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...
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Jan 10, 20231 min read
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...
Dec 16, 20221 min read
Japanese-Americans in Colorado
The first Japanese-Americans arrived in Western Colorado long before December 7, 1941, and its aftermath. They were farmers, business...
Nov 14, 20221 min read
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...
Jul 26, 20221 min read
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...
Nov 29, 20211 min read
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,...
Jun 14, 20211 min read
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...
May 3, 20211 min read
A Monumental Undertaking
Members of the Plateau Valley Historic Preservation Society hope to work with the Colorado Department of Transportation to refurbish and...
Feb 16, 20191 min read
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...
Nov 30, 20152 min read
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...
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