50 YEARS AGO: “While mothers and sons have starred together on stage and screen, Helen Thatcher White and her son, Mahlon Thatcher White, are making their joint debut in a new field of their own choosing. They are running five separate banks in Colorado, including First National Bank of Durango. Mrs. White will be Chairman of the Board, and her son will be President.”

25 YEARS AGO: “‘Brook trout are the cockroaches of the fish world,’ according to John Flick of Duranglers. They can overpopulate a stream in one season, resulting in small fish competing for a limited food supply, and they can out-compete native trout. The Colorado Division of Wildlife and The U.S. Forest Service are helping to return native Colorado River cutthroat to the East Fork of Hermosa Creek by poisoning the invasive brook trout with rotenone before restocking the stream with the native cutthroats.”

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