Article by Christina Nealson
Residential construction – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
THE LITTLE PIG crouched in fear. The wolf was at the door, and was prepared to huff and puff and blow the house down.
1994 July
How to help restore the tunnel approach
Sidebar by Kym O’Connell-Todd
Transportation History – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazines.
Anyone who is interested in the restoration of the Alpine Tunnel and can offer the following help should call Ray Rossman at the Gunnison Forest Service office at 303-641-0471:
Tunnel delays made DSP&P lose the race to Gunnison
Sidebar by Kym O’Connell-Todd
Transportation History – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Enthusiasm was high — the tension even greater — during the rail race of 1879.
Two narrow-gauge railroad companies, the Denver and Rio Grande (D&RG) Railroad and the Denver South Park and Pacific Railroad (DSP&P), fought neck to neck to reach the prosperous mining town of Gunnison first. Even though both companies faced the formidable Continental Divide, each chose to approach the engineering problem in radically different ways.
West Portal of Alpine Tunnel getting a facelift
Article by Kym O’Connell-Todd
Transportation History – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
At a little more than 11,500 feet above the tides, a small wooden building leans into whistling tundra wind. Abandoned for many years and left as a makeshift home to marmots and other mountaintop squatters, the little depot still shares the snow-patched landscape with the remains of the colossal Alpine Tunnel project that began 115 years ago.
Central Colorado’s only indigenous sport
Article by Hal Walter
Pack-Burro Racing – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Rain, sleet, and snow fell in sheets. Thunder rocked the talus roadbed of Mosquito Pass. Lightning blazed like God’s own black light. The fog-shrouded bolts painted the intensely gray scene with purple snowflakes against a sky darker than death itself. Darker than death itself.
Miles from Nowhere, by Dayton Duncan
Review by Ed Quillen
Frontier – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Miles from Nowhere – Tales from America’s Contemporary Frontier
by Dayton Duncan
published in 1993
by Viking Penguin
ISBN 0-670-83195-6
A Poet Talks Politics
Article by Marcia Darnell
Local Artist – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
There are no trees around Peggy Godfrey’s ranch house. No shrubs or flower beds adorn the wood-and-glass home. But what it lacks in foliage it makes up in fauna. Ewes and their lambs crowd the fence nearest the house, hoping for a glimpse of the woman who calls them “my babies.”
Notes & Commentary for July 1994
Brief by Central Staff
Various – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Money laundering
SALIDA — The next time a student says that a dog ate his homework, elementary teacher Judy Boshinski should be sympathetic. Last April she cashed her paycheck, put the money in an envelope, and left it on a dresser in her Salida home.
All Buena Vsta wanted was a doctor …
Article by Martha Quillen
Rural medicine – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
Buena Vista just wanted another doctor. But when the town started searching for a new physician, it got more than it bargained for.
An Adventure on the Arkansas
Essay by T.L. Livermore
Recreation – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
My first foray into rafting took place on the Arkansas, in Brown’s Canyon, in an Achilles owned by a friend who insisted it would be fun. He promised to show me holes, places where the river turns back on itself.
What year did everything go wrong?
Essay by Martha Quillen
American Life – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
There’s a new parlor game sweeping across America: To pinpoint the year in which everything went wrong.
