100 years ago: “Messrs. Camp, White and Wingate are home from Denver which they report as distressingly dull to a Durango man – but Durango is some town.”
75 years ago: “Mrs. Frank Eldredge and Mrs. J.A. Clark entertained at one of their popularly informal ‘neighborhood’ teas, when friends ‘across the way’ dropped in for a cup of tea, a chat and a relaxing hour.”
50 years ago: “Among the 60 or so persons to be awarded baccalaureate degrees when Fort Lewis College holds its first senior-college commencement exercises on April 19 will be 13 who finished requirements for the degree either one or two terms earlier. Of the thirteen, nine are from the Durango area.”
25 years ago: “A growing effort to establish Cortez as headquarters for a proposed Anasazi National Monument apparently is at odds with plans by the superintendent of Mesa Verde National Park. If Congress approves an Anasazi National Monument in Southwest Colorado, Superintendent Bob Heyder said it probably won’t be headquartered in Cortez.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
