Column by Hal Walter
Custer County – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
With all the growth in recent years, the Westcliffe-Silver Cliff clusterplex is certainly no longer a one-horse town. But is it a two-grocery town?
Month: January 1997
Guaranteed psychic predictions for 1997
Brief by Martha Quillen
Humor – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
UFOs will be sighted in that great mysterious valley that lies under the Sangre de Cristos south of the Heart of the Rockies.
Rescue workers will valiantly seek a hiker who wandered into the mountains without food, water or adequate protective clothing.
Ski Cooper: Real History, Good Powder, and Affordable
Article by Steve Voynick
Local History – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Many Colorado ski areas share a common heritage. Like Aspen, Breckenridge, and Telluride, they took over comatose mining towns; or, like Copper Mountain and Vail, they were conceived on drawing boards. Either way, their bloodlines can be traced to venture capitalists out to make a few bucks.
Monarch: a WPA boondoggle that succeeded
Article by Ed Quillen
Local History – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
The mythology of the West holds strong to a belief that “rugged individualists” carved out an empire without any help from the government, but that version of history ignores some inconvenient truths. The prospectors expected federal troops to clear away the Indians, the farmers sought federal loans to build irrigation systems, the merchants wanted federal assistance on road construction, the ranchers desired federal subsidies for grazing …
People of the Shining Mountains, by Charles S. Marsh
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado history – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
People of the Shining Mountains: The Utes of Colorado
by Charles S. Marsh
Published in 1982 by Pruett
ISBN 0871086131
Glass-eyed Paint in the Rain, by Laurie Wagner Buyer
Review by Martha Quillen
Poetry – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Glass-eyed Paint in the Rain
by Laurie Wagner Buyer
Published in 1996
by High Plains Press
ISBN 0-931271-40-1
Home from Nowhere, by James Howard Kuntstler
Review by Ed Quillen
Small towns – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Home from Nowhere – Remaking our Everyday World for the 21st Century
by James Howard Kunstler
Published in 1996 by Simon & Schuster
ISBN 0-684-81196-0
Gerald Merfeld: Patience at the foot of the Sangres
Article by Leah Lahtinen
Local Artists – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Gerald Merfeld is a lucky man. For 40 years, he has been an artist, making a living and living his dream. His greatest challenge, he says, has been sustaining the passion for art that started him on this road as a young man.
Mixing Religion and Politics leads to Division
Essay by Martha Quillen
American Culture & Politics – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
This Christmas, the shelves at Wal-Mart are stocked with books about angels. There are television shows about angels, including both regular features and countless interviews with people who claim to have met angels. This year’s candidates talked exhaustively of values, morals, and traditions, and the national news magazines have repeatedly noted that Americans are looking for spirituality.
The Not-so-Smart Growth awards were wonderful
Letter from Roger Williams
Smart Growth – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editor:
Got my first issue, No. 33 (November 1996), and much enjoyed it. “Not So Smart Growth Awards” had me rolling in the aisles and slapping my thighs while I gasped for breath; it was great.
The real Leadville has been replaced
Letter from S. Roger Kirkpatrick
Leadville – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Ed:
In your review of the book on Lost Landscapes you mention three towns that are still alive and well(?) even though they should not be from author Thomas Power’s perspective.
Spellbound in the Custerplex
Letter from Hal Walter
Local lexicography – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Dear Ed,
Yes, Westcliffe’ Super Market is correct with no “s” after the Westcliffe’ and a space between “Super” and “Market”… some time we should do a column about errors in names and signs around here. For example: Westcliffe. Why the “e?” Why is Westcliffe one word and Silver Cliff two? Of course there’s always the “Westcliff School” chiseled in rock. Why does Jennings Market not have an apostrophe after “Jennings?” It takes major writing talent to be able to misspell all this stuff correctly.
When President Truman got the key to Leadville
Letter from Beverly Pologar
Local history – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editor:
The article, “The Whistle Stops Don’t Stop Here Any More,” (November 1996 issue of Colorado Central) brought to mind President Truman’s whistle stop in Leadville in 1948. I recall going to the depot at Malta with my mother and my grandfather. I was six years old and in the first grade. The prospect of seeing the president was exciting.
Rural West leads the nation in conspiracy believers
Brief by Central Staff
Rural West – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
One nice thing about the recent election is that Central Colorado’s population is so dispersed that the pollsters don’t bother to sample and predict local political races.
The mysterious crystal skull came from Denver
Brief by Central Staff
Local Lore – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Back in February of 1995, Moffat rancher Donna Koch found a glass skull, about 6½ inches high, while riding the fence line.
Salida to Gunnison, 71 miles; Gunnison to Salida, 65 miles
Brief by Central Staff
Transportation – January 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
No, this sign doesn’t exist. But it does reflect the curious geometry of the Colorado Department of Transportation.
On the east side of Gunnison, the sign on U.S. 50 says that Salida lies 65 miles eastward — and our odometer agrees.
