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Show MOAB'S COUNTER-CULTURE Despite its isolation The Sixties were alive and well in Grand County CARL RAPPE'and RUSTY REEDER appeared side-by-side in the 1967 edition of Grand County High School's yeatbaook, The Mograndah. Less than a year later, Rusty died in an accident in Nevada. Carl still lives in Moab, (For more on Rusty KYLE & CARRIE BAILEY lived in this home on Center St. (now home of Four Corners Mental Health) and proudly displayed their "Stop the War" banner for years. When American involvement in the war ended, the old banner came down and a new Day-Glo sign went up. It read: FREE TIMOTHY LEARY. Reeder, see page 4) BILL GROFF was another ‘angry youth’ in the late GOs. He later became a pilot for a uranium company, but in the 1980s, with his brother Robin, he opened RIM CYCLERY and revolutionized tourism in SE Utah. BEGO GERHART was an - active member of SDS in the GOs and a Moab protester to the war. He still lives in Moab. On the way to the drug conference, Carl stopped to visit the ‘boyhood home' of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Carl has always loved irony. Carl Rappe and Bill Groff were unlikely participants in a seminar held at Trinity University in Texas. Along with other ‘prominent Moab citizens,’ Carl and Bill received diplomas for attending the conference on ‘alternatives for the treatment and prevention of drug abuse.’ Carl had recently spent 30 days in the Grand County jail for posession of marijuana seeds. While incarcereated, he sent a letter to the weekly paper, offering his unique knowledge of the subject to the committee. In part, because of the letter, Carl was added to the list of attendees.- Less than a year before his death, ROBERT KENNEDY visited Grand County, Utah. He was greeted at Canyonlands Field by an enthusiastic crowd of Moab Democrats. Kennedy was on his way to run the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon. He was assassinated on June 6, 1968. _ |