I locked myself out of my house the other day. I stood there for a minute, and then walked the front door and then to the side door. All locked. Kinda funny really. We lived for over 10 years in…
RE: David Bonderman…Facts or ‘Fluff?’ You Decide… About 15 years ago, I became aware that some of the world’s wealthiest bankers, financiers, and industrialists were throwing huge amounts of money at this country’s mainstream environmental organizations. The ‘contributions’ trickled all…
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 normally like to sleep in my van at a truck stop…
“Although it is generally said that mountains belong to the countryside, they belong to those who love them.” – Zen Master Dogen, 13th century Seventy miles north of San Francisco Bay. Even on a bright day, from several miles inland…
I had taken many trips down the Colorado River through Glen Canyon, and I found many priceless experiences. But as 1963 approached, at 34 years of age, the dam’s effects thrust my mind into an upsetting quandary. That year the…
A New Regular Feature, Updates from the Great Southwestern Artist: “His work is unique and strongly individualistic, though, at once indigenous to this land. For he has probed, with his cutting mind, beneath the deserts and mountains, into the bare …
That fall of 1931 the snow came early and it was cold at the head of the valley. I had trouble finding wood I could cut for the sheep camp. Grandma sent me a chocolate cake and some apricot jam.…
HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West, from the Canadian Border to the Rio Grande and from the Big Sur coast to the High Plains. We believe…
(From the 2003 Zephyr Archives) In the 1960s and into the early 70s, an island of civility, culture, beauty and joie de vivre flourished in the upper reaches of Castle Valley—a veritable Camelot known as Porcupine Ranch. This paradise was…
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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Welcome Kara Dohrenwend’ “IT’S THE SCIENCE, STUPID!” But for Conservatives and Progressives Alike, the ‘Science’ has to FIT. SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles Watching SOUTH DAKOTA GROW… A Century After Wild Bill, the Boom &Bust Continues…
I was a resident of Moab, Utah for more than 30 years. I had every intention of spending the rest of my life there, but over a period of three decades, Grand County changed so dramatically that I felt like…
I know the drive back home intimately. Coming from any direction, the Black Hills are a forested island, rising out of the dust-sea of plains. The hills are old and carry all the legends of old age. Harney Peak, where…
Climate change ‘deniers’ are a never-ending source of frustration and dismay to those who believe that global warming is real and already having an adverse effect. To them, the time for debating its existence is over and the conclusion inescapable—human-caused…
A few weeks ago I was surprised to find a message in my Facebook inbox from Jim Stiles asking me if I would be willing to contribute to the Zephyr. My initial reaction was to laugh. While I do not…
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. South Lake Tahoe, CA – 1998 There’s not a lot of…
A photograph is effective when the chosen moment which it records contains a quantum of truth which is generally applicable, which is as revealing about what is absent from the photograph as about what is present in it. -From “Understanding…
For five years I lived and thought one way; now almost over night all that was changed. My husband had died, my baby was one year old, my daughter was four, and my partner in the sheep business was 56…
Once again I reminisce and search my memory of past years and lay down a few meandering thoughts. The eventful Sixties surely stand out in my mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s book Nature became the bible of his own era’s Cultural…
One of my favorite incidents in sports history happened at a boxing match several years ago between Michael Spinks and Mike Tyson. Tyson ended the fight in about 50 seconds of the first round by knocking Spinks out. Spinks remained…