100 years ago: “A city employee whose duties take him past the high school building reported to the city hall that a ‘wooden headed pecker’ was trying to tear down the school house. He says that the bird every morning alights on the roof of the building and spends about an hour trying to peck a hole in the metal cornice.”
75 years ago: “Homemakers in rural districts have almost exhausted their resources during the winter in providing variety for home meals and school lunches, so the topic of the next leader trainer meeting, which is to be ‘Seasonal Farm Meals,’ is sure to appeal to all women.”
50 years ago: “More wet snow brought down the Blue Point slide on Red Mountain and the highway was closed. The Brooklyn slides between Silverton and Ouray were slipping and there were a few slips on Molas Pass where there was only one-way traffic.”
25 years ago: “Catherine Andersen was 10 miles from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, on June 3,1989 – the day of the massacre that killed thousands of people demonstrating for democracy in their country. ... Andersen, who moved to Durango, is the owner of the Animas Clinic of Acupuncture. She is a licensed acupuncturist who specializes in sports injuries.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
