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‘Walking Durango’ makes a splash

Reader-walkers follow visual clues like this one, which adorns a highly visible Main Avenue establishment – on the Burns Bank Building where the Irish Embassy Pub is now located – to learn about local landmarks in Peggy Winkworth’s Walking Durango.

It’s not just Durangoans and tourists who have enjoyed learning more about our town from taking a stroll with Peggy Winkworth’s Walking Durango: History, Stories and Sights. History Colorado gave it an Honorable Mention.

Judges praised her book for “creating an engaging and informative walking guide to Durango’s historic core.”

Winkworth structured her book as a scavenger hunt, researching it with the help of the editorial board of the Durango Herald Small Press, a Ballantine Communications Inc. company, which published the book, and the La Plata County Historical Society.

Walking Durango was in the top five nonfiction books checked out at the Durango Public Library in 2013, according to Assistant Director Sandy Irwin. It was No. 4, after Dead Run, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls and Cooked, beating out Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s My Beloved World and Reza Aslan’s Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.

“And those were both national bestsellers,” Irwin said.

Herald Staff



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