Moab, Utah: a town that remade itself

The Boston Globe | October 3, 1999| | Copyright

MOAB, Utah -- Out here, no one thinks twice about ghost towns, those bleached specters that rise in the desert, screen doors slapping in the wind. Boom-bust cyles, after all, have defined the American West. Folks in these parts regard such fluctuations with a near-Zen acceptance unknown in New England, where people eye them with Puritan panic and opprobrium.

So when the uranium processing plant in Moab folded in the early '80s, many assumed the town would become another Cisco, the community an hour's drive up the Colorado River that faded like a daguerreotype after Interstate 70 bypassed it. ...

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