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"Treasures from the Vault" is the theme of the July 2024 series of free programs hosted by the Estes Park Archives at 240 Moraine Avenue. Every week, we will examine another recently acquired postcard or pamphlet or booklet or book related to early Estes Park history, including a first-edition (London) Isabella Bird "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" and a first-edition S. Anna Gordon "Camping in Colorado" which both became available to readers in book form in October 1879, a rare early postcard or advertising insert from 1905 that pushes back W.G. Edward's management of the "Rustic" (now the H-Bar-G Ranch) to two years earlier than the H-Bar-G website would have you believe, and a fascinating comical "Longs Peak Inn" postcard from 1947, one year after Mrs. Enos Mills retired and sold the near 75-year-old establishment to Fellton Enterprises. The programs begin every Saturday evening at 7:00 p.m., to avoid parking charg...

The Sweet Granada (the word translates directly to "pomegranate", but refers more broadly to a city and region in southern Spain, or in the case of what follows, an adjacent Spanish Revival-style theatre named the "Granada") in Emporia, Kansas, was recently named America's second-best candy shop by USA Today. The Chamber of Commerce in Emporia is not demanding a recount, although they are puzzled by the outcome, given that, in the weeks leading up to the announcement, Sweet Granada (although its official name is "The Sweet Granada", sticking with this formality immediately brings up (for me, at least) unintended resonance with Atom Egoyan's decidedly non-upbeat film "The Sweet Hereafter", so the article is not an absolute henceforth) was constantly, solidly in first place on the leaderboard, updated daily, then found themselves playing second fiddle when a winner was announced following a dark period of seven days when no rankings were p...

I'm sure we could set aside a pika statue for you, or maybe a saddle with your name on it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/18/pastor-ex-trump-adviser-resigns-sexual-abuse The guy was abusing an unrelated 12-year-old girl while he was living in this girl's house with his wife. It sure sounds like something you would not be honored for, right, everyone who defends the W.T. Parke pika statue and the George Hix memorial in town? Right, trustees who continue to look the other way when this horrific behavior and the fact that we HONOR it in town is brought up?

Good or bad, something incredibly significant is about to unfold.

If you need a good laugh, return to this article PRN. Admission: I have zero sympathy for everyone quoted in this story, including but not limited to the bridal party, scam owner, and stiffed employees - If you are dumb enough to trust any salon in Estes to be around in six months to honor any commitment, especially those involving keeping track of money already spent or hours already worked, your photo is probably used to illustrate various dictionary terms of derision or moisture behind the ears. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/former-employees-brides-claim-glow-bridal-estes-park-owner-scammed-them/

So the Lazy B was here five years? I had forgotten them after the Elkhorn Lodge debacle. Five consecutive years? Except for the Reel Mountain Theatre, no business has said a longer farewell, with zero community involvement or investment or interest in this protracted goodbye and fare thee well, as the Lazy B. It is right there in their name. The performance was lazy, the food was lousy, the whole idea behind resurrecting something from the 1960s and thinking people still had any nostalgia for that era, itself a Bonanza and Wagon Train-manufactured nostalgia for the 1860s, when people routinely died of typhoid and dysentery, was both lazy and crazy. How it held on for five years (five consecutive years? Weren't there some interruptions while the performers hocked their instruments and had to take jobs in the circus?) is a testament to finding/bleeding someone possessed of both inordinante amounts of money and stupidity, never an easy combination to locate. There was the char...

And more noise and construction means more riled up elk. But of course, FLAP fanatics, there is no correlation between increased noise, increased road construction and increased elk attacks, just as there is no correlation between increased road construction and decreased sales tax. You can all return to your Nexflix binging. Nothing to see here. Why would we want to control our elk population, when we can use it to destroy our aspen and terrorize our residents? Especially since the Trail-Gazette has placed an embargo on unpleasant news.