Out Past Dalton Wells: North of Moab, west of Arches, and east of the highway. Between 1935 and 1942, Dalton Wells had been CCC camp. Then, on Jan 11, 1942, during WWII, sixteen...

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Nov 18, 2019 10:36:03 #

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

North of Moab, west of Arches, and east of the highway. Between 1935 and 1942, Dalton Wells had been CCC camp. Then, on Jan 11, 1942, during WWII, sixteen 'troublemakers' from the Manzanar CA Relocation Camp were brought to Dalton Wells for the crime of........ being Japanese-American citizens. Over the next several months, additional groups of 13-15 'suspected troublemakers' were likewise brought from other interment camps in Tule CA and Gila AZ, and here they remained until finally being transferred to yet another camp in AZ. A historical marker just off the highway cites the story.

But this isn't a picture of Dalton Wells. Its a picture of a place in the landscape a few miles east of where that camp stood, out past Dalton Wells.

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Nov 18, 2019 10:37:18 #

water falls Loc: Green Bay,Wi

Beautiful image!

Nov 18, 2019 11:24:23 #

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Really very nice.

Nov 18, 2019 12:40:14 #

blue-ultra Loc: New Hampshire

As always your images are simply awesome. Makes me yearn for the west...

Nov 18, 2019 13:18:30 #

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

blue-ultra wrote:

As always your images are simply awesome. Makes me yearn for the west...

"Come West, young Ultra, come West!" (Might've garbled that quote a little, but you probably catch the drift.) Fact is, though, sometimes I yearn for New Hampshire. Spent a lot of time --many years ago-- up there in the Presidential Range variously, and really loved it. Now, its likely a case of the grass being greener (or the granite being grayer), but whatever; and in any event, I'm happy enough with my redrock country.

Which leads me to something completely other, Blue. Would you be up for a little sleuthing? Long story short: Thirty-odd years ago, I happened upon a hand-colored photographic print of a scene near Franconia --apparently not too far away from the 'Old Man Of The Mountain' profile-- that had been done by someone by the name of A. E. Phinney. I remember paying $1 for the hand signed, hand titled ('The Watcher') framed print at a roadside junk shop in that area. On the back of the mount board, Phinney had written that he'd discovered the view (a vertical face-like profile in the rock, high above and overlooking a lake far below) in 1929, and that the particular print had been printed in 1943. A year or three afterward, while in the Appalachian Mountain Club HQ (in Bethlehem?), lo & behold, they had a poster for sale that featured a reproduction of this same Phinney image I'd bought. In subsequent years, I tried to research the photographer, and managed to find (and buy) one more of his prints, but I never could find out anything about the person himself, and was left with the impression he was a local NH photographer in the 1920's - 1940's who was pretty damn good, but never 'made it big.' Any possibility you'd be willing to find out anything more about the guy, or ferret out any of the other views this guy had to have printed?

Nov 18, 2019 20:36:28 #