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In 2025, nearly a century after my grandparents first opened their hardware store on South Main Street in Springfield, Colorado, the building’s aging wooden facade was removed by local resident and current owner Jessica Caricato. What she uncovered wasn’t just brick and mortar—it was memory. For the first time, I was face to face with…
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When I give talks about technology and innovation, I often draw on an unconventional example. One of my favorites is broomcorn—that old-fashioned crop which was a cash crop staple for many years where I grew up and was once essential for making hand-tied ‘straw’ brooms. At first glance, it seems like a footnote in agricultural…
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We’re excited to share that the digitization of the original Baca County History Book is now complete. This has been a labor of love—one that involved careful disassembly, professional-grade scanning, and digital processing of all 749 pages. Thanks to everyone who encouraged, advised, and shared ideas along the way. Today, we’re able to preserve this…
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Charles Arthur Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934) was nicknamed Pretty Boy Floyd. Floyd has continued to be a familiar figure in American pop culture, seen by some as notorious, but by others as a tragic figure, he is partly seen as a victim of the hard times of the Great Depression. In…
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The most frequent question I get doing book signings and shows is about Large Print Edition availability of my books. Yes, you can get large print on e-books by turning up the font size, but many avid readers still prefer print books and need larger print to enjoy them. Pew Research tells us print book readership has…
