the new yorker
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The Tank in Rangely has northwest Colorado town crowing about its fame
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For a town of 2,000 regular folks in Colorado’s northwest mountain desert, Rangely is famous for its nerabuy Carrot Men, the rock art pictograph some think are space aliens or vegetable gods. But now city fathers are bragging about an empty old water tank on the outskirts of town. Stay with me a minute. Musicians and…
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The New Yorker (magazine) profiles rural Colorado on the New Yorker (president)
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The magazine that gave the world E.B. White, Truman Capote and James Thurber this week gives it Del Norte. The New Yorker has a nearly 6,500-word essay about President Trump, politics and rural Colorado that’s worth curling up with. The article by Peter Hessler explores how the sticks to the east and west of the…