By Forrest Stone
Herald Staff Writer
100 years ago: Miss Josephine Steans, “one of the school ma’ams of the county,” left Durango for Greeley to teach summer school.
75 years ago: Mesa Verde National Park announced to visitors that only two sightseeing tours would be offered each day due to the wartime effort to conserve rubber.
50 years ago: Representatives of Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez assumed ownership of a new ambulance but were worried about having to pay the annual insurance premium.
25 years ago: Someone reported four or five people who were setting up camp “with their bongo drums out and everything” on private property at the south end of Turtle Lake.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
