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Travel: Spectacular Cottonwoods in Colorado

Which are Aspens? Which are Cottonwoods

Comments re photo 42265 Travel Spectacular Cottonwoods in ColoradoThurston Sullivan writes:
Could those beautiful yellow trees be Aspens? -THURSTON SULLIVAN
Note: I've checked into this, in depth, and, after thorough study, I've found that I really don't know my aspens from a hole in the ground - I wrote the cutlines. George Kolbenschlag took those spectacularly beautiful photos.



I was counting on someone else to correct if I mixed up what I saw in the picture books online. I appreciate hearing from my old mentor.

And, so as not to be talking across the table esoterically, I have to let readers know that Thurston Sullivan gave me my first real newspaper job, when he made anointed me Assistant Mimeographer on the Lindsey Wilson Junior College. Hill Topics in 1958.

He himself held the more exalted title or Head Mimeographer of the fabled periodical.

From what Thurston told me, I had the No. 2 most important post on the campus, just above John Burns Horton, which let me chuckle when they laughed at me when I walked into Mrs. Auxier's English 101 class with black ink on my backside and face.

He and Albert Van Zant and Pete Walker and Billy Gumm and Ralph Roy and Andrew Jackson Norfleet and Elmer and Kenneth Warren taught me everything I know or ever knew about the newspaper bidness. I learned from the best.

Thanks, Old Mentor, if you are the same Thurston Sullivan. Last I heard, there was only one. - EW


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