Central bankers wound up their meeting attempting to resolve the economic crisis at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium this weekend in tiny Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Good luck on that sorry endeavour!!
In 1895 the New York Times printed an apocryphal story stating that Jackson Hole had been wiped out in an Indian attack. This was apparently the high point of journalistic integrity for the Gray Lady, America’s newspaper of record. (Do not, repeat do not, get me going on their star reporter Walter Duranty and his Pulitzer Prize!!!)
Today Jackson Hole is a world famous ski resort on the edge of the Grand Teton National Park. No doubt a future US host location for the winter olympics.
“Teton”. This very anatomically apposite name tells you all you need to know about who discovered these majestic mountains back in the 1740’s……a couple of good old Montreal boys…the Laverendryes!
GRAND TETON MOUNTAINS AS SEEN FROM ANTELOPE FLATS
The majestic Tetons spring straight up from the flat prairie without the need for intermediary foothills which makes them unique.
MOOSE ON THE ANTELOPE FLATS
I was out early one gray, frosty morning in early November of 2010 on the Antelope Flats, just outside of Jackson Hole looking for wildlife. Not for nothing do they call it the Serengeti of North America. Dodging stampeding herds of elk and the flying bullets of their hunters, I stumbled upon Mormon Row and managed to snap some pictures of John Moulton’s barns.
MORMON ROW
An abandoned Mormon community from the early 1900’s in the middle of the Antelope Flats. Now a US National Heritage site.
JOHN MOULTON’S BARN, MORMON ROW
Silly me. Here I was thinking that I had discovered this spot and had it all to myself. LOL!!! Turns out that this is the most iconic photo location in all of Wyoming!!
Early November, Mormon Row, winter olympics, apocryphal attacks, economic crisis!! What does this all portend?? Damned if I know. I’ll just keep reading the New York Times and take direction from their editorial page. Like, what could possibly go wrong with that???