado Plateau. She was born in Dove Creek, Colorado and lived in Monticello and then Moab until her death in 2015. Maxine and I worked together at Arches NP in…
TRUCKING THE HARD WAY, PART 2. On Early Day Trucking: an interview with Noel and Fendol Sitton, circa 1970… By Maxine Sitton Newell
NOTE: Maxine Newell was a life long resident of the Colorado Plateau. She was born in Dove Creek, Colorado and lived in Monticello and then Moab until her death in 2015. Maxine and I worked together at Arches NP in…
TRUCKING THE HARD WAY. On Early Day Trucking: an interview with Noel and Fendol Sitton, circa 1970… By Maxine Sitton Newell
NOTE: Maxine Newell was a life long resident of the Colorado Plateau. She was born in Dove Creek, Colorado and lived in Monticello and then Moab until her death in 2015. Maxine and I worked together at Arches NP in…
Charlie Steen’s Mi Vida & Boom Town Moab… by Maxine Newell
Uranium fever became a national affliction when Steen announced his strike. Go-for-broke prospectors poured into the little town of Moab by the thousands, lured by the $100 million bait. The town was besieged by a boom which was to surpass…
CHARLIE STEEN COULD THROW A PARTY…by Maxine Newell
The clock on the mantle was set at 5:05, and the bar was always open. Charles relished the role of party-giver, M.L.’s role was hostess. She played it graciously and sometimes enjoyed it. Once, in defiance, she served a buffet…
An Interview with Maxine Newell, Part 2…by Jim Stiles
In October , The Zephyr re-posted an interview with longtime Moabite MAXINE NEWELL, from the summer of 1995. Here is Part 2… After World War II, Maxine married Hub Newell. They lived in Green River for awhile where Hub, an…
An Interview with Maxine Newell…by Jim Stiles
From the 1995 Zephyr archives… Maxine Newell was born in New Mexico in 1919 and moved to western Colorado a year later. She has lived in the Four Corners country ever since. In 1995, I sat down with Maxine and…