50 YEARS AGO: “If you’re a garden enthusiast, be careful about the way you use insecticides with your garden hose. It’s never a good idea to attach a can containing poison to the hose, because some of the poison could get into your household drinking water supply via back-siphonage. Insecticides are essential to a good garden or fine lawn, but care in their use is equally essential.”
25 YEARS AGO: “The splendid variety of classical performance continued Sunday at Music in the Mountains in the tent at Purgatory. Music in the Mountains includes a total of seven formal concerts this year.”
Most items in this column are taken from the Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and The Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
