Brief by Allen Best
Small-Town Life – November 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
Trustees in Oak Creek, a coal-mining town about 20 miles south of Steamboat Springs, have taken aim at the sounds and smells of idling cars and trucks.
Small-Town Life
Thanks, neighbors
Essay by Alan Kesselheim
Small-Town Life – November 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
I TOOK A LONG TRIP with my family last summer, six weeks away from home. Well before we left, during the school year, we found some ideal house sitters. A young couple my wife knew who needed a place during that same time and who were eager to trade some yard work and house upkeep. One of those rare win-win situations, a relief to all.
The drive-by roostering
Essay by Patty Lataille
Small-town life – August 2004 – Colorado Central Magazine
MARAUDING ROOSTERS at large. Laying hens. Cock fights at 5 a.m. Chicken sex. Uniformed police officers ready to whack my roosters. I never dreamed that the intricate details of chickenhood would be the source of such controversy in my lifetime.
Up Here, by Mary Stigall
Review by Martha Quillen
Small-town life – November 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
Up Here
by Mary Stigall
Western Reflections Publishing Company
Copyright 2002
ISBN: 1-890437-69-7
Alma wants to be a quieter place
Brief by Central Staff
Small town life – November 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
There was a time when Alma, a few miles up the Hoosier Pass road from Fairplay, was a rip-roaring mining camp.
But now it would prefer to be a quiet place.
When anatomy meets geography
Brief by Central Staff
Small town life – March 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
Since the days of the Great Depression, Salida has billed itself as “the Heart of the Rockies.”
That’s a safe body part, especially if you consider the fate of Lorrie Baumann, who used to be the editor of the Battle Mountain Bugle in Battle Mountain, Nevada.
Why my ugly town is beautiful
Essay by Paul Larmer
Small town life – May 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
EVER SINCE I MOVED to this small town on the edge of the Rocky Mountains seven years ago, a “For Sale” sign has marked the vacant lot next to the railroad tracks on 2nd Street.
It isn’t much of a lot, just a triangle of gravel-covered, weed-infested land squeezed by an alley and the tracks. Often, I have stood next to it, waiting for a 100-car train to rumble past with a load of coal from the mountains. The ground shakes. The air shatters with the sharp blasts of the train’s horn.
Can we avoid putting up gates?
Essay by Ed Quillen
Small-town life – March 1998 – Colorado Central Magazine
AT A MEETING in Denver nearly four years ago, I joked that development hereabouts was turning us into the easternmost gated suburb of Los Angeles — a protected enclave for people of means who prefer to live only among people like themselves.
But that isn’t entirely a joke, and it isn’t just happening to us. It’s a national phenomenon, as explained by a recent article in The Washington Post: Racial segregation is diminishing in America, but income segregation is rising.
