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Show name I am known by both professionally and in my personal life. I don’t believe a name will make one feel married. I have felt closer to a friend to which I was not married, than to the man I was married. Changing my name did/would not change that. FEEDBACK The Does it matter if the person is married only if you are female? I’ve never felt it was any one’s business what my marital status (ms) was, even when I was a teen, which was when the concept for Ms. first came out. It only made sense. They offer Mr. as an option on Readers Respond nearly all forms with no indication of marital status, but Ms. is only occasionally offered. With all the concern for political correctness, I wonder why that remains the rule. And for lack of any better reason, I’ve become rather attached to my name. My friends will Punctuation, VRE, Hello Jim, and the Gilmore Disappearance The e.e. cummings quote on page one is a great summary of the obligatory Politics Issue. Good thing he never was in my English class or 1 would have flunked him for lousy unctuation, sentence problems, and mechanics ("Where are the capital letters, Edward Estlin!") and maybe scared him out of his wonderful style. My favorite cummings quote is: "a world of made is not a world of born..." and I thought about it when reading Alexandra Woodruff’s interesting article on the history of ‘saving the "world of born." However, Ms. Woodruff needs to go back much further than Aldo Leopold's ideas when she says "the first concept of wilderness sprung up in the early 1920's." The Wilderness Society would probably like it if their motto, "In wildness is the preservation of the world" taken from Thoreau’s 1862 article "Walking" were the first mention of the value of keeping some places wild. But the earliest plea for wilderness preservation I’ve found comes 20 years before the quote by HDT. George Catlin, better known for his early paintings that illustrate his ethnographic study of Native Americans during the 1830’s than for his writing, suggests in Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians published in 1841 that “Such of Nature’s works are always worthy of our preservation and protection; and the further we become separated from that pristine wildness and beauty, the more pleasure does the mind of enlightened _ man feel in recurring to these scenes, when he can have them preserved for his eyes and his mind to dwell upon.” He was just ahead of the ax and the railroad, and didn’t like what he saw civilization doing to "the world of born.” He then asks that the people and the land be "preserved in their pristine beauty and wildness, in a magnificent park, where the world could see them for ages to come..." Too bad he didn’t run for president. Thanks for 12 years of fun reading. My guess is the guy who told you to start the Zephyr would be impressed with the way you've truly maintained a style he probably would like very much. So thanks Jim and Ed. Where are the Cheri Gilmore articles? Get her back. Regards, Steve Peterson Ephraim, Utah We have no idea where Gilmore is--she seems to have vanished from the face of the earth. Alien abduction perhaps?...JS Another woman who refuses to change...her name Editor, Read the article while working in Salt Lake, in response: I agree with Ms. Having been married and divorced, I would not change my name, ifI were again. I never felt like Mrs. So-and-so even while married. I returned to my and had an identity again. 1am who I am, with the name I was given at CANYONLANDS always be able to use my name to find me, no matter where I may end up, as that may be far from home. LoraLe Woolam Navy Reservist Registered Nurse Daughter/Mother/Grandmother Visiting from Illinois oka of another si aes voice...and the search for benevolent rich weasels ae When the Zephyr arrives it gets tossed into the akimpullion of stuff piled handily, on the passenger side of my bed, for instant access: A book or two there, a High Country News, or Northern Lights or Wild Duck Review, the lengthier of those inexhaustible environmental newsletters. Etc, This evening I’d been reading "The Best American Essays of the Century" (ballsy title), got up to boil some pasta, then started on "The Rich Weasel Factor in the ‘New West.” Excellent—suffice it to say, I didn’t feel like I’d suddenly gone slumming. Thanks for the tenacity in the face of...well, everything. Some good people here in Flagstaff have created a new community newspaper called The Flagstaff Tea Party, and they could sure use a Rich Weasel’s benevolent attentions; all dust-gathering cash can be sent to them at: PO Box 22324, Flagstaff, AZ 86002-2324. Why buy a-sports franchise or a Montana county when you could be funding the folks who ~ distribute free newspapers by bicycle? Tax-deductible, too. Just doesn’t get any better than that, does it? Sincerely, John Wahl Flagstaff, AZ | Thanks John...and good luck to those Tea Partiers in Flag...JS — The Man Behind the Truck Ban I am the person who suggested banning trucks from Hwy 191. I didn't just suggest banning them, that would be unprecedented for a Utah State Hiway, I believe. I suggested making it a Scenic Hiway thus effectively banning trucks with laws already on the books. They can go around the Grand Canyon. It would create more truck driving jobs to make up for the lost time. Let “em bellow. The only argument I have heard against this is Anne Wilson. to ever marry maiden name birth. It’s the losing Federal Hiway funds. Well, the amount of damage done the road by the trucks surely would make the maintenance of the hiway much less costly. Add that to the cost of a new bridge and any kind of bypass, and taxpayers would be saving money. Scenic classification would help the hiway and tourism in Moab, Monticello, and REALTY 131 N. Main St. RO. Box 400 Moab, UT 84532 _ Office: (435) 259-7870 Fax: 259-7294 www.canyonlands.net Lenore Beeson: 259-9419 Dave Bierschied: 259-8217 WE'RE GOING TO SELL ONE OF THESE GUYS A RETIREMENT HOME... SERVING MO |