Contributors

LAURA FRASER

“The Life of a Ghost Town,” page 52

Your family spent a lot of time in the Colorado ghost town you write about in this issue. Ever have a spooky encounter there?

The river near Inez was icy, rocky, and rushing, and many hikers and four-wheelers over the years lost their lives falling in. The river was loud, and whenever I was by the edge I also heard groaning noises—trees, maybe, but they sounded like the echoes of people who had slipped