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02/28/10

Remembering Wray Landon

I attended the memorial service for Wray Landon in Idaho Falls yesterday.  It was a wonderful celebration of Wray and his life, with remarkable remembrances provided by Wray’s uncle, and friends Matt Lucia, Zahan Billimoria, and Brady Johnston.  

Not long before my geographer great-uncle passed away several years ago, he had written, "It is said that when a young man dies in the Andaman Islands, his peers go to the top of a nearby hill and shoot arrows of protest into the sky.”  The death of Wray Landon truly does make one want to shoot arrows into the sky.  The world needs more people like Wray, not fewer— in the words of Jim Schulz on the "Friends of Big Wray" Facebook page.

Wray left a hole in many...

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Striking Gold

02/26/10

Striking Gold

 

I love taking road trips, and we're often lucky at these unplanned mini-vacations. Last weekend, after spending Saturday at the American Dog Derby in Ashton and overnighting in Bozeman, we drove to Virginia City, Montana. My husband Peter fondly remembered driving through there with his family decades ago and wanted to show it to me.

What a find! Virginia City, a mining town to rival “No Name City” of Paint Your Wagon fame, must have been quite the place when it served as territorial capital of Montana. Now, it’s a National Historic Landmark. A couple dozen original structures remain on the main street (now State Highway 87), with the history of nearly every building outlined on a bronze plaque.

We learned a lot in a short time...

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02/10/10

Talking Pictures Coming to Victor

Attention west-slopers: I received an email this morning from my (former beer-making) buddy Charlie Otto, who said Pierre's Playhouse, long the venue for hiss-and-boo melodramas during the summers, is going to start screening movies. "Now is a great time to show the Egbert family how excited you are about Victor's own movie theater!" he raved. "Pierre's will open this Thursday showing Sherlock Holmes."

Charlie added that the flick is scheduled to show on Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday at 6 and 9 p.m., and Saturday at 2, 6, and 9 p.m. Tickets are $7.50 for adults and $5.00 for children and seniors; you can call 208-787-SHOW for more information.

It's been quite a few years since a person could watch a movie in...

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Let It Snow!

02/05/10

Let It Snow!

Now that the Snow Gods have started to bless the Tetons, it’s nice to see a lot more smiles around town.  Clearly, there are a lot of folks around here whose home element is snow.

If you decide you need an activity or two away from the ski hill, though, here are my suggestions:

Ralph Mossman and Mary Mullaney, the excellent artists of Heron Glass in Driggs, are offering glass blowing classes this winter and spring. Beginner classes are offered on February 20 and 21, though they have reportedly filled up quickly. If you have a little experience with glass and want to improve your skills under the tutelage of the pros, there will be a five-day class in late...

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Editor Michael McCoy is a native Wyomingite who, through no choice of his own, moved to Iowa (“the third greatest state in the nation,” he says) when he was only a few weeks old. After high school graduation, he beelined it back to the University of Wyoming, where he earned a degree in Anthropology and the nickname of “Mac.” In addition to his Teton-area editorial duties, Mac works for the Missoula, Montana-based Adventure Cycling Association and writes freelance articles and books about the outdoors. “But that’s enough about me,” he says. “This blog is about you. I will prime the pump with an entry now and then--but ultimately, we hope it will be our readers, both locals and out-of-staters, who keep the streams of conversation flowing.”

 

 

 

Contributing blogger Susan Traylor Lykes was born and raised in the Denver area, a third-generation Coloradan. She spent much of her childhood in the mountains, and took up fly fishing at the tender age of ten, wielding her grandfather’s old bamboo rod and Pflueger reel. After graduating from the University of Vermont, Susan earned a master's degree in Town Planning from the University of Montana. For the past decade, she has focused on nonprofit land conservation and land use, serving on the boards of the Land Trust Alliance, the Teton Regional Land Trust, and the Orton Family Foundation.
Susan and her husband, Mayo, call both sides of the Tetons home. They are enthusiastic travelers and outdoorsmen — hiking, skiing, fly fishing, and bird hunting.

 

 

 

Contributing blogger Jeanne Anderson is a Cheyenne native and graduate of the University of Wyoming who has spent the last 25 years as a writer, PR consultant, columnist, and editor. Her passions include hiking, cooking reading, traveling, community, and creativity (she’s in her third term on the Idaho Commission on the Arts). She credits her broad practical streak to her parents, who started the first travel agency in the Cowboy State—from them she learned “every bathroom in the world is down the hall and to the left.” Jeanne and her husband Peter started Dark Horse Books in Driggs in 1995; their two-year experiment lasted 14 years. Now out from behind the bookstore counter, she’s looking forward to many new adventures.

 

 

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