100 years ago: “A D & R Railroad engineer ran amok yesterday and created considerable disturbance in Chama and Durango. For some time his associates have recognized his mental condition was not quite normal.”
75 years ago: “Twenty men planted lodgepole pine and spruce trees on the Lime Creek burn site, after being delayed several days by heavy snow.”
25 years ago: “Approximately 128 headstones, some 200 years old and others weighing upwards of 2,000 pounds, were turned over and vandalized last night at Greenmount Cemetery.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and The Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
