It’s been three year since Hunter’s passing. Woody Creek has lost more loved ones since then. But with every death comes a strong sense of community spirit that pulls us together, as always. Of course the gossip continues, the family fighting goes on as it has since the cattle-ranching days, and the planes fly over […]
ISSUE: SPRING 2008
THE PEOPLE’S ART
BY RALPH STEADMAN Social images are both aesthetic and cogent. They are magical shorthand marks, rumbustuous traveling street theatre, cheap and accessible for the best of possible reasons – to reach the people. Much of the avalanche of engraved prints in England in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries was directed towards the lower echelons […]
A.W.P UBER ALLES
BY LYNN BURTON The Aspen Wall Posters were a lot of things, but mostly they were just flat-out funny. “He (Thompson) would come in with this stuff, and I’d just laugh myself sick. I thought even the greed-heads would have to find some humor in it,” said Aspen Wall Poster co-founder Tom Benton in a […]
HARDSCRABBLE
BY GEORGE STRANAHAN The Capital Creek road winds up past the trailhead to Capital Lake into lodgepole pines and to a shallow pond, perhaps an acre in extent, named Hardscabble Lake. From here is this splendid view of the Capital Creek Valley and Capital peak Now a pond promoted to a lake and with a […]
WOODY CREATURE COMFORTS
BY ANDREW TRAVERS We were a mile or so into a hike through the red clay cliffs behind Owl Farm, Athena and I. We found one of those rare vantage points where a snowless Woody Creek lays splayed out before you all at once: tractor-groomed acres of green; pasture fields peppered with ranch houses, horses, […]
