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Baca County Towns and Their Newspapers

October 19, 2021

History

Tags: baca county, newspaper, old west, sam konkel, towns of colorado

Towns Artesia Artesia was founded in 1914 but lasted only a year. The name of the town was changed to Blaine. That was long enough for a newspaper to be born: Artesia Call spring 1914-1915, R.O. Casady and C. Lyle Knox, founders. Knox was formerly with the Springfield Herald. The Artesia Call name was kept…
“Ten Nights in a Bar Room” by the Boston Amateur Dramatic Troupe: Theatre in 1880s Southeast Colorado

February 13, 2021

Arts, History

Tags: Al Jennings, Bill Thompson, Boston, East Enders, jennnings, old west, Southeast Colorado, Theatre

The Boston Amateur Dramatic troupe reproduced “Ten Nights in a Bar Room” at the Murray hall last Friday night. The weather was intensely disagreeable, and the crowd correspondingly small. There were not more than 150 people present. The troupe made a marked improvement over their first effort. The Citizen (Trinidad Colorado) 13 Jan 1888 The…
Cooling Troughs in SE Colorado: Includes A Video Tour by Steve Doner

May 22, 2020

History, Old West

Tags: Cooling Trough, Southeast Colorado, Steve Doner

EDITORS NOTE: We have included videos from our good friend Steve Doner’s Youtube Channel. If you like history Subscribe Now. We live in an era where refrigeration allows us to have foods from all over the world. Modern refrigerated trucks and ships bring us foods which are kept in the fridge or freezer for months,…
Crop Prospects for Southeast Colorado in 1888

May 22, 2020

History, Stories

Tags: Southeast Colorado, springfield, Vilas

PERSONS Stories and Incidents of the Early Day East Enders Before Baca County became a county in the spring of 1889 it was the eastern end of Las Animas county. As spring is upon us, I thought it might be good to look back at the crop prospects in Southeast Colorado in 1888. The following …
Growing Up in Baca County – Chapter 5 Part 2- John Havens

April 30, 2020

History, Stories

Tags: 1930s, Dirty Thirties, dust bowl, John Havens, Vilas

As the dust storms increased many of the farm families and a few of the town residents had to pull up stakes and look for greener pastures. As a kid working around the service station I observed first hand family after family load all their belongings into cars and onto pickups and head out to…
Growing up in Baca County – Chapter 10 – John Havens

April 12, 2020

History, Stories

Tags: Baca County History, guest writer, Homsher, John Havens, Vilas

On Saturday afternoons and evenings there was usually a little more activity in Vilas than other times, unless there was a ball game going on out of town. Farmers would come to town and bring their cans of cream to leave at Tony’s Market and to stock up on groceries for the coming…
More Poems from Grandma Bamber…

April 5, 2020

Arts, History, Stories

Tags: Bamber, Nancy Hall Nelson, Nellie Grover Bamber, Poem, Pritchett

This is the 3rd of posts of Nellie Grover Bamber. It again is a true pleasure and honor to get to post these for my friend Nancy Hall Nelson. The image of Grandma Bamber printed on an early dot matrix printer is a piece of history in itself. The poems? Priceless. In the not so…
Growing up in Baca County – Chapter 9 Part 2 – John Havens

April 4, 2020

History, Stories

Tags: guest writer, John Havens, Vilas

Dad and Uncle Tony always looked forward to a reunion at the Boise City Cemetery of the Havens and Snodgrass clan. Then we went from Boise city to Guymon to place flowers on the grave of the 13 year old sister of my Dad’s and Uncle Tony. She had died during the year the…
Growing up Baca County – Chapter 9 Part 1 – John Havens

April 4, 2020

History, Stories

Tags: baca county, John Havens, Vilas

At one time Vilas could boast of a fairly large Hardware and Lumber Yard operated by the Hoarse Retherfords. It was located on the North side of Main Street to the far East. Coming back West was Mr. Wheeler’s Store. I believe there were 2 little houses located to the East side of the…
Growing up in Baca County – Chapter 8 Part 2 – John Havens

April 4, 2020

History, Stories

Tags: John Havens, Konkel, Vilas

In January 1947 I married my high school sweetheart, Marie Konkel, in the Vilas Friends Church. We then moved to Haviland, Kansas where I completed four years of education at Friends Bible College. During the years of my ministry I have served churches in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Iowa, then in 1993 I became Chaplain…

Category: History

Baca County Towns and Their Newspapers

“Ten Nights in a Bar Room” by the Boston Amateur Dramatic Troupe: Theatre in 1880s Southeast Colorado

Cooling Troughs in SE Colorado: Includes A Video Tour by Steve Doner

Crop Prospects for Southeast Colorado in 1888

Growing Up in Baca County – Chapter 5 Part 2- John Havens

Growing up in Baca County – Chapter 10 – John Havens

More Poems from Grandma Bamber…

Growing up in Baca County – Chapter 9 Part 2 – John Havens

Growing up Baca County – Chapter 9 Part 1 – John Havens

Growing up in Baca County – Chapter 8 Part 2 – John Havens

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