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Show THE ZEPHYROCTOBER 1993 "Remnants " PAGE 37 with Terry Knouff Melon Days This month I took the Remnants camera to the Melon Days celebration in Green River, and made a profound discovery for myself. I'm not referring, of course, to the giant watermelon on wheels that looks for all the world like Green River's own version of the Trojan Horse. No, I mean the discovery that there are still small towns in the West that retain that certain intangible quality that has vanished from so many other Western places. I call it Reality. As I mingled with thousands of friendly people at the Green River park, from all over the area, it struck me...This wasn't the increasingly familiar scene of the leisure class hard at play, this was the hard working class of people at leisure. These folks were there to celebrate something that they, their friends, and neighbors had produced with their own hands, from the Land...somcthing both absolutely useful and sublimely satisfying. The Green River Melon. f. iBti: r - - ; - ,vr '& V ?, f. iK, - - '' ?:& : Jk's ' , ;v' . ; s V. ' TK ' Terry Knouff , ' . 'H vx ssi i Melons 4- r' K-- 'A ' V v ;9 s,- : ' ' ' - 5 i i. zj vvXlistfr .V v 'f; I : Wl .sV'&s? ?s. V50 71,6 Tron Wat erneJon. JnV)" ' J3- ENTRADA RANCH DrhViJe "Come to where thec action isn't." ...Just the river, the canyons, and the quiet. Complete houses & adjacent cabins P.O.Box 567 Moab, UT 84532 801-259-57- Sportswear for the 96 Entire Family. mmmmpm |