Letter from Andy Burns
Colorado Central – March 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
The Post Office is ripping out parts of the cover and whoever is writing page 2. February had an extra barcode glued to the back, vertically, randomly. When Hal Walter gets ripped out I guess I’ll have to complain. If Curtis Imrie tilts at the insurance racketeers won’t he be taking on the entire industry? Who is Randy Russell? Virginia McConnell Simmons?
Andy Burns
Santa Fé
Dear Andy,
The February cover was made vulnerable by a printing error, which put the outside pages on inferior newsprint stock. This seems to happen every so often, but our printer has assured us that all will be well in the future.
Also, if you or any other subscriber receives a damaged magazine, let us know (e-mail is the best way, but phone, fax, or postcard will work, too) and we’ll dispatch a new copy in a plain brown envelope which should survive the travails of the mail.
As for who’s who:
Randy Russell has a master’s degree in planning, and has worked as a planner for small towns in both Utah and Colorado (currently in Garfield County), but he’s best known to most Central Coloradans for his presentations at the annual Headwaters conference in Gunnison, where he not only offers talks but frequently helps out as an M.C. and assistant organizer.
Virginia McConnell Simmons is the author of The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico; Land of the Six-Armed Cross; Bayou Salado; The Upper Arkansas; and countless magazine and newspaper articles. She’s the best-known authority on the history of our region in our region, not to mention the most indefatigable, and over the years she’s collected an awe-inspiring amount of information about Central Colorado’s history.
Thus we’ve been excessively pleased (and no doubt peculiarly flattered) whenever Virginia took the time to write to object to a point in Colorado Central — and lately we’ve been extraordinarily fortunate to feature numerous book reviews and articles by her.
Martha Quillen
