(A MOSTLY TRUE STORY) BY JAY PAYNE Before the Janss boys started Snowmass, when lots cost $1,500 and Freddie Fisher’s upside-down water spout defied gravity, I lived in the Woody Creek Trailer Park. If I rode my bicycle up the hill I could look past Hunter’s house up Little Woody Creek and see the district […]
Issue: May 2006
Published May 2006
Fishing in Woody Creek...Lawyers Guns and Money...Hal Haddon Interviews Ed Bradley...Why A Bill Of Rights Defense Resolution? Andy Hall in the Kitchen...Dr. Hunter S. Thompson on Speedism...
Published At Owl Farm
(when you least expect it)
DON’T FIGHT MOTHER NATURE
BY JANET SCHOEBERLEIN SOME SEEDING-LOOKING COUPLES WERE WAITING TO GET “SET UP.” SOMETIME BEFORE I PAID FOR A STRONG, EXPENSIVE PLANT LIGHT, I REALIZED THAT EVERYBODY ELSES THER WAS GETTING SET UP TO GROW POT IN THEIR CLOSETS. STRAIGHT, STUPID ME! AND THE PANSIES DIED. Unless you want to make extra trouble work with Mother […]
AMOR EN EL AIRE
BY GEORGE STRANAHAN Jesus lived far out in the country where he tended to his father’s farm: his father was dying and also required tending to. There was no madre, she having died earlier, and as an only child, no hijos: his was lonely life of toil. He found simple joy, yes, in spreading the […]
WOODY CREEK CRACK RUNS DEEP
BY PEG O’BRIEN “What do I do about these cracks in my fingertips!?” the 42-year-old construction worker exclaimed. Over the winter months the distant and exposed skin of the body loses moisture and integrity, until it finally fissures. Due to the highly sophisticated and sensitive nerve endings of the area, the pain is great. Grasping, […]
A NIGHT WITH MICHAEL FRANTI
BY ALICE COTTON MUSIC INSPIRES, PAIN IS UNIVERSAL, AND WE ALL WANT PEACE. Having recently moved to Woody Creek from San Francisco, I was extremely pleased when California resident Michael Franti came to town. He is an extra soulful, thought-provoking, heartfelt musician, and all 6 foot 5 of him is fun. Josh Burman of Mountain […]
