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A public meeting of the Colorado Groundwater Commission was held on March 13th, 2023, at the Minnick Building at the Baca County Fairgrounds. Positions for and against closing the Southern High Plains basin to high-capacity drilling were heard and surveys were distributed.
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Happy New Year one and all! I thought I would put together a note wishing you a happy 2023, reflect a little, and update you on what we are doing in our efforts to document Southeast Colorado History. After acquiring the Plainsman Herald we’ve published a significant amount of historical content, made the commitment to […]
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This past week, Baca County winds brought reminders of the 1930’s dust bowl. Excessive and damaging winds caused many comments about the 1930s Dust Bowl,an event that colors the worldview of Baca Countians, even to the present. More than once the comment was heard, “I have never seen a wind like this, even in Baca […]
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I have been collecting artifacts of the Dust Bowl as it relates to Baca County for awhile. My focus is compiling a resource that tells the “Dust Bowl” story from the perspective of the Baca County Newspaperman, in particular, Springfield Democrat Herald, Editor Ralph Williams. However, the research from other newspapers across the country […]
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The Dust Bowl Days: by George Chatham As I shared in an earlier post the Elmer & Lela Chatham family left Baca County and moved to Power’s county sometime in the mid 1920’s. My grandparents (Fred and Ethel Chatham) moved from the “dug-out” on Fred’s homestead to Elmer Chatham’s homestead March 13, 1924. The reason […]
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