Click Here to Read Part One… THE SEARCH From the moment Leonard Brown passed Aragon on the road on Tuesday evening, no one had seen a trace of the 1955 Ford or Aragon or Dennise. Despite multiple roadblocks and alerts…
I cannot pinpoint the exact moment when the payphone became ancient history, when it became obsolete and antique. It was clearly not a moment at all, but it happened over the past 20 years and it felt as though it…
Two years away from the U.S. and here I go again, this time on a plane from Frankfurt to Seattle. It’s one of those big planes, identified by large numbers and a letter or two, but I never go for…
Since the publication of my last article in the Zephyr two months ago, the water level at Lake Powell has dropped another two feet. That’s actually less than the typical declines in the fall but the lake has now dropped…
Some stories are worth an entire column; some are worth telling, but not worth the (whole) space. Here are a few of those vignettes, all of which involve first responders. Over time as a reporter, I came to realize just…
Nine-tenths portion of the civilized human family almost shudder at the thought of sleeping on the ground in open air; or even in a well regulated tent. “You will take your death of cold;” or get the rheumatism they will…
Note: Jim and I have known Jami for a number of years. She works as the TRIO Educational Talent Search Director and Grants Supervisor at USU Blanding in Blanding, Utah. A Blanding native, she’s been active in a number of…
As some of you may know, for thirty five years, my wife, Janice, the Hopi in the family, and I, the white guy in the family, operated Tsakurshovi, a shop on the Hopi Rez in Arizona. We had a unique…
Early in the morning of December 7, 1941, Herb Ringer set off for a solitary drive in the back country south of Reno, Nevada. The day, which would prove to be one of the most painful and well-remembered days in…
Without fanfare, it was reported in 2016 that the Union Pacific railroad had torn down the old depot in Thompson Springs, Utah, 35 miles north of Moab. The station hadn’t been used in years and had fallen into disrepair, though…