Most schools have a Homecoming weekend. Red Lodge, Mont., celebrates a different kind of coming home, on Memorial Day. On the last weekend in May, snowplows finish clearing the 10,000-foot Beartooth Pass between Red Lodge and Cooke City. And unless blizzards close it right back up again, which happens with some regularity, people like to […]
John Clayton
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The origin of names
As a child, I was fascinated by surnames. Was someone named King descended from royalty? How did Carl come to have so many sons? Then I moved to a small town, where the issue is not so theoretical. Among my friends, for example, are Dave and Sue The Writers and Tom The Guy Who Does […]
Posted inApril 1, 2002: Move over! Will snowmobile tourism relax its grip on a gateway town?
April Fools
Shrub takes on pesky species By Helen Wheels Wasps, head lice and roaches to be annihilated President Gorge W. Shrub, determined to show that “we take nature as seriously as nurture,” said yesterday that his administration will exterminate all species that might possibly, some day, qualify for listing under the Endangered Species Act. “As long […]
Posted inDecember 23, 1996: El Nuevo West
Keeping the heart in the center of town
The residents of very small Red Lodge, Mont., struck a blow, this month, for keeping their town a town. The forces for sprawling suburbanization are still all there: rising real estate prices, a major expansion at Red Lodge Mountain ski resort, and an influx of amenity-seeking newcomers attracted to the town’s setting, 60 twisting miles […]