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A Colorado Natural Wonder
"Travel | Wheeler Geologic Area is off the beaten path, and worth the effort""Wheeler Geologic Area in the San Juan Mountains is worth going off the beaten path. Deep in the San Juan Mountains sits a...
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Haunted Creede
Hot off the presses! Haunted Creede by Kandra Payne"Brave men and women came to seek their fortunes in the rough-and-tumble boomtown of Creede. Miners, merchants, dance hall girls, gunslingers and...
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New COVID-19 and Women’s Vote Exhibits to virtually open on Friday September...
Museum of Friends (MoF) is pleased to announce that two new exhibits will open to the public on a Live Stream Facebook Event on Friday September 11th at 5 pm RMST. The exhibit on the 1st floor in the...
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New Website Launch for Museum of Friends
The Museum of Friends in collaboration with Zooma Design and Michelle Tschetter are launching a new website on Thursday September 10th, www.museumoffriends.org. The newly designed interactive site...
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Slumgullion: Colorado's natural 'lab' offers insights into landslides worldwide.
Photo credit: William Schulz, USGS. "The enormous Slumgullion landslide in southwestern Colorado has been moving — sometimes imperceptibly slowly — every day for some 300 years."According to the...
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Leaf Peeping on Three Southern Colorado Byways
Windy Point (east of Lake City, CO). Photo credit: Michael Underwood By Colorado Department of Transportation"Three scenic byways in Southern Colorado have joined forces to feature a road trip that...
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Colorado Stargazing Group Receives Award
The collaborative group - Colorado Stargazing - received the Outstanding Marketing award at the 2020 Colorado Governor's Annual Tourism Conference!The project was a collaboration with the San Luis...
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Rio Grande County Museum reopens!
Like many organizations throughout the Valley, the Rio Grande County Museum has been closed for a majority of the year but have now been given the go-ahead to open their doors to the public. “It has...
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Slumgullion Dark Sky Park
by Phil VirdenI am an amateur astronomer and part of a small team that was successful in receiving a recent dark sky designation for the Slumgullion Dark Sky Park, a parcel of land near Lake City...
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The Monte Vista Historical Society has annual meeting
(left to right) Peg Schall, Kay Campbell, Laurie Ellithorpe McClung, Gene Farish and Jerry Clare. Some of the members of the Monte Vista historical society who attended their yearly meeting by...
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Chief Ouray: A leader caught in the middle
By Carolyn Snowbarger, Ouray County Plaindealer"Chief Ouray was born near Taos, New Mexico, in 1833 during the Leonid meteor shower. “Ouray” means “arrow” in the Ute language, and this moniker proved...
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Holiday at the Museum
Painting by: Evelyn Sprouse Rowe The Second Annual “Holiday at the Museum” art show will start on November 14, 2020 with an opening reception from 10:00 to 3:00 p.m. pending further developments of the...
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Pleas and Petitions: Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial...
In her recently released book, Virginia Sanchez presents new information about early Southern Colorado during the territorial period (1861-1876). She discusses little-known topics such as political...
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Pagosa’s Past: Pagosa Springs was on the rise
Photo courtesy John M. Motter The first Pagosa Springs town hall was in this building on the bank of the San Juan River at the corner of San Juan and Pagosa streets. The town fire department was in the...
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Bone appétit: The story of Alferd Packer, Colorado’s most infamous, yet...
Alfred Griner (Alferd) Packer, Frank E. Deane, 1842-1907. History Colorado. Accession #PH.PROP.2228. By Stephanie ButzerThe Denver ChannelAs the first fingers of spring started to peel back winter’s...
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3D Printed Adobe
"In the middle of Colorado’s San Luis Valley [in Antonito], a progressive architecture and design firm is proving that everything old is new again. Also, that the future is mud.""Combining indigenous...
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Latinos in Boulder County, CO 1900-1980
Latinos in Boulder County, Colorado 1900-1980 Vol 1; History and Contributions [with many genealogical connections back to the San Luis Valley]byMarjorie K. McIntoshDistinguished Professor of History...
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"Valley Holidays Rich in Customs, Sharing and Food"
Gloria Sanchez Yund and children with traditional holiday servings of empanadas, biscochitos, posole, homemade tortillas, tamales, red chile sauce and sopa. Reflections, remembrances and traditional...
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Rio Grande County Museum Newsletter
"As the year of 2020 comes to an end, it is time to thank those who have supported Rio Grande County Museum with financial donations, their taking time to visit and share their memories and see what...
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Thimble, Thimble, Who has the Thimble!
"For years I have been collecting thimbles, beginning with ones from my family. The idea came to me of making an historical collection within my personal collection. These thimbles, which belong or...
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