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.…
HOW LONG HAVE YOU READ THE ZEPHYR?
Tag: memories
The Desert is Home: Rediscovering a Frontier Heritage…By Harvey Leake
“The desert will take care of you. At first, it’s all big and beautiful, but you’re afraid of it. Then you begin to see its dangers, and you hate it. Then you learn how to overcome its dangers. And the…
In the Middle of Time – Thompson and Sego, Utah…Herm Hoops
“We don’t inherit the Earth from our parents. We borrow it from our children.” David Brower Evidence of human use of the Thompson Springs area can be dated back to the Archaic Period, when beautiful pictographs were left in Sego…
Fishing with Dad…by Damon Falke
time and again I do not believe my father remained a fly fisherman long after I moved away from Moab. From the time he left Utah in the mid 1990’s, he seldom fished. Back in Texas, Dad went through a…
Recollections…by Damon Falke
Note: December is here. As I write this, I’m watching snow blow over the sund,* and on the hill behind the house the powder’s already a half meter or more deep. I’m listening to Frank Sinatra sing “Have Yourself a…
REUBEN SCOLNIK–THE ORIGINAL ARCH HUNTER (1917-2015)…by Jim Stiles
I learned recently that my old friend Reuben Scolnik had died. He was one of the original “Arch Hunters” at Arches National Park and his efforts are remembered in a permanent display at the park’s visitor center. We were also…
From the Boom to the Boomers: Another view of the Uranium Boom Days of the 1950s and how Life has changed, Part 2…by Irene Thill
From The Zephyr archives, in 2004 Irene Thill shared her memories of Moab of half a century ago and into the Uranium Boom. A year later, she ‘wrapped things up’ with this last installment. Irene died in 2008—I wonder what…
“MY OLD MAN, THE URANIUM KING,” Part 2 … by Mark Steen
CHARLIE STEEN’S youngest son ‘sets the record straight’ about the Life & Times of Moab’s Most Famous Prospector At the beginning of my first article in The Zephyr about my father, Charlie Steen, and his discovery of the Mi Vida…
A Little Learning: A Seventh Grade English Assignment and How It Went with Me into the World… by Damon Falke
I appreciate the names of certain places. There are certain place names that to speak them aloud is to mimic the effort of a conjurer who would call up lost worlds or the dead. Arcadia comes to mind. Yorkshire is…