Essay by Sharon Chickering
Mountain Humor – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Dear Noel and Crystal:
It was great hearing from you! We’re excited you’re moving to the Colorado Rockies. We know you’ll love it — we do.
Month: October 1995
Learning to adjust to life in paradise
Essay by Diane Alexander
Mountain Humor – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
by DIANE ALEXANDER
Moving from a metropolitan area to a town of 1,700 souls is a bigger change than this life-long city dweller anticipated. Since other city folks are moving to this area, I’ve got some advice to ease the transition.
How hot type works
Sidebar by Ed Quillen
Printing – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Thirty years ago, almost every newspaper in America was printed with the same “hot-lead” technology that remains in daily use at The Saguache Crescent.
Colorado’s last hot-lead sheet-fed newspaper
Article by Lynda La Rocca
Old Technology – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
“To love what you do and feel that it matters — how could anything be more fun?”
The Church Camps near Buena Vista
Article by John K. Andrews, Jr.
Local History – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
We who live here on the roof of the continent have gotten used to the smug assumption of our coastal compatriots, especially those on the Atlantic end, that they are at the center of things and we’re at the outer edge. But in at least one respect it is the other way around, as two illustrations of names-in-common will show.
Among the Eternal Snows, by Phil Carson
Review by Ed Quillen
Local History – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Among the Eternal Snows – The First Recorded Ascent of Pike’s Peak: July 13-15, 1820
by Phil Carson
Published in 1995 by First Ascent Press
2012 W. Kiowa, Colorado Springs CO 80904
No ISBN
Bacon, Beans, and Galantines, by Joseph R. Conlin
Review by Jeanne W. Englert
History – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Bacon, Beans, and Galantines: Food and Foodways on the Western Mining Frontier
by Joseph R. Conlin
University of Nevada Press
ISBN 0-87417-105-9
Stuart Andrews of Buena Vista: Reality & Surreality
Article by Ed Quillen
Local Artists – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Reality takes some odd turns when you glance at one of Stuart Andrews’s paintings. All the components look realistic, and you’re tempted to nod and think, “Hmm, another landscape,” or “interesting still life,” when something out of place catches your eye. Then you notice a lot of juxtapositions, and finally you realize that you’re looking at an exquisite visual pun.
How much progress can we handle?
Essay by Martha Quillen
Modern life – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Remember Eli Whitney and his cotton gin?
Children had to learn about that invention because it changed history. Before Whitney’s gin was patented in 1794, only coastal cotton was commercially viable. But Whitney’s invention could get the sticky green seeds out of cotton grown in the interior, and thus, many southern states became major cotton producers.
Salida gets a sighting
Brief by Central Staff
UFOs – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Tim Edwards, a 42-year-old Salidan, was outdoors working on some house gutters on the morning of Aug. 27 when his six-year-old daughter asked “Daddy, what’s that up in the sky?”
Railroads may complete abandonment in Central Colorado
Brief by Central Staff
Transportation – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
In a couple of years, this sight [a through freight train] could vanish from Central Colorado if a proposed railroad merger goes through.
Santa Fé Blues
Brief by Central Staff
Tourism – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Is the crash coming? Pinched tourist flows and declining real-estate prices?
What goes up must go down, and a recent New York Times story about Santa Fé indicates that the city may have already hit the top of this cycle, with a downward slide before it.
