(Zephyr Archives) BEING GAY IN UTAH: For men and women practicing an...
Editor’s Note: Sixteen years after this article was written, life for LGBT Utahns (and elsewhere in the United States) has changed for the better. As Stephen Clark, the ACLU legal director quoted...
View ArticleMoab: Ground Zero…by Kara Dohrenwend
I grow plants in the desert for planting in yards and in unirrigated revegetation project areas in SE and Central Utah. Almost every day from February through October I talk with people about how to...
View ArticleVlachos’ Views…Photos and Text by Paul Vlachos.
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 have been in a funk for a while, so I’m going to...
View ArticleAn Excerpt From ‘LAST OF THE ROBBERS ROOST OUTLAWS: Moab’s BILL TIBBETTS’,...
THANKS to Tom McCourt & the Tibbetts Family. For years, I have been watching Moab move farther and farther away from its roots, to the point where it seems few people even know the history of the...
View ArticleTake it or Leave it: FLASHBACKS #1…‘PROGRESS v DEVELOPMENT’ (From 1994)…by...
NOTE: I first wrote this in the mid-1990s, when I thought there was a chance our little town of Moab might avoid–or at least try to avoid—the kind of fate that it has eventually been consumed by. It...
View ArticleSowing Clover: The End of Work…by Tonya Stiles
Consider, for a moment, the horse. Your average horse is still a romantic figure, evoking a rich historical relationship of labor, war, and transport. Horses made the journey across the Oregon Trail....
View ArticleTake it or Leave it: What Isn’t Racism in Moab, Utah…and What Is?… By Jim Stiles
For the last couple of years, a ‘place name’ debate has raged in Moab, mostly via the letters column in the weekly Times-Independent. Some Grand County citizens think the name ‘Negro Bill Canyon,’ is...
View ArticleIN DEFENSE OF JEANETTA WILLIAMS & THE NAACP…The “Negro Bill’ Debate...
Zephyr Extra: NOTE: This is a followup to a story that appeared in the Aug/Sept issue of The Zephyr. Read that story here. On August 4, Grand County Councilwoman Mary McGann proposed to change the...
View ArticleThe August/September Issue of the Zephyr!
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles The ‘Negro Bill’ Debate—What Isn’t Racism, and what IS (Flashbacks #1) Progress v development SOWING Clover…Tonya Stiles The End of Work BEFORE & AFTER—Moab,...
View ArticleA Strange Occurrence at Thompson Springs: An Air Force Colonel Vanishes Twice...
Former County Councilman and Allen Memorial Hospital nurse Peter Haney swears that what follows is true… It was 12:20 am on Thanksgiving Day 1986…I had just finished my midnight rounds at the hospital....
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