Results for keyword: eccentrics
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The People of the Sea
California’s Salton Sea is at a crossroads, but whether it dries up and blows away or is restored and rejuvenated, the future does not look bright for its resident renegades, retirees and recluses.
by Terry Greene Sterling, Mar 03, 2008 -
Bigfoot, you’re invited to breakfast
Chuck Bolsinger has never met Bigfoot, but he did get to meet one of the mythical beast’s most fervent admirers – curmudgeonly Harry R. Truman, who lived on Spirit Lake until Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980.
by Chuck Bolsinger, Dec 31, 2007 -
'Clinging hopelessly to the past'
In his determination to cling, however hopelessly, to Utah’s past, Canyon Country Zephyr founder Jim Stiles has taken on miners, ranchers, developers, mountain bikers and – most recently – some of his fellow environmentalists
by M. John Fayhee, May 29, 2006 -
Cano's Vision
In the little town of Antonito, Colo., a local eccentric known as Cano is using salvaged materials like beer cans, hubcaps and scrap lumber to create an extraordinary shrine called "El Castillo."
by Susan J. Tweit, Aug 22, 2005 -
Heard around the West
Top-secret lab has a secret squatter; turtle-helpers in Boulder; the news and the Good News in Colorado Springs; child in pinata; kids write to Santa in Jackson, Wyo.
by Betsy Marston, Jan 24, 2005






