This week we have already had very warm sun, afternoon thunderstorms, lovely long days, and the Fourth of July! This also means that it is time for summer barbecuing! Truly, what is July Fourth without a barbecue? Barbecuing has been…
It’s a nice, warm summer day and you are enjoying a jog along the open spaces near your home, when lo and behold, your normally safe trail is very surprisingly obstructed by a rattlesnake along your path. Perhaps you squeal…
“This is truly a perfect palace of a place. Nature and beauty must have here convened and constructed this place in co-partnership. To describe it on my part, would be in actuality detracting from it, for its romance and picturesque…
People’s fascination (and let’s be fair, women’s in particular) with clothing style has been around for millennia. However, publications devoted to style have only been around since the eighteenth century. It was of course in Paris, France that the first fashion…
On January 12, 1900, the thriving business district on Tejon Street in Colorado Springs was rocked by a fire. The fire was noticed around 4 a.m. by a waiter working at the Blue Front restaurant.[footnote]“Big Loss.” Aspen Tribune, January 13, 1900. CHNC[/footnote] It…
“Want something snappy, exciting, romantic, full of tense action, bubbling over with romance and glamor [sic]? Well, here it is!” Douglas Fairbanks in the The Mark of Zorro.”[footnote]“Movies Next Week.” Record Journal of Douglas, July 29, 1921. CHNC[/footnote] On Dec 5, 1920, The…
At 11 o’clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 in Versailles, France, armistice was declared between the Allies and the Germans, ceasing World War I, known as the “Great War.” This day was remembered and commemorated…
The autumnal equinox – the day in September when daylight hours are almost equal to nighttime hours. This time also represents the beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. The days turn cooler and the leaves turn color and begin…
The land that we now call Colorado was sparsely populated by any white settlers in the mid-1800’s. While some had ventured to Colorado to acquire first hand knowledge of what existed in and around the Rocky Mountains (such as Zebulon Pike or…
In the summers of Colorado, a century and a half ago, larger wildlife could be found milling about in abundance. However, with the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the incredible slaughter and decline of the bison was just…
