Column by Hal Walter
Real Estate – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
IT’S BEEN SAID that the golden time from mid-September to mid-October almost makes it worth all the hassles of living here the rest of the year.
Month: November 2003
Words not found in the dictionary
Letter from Slim Wolfe
American life – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors,
Some time back, I wrote a few words about the sort of verbal currency found in these parts (and elsewhere, as well): People, not finding dollars and cents sufficient, are always trading “youcant’s” and “yougottas” in the endless struggle to get a leg up on other folks. I have since realized that my list was woefully incomplete.
A lucky girl
Letter from Dick Scar
Outdoors – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
Gail Binkly is one lucky girl to have survived camping for nearly 20 years in a $19.95 tent [September, 2003, edition]. She joins countless others having copious amounts of good luck who climb to the summits of the 14,000-foot mountains around us wearing shorts and a T-shirt and without raingear, maps, compass or any emergency gear. I am amazed after every summer season that the mountain trails are not littered with the bodies of some people I see on the trail.
Vigilance isn’t paranoia
Letter from Bob Cross
Water – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
Regarding George Sibley’s column in the October edition:
Labeling your feelings as “paranoia” is simply too self-deprecating. Let me suggest that your observations are more properly classified as the vigilance of true patriotism. Remember that in Federalist No. 10, Madison was arguing that representative government is the remedy for “the violence of faction.”
Suffragist or Suffragette? Or perhaps Suffragista?
Letter from Larae W. Essman
Language – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
In the August 2003 issue of Colorado Central (pg. 27), Ed Quillen used the word suffragettes, a word that triggers a grim visage and a rude exclamation on my part. It is true that both words denote an advocate for the extension of political voting rights to women, but suffragette is never used to describe male suffragists.
Peg Corthoust and her flowering art
Article by Columbine Quillen
Local Artist – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
MANY AREA RESIDENTS are familiar with Peg Corthoust. She was one of the fastest skiers at Monarch’s Town Challenge Race last winter and she loves a good river trip. She always seems to be smiling and ready for a tasty conversation or a funny joke. But what a lot of people don’t know about Peg is that she is a phenomenal painter.
What Trinidad is doing in Alamosa
Sidebar by Marcia Darnell
Education – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Some day you may do what Ed Quillen did, and idling in Main Street traffic in Alamosa, ask yourself, “Why the hell is there a branch of Trinidad State Junior College here?”
“I’m not sure how we got together,” recalls Tom Scarlett, dean of instruction and student services. The facility used to be the San Luis Valley Area Vocational School, under the control of the Alamosa School District.
Western State College celebrates independence
Article by Ed Quillen
Education – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
IN THE HOPE of finding cheap student labor to exploit, I talk to college journalism and writing classes as often as possible. After those visits, it’s impossible to avoid generalizing about the students, and that led to a surprising observation.
The courts and prayer in the schools
Sidebar by Martha Quillen
Education – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
If you want to know where American law stands on prayer, it’s probably best not to ask the courts. But in the last sixty years, there have been numerous cases handed down.
In 1962, the Supreme Court heard Engel v. Vitale, and decided it was unconstitutional for government agencies, including schools, to require prayers.
Using children as pawns
Essay by Martha Quillen
Education – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
AFTER READING A SUNDAY supplement feature about depression last week, I realized that I’m not particularly prone to depression. The article talked about people who felt hopeless, suicidal, tired, and defeated, and who thought that there was nothing they could do to change anything.
Regional Recipes
Sidebar by Alison Hobbs
Agriculture – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
THE FOLLOWING RECIPES were adapted (with slight alterations) from Colorado Farmers’ Market Cookbook: Delicious Recipes and Tips fresh from Colorado Farmers’ Markets and Chefs, by Melissa Craven, Laura Korth, and Janis Judd, with permission from CD
Vegetarian recipes
Sidebar by Alison Hobbs
Agriculture – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
THE FOLLOWING RECIPES were adapted from Vegetarian Celebrations and Great American Vegetarian by Nava Atlas. Atlas is also the author of The Vegetarian Family Cookbook; Vegetarian Soups for All Seasons; Vegetariana; and several other books about vegetarian cooking which can be ordered from local bookstores.
Regional Thanksgiving alternatives
Sidebar by Alison Hobbs
Agriculture – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
REGIONAL:
Butternut squash with Whole Wheat, Wild Rice, and Onion Three Sisters Stew
Some stores that support regional production
Sidebar by Alison Hobbs
Agriculture – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Some stores that support regional production
Farms and Farmer – Rancher Associations
Sidebar by Alison Hobbs
Agriculture – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Farms and Farmer – Rancher Associations
How to celebrate a Colorado Thanksgiving feast
Article by Alison Hobbs
Agriculture – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
WE ARE ALL FAMILIAR with the story of the first Thanksgiving. Like many historical events, it is a tale muddled by both fact and myth. But we know it was a day the settlers celebrated with the natives of the region after suffering years of hunger and sickness. In fact, the survival of these newcomers was due to the generosity of a Wampanoag Indian named Squanto who taught them how to live off of the land they had settled on.
The Home Town Advantage, by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Review by Ed Quillen
Business – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
The Home Town Advantage – How to Defend your Main Street against Chain Stores, and Why It Matters
by Stacy Mitchell
Published in 2000 by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance
ISBN 0-917582-89-6
Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory and the Creation of the American West
Review by Ed Quillen
History – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West
by David M. Wrobel
Published in 2002 by University Press of Kansas
ISBN 0-7006-1204-1
Columbines, by Robert Nold
Review by Ed Quillen
Gardening – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Columbines: Aquilegia, Paraquilegia, and Semiaquilegia
by Robert Nold
Published in 2003 by Timber Press
ISBN 0-88192-588-8
Silver Lies, by Ann Parker
Review by Martha Quillen
Fiction – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Silver Lies
by Ann Parker
Published in 2003 by Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN 1-59058-072-9
Democracy and Capitalism: The cow and the crab as a team
Column by George Sibley
Politics – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
OVER HERE IN THE Upper Gunnison Valley we are once again at loggerheads over private property and the public interest. A couple of years ago, after a long, convoluted and occasionally convulsive process, the conservatives in the valley — that branch of conservatives that call themselves environmentalists — got an “upgrade” of the Gunnison County Land-Use Resolution through the County Board of Commissioners.
