100 years ago: Overcrowded with spectators, the circus parade was held in Durango. The “longest ever in the city and most comical” parade included “embryo artists” and “great merriment.”
75 years ago: Alex Garcia, “one of the little Herald-Democrat sellers on Main,” was standing on some machinery at the San Juan Implement Co. when a friend lost his balance and knocked him into a protruding piece of metal, which cut a two-inch gash in his leg. A day after the incident, he “limped into the office to get his papers.”
50 years ago: Thirty anthropology students from University of Colorado arrived from Boulder to study thousand-year-old civilizations at Mesa Verde National Park.
25 years ago: Five etchings and paintings by one of the artists who helped make Taos, New Mexico, an “internationally famous art colony” were on display at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.
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.
