Sidebar by Martha Quillen
Art – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Art: For the people, by the people, and of the people,
Month: December 1994
Even closed galleries help a town’s economy
Sidebar by Central Staff
Art – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Helper, Utah, is an old railroad and mining town, similar in many ways to Salida, since it was built at the same time for the same purpose. However, Helper still has several blocks of shuttered stores downtown.
Using art to elevate real-estate prices
Sidebar by Ed Quillen
Art – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Economists can tell us how a factory or store fits into the general economic picture, but it’s harder to assign a role to the “art industry” of studios and galleries.
What is art, anyway?
Sidebar by Diane Alexander
Art – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Diane Alexander asks some artists —
What is art, anyway?
More Steam Plant Work set for 1995
Sidebar by Central Staff
Art – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
This summer, the Steam Plant Theatre in Salida was open for business and hosted numerous events. But now it’s closed for the winter, and back under construction.
Culture for the Country Folk
Sidebar by Martha Quillen
Art – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Funded by donations and bequests from individuals, families, corporations, and communities, foundations earnestly filter money from those who have it to those who don’t, and by doing so, they get to decide who is worthy and who isn’t.
What happens when a pasttime turns into an industry?
Article by Martha Quillen
Art – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Although it may not have been as apparent twenty years ago — when the railroad depot still stood, the quarry still operated, and the mines still ran — even then Salida harbored a bit of an art colony.
Colorado on my mind, by Curt Buchholtz
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Colorado on My Mind
Introduction by Curt Buchholtz
published in 1994 by Falcon Press
ISBN 1-56044-272-7
Write ’em Roughshod, by Peggy Godfrey
Review by Marcia Darnell
Poetry – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Write ’em Roughshod
by Peggy Godfrey
published in 1994 by MediaChaosBooks
Trials and Triumphs, by Stephen J. Leonard
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado History – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Trials and Triumphs – A Colorado Portrait of the Great Depression With FSA Photographs
by Stephen J. Leonard
Published in 1993 by University Press of Colorado
ISBN 0-87081-311-0
Tomboy Bride, by Harriet Fish Backus
Review by Martha Quillen
Coloado History – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Tomboy Bride – A Woman’s Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
by Harriet Fish Backus
Published in 1969 by Pruett
ISBN 0-87108-512-7
Four-Legged legends of Colorado by Gayle C. Shirley
Review by Mandy Ainsworth
Colorado Animals – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Four-Legged Legends of Colorado
by Gayle C. Shirley
published in 1994 by Falcon Press
ISBN 1-56044-262-X
2 books about strange events
Review by Martha Quillen
Colorado – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
It Happened In Colorado
by James A. Crutchfield
Published in 1993 by Falcon Press
ISBN 1-56044-202-6
Flyfishing, Hiking, and Cycling books
Review by Hal Walter
Outdoors – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Flyfishing the High Country
By John Gierach
Published in 1984 by Pruett
ISBN: 0-87108-662-X
The Fall of Climax Molybdenum
Article by Steve Voynick
Mining history – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
If there was a single date that marked the transition between the rise and fall of Climax, it was January 1, 1958. On that date, the Climax Molybdenum Company merged with the American Metals Company, becoming a division of American Metals Climax, Inc.
Notes and commentary for December 1994
Brief by Central Staff
Various – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Greater Pyramid
FLORIDA — Operating under the name Pyramids Unlimited, some developers have proposed a 495-foot pyramid of steel and granite. Inside would be 300,000 crypts, and the mausoleum would be topped with a glass chapel.
Geologic Mischief
Letter from Robert Mcphee
November edition – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
Your November issue was especially interesting to me. Jeanne Englert’s book review on roadside geology, the Climax Mine history, Frémont’s fourth expedition book review, the legislative race between Ken Chlouber and Curtis Imrie, and the religious pyramid controversy in Crestone — they all provided the kind of information that urban residents like myself find helpful in keeping up with you rural sophisticates.
It’s FIBArk, not FIBARK or Fibark
Letter from John Hansen
Salida festival – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Dear Martha and Ed,
Thank you for listing us in the Agenda section of the November issue.
One of our “agendas” is the promotion of our festival, and since subscriptions to your magazine distribute it to many parts of the country, we appreciate any coverage we can get from you.
Naive and idealistic notions
Essay by Ed Quillen
Colorado Central – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
First, an apology. In this edition, we had planned to publish the second installment of an article about the future of the Southern Pacific Railroad’s “Central Corridor” in Central Colorado.
