Colorado Central Articles From — December 1995

Fiction by Kathleen Thomas

Angels – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

The old saw has it that seeing is believing, and I believe that’s true. I myself have seen more than a few things that could go unexplained, unrelieved, except that, well, I saw them. But my stories, until today, have paled in comparison to a woman I knew. Her name was Lucy. Read the rest of this article

Poem by Lynda La Rocca

Christmas – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

The week after Christmas, the streets are all lined

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Article by George Sibley

Geography – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Last spring, Colorado Central issued what sounded like a challenge: to find some meaningful “mountain conquests” that involved something more than trudging up big mountains just because they are “Fourteeners.” So here is a candidate for the category of “mountain adventures that require more research than muscle.” Read the rest of this article

Sidebar by Allen Best

Transportation – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

When people talk to Stephanie Olsen about scenic excursion trains between Avon and Leadville, she has one question: Who’s going to subsidize them? Read the rest of this article

Article by Allen Best

Transportation – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Standing on the Southern Pacific tracks at the entrance to the 2,000-foot Tennessee Pass tunnel, the highest point of main-line rail in the country, you can see a small but distinct light at the far end. Read the rest of this article

Article by Leah Lahtinen

Local Artists – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Being an artist is not a very practical way to earn one’s living. It may be fine for those who don’t have to live in the real world, who can exist on whimsy, and who only need to eat when inspiration strikes them. But souls raised on rules, order, and common sense have a tendency to see whimsy and inspiration as quirks in an otherwise practical nature, and thus go on to follow more prosaic paths. Read the rest of this article

Review by Martha Quillen

Books – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Bear Attacks by Stephen Herrero. Better than watching videos of Klondike and Snow, and you get a real understand of how bruins view us. Read the rest of this article

Review by Michael Dzubinski

Books – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

1. Trails Among the Columbine: Salida, D&RG Railroad Town. The most comprehensive book on the history of Salida. 320 pages, 250 historic photographs. Read the rest of this article

Review by Lynda La Rocca

Books – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

My taste in books is all over the map. Often, that map is not in any atlas. I love books about mystical, magical beings from other times or worlds. Read the rest of this article

Review by Ed Quillen

Transportation – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Railroad Tall Tales (And Other B.S.)
by Samuel A. Dougherty
No ISBN
Published in 1992 by the author Read the rest of this article

[amazon-product]0785312412[/amazon-product]Review by Steve Voynick

History – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Ghost Towns of the American West
by Bill O’Neal
Published in 1995
by Publications International, Ltd.
ISBN 0-7853-1241-2
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Essay by Ed Quillen

Communications – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

For the past year or so, I felt as though I lived on Saturn every time I picked up a newspaper or magazine. There was all this breathless prose about the wonders of the Internet (Hypertext! World Wide Web! Net Surfing! Lurid Pictures Useful to Campaigning Republicans!) and here I was in Salida, where it was about as convenient to surf an ocean as to surf the Internet. Read the rest of this article

Article by Richard Harris

Business – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

It’s about staples.

When I first saw Waggener’s Pharmacy in 1978, it was a tiny, dim place with fading paint and worn carpet. It had too much inventory sitting in neat rows like little soldiers at parade rest, long past any hope of a profitable sale. Read the rest of this article

Article by Steve Voynick

Recreation – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Nick Stenick was a dean’s list junior at Rutgers University (that’s in New Jersey) when he surprised his fraternity brothers by announcing that he wouldn’t be back in September to begin his senior year. Read the rest of this article

Brief by Central Staff

Wildlife – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Major export?

First it was whirling disease, which now infects trout throughout Colorado. Read the rest of this article

Brief by Central Staff

Politics – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

And now for ’96

There’s no time to go into recovery from the ’95 election; we’ve got a general election coming up next year. Read the rest of this article

Brief by Central Staff

UFOs – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Lost In Space

On Nov. 12, Fox TV’s Sightings featured UFO activity in both Salida and the San Luis Valley — although UFO researchers never seemed to note the difference. Read the rest of this article

Brief by Central Staff

Politics – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Election spin

When they wrote about the mountains, the Denver papers seemed to interpret last month’s election returns as anti-growth and anti-tax. Read the rest of this article