My first decade (1929-1939) was spent growing up in Idaho. My second decade of life (1940-1949) was set in Utah. Incidences, experiences, environment, and heritage all shape one’s life, and so, pardon me as l divert a bit from…
The Zephyr is honored to present selected images from TOM TILL’s remarkable book, “Then & Now.” Balanced Rock Visit Tom Till’s Website. To see the PDF version of this page, click here. To comment, scroll to…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles Getting the Facts Right, Part 1…RE: MOAB’S RECENT POLITICAL PAST SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles How to Be a Witness DAN O’CONNOR’S ‘TWISTED TABLOIDS’ ‘Billionaire Bonderman Takes Vow of Poverty!’ The Zephyr Chronicles part 4—Jim Stiles…
“For many, this is deja-vu. Grand County has been through this before. And, we know how to deal with it.” —Chris Baird, candidate for Grand County Council (explaining his recall petition to remove Lynn Jackson from office.) Sometimes I…
Lately, I’ve been thinking about St. Louis. It was surprising how long the news lingered on that Midwestern city this summer, after the shooting of Michael Brown. Surprising that we all lingered there, as a country, for a span of…
On a Saturday morning in late July, a skinny teenager who still examined his face closely each morning, praying for any sign of hair growth, left the Bright Angel Lodge at the Grand Canyon’s South Rim in his VW Squareback.…
The much anticipated Millennium came and went; Y2K didn’t happen; the world would not start to fall apart in earnest for another 20 months, and I saw The Zephyr, as an economically viable business, peak… and then start a slow…
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… I could quote Robert Frost, which may be uncool in this day…
EDITOR’S NOTE: For years, Ken Sleight was a regular columnist for this publication and his topics scanned the spectrum—from his passionate quixotic quest to restore Glen Canyon, to his opposition to nuclear waste in San Juan County. Ken also took…
Gail and I found the hamlet of Ruth, Nevada, on U.S. 50, 82 miles west of the Utah border. This tiny village is dwarfed by the massive outer shoulders of the Robinson open pit copper mine, just as mining towns…