Tag: Robert Redford

Take it or Leave it: Robert Redford, Art Ekker, and Our Complicated Love of Cowboys …by Jim Stiles

by stiles • February 2, 2020 • 16 Comments

I have had a soft spot for cowboys and the cinematic Western since I was old enough to walk and say, “giddy-up.” It is one of the great regrets of my life that I never became proficient on a horse.…

BARBARA EKKER: She “Knows Where the Bodies are Buried” in Wayne County…by Barry Scholl

by stiles • August 4, 2017 • 4 Comments

(From the 1998 Zephyr Archives) “When people ask whether I’m an expert on this area, I tell them I know where the bodies are buried.” -Barbara Ekker, unofficial historian of Wayne County “It’s terrible that we don’t teach more…