Old Fort Farm Stand offers veggies, meat
The Old Fort Farm Stand will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday inside the Fort Lewis College Student Union.
The stand will have potatoes, yellow onions, zucchini bread, pumpkin bread, pestos, roasted poblano chiles, roasted green chiles, dehydrated onions, mixed greens, arugula, cilantro, baby kale, spinach, grass-fed beef and local pork.
To order meat, email Beth LaShell at Lashell_b@fortlewis.edu. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/oldfortathesperus.
Bear Smart cancels bird-feeder exchange
Bear Smart Durango canceled the Bird Feeder Exchange planned for Saturday at the Durango Botanical Society’s Garden Party Celebration at Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave.
Because of overwhelming community support for this new program, all 50 hanging flower baskets were given out at the first exchange held May 2 at AJ’s Greenhouse.
Genealogical Society examines Civil War
The Southwest Colorado Genealogical Society will meet at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Animas Museum, 3065 West Second Ave.
After a brief business meeting, Anna Hopkins-Arnold will give the presentation, “Tracing Your Civil War Ancestors.” Hopkins-Arnold will demonstrate how to use census records and veteran’s schedules to identify Civil War veterans and trace their families through time. She will discuss how to access Union and Confederate pension records, POW and hospital records and glean information from them. She also will discuss how to find regimental histories, transfer and promotion orders and ways to distinguish between soldiers or sailors with the same name.
The public is invited. For more information and a membership application, visit www.swcogen.org.
Talk looks at early electrification efforts
Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College will host Sara Porterfield’s presentation on the region’s early development of electrical power at 7 p.m. Monday in the Lyceum Room.
Porterfield’s presentation is called “Supplying Light: The Western Colorado Power Company in the San Juan Mountains.” This event is free and open to all. In this talk, Porterfield will discuss her experience during the last academic year of organizing part of the Western Colorado Power Co. collection and her observations about how the development of this region’s electrical power infrastructure illustrates the complicated relationship between the human and natural worlds.
Porterfield is the center’s inaugural doctoral fellow in Southwestern history.
For more information, call 247-7456 or visit http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu.
Herald Staff
