Photographs from ‘Scoring in Heaven: Gravestones and Cemetery Art of the American Sunbelt States’. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Ask for me tomorrow, and you will find me a grave man.
Communities
Boom town for sale – cheap
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Boom town for sale – cheap.
Landowners turn the Fifth into sharp-pointed sword
Several lawsuits say the government should compensate for land devalued in “takings” cases. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Landowners turn the Fifth into sharp-pointed sword.
Washington rancher spurns subdividers
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Washington rancher spurns subdividers.
Justice in Nevada
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Justice in Nevada.
Reno turns back to the river
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Learning from Las Vegas, in a special issue about the Great Basin. “The Truckee River is the lifeblood of northern Nevada,” says photographer Peter Goin, an art professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. “Yet look at how we treat it. We treat […]
Resort towns battle monsters
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Can planning rein in a stampede? People around Aspen, Colo., thought maybe it was a bit much when Prince Bandar of Saudia Arabia built a mountain home about the size of the White House – 55,000 square feet, not including outbuildings. So […]
Careful planning avoids takings
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories: ‘Wise use’ plans abhor change. Planners and elected officials deciding land use tend to shudder when you mention it: takings. Just how far can a community go with regulations before an irate, and often rich, landowner slaps back with a lawsuit claiming the […]
The astronomer
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Making a mountain into a starbase. “Observatories are usually exceedingly benign places. They become animal refuges …” Peter Strittmatter, a British astronomer with a Ph.D. from Cambridge, became director of the U of A’s Steward Observatory in 1975, an appointment he recognized as “a […]