100 years ago: “The stork ran rings around the grim reaper in Durango during 1913. By a score of 97 to 81 the births won over the deaths.”
75 years ago: “Milo M. Webb, American engineer who was kidnapped in Mexico and released later, was well-known in Durango, having visited last summer for several weeks with Ernest Gordon.”
50 years ago: This appeared in the section called Demon’s Pitchfork: “Few DHS students are seen around town these days. The reason is that the dreaded week of semester tests has come. Everyone is busy with last-minute cramming and studying. The students are surviving this week only with the hope that the next week will be here soon and the tests will be over.”
25 years ago: “One year ago, the worst air crash in La Plata County history left its mark on a scrub-covered hillside between Bayfield and Durango. It changed forever the lives of the eight people who survived the tangled metal of Continental Express Flight 2286, and the families of the nine who died were deprived of their loved ones with an unforgiving suddenness.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
