100 years ago: “Everyone and his sweetheart or some other fellow’s was at Trimble Springs attending the athletic program and dance given there for the benefit of the Durango band. Some 125 went up on the special train that left at 2 o’clock.”

75 years ago: “Floyd Gregg, Durango pilot who recently obtained his license, escaped almost uninjured from a crash in which the plane he was flying landed in brush and scrub trees on the side of Goeglein Gulch. It is understood that a sudden down current of air caused the forced landing.”

50 years ago: The Kiva was showing Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” starring Jessica Tandy and Tippi Hedren. The billing read, “It could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made!”

25 years ago: “Memorial Day in Durango will be remembered for bike races, cookouts – and cold weather. Early gardeners in the area suffered as the overnight temperature fell to 28 degrees.”

Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not have been verified.