Essay by Hal Walter
Mountain Life – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
I knew I was on the edge when I actually sat down with paper and pen to diagram how I could spell out a certain two-word expletive using wrecked car bodies.
Month: June 1995
Specimen miners strike it rich in Park County
Article by Steve Voynick
Mining – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Frontier-era miners had a saying that no mine was ever really worked out. They closed or abandoned their mines simply to await “better times.”
Mid-Mountain Regional Directory, by Desert Bloom Inc.
Review by Ed Quillen
Telephony – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Mid-Mountain Regional Directory
1995 edition
Desert Bloom, Inc.
A Wilder Life: Essays from Home, by Ken Wright
Review by Ed Quillen
Mountain Life – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
A Wilder Life: Essays from Home
by Ken Wright
Published in 1995
by Kivakí Press
ISBN 1-882308-15-8
Breaking into the Current, by Louise Teal
Review by Jeanne Englert
Boating – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Breaking Into the Current: Boatwomen of the Grand Canyon
By Louise Teal
Published in 1994
by The University of Arizona Press
ISBN 0-8165-1413-5
My Search for Augusta Pierce Tabor, by Evelyn E.L. Furman
Review by Lynda La Rocca
Local History – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
My Search for Augusta Pierce Tabor – Leadville’s First Lady
by Evelyn E. Livingston Furman
Quality Press, Denver
ISBN 0-9635005-0-3
It’s time for the rural West to put up or shut up
Essay by Ellen Miller
Politics – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Newt Gingrich has riled people again, which isn’t real news. What is news is that maybe a Washington beltway politician might be getting a glimmer about the rural West. His remarks came recently on a network talk show and he put out the remarkable theory that Westerners don’t like or trust the federal government.
Summit inspires both hope and cynicism
Sidebar by Marcia Darnell
Growth – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
I have to credit Roy Romer. Most government officials faced with a problem huddle with their cronies in the locker room and say, “What are we gonna do?” Romer is, at the least, making a show of talking to The People. At best, he’s actually listening and acting on the input he receives.
A View from the Valley’s Growth Summit
Article by Marcia Darnell
Growth – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Gov. Roy Romer’s fifth Smart Growth Summit in Alamosa began with the introduction of an obscure journalist named “Ed Quillian,” who presented a compelling argument for his assertion that Chicago won the Mexican War.
Soundbites from a day in Gunnison
Sidebar by Martha Quillen
Growth – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
About the governor’s conferences on “Smart Growth”:
“Since this is the third in a series, how smart are we getting?”Jerry Swingle, Western Colorado Congress
Visions, summits, conferences … to what end?
Essay by Martha Quillen
Growth – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Visioning conferences. Smart Growth Summits. Meetings. Committees. Symposiums. Seminars. Last month, Ed and I attended three conferences concerning growth — and thereby missed dozens of similar gatherings.
San Juan Partnership
Brief by Central Staff
Growth – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Colorado’s population is growing at a faster rate than Africa’s, which means a new Denver in five years, and New Mexico is growing faster than Brazil or India.
New roadside markers seek adoptive parents
Brief by Central Staff
Highways – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
We’re all familiar with the adopt-a-highway program, wherein a civic group agrees to pick up trash along the road.
Now the Colorado Historical Society and the Colorado Department of Transportation are looking for some volunteers to adopt a new generation of roadside historical markers.
Where do we go from here?
Brief by Central Staff
Growth – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
“It is nuts around here. We have been discovered.” So said Julie Hupper, town manager of Buena Vista, in the April 23 edition of the Denver Post.
Additional evidence that Crestone is the vortex
Brief by Central Staff
Politics – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
A recent edition of National Review reports that Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, secretary-general of the United Nations, has endorsed Maurice Strong as a potential successor when his five-year term expires in 1997.
Increased Tourist Flow Scenic Byway
Brief by Central Staff
Tourism – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Even though it often appears that Colorado cares only about its interstate highways and adjacent sacrifice zones, that’s not quite true. Among Colorado’s roads now are 21 Scenic and Historic Byways, selected by a commission named by Governor Roy Romer in 1989.
