Dec 30, 2019 03:25PM ● By Melanie Wiseman
When Mary Sornsin graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1970, she was denied an application for a credit card due to her status: fem...
Dec 02, 2019 01:09PM ● By Beacon Senior News
A flicker of humor amid the darkness Remembering the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, is it possible to find humor? I felt sadness...
Oct 29, 2019 10:39AM ● By Randal C. Hill
He has been described as vulgar, adolescent and exploitative. But, like him or not, Hugh Hefner and his "Playboy" magazine were responsible ...
Oct 28, 2019 02:48PM ● By Jan Weeks
Sharing history that never made the books One hundred years ago, the Treaty of Versailles ended World War I, Prohibition ended, the White So...
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 ...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...