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1,000-year-old flute player a hit today
Kokopelli, the hunch-backed flute player seen in rock art throughout the Four Corners region, is also present in a great deal of 21st...
Feb 20, 20231 min read
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Avalon Theatre turns 100
Grand Junction's great downtown theater, the Avalon, might have been called something else as a result of a naming contest in 1922. But...
Jan 10, 20231 min read
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Japanese-Americans in Colorado
The first Japanese-Americans arrived in Western Colorado long before December 7, 1941, and its aftermath. They were farmers, business...
Dec 16, 20221 min read
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First settlement at Moab was failure
The first attempt by Mormon missionaries to settle the area now known as Moab, Utah, failed after just a few months, due primarily to...
Nov 14, 20221 min read
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Utes (and archaeologists) on the Uncompahgre
Had a great opportunity to talk with Curtis Martin about the work he's done at a site on the Uncompahgre Plateau where a small band of...
Jul 26, 20221 min read
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Mother Jones was busy in Colorado
Infamous labor activist worked in Colorado several times, including 1903-1904. My recent history column talks about those times,...
Nov 29, 20211 min read
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Palisade's new museum opens
After a remodeling effort that took the better part of 18 months, interrupted by COVID of course, the Palisade Historical Society opened...
Jun 14, 20211 min read
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A Monumental Undertaking
Members of the Plateau Valley Historic Preservation Society hope to work with the Colorado Department of Transportation to refurbish and...
May 3, 20211 min read
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Shavano Valley rock art
Had a great trip to Shavano Valley west of Montrose with some friends recently to view the ancient rock art there. Because the rock art...
Feb 16, 20191 min read
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Missionaries and the Maya
Last weekend, I was asked to contribute to a missionary couple working in Central America, building and ma Mayan women in Guatemala...
Nov 30, 20152 min read
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