Editor’s 1993 Note: Mr Flocko, at last report, was vacationing in Scotland, and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. This office received a scratchy trans-Atlantic phone call from our hapless food editor, who was having a difficult time of…
For more on Daniel Shellabarger (Suelo) today, almost 20 years after he penned this ‘Letter of the Month’ to The Zephyr, see the update at the end of his essay… From the May 1995 Zephyr This…is about prickly pear and…
EDITOR’S NOTE: A Physician, a physicist, a devout Mormon, and an unbridled optimist, Dr.Richard Ingebretsen also wants to drain Lake Powell. In this July 2000 interview, he explains why…JS Zephyr: Rich you’re a very enthusiastic and passionate environmentalist and a…
NOTE: This 1991 essay, if anything, shows how naive I was in the early days of The Zephyr. I was hopeful then that a peaceful resolution of the ‘wilderness issue’ could be found without the kind of extreme polarization that…
The Zephyr has always been noted for its ’cartoon ads,’which Stiles initiated with the first issue. We believe we may be the only publication in America where readers consistently looked at the ads first, before they read the articles. Here…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Recently the threat (or promise, depending on your point of view) of new oil and gas development in the area of Big Flat in Grand County has once again aroused local passions, for and against this renewed effort…
This is the first in a series of “Zephyr Interviews” from the past 25 years. Each will offer a revealing look at Moab’s transformation. In the early 1990s, Moab was on the cusp of massive change. Recently, county residents had…
About a year before his death in December 1998, I spent some time with Herb at his home in Fallon, Nevada. He lived in a 42 foot “Smoker” house trailer that he purchased in the early 50s. One night as…