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Position: Looking Back
Position: Montezuma County Historical Society
Position: Montezuma County Historical Society
Position: As told to Eldon Zwicker
Position: February 1985
Position: For MONTEZUMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Part 2 Editor’s note: This column about the life of Elbert “Al” Nunn is based on an interview by Anna Florence Robison in March 1934. Part 1 was published in April, and Part 3 will publish on June...
DATE: May 2, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: This column about the life of Elbert “Al” Nunn is based on an interview by Anna Florence Robison on March 28, 1934. Part 2 of the article will appear in the May 3 issue of The...
DATE: April 1, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: Part 1 of this article was published in The Journal on Feb. 1. Portions of this article were found in the issues of the Montezuma Valley Journal and from article written by Anna...
DATE: Feb. 27, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: Part 2 of this article will appear in the March 1 issue. Portions of this article were found in the issues of the Montezuma Valley Journal and from article written by Anna Florence...
DATE: Jan. 29, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back
Mesa Verde was designated a national park in 1906. William C. Winkler reported the first roadway to carry vehicles was developed in 1913. It entered the park via a set of switchbacks on the...
DATE: Jan. 1, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back
Many local residents were not aware of the number of men from Southwest Colorado who were stationed or living at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, when it was attacked. The attack was a surprise strike...
DATE: Dec. 5, 2018 | COLUMN: Looking back
By June Head Charles B. Kelly was born in Ohio in 1857. Sometime around 1878, he came west with the John Silvey family, being a good friend of Frank Silvey’s. After getting the Silvey family...
DATE: Oct. 31, 2018 | COLUMN: Looking back
Cortez, the metropolis of the grand and vast valley of the Montezuma, is situated in the very center of the western half of La Plata County. Cortez is already a rapidly growing town and will be the...
DATE: Oct. 4, 2018 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: This is the second of two Looking Back columns about the Hammond brothers. Part 1 published on Aug. 3. By James Hammond James, Allen and Matthew Hammond came from Quebec to Colorado....
DATE: Sept. 4, 2018 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: This is the first of two Looking Back columns about the Hammond brothers. Part 2 is scheduled to publish in The Journal on Sept. 7. By James Hammond I was born in the province of...
DATE: July 30, 2018 | COLUMN: Looking back
Growing up in Cortez, we always had heat in the house. There was the cook stove – the Warm Morning – maybe the pot belly stove for heat, but I never asked where the coal came from. When a load of...
DATE: July 3, 2018 | COLUMN: Looking back
If you were to ask the man on the street, “Where is Hallarville?” You would get a blank stare. Old-timers know it was a 40-acre roadside business on the north side of U.S. Highway 160, opposite the...
DATE: May 30, 2018 | COLUMN: Looking back
