With all that’s going on in the world right now, we wondered what life experience and family history might be able to tell us. As part of KRCC’s Shortening the Distance project, producer Shanna Lewis got in touch with historian Carolyn Newman.

Italy has been a hot spot in the worldwide pandemic. One of the hardest hit cities is Bergamo, which happens to be a sister city to Pueblo, Colorado.  Camouflaged military trucks slowly rolled through the streets of Pueblo’s sister city in Italy last month.

Colorado Mountaineer Christine Boskoff climbed more of the world’s tallest peaks than any other American woman - a record that still stands. A new book tells her story.

Italy has been a hot spot in the worldwide pandemic. One of the hardest hit cities is Bergamo, which happens to be the sister city to Pueblo, Colorado. Producer Shanna Lewis spoke with a man who lives in Bergamo, to get a better understanding of what's happening.

The 1940s Coronado Motel in south Pueblo was included the Negro Traveler’s Green Book and is now in the National Register of Historic Places.

What should parents of children with autism keep in mind during the stay at home order? Routine for one, says renowned CSU professor Temple Grandin, who has autism.  “Make a new schedule,” she said.

Amid a statewide stay-at-home order, beacons of light are shining at night in Pueblo.  Pueblo firefighters, law enforcement officers and families are pointing lights toward the sky each night, and they’re posting photos to social media under the hashtag #PuebloShines.  “18 Nights of Light – Pueblo Shines”Join Mayor Nick Gradisar/Pueblo Community Symbol of Unity tonight

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In June 1921, days of heavy rains combined with mountain snowmelt to catastrophic results.

Steel has been part of the city's soul almost since its incorporation 150 years ago.

In the late 1890s, Pueblo Rep. Carrie Clyde Holly was one of the first three women elected to the state’s legislature.

The Gilded Age edifice aimed to display “everything of interest or value belonging to mineral kingdom," presided over by two unique local divinities.

The city of Pueblo packs a lot of history into its official seal.

On Jan. 15, 1920 the city of Pueblo bought some 600 acres in the Wet Mountains about a half hour southwest of town. This forested land near Beulah became Pueblo Mountain Park.

The paintings were considered vandalism in the 70s. Today, people will have to submit their ideas and get approval first. Not everyone is happy about it.

Huge paintings once lined most of the 2.8-mile long levee that helps protect downtown Pueblo from flooding along the Arkansas River. But they’re being destroyed during repair work that started on the levee five years ago. Artists began painting on the levee in the 1970s.

Early fall means harvesting giant zucchinis, festive pumpkins and all kinds of other produce from your garden. But it also may mean dealing with aphids on your kale, brown spots in your lawn and other scourges threatening your yard’s flora. Master gardener Loni Gaudet with CSU Extension is back to answer your gardening and landscape questions.