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The Twilight Zone

Sep 30, 2019 02:18PM ● By Randal C. Hill

60 years since entering another dimension In 1964, weary of railing against censorship and other ongoing battles, creator Rod Serling chose ...

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Stingy Jack: the legend of the Jack o’ lantern

Sep 30, 2019 12:17PM ● By Randal C. Hill

Every October 31 we see suburban homes displaying fat orange pumpkins aglow with light pouring through triangular eyes and jagged teeth. The...

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Will your banker save you in the next crash?

Sep 03, 2019 11:39AM ● By Karen Telleen-Lawton

Telluride’s 20th Century Robin Hood Long ago, a small-town banker saved his customers from financial ruin. Edward Massey’s historical novel,...

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Lessons learned from one-room schools

Apr 15, 2019 12:10PM ● By Melanie Wiseman

Ruth Ehlers can still smell lunches warming on the stove of New Hope School during winter in rural Nebraska.Wilma Baumbach relives the daily...

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Redlands Community Center: a vibrant center in history and the community

Dec 06, 2018 03:26AM ● By Terri Benson

Driving down Broadway through the Redlands, you’re likely to pass a nearly century-old piece of local history without even realizing it. The...

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Out of Place and Time: Museum to host unusual and strange artefacts

Nov 06, 2018 04:55AM ● By BEACON Senior News

Museums of Western Colorado presents its fifth annual Heritage Rendezvous exhibition from October 19 to May 31, featuring a prayer bell enca...

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100 years of war: Honoring those who fought bravely

Nov 06, 2018 04:14AM ● By Jan Weeks

In 1918, on November 11, at 11 a.m., the war to end all wars came to an end when Germany sued for peace after four long years of combat. Tho...

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Harvest picnics

Sep 01, 2018 12:26AM ● By Eileen O'Toole

Once upon a time, air conditioning didn’t exist. But picnics? Maybe necessity created picnics.In the early 1900s, houses with wood and coal ...

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Back-to-school memories

Aug 31, 2018 10:28PM ● By Jan Weeks

For some BEACON readers, going back to school felt like a chore or like being sentenced to nine months in lockup. Others saw the first day o...

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1,827 issues of The Palisade Tribune now on the Colorado Historic Newspaper website

Aug 15, 2018 06:10AM ● By BEACON Senior News

Thanks to generous donors, 120 more issues of The Palisade Tribune are available online at www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org. This makes 1,...

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Chautauqua brings the Great War to the stage

Aug 04, 2018 04:26AM ● By Jan Weeks

The Great War. The War to End All Wars. Whatever name it carries, for some it is just a chapter in a history book and only historians and ve...

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Dances in the desert: Relive the heyday of dance halls in the Grand Valley

Aug 04, 2018 02:58AM ● By Eileen O'Toole

“We built a dance pavilion in our backyard,” William Coulson wrote in a letter to a faraway relative on December 23, 1925. At the time, danc...

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