Article by Ed Quillen
Politics – November 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
It was one of those September days that make you wonder how you ever lived anywhere else, or even ventured outside of Chaffee county. A couple of days of off-and-on autumn rain had greened the valley floor, temporarily hiding the stark brown of the worst drought since Colorado’s first town was founded in 1851. Slate-edged clouds swirled just below the freshly frosted summits of the highest range in all 3,000 miles of Rocky Mountains. Below the cloud layer, changing aspen reflected golden sunshine.
