100 years ago: “A big celebration will be held in Cave Basin on the Fourth. Shooting matches, races, a ball game, and plenty of fireworks have been arranged for by the committee. Music will be furnished at night by the coyotes band, and all good miners are expected to come to town and help celebrate.”
75 years ago: “Such weather! The sidewalks are warm enough to fry eggs, and it gets hot enough in a locked car to roast a pig. For a welcome change, we’d like to have it wet enough to drown a duck.”
50 years ago: “The Rocky Mountain West’s year-round education college – Fort Lewis College – registered 26 percent more persons in its third and final spring trimester of the 1963-64 academic year than for a like period a year ago, and once again, has well over a third of its eligible students going the year around.”
25 years ago: Park Elementary School was undergoing a $430,000 remodel, and Sunnyside was undergoing a $540,000 remodel.
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