Ghosts
Article by Chas S. Clifton
Local Lore – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
LAST SPRING, a check came for me from Leland Feitz, owner of Little London Press in Colorado Springs. “Little London” was an 1890s nickname for Colorado Springs, coined when the city was flush with British mining capital and had its own stock exchange. Feitz publishes short books on local history, and in 1982, he turned a newspaper feature series that I had written into Ghost Tales of Cripple Creek.
Denver Water wants to know if cloud-seeding works
Brief by Central Staff
Weather – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Does cloud-seeding really work? Or would any extra snowfall have happened anyway?
Last winter, as Colorado struggled with a drought, cloud-seeders were set up in the mountains. They have chimneys that shoot silver-iodide particles upward, into the clouds. In theory, the small particles provide a place for water molecules to coalesce into snowflakes, which then fall.
Are campfires getting doused for good?
Brief by Central Staff
Outdoors – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
The traditional campfire is fading away, even when there are no drought-inspired bans.
For instance, there were the Camp Fire Girls, now known as Camp Fire USA. The girls used to be encouraged to “sing around the campfire.”
Mt. Cosgriff christened
Brief by Central Staff
Geography – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Mt. Cosgriff should be somewhere in this picture, since 14,433-foot Mt. Elbert is on the right. But we’re not sure which peak is Cosgriff.
In July, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names approved designation of a subpeak of Elbert, highest summit in all 3,000 miles of Rocky Mountains, as Mount Cosgriff, to honor long-time Leadville lawyer Peter Cosgriff.
Regional Roundup
Brief by Ed Quillen
Regional News – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
High Country Agriculture
Agriculture has never been a mainstay of the Lake County economy, since the growing season is short at 10,200 feet.
But that doesn’t stop some people from trying. Acting on a tip that led to a search warrant, the Lake County Criminal Activity Task force raided a residence on Loop Road on Sept. 19, and found 89 marijuana plants and about five pounds of dried hemp. Two people were arrested.
Yet another Royal Gorge war
Brief by Central Staff
Tourism – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Generally, we think of the “Royal Gorge War” as something that happened a long time ago — specifically, in 1879 when two railroads were battling in court and on the ground for the right to lay tracks in “the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas,” a defile so narrow that there was room for only one set of tracks.
Perhaps the Privy Council should decide?
Brief by Central Staff
Education – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Amish farmers, with their old-fashioned lifestyle, are associated with Pennsylvania. But they do live in other states — now including Colorado. In July of last year, Amish families from Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin bought land near Monte Vista in the San Luis Valley, and now there are about 65 people.
Continuing an unsinkable legacy
Brief by Central Staff
Charity – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
The mines of Leadville produced millions of dollars of wealth over the years, but that didn’t make Leadville a wealthy city. This was so even in 1931, when Margaret Tobin “Unsinkable Mollie” Brown, whose fortune came from Leadville, saw such destitution among the city’s children that she donated candy, Christmas presents, caps, stockings, and underwear to be distributed at the Community Christmas Tree in front of the post office.
Lining up for next November
Brief by Central Staff
Politics – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
We haven’t even finished with the 2003 election, and already people are lining up for 2004 — and we’re not talking about the presidential election.
There might be a primary for the Democratic nomination to represent House District 60 in the Colorado General Assembly. The district includes Chaffee, Park and Custer counties, along with Canon City, Florence, and western Fremont County, plus eastern Saguache County and some of western Pueblo County.
Briefs from the San Luis Valley
Brief by Marcia Darnell
San Luis Valley – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
No Body
Several days of searching led nowhere for Costilla County officials following the hand-drawn map of confessed serial killer Richard Paul White. During his interrogation in Denver for another crime, White happened to mention that he killed several women, one or two near his former home near Mesita. No bodies have yet been found in the Valley.
How they’re lining up on Referendum A
Article by Marcia Darnell And Ed Quillen
Water – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Referendum A, the ballot issue to fund water projects through bonds, is the hot button of this election. Proponents say it’s a way to pay to save water without taxes; those against it are afraid of the unspecified nature of such projects and fear a “big suck” of their liquid assets.
On Mountain Time 236-239
Comic Strip written and drawn by Clint Driscoll
Mountain Life – November 2003 – Colorado Central
Plutocracy encounters folk wisdom in Aspen
Essay by Tim Willoughby
Geography – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
THE MEDIA RELISHED reporting Ken Lay’s sale of two homes in Aspen. The former Enron exec, who became the poster boy of corporate malfeasance, was President Bush’s major source of campaign funds in both his Texas governor race and his 2000 presidential campaign. But Lay had to liquidate quickly to build up his defense fund.
Western Water Report: November 4, 2003
WATER DIET FOR CALIFORNIA
For the first time in the 81-year history of the law, California will promise to use only its allotted share of Colorado River water, to the relief of officials in upstream states. Denver Rocky Mountain News; Oct. 16 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=11469> <http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/national/17WATE.html> <http://www.enn.com/news/2003-10-16/s_9487.asp> <http://www.enn.com/news/2003-10-17/s_9527.asp> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38266-2003Oct16.html>
