Results for keyword: rural life
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The strange attraction of the “breakfast thing”
Rob Pudim casts a curious eye on the small-town Western “breakfast thing,” where old codgers gather around a café table to flirt with the waitress and talk about nothing in particular.
by Rob Pudim, Apr 09, 2007 -
Lewis’ Web
Wyoming microbiologist Randy Lewis is fascinated by spiders – particularly by the remarkable silk they produce.
by Erin Halcomb, Apr 02, 2007 -
March madness trims the herd
Just as winter turns into spring, Paul Larmer watches a young elk die in western Colorado.
by Paul Larmer, Mar 26, 2007 -
Down the alleys and through the collectibles
Bill Croke enjoys a rite of spring peculiar to small towns: Strolling the neighborhood alleys and snooping to see what everyone’s up to.
by Bill Croke, Mar 19, 2007 -
Fill 'er up with moonshine
Chris Myles plans to fuel his vehicles with homebrewed ethanol, made in a still he built at his home in Silverton, Colo.
by Fletcher Jacobs, Jan 22, 2007 -
Slipping into the holidays
This issue’s cover essay on New Mexico’s gas fields – and our publisher’s adventures during a recent snowstorm in Paonia – reveal the complex links that bind Westerners together for better or worse
by Paul Larmer, Dec 25, 2006 -
A green obsession
Westerners, like most Americans, are deeply in love with their lawns – but in an time of increasing drought, the Kentucky bluegrass is going to have to go
by Paul Larmer, Aug 21, 2006 -
'There was just some hard hittin' going on'
Matt Jenkins visits the annual Combine Demolition Derby in the tiny farming town of Lind, Wash.
by Matt Jenkins, Aug 07, 2006 -
'I call (regulations) land stealing ...'
Dorothy English weighs in on the pros – and cons – of Oregon’s Measure 37
by Ray Ring, Jul 24, 2006 -
The merry — and meditative — farmer
In Blithe Tomato, Mike Madison writes engagingly about working the land on a small farm in California’s Central Valley
by Laura Paskus, Jul 24, 2006
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