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For a mall whose opening day in 1973 was so ceremonious, the DeSoto Square Mall had a quiet death.
On Friday, its last day in business, only four stores were open, and a handful of shoppers walked the halls – honestly, not too different from any other day at the Bradenton shopping center in the 21st century.
My colleague, Jesse Mendoza, who was there for its last day in my absence, found a lot of those same familiar sights – empty hallways, boarded-up storefronts and a handful of shoppers. There wasn’t even a formal announcement about the end of DeSoto Square, just a sign posted at the door that said “MALL CLOSING FRIDAY 4/30/2021.”
Cows at the Sustainable Settings milking facility. Aspen Times file
Brook LeVan with horses at Sustainable Settings near Carbondale. Aspen Times file
Rose LeVan milking a cow at Sustainable Settings. Aspen Times file
Grower Michael Long at Sustanable Settings in 2018. Aspen Times file
In the dusty root cellar of an 1893 farmhouse south of Carbondale near Mount Sopris, Brook LeVan is showing me a cow horn stuffed with manure. The horn has been buried in a raised bed here in the subterranean storage room just tall enough for us to stand up in. To get here, the farmer, rancher, and owner of Sustainable Settings led me down a set of steep stairs through a hatch in the floor of his kitchen. One wall is made of wide stones the home’s original dry-stacked foundation.