Durango Diaries, the twice-a-month storyteller series hosted by
The event will be held at 6 p.m. at Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave.
Speakers will include:
Daryl Hinderer, an advocate of the fastest growing sport in the United States: pickleball. Designed for players ages 9 to 90, the sport is growing in Durango as well. Hinderer stumbled across the sport while playing bocce ball. The people playing a game in the court next to him with paddles and a Wiffle ball were having a much better time than he was, laughing and giggling. They told him about pickleball, and he immediately signed up for lessons. He was hooked on the sport and the community associated with it.
Scott Gibbs, who has been a train buff since he was a child. As an adult, he has spent much of his time restoring trains, including a seven-year effort to restore the former Denver & Rio Grand Western Railroad locomotive 315, a 1895 steam locomotive, which he and other volunteers restored to operation in summer 2007. Now retired from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he serves as the vice president of the Durango Railroad Historical Society.
Gloria Macht, who discovered the Society for Creative Anachronism in 2004 while attending the Farmington Renaissance Fair. The SCA is a historical education group that studies the medieval world, from 600 to 1600, and is devoted to the research and re-creation of pre-17th-century skills, arts, combat and culture. The group hosts events, demonstrations and educational presentations and activities. The SCA consists of 30,000 members around the world.
The final episode of Season 3 of Durango Diaries will be May 22 and will focus on veterans. Five veterans of U.S. wars will talk about their service. They will include: Wayne McGee, World War II; Eric Greene, Korean War; Stan Crapo, Vietnam War; Shoshona Darke, Desert Storm; and Nathaniel Burford, Iraq/Afghanistan.
The podcast of each Durango Diaries, including past seasons, may be listened to or downloaded on the Herald’s website at durangoherald.com/durangodiaries or go to iTunes or Spotify and search podcasts for Durango Diaries.
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