
Nick Arvin Sets His Latest Novel In A Little-Known Period Of US History: The War Of 1812
“Mad Boy” follows the insane quest of 10-year-old Henry Phipps after a cow falls through a roof and kills his mother.

By Shanna Lewis

This Double Amputee Woman Did The Manitou Incline, And She’s Coming Back For More
Mandy Horvath had both legs amputated following an accident four years ago, but that hasn’t slowed her down.

By Shanna Lewis

Mike The Headless Chicken Lives On, And On, At This Unusual Fruita Festival
The 20th annual Mike The Headless Chicken Festival is Friday, June 1, and Saturday, June 2, in Fruita, the chicken’s hometown.

By Shanna Lewis

This Violent 1920s Bank Robbery In Lamar Made Forensics History
To track down a gang that killed four people and stole what would be worth more than $3 million today, the investigators tried a relatively new technique: matching fingerprints.

By Shanna Lewis

Mandy Brown Visited Pueblo Library To Beat The Heat, And Escaped Homelessness Too
The Pueblo Library system’s work with the community won them the 2018 National Medal for Museum and Library Services.

By Shanna Lewis

Pueblo City-County Library District Receives National Medal
The Pueblo City-County Library District is receiving the nation’s highest honor from The Institute of Museum and Library Services.

By Shanna Lewis

Planning For Play Along The Arkansas River Levee
One of the last chances for the public to give input on future recreation along the Arkansas River levee in Pueblo comes during an open house at Pueblo City Hall […]

By Shanna Lewis

Pueblo Teachers Strike For Pay, Respect
All schools in Pueblo’s D60 School District were closed Monday as teachers took to the picket line. Some 16,000 students were missing classes, and many schools remain closed Tuesday.

By Shanna Lewis

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