n a sad note, we just heard that Jim Whitfield, an ARTA boatmen of the early ‘70s, took his life in Cortez, Colorado.
Perhaps the best known tale of his Canyon days is how he ended them. Late one night, camped at Grapevine, he decided he’d had about enough. So he walked out. No flashlight, no goodbye. Just went back to Flagstaff.
He was an artist and writer; the eagles above are a detail from one of his drawings. He was at work on a book on ethnic star mythology at the time of his death.