Results for keyword: small towns
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Mountain towns and the persistence of the weird
The folks in Telluride, Colo., no longer chicken-pick live chickens, but they still indulge in skitching, bike polo, broomball and other odd pastimes.
by Lisa Waring, Mar 31, 2010 -
Credo: The People’s West
Photographer Stephen Trimble offers suggestions for how citizens and communities can reinvent their relationship with the Western landscape.
by Stephen Trimble, Jun 23, 2008 -
Home, home on the cyber-range
Sandra Fults loves pinecam.com, a community Internet site that shares the weather and a whole lot more with the people of Colorado’s Front Range.
by Sandra Fults, Apr 07, 2008 -
Men with boots
The transformation of once-scrappy mining towns like Silverton, Colo., and Superior, Ariz., into trendy tourist havens is bound to leave the locals with mixed feelings and some nostalgia.
by Jonathan Thompson, Feb 18, 2008 -
Rhubarb: It tastes like spring
Christina Nealson scours her small town’s alleyways, looking for rhubarb with a recipe in hand.
by Christina Nealson, Jun 04, 2007 -
Paint it red and call it fine Western dining
Rob Pudim ranks Western cuisine according to the lavishness with which the ketchup is dispensed.
by Rob Pudim, Jun 04, 2007 -
Bring on the immigrants
Pete Letheby says the vanishing towns of the Great Plains and Midwest ought to open a welcoming door for immigrants.
by Pete Letheby, May 28, 2007 -
When the going gets tough, the tough collaborate
Sometimes it seems that only the impact of a severe drought can get Westerners to work together on water issues
by Paul Larmer, May 14, 2007 -
You ain’t from around here, are you?
In Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed, Jim Stiles rips into the amenity-oriented tourist economy that has transformed his once-beloved Moab, but he offers little in the way of useful alternatives.
by Brian Kevin, Apr 16, 2007 -
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






