When Families Were Split On ‘The Borderlands of Southern Colorado’
A new exhibit documents the end of the Mexican-American war, when the U.S.-Mexico border changed, and families suffered.
By Shanna Lewis
White Christian Colonialism Persists In Schools, Language, Politics, Iliff’s Tinker Says
Tinker taught about indigenous cultures at the Iliff School of Theology. He recently retired and Iliff has launched a program to continue Tinker’s work.
By Shanna Lewis
The Trauma Of The Vietnam War, And A Brother’s Suicide, In Poetry
Vietnamese American poet Diana Khoi Nguyen’s parents fled Vietnam. She reads from her new book of poetry, “Ghost Of.”
By Shanna Lewis
One Hiking Trail, 3,100 Miles, And Not Enough Sign Posts. There’s An Effort To Fix That
It’s not just the towering mountains, dry deserts and extreme weather that make the trail challenging.
By Shanna Lewis
How A 3-D Printer Offers A Helping Hand To People In Need
Jacquin Buchanan is part of an international network of people who use 3-D printers to make prosthetic limbs for people for free.
By Shanna Lewis
For This Ignacio Chef, Indigenous Foods Are Medicine And Connections To Family
Chef Karlos Baca says the loss of traditional foods threatens the very lives of his people.
By Shanna Lewis
Why Seeds, The Old Kind, The Heirloom Kind, Matter In The Era Of Modern Agriculture
Bite into a juicy heirloom tomato from a local farmers market and you could be chewing on a bit of history and cross cultural exchange.
By Shanna Lewis
The Story Behind A Postcard From A Diving Horse Show
We recently ran across an old postcard that was both fascinating and kind of disturbing. It was taken in Pueblo in 1905.
By Shanna Lewis
From Doctors To Artists To Housekeepers, Colorado Women’s History Is Focus At New Center
Hear what’s behind the Center for Colorado Women’s History at Byers-Evans House Museum, which opens Wednesday.
By Shanna Lewis
CU-Boulder Acquires The ‘Sharkive,’ A Trove Of Career-Spanning Art From Bud Shark
Lyons artist Bud Shark’s printmaking work can be found in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
By Shanna Lewis
Pueblo Study Addresses Socio-Economic Impacts Of Legal Weed
A new pilot study from the Institute of Cannabis Research, or ICR, at Colorado State University Pueblo examines a wide range of topics, including the socio-economic effects of legalizing marijuana.
By Shanna Lewis
Pueblo Pilot Study Disputes Stereotypes About Marijuana Use, Crime And Homelessness
People have not been coming to Colorado, “spending their last dime on cannabis and then lining up at soup kitchen queues” one of the study’s authors says.
By Shanna Lewis
Love Skiing Groomed Corduroy? The Bradley Packer Grader Paved The Way
These human-powered machines smoothed the slopes at Winter Park and were the precursors to today’s giant snowcats.
By Shanna Lewis
Can You Fingerprint Cannabis? Research Is Underway At CSU-Pueblo
Genetic coding, isotopes and Bitcoin-like databases may be used to keep tabs on the origins of marijuana and other cannabis products.
By Shanna Lewis
Gender Is Evolving For Boulder Poet Andrea Gibson
Andrea Gibson explains why thinking about gender used to be painful, but now it’s become celebratory and why pronouns make a difference.
By Shanna Lewis
Peggy Fleming Was A Skating Sweetheart. What Does She Think Of The Sport Now?
Skating gold medalist Peggy Fleming has been on a Wheaties box. Colorado Springs threw a parade for her. And she now calls Denver home.
By Shanna Lewis