Martha
Roskowski, husband John Waitman and
their 3-year-old twins, Lukas and
Sophie, visited after biking the Book Cliffs
trail in nearby Fruita, Colo. The family lives in Boulder, Colo.,
where Martha is the city’s alternative transportation manager. She
used to head the nonprofit Bike America and spent time in
Washington, D.C., lobbying Congress to make biking safer and
easier.
Paul Milner and Cody
Wiley of Cedar Crest, N.M., stopped by to say hello on
their way to Boulder, Colo. Paul’s working on a bachelor’s degree
in geography at the University of New Mexico, where Cody recently
completed a dual master’s degree in geography and water resources.
FORMER INTERNS PUBLISH AND POLITIC
Jared Farmer’s new book, On Zion’s
Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape, was
just published by Harvard University Press. Jared, an
HCN intern in summer 1996, is now an assistant
professor of history at The State University of New York at Stony
Brook. His previous book is Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing
Lake Powell and the Canyon Country. Author David Rich
Lewis describes On Zion’s Mount as “magnificent historical
storytelling, both fun and provocative.”
Former intern Pete McBride, spring
1994, was recently elected to the Basalt, Colo., town council. He
campaigned in support of keeping tight bounds on urban growth; the
town is a booming bedroom community for the ritzy resort of Aspen
just down the pike. Congrats, Pete.
Utah
Phillips “catches the Westbound” Folk singer Utah
Phillips died at the age of 73 in his home in Nevada City, Calif.,
on Friday, May 23, the day before a concert was held here in
Paonia’s town park to help raise funds for his medical expenses.
Hobo, anarchist and activist, Utah was known as “the
golden voice of the great Southwest” and was nominated for a Grammy
for Fellow Workers, his 1999 collaboration with
Ani DiFranco. Utah took his name from his home state, where he ran
a losing campaign for Senate in 1968 on the Peace and Freedom
ticket.
In an introduction to his
song, The Telling Takes Me Home, he wrote, “When
I talk about the West, I don’t mean anybody’s West but my own.”
Let me sing to you all the old
songs I
know
Of wild and windy places locked
in
timeless snow
And wide crimson deserts where
the muddy rivers flow
It’s sad, but the telling takes
me
home, takes me home.
CORRECTION
The book review of Amy Irvine’smemoir Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised
Land in the April 28 issue incorrectly stated that
Irvine’s father was Catholic; he actually claimed no religious
affiliation.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Dear friends.
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