100 years ago: J.M. Widel of Redmesa visited Durango and expressed that “some of the men of his acquaintance overwork their piety so hard on Sunday that they feel called upon to give it a six-day rest during the week.”

75 years ago: The 27th annual Visitors Day and the seventh annual 4-H Club Field Day was held at Fort Lewis College. It featured a tour of the college’s experimental gardens, barbecue, picnic lunches, livestock shows, motion pictures, ball games and “sports of all kinds.”

50 years ago: Firefighters responded to a call from the home of Frank Conners, 28 West Third Ave., involving an electrical short that caused the resident’s television set to catch fire. Mrs. Conners had extinguished the fire by the time the fire department arrived.

25 years ago: Two teenagers set off a “stink bomb” at Durango Mini Golf.

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.