75 YEARS AGO: “Army seeking Durango young men as pilots: A young man can earn a highly paid job and become an expert pilot. Applicants must be over 21, under 28, and not married.”
25 YEARS AGO: “Vandals claiming to be with the radical environmental movement Earth First! have closed Telluride’s controversial new golf course by poisoning some of the greens. Vandals used a still unidentified chemical to kill the grass and write messages on 11 of the greens and several of the tees. The messages include ‘Hayduke lives,’ a reference to one of the eco-terrorists in Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and The Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
