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The October/November Issue of the Zephyr!
In this Issue… TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Itching…A personal History SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles ‘LOSING OUR RELIGION’ (soon-to-be) BEFORE & AFTER Moab, Utah…then and now COMING TO DOWNTOWN MOAB IN 2016 THE HILTON ‘HOMEWOOD SUITES’ MOAB GROUND ZERO…FACTS &…
Sowing Clover: Losing Our Religion…by Tonya Morton
There’s no use in sugar-coating it: I can’t go to church services anymore. When an acquaintance died a couple years ago—a warm, funny and open-minded man—I thought we were right to go to his funeral. I was raised Catholic, after…
Camp: The Japanese Internment, 1941-45. (Part 1) …by Alan Mikuni
Introduction On September 4, 2012, I submitted a comment to the Zephyr on Lloyd Pierson’s article on “Moab’s Concentration Camp,” published in the June/July 2012 issue of The Canyon Country Zephyr. In his article, Pierson discussed a facility at a…
THE LATIGO WIND PROJECT: For Better or Worse, the Future has Arrived in Monticello, Utah…by Jim Stiles
If you live in Southeast Utah and love the scenery, and if you have an appreciation for history, you need to do something now for yourself and your family: Take a couple hours off, and drive a few miles miles…
Vlachos’ Views…Photos and Captions by Paul Vlachos
Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… 1. Wilson, NC – 2015 The hidden hand that painted this, the…
Moab: Ground Zero…It’s Still about Housing. By Kara Dohrenwend
I returned from a few weeks away to a white wall on Main Street across the street from my driveway. A Homewood Suites has broken ground at Center near 100 N and since the hotel will be built to the…
An Excerpt From ‘LAST OF THE ROBBERS ROOST OUTLAWS: Moab’s BILL TIBBETTS’, PART 2…By Tom McCourt
THANKS to Tom McCourt & the Tibbetts Family. For years, I have been watching Moab move farther and farther away from its roots, to the point where it seems few people even know the history of the place anymore. Some…
Herb Ringer’s American West: The Grand Canyon South Rim in the 1950s
Visitation at The Grand Canyon approached 5 million in 2014 and the numbers are expected to go even higher this year. But in the 1950s, in the years just after World War II, the pace was a lot slower. Here…
My Personal History, Part 9: Life & Times in Southeast Utah…by Verona Stocks
Pete’s Dad and Mother and Brother Dick left for their Home in Old La Sal about a week after Little Pete was born. John stayed a few more days to work in the mine with Pete. Puge moved his family…