I don’t pretend to get Woody Creek or to even know if it is gettable. But I’m glad it’s there: I’m glad there’s a place where the rules don’t apply even as I wonder what the rules might be. I love the fact that there is a place in the valley defined by a funky restaurant and store side-by-side with a lumpen trailer park. And of course there’s the beauty of the place to consider. Woody Creek, it seems to me, is always worth celebrating. Now I have another reason: their rejection of the USA Patriot Act in a Bill of Rights Defense Resolution that asks all government officials to “protect and defend” the U.S. Constitution, according to an account in the Aspen Times. Woody Creek Cellars owner Kevin Doyle told a gathering of the Woody Creek Caucus that Telluride has a “Bill of Rights Safe Community.”
It’s not that I reject all provisions of the Patriot Act outright: I don’t: but I’m grateful that someone can and will. What better place than Woody Creek for free screech?
Here in Woody Creek, there is only one rule — that there are no rules; that is, until someone informs you that you have broken one. The biggest non-rule of all is that Woody Creek should be held as a secret from the rest of the world, preserving it as a sort of safe-house hamlet, tucked away for rejects and acceptable misfits who refuse to lie down for some of life’s realities. I outwardly cursed at my car radio the morning my buddy Steve Skinner once announced on KSPN that people should head to the Woody Creek Post Office to mail their Christmas packages, since there is no line to battle, as is the daily ritual in Aspen. But I would like to extend my thanks to AspenPost.net for doing their best to keep Woody Creek a secret. As I scrolled down the list of categories, I was delighted to see Aspen, Basalt, Carbondale, El Jebel, Glenwood Springs and Vail all listed — but our Woody Creek secret is still safe.
Here in Woody Creek, there is only one rule — that there are no rules; that is, until someone informs you that you have broken one. The biggest non-rule of all is that Woody Creek should be held as a secret from the rest of the world, preserving it as a sort of safe-house hamlet, tucked away for rejects and acceptable misfits who refuse to lie down for some of life’s realities. I outwardly cursed at my car radio the morning my buddy Steve Skinner once announced on KSPN that people should head to the Woody Creek Post Office to mail their Christmas packages, since there is no line to battle, as is the daily ritual in Aspen. But I would like to extend my thanks to AspenPost.net for doing their best to keep Woody Creek a secret. As I scrolled down the list of categories, I was delighted to see Aspen, Basalt, Carbondale, El Jebel, Glenwood Springs and Vail all listed — but our Woody Creek secret is still safe.