THIRTY YEARS AGO… These were our fourth and fifth issues of the then-monthly Zephyr and our first election issue. I interviewed both mayoral candidates for the November issue, Bill Meador and the incumbent, Tom Stocks. Even then, the issue of…
EDITORS NOTE: For almost twenty years, the “DOG OF THE MONTH” was one of The Zephyr’s most popular regular features. When the print version ended, so did the dogs, but now we’ve been thinking it’s time for a Renaissance of…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…JIM STILES ’SKETCHY ANDY’ SAYS HE’S ‘GUILTY’ AFTER ALL.. GETS SLAP ON WRIST &…IN DEFENSE OF ‘WELFARE BUMS’ & ‘LAZY LOAFERS’ SOWING CLOVER…TONYA STILES ‘The Blessings of Uncertainty’ THE GALLERY DEPUY! Our Favorite Southwest Artist &…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Rangers Should Range–but Fear & Adrenalin Can Make Them Kill’ SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles Point Blank:‘Was’ with apologies to Mister Faulkner Damon Falke “Lonely are the Brave”…revisited Based on Edward Abbey’s book, ‘Brave Cowboy,’ we…
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…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles I Still Miss Martin Murie…15 Years later—Thoughts on the “Wilderness Mentoring Conference of 1998.” SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles THE WILDER WEST…Dave Wilder “Anything is Possible” What Might Have Been…From the August 1990 Zephyr Jim Stiles…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT Jim Stiles “He who learns must suffer” My Sorrowful History of Winter Camping & the Pursuit of Warmth SOWING CLOVER Tonya Audyn Stiles ‘The Last Undecided Voter’ THE WILDER WEST The Art & Wit…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles A personal note about Pete Parry–How he saved Canyonlands AND my Dogs The History (and LOVE!!!) that Lives in my Fridge SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles The Last Picture Show? The Poetry of DAMON FALKE…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles Glen Canyon, 50 years after the Dam About the Grand Canyon Trust, ‘A Just & Healthy Future,’ & Doug Meyer’s Honest Response The Rise and Fall of Hair…A History SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles The Trouble…
GLEN CANYON, A HALF CENTURY AFTER THE DAM… In all the years and centuries and eons before it was flooded, only a relative handful of people saw the untamed, free and flowing Colorado River in Glen Canyon. When the gates…