100 years ago: “In the longest freight that has come down from the Silverton branch for some days there were included in the train four cars of concentrates for the local smelter of the active mines of that section.”
75 years ago: “The Junior Red Cross of Durango, whose membership consists of every boy and girl in the city schools, is busy raising money for the Red Cross emergency war relief fund realizing that many school children in other nations are suffering because of the European conflict.”
50 years ago: “The Southern Ute Indian Bear Dance is scheduled to begin at the Bear Dance grounds across the river from Ignacio. ... The Bear Dance is the Indians’ traditional way to welcome spring.”
25 years ago: “Since the ninth-grade, Durango High School senior Kerri Head has wanted to join the military. ... Head will enter the prestigious West Point Military Academy in New York as the second student ever in DHS history to enter the highly acclaimed military school.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Animas Museum and Center of Southwest Studies. Their accuracy may not be verified.
