Woody Creeker and winemaker Kevin Doyle was winding his way through Telluride in February as he marketed his Woody Creek Cellars around the state. Curious about signs that were posted in the town that declared it a “Bill of Rights Safe Community,” Kevin picked up a copy of the town’s resolution. Kevin brought the sample […]
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)
SNOW LEOPARD IN A WHITE SUIT
INTERVIEW WITH TOM WOLFE When the U.S. National Parks Service breaks ground on the Mount Rushmore of Participatory Journalism, Hunter’s and Tom Wolfe’s profiles will be the first two they dynamite out. These two fellow travelers re-chartered the map of literary journalism, beginning in the middle 1960’s with Wolfe’s The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby […]
TAKING THE OATH
BY DWIGHT SHELLMAN Dwight Shellman has been a Woody Creek attorney for more than 40 years. In the 1970s and ’80s he served as a Pitkin County commissioner and sat on the county planning & zoning commission and the RFTA board. From the early 1990s until his recent retirement as president of the Cad-do Lake […]
TEX’S POETRY PAGE
THE FOLLOWING IS DEDICATED TO KT. Robert Markham This poem was written for this time of year, Robert died before the next spring (1979), but he is still her with us. I would like to be here come spring if it is with you I would like to be here if it is with you […]
STALKING THE MOUNTAIN LION
BY JACOB BENEDICT DREW This is a story of three wild cats. The first Cheever I’d met before arriving in Woody Creek. My girlfriend, Jen, had named him after the writer out of respect for the man’s literary talents and because the animal shared a promiscuous nature with him that, alas, was also stifled by […]
