Fiction by Kathleen Thomas
Angels – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
The old saw has it that seeing is believing, and I believe that’s true. I myself have seen more than a few things that could go unexplained, unrelieved, except that, well, I saw them. But my stories, until today, have paled in comparison to a woman I knew. Her name was Lucy.
Poem by Lynda La Rocca
Christmas – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
The week after Christmas, the streets are all lined
Article by George Sibley
Geography – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Last spring, Colorado Central issued what sounded like a challenge: to find some meaningful “mountain conquests” that involved something more than trudging up big mountains just because they are “Fourteeners.” So here is a candidate for the category of “mountain adventures that require more research than muscle.”
Sidebar by Allen Best
Transportation – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
When people talk to Stephanie Olsen about scenic excursion trains between Avon and Leadville, she has one question: Who’s going to subsidize them?
Article by Allen Best
Transportation – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Standing on the Southern Pacific tracks at the entrance to the 2,000-foot Tennessee Pass tunnel, the highest point of main-line rail in the country, you can see a small but distinct light at the far end.
Article by Leah Lahtinen
Local Artists – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Being an artist is not a very practical way to earn one’s living. It may be fine for those who don’t have to live in the real world, who can exist on whimsy, and who only need to eat when inspiration strikes them. But souls raised on rules, order, and common sense have a tendency to see whimsy and inspiration as quirks in an otherwise practical nature, and thus go on to follow more prosaic paths.
Review by Martha Quillen
Books – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Bear Attacks by Stephen Herrero. Better than watching videos of Klondike and Snow, and you get a real understand of how bruins view us.
Review by Michael Dzubinski
Books – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
1. Trails Among the Columbine: Salida, D&RG Railroad Town. The most comprehensive book on the history of Salida. 320 pages, 250 historic photographs.
Review by Lynda La Rocca
Books – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
My taste in books is all over the map. Often, that map is not in any atlas. I love books about mystical, magical beings from other times or worlds.
Review by Ed Quillen
Transportation – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Railroad Tall Tales (And Other B.S.)
by Samuel A. Dougherty
No ISBN
Published in 1992 by the author
Review by Steve Voynick
History – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Ghost Towns of the American West
by Bill O’Neal
Published in 1995
by Publications International, Ltd.
ISBN 0-7853-1241-2
Essay by Ed Quillen
Communications – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
For the past year or so, I felt as though I lived on Saturn every time I picked up a newspaper or magazine. There was all this breathless prose about the wonders of the Internet (Hypertext! World Wide Web! Net Surfing! Lurid Pictures Useful to Campaigning Republicans!) and here I was in Salida, where it was about as convenient to surf an ocean as to surf the Internet.
Article by Richard Harris
Business – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
It’s about staples.
When I first saw Waggener’s Pharmacy in 1978, it was a tiny, dim place with fading paint and worn carpet. It had too much inventory sitting in neat rows like little soldiers at parade rest, long past any hope of a profitable sale.
Article by Steve Voynick
Recreation – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Nick Stenick was a dean’s list junior at Rutgers University (that’s in New Jersey) when he surprised his fraternity brothers by announcing that he wouldn’t be back in September to begin his senior year.
Brief by Central Staff
Wildlife – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Major export?
First it was whirling disease, which now infects trout throughout Colorado.
Brief by Central Staff
Politics – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
And now for ’96
There’s no time to go into recovery from the ’95 election; we’ve got a general election coming up next year.
Brief by Central Staff
UFOs – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Lost In Space
On Nov. 12, Fox TV’s Sightings featured UFO activity in both Salida and the San Luis Valley — although UFO researchers never seemed to note the difference.
Brief by Central Staff
Politics – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Election spin
When they wrote about the mountains, the Denver papers seemed to interpret last month’s election returns as anti-growth and anti-tax.
