All Clippings From The ‘Anthracite’ Category
A New Preacher in Anthracite
Pastor Michael Storm, newly arrived at the Anthracite Methodist Church wondered almost every day if he had chosen the right late-in-life second career. Sometimes it seemed to him as if he had more questions than faith. He wondered if God…Click to view post »
A Present and Future Rancher of Anthracite
I believe in the future of farming, with a faith born not of words, but of deeds… First line of the Future Farmers of America creed. Lester James Ford of Anthracite, Colorado turned eighteen years old on January 17th. He…Click to view post »
Women and Deep Winter in Anthracite
Dear Tom and North Fork Valley folks, Real winter at the Singing Angel Ranch began the almost a month before it did in the lower elevations of the river valley around the town of Anthracite. Heavy snows have come early…Click to view post »
Spirit Mundt Makes a Change
There was snow on the ground in Anthracite. Only about four to five inches that had snuck into town during the night but it was wet and clinging enough to blanket everything and bring back the weirdly quiet, new snow…Click to view post »
Occupying Anthracite
The day before the predicted first killing frost in the lower Rio Poco Valley the gardeners in and near the town of Anthracite were divided into two main camps. There were those that were out in the hours before sunset…Click to view post »
Anthracite Connected
Sort of fiction by Lazarus Washburn Phaedra Elkspirit spent too much time on the Internet these days. On most mornings she was up well before dawn, making herb tea while her laptop booted up, then checking her e-mail, Facebook and…Click to view post »
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The Goatheads of Anthracite: A Romance
It began with the goatheads. It seemed to Spirit Mundt, the owner and primary cook at the Chicken Abortionist Café (We serve breakfast anytime), that no matter how many of the plants he pulled up on his early morning walks…Click to view post »
The Anthracite Memorial Golf Course and Cemetery
Pastor Nancy Bogenhagen of the Anthracite United Methodist Church was glad that the old men had chosen to take a day off from playing golf in the cemetery. They refrained from this on Memorial Day, not because they felt that…Click to view post »
Anthracite Generations
Sort of fiction by Lazarus Washburn Another spring in the Rio Poco brings the same sorts of things as almost everywhere else in the mountains of Colorado. The snow finally melting from the shadows under the spruce trees and skis…Click to view post »
Of Brownies and Anthracite
This a story about some brownies made with mostly local ingredients, which were meant as a joke, but that came close to bringing down the Town government of Anthracite, Colorado. Mayor Zima Hydryk, who probably should have known better, had…Click to view post »
