Brief by Allen Best
Colorado Lore – April 2007 – Colorado Central Magazine
The story appears to be all over except the shouting … or is it shivering? Fraser insists it won’t surrender the title of “Icebox of the Nation,” a nickname it began using in 1956. But International Falls, Minn., says it got the trademark for the name in 1986 and wants it back.
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado Lore – September 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
Colorado Curiosities – Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
by Pam Grout
Published in 2006 by Insiders Guide an imprint of Globe Pequot Press
ISBN 0-7627-3978-9
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado Lore – August 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
Bank Job – The Story of C.D. Waggoner
by Peter F. Kenworthy
Published in 2005 by Western Reflections
ISBN 1-932738-24-X
Review by Martha Quillen
ColoradoLlore – August 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
Here Lies Colorado – Fascinating Figures in Colorado History
by Richard E. Wood
published in 2005 by Farcountry Press
ISBN: 1560373342
Essay by Allen Best
Colorado Lore – August 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine
APRIL FOOL’S DAY spoofs can be as useful in predicting the future as more weighty prognostications. I say this from personal experience. For example, 10 to 15 years ago new golf courses were being announced at every turn along the I-70 corridor. So at a Vail-area newspaper, we eyed the Superfund site on the outskirts of Minturn and announced that a golf course would soon be built atop the consolidated tailings from an old zinc mine.
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado Lore – January 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine
In Praise of Fair Colorado – The Practice of Poetry, History, and Judging
by Greg Hobbs
Published in 2004 by Bradford Publishing Co.
ISBN 1-932779-02-7
Review by Ed Quillen
Colorado Lore – December 2004 – Colorado Central Magazine
Colorado Moments in Time
by Grant Collier
Published in 2004 by Collier Publishing
ISBN 1-59152-012-6
Brief by Central Staff
Colorado lore – April 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
We had thought that Colorado was pretty well covered when it comes to Official State Emblems, which range from the Blue Spruce Tree to the Stegosaurus Fossil, from the Lark Bunting Bird to the Bighorn Sheep Mammal, from the Cutthroat Trout Fish to the Aquamarine Gemstone.
Brief by Central Staff
Colorado lore – April 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
John A. Love, who died in January, was the first person ever elected to three four-year terms as Colorado’s governor. He took office in 1963, and remained there until 1973, when he resigned to become the nation’s first “energy czar.”
Love, a moderate Republican, was from Colorado Springs, seat of El Paso County. In early March, state Sen. Bill Thiebaut, a Pueblo Democrat, introduced a bill to designate U.S 24, as it passes through El Paso County, as “the John A. Love Memorial Highway.”
Review by Allen Best
Colorado lore – July 2001 – Colorado Central Magazine
Ida: Her Labor of Love
by Carol Crawford McManus
Published in 1999 by Western Reflections Press, Ouray
ISBN 1-890-43718-2
Brief by Central Staff
Colorado Lore – June 2001 – Colorado Central Magazine
Answers, and no questions for a while
Our May quiz inspired absolutely no responses. And so, we’re taking a break from question construction.
But we will give you the answers — the idea was to guess the town from a published description.
Brief by Central Staff
Colorado Lore – April 2001 – Colorado Central Magazine
The March quiz about place names from other languages provoked a few responses, and most of them got most of the answers right.
Our official answers (“official” can mean “used in an office,” so it fits, even if nobody here holds any office):
1. Exit or Gateway (Spanish): Salida. We liked the “Dead End” signs in Puerto Rico, which say “Calle Sin Salida,” or “Street without exit.”
Review by Jeanne Englert
Colorado lore – November 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine
Colorado Place Names
by William Bright
Published by Johnson Books:
ISBN 1-55566-102-5