This was November 1969. Despite the daily casualties in Vietnam, despite the two recent assassinations, we were still on a high from Woodstock and believed all we had to do was gather, show our united presence, and sing “Give Peace a Chance”
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Carved out of volcanic rock sometime between 800 B.C. and 400 B.C., the sculpture is believed to represent the mouth of a mythical pre-Hispanic monster that was big enough to swallow people
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Need some solid advice on contemporary lifestyle issues? Just ask Caroline
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By RICH GRANT The famous Moulin Rouge of Paris became an inspiration for an Academy Award-winning film and Broadway musical, which is currently appearing in Denver, Colorado, through June 26. So it is no small irony that in 1889, the same year the real Moulin Rouge opened on the edge of the red light district of Pigalle in Paris, way
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By RICH GRANT People have been buying alcoholic drinks in England for more than a thousand years at a variety of taverns, ale houses, coaching inns and grog shops, but what we think of today as a typical English pub didn’t happen until 1830. In the 1700s, to counter distilled spirits imported from Ireland and Scotland, England encouraged distilling corn
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By RICH GRANT Other than in movies, I had never seen someone actually get down on one knee and propose marriage. So it was something of a surprise to witness two proposals in two days – and in both cases, I was so close, I was asked to take the first selfie of the happy couple. But that’s the type
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By RICH GRANT There are many “Twilight Zone” episodes in which a road trip goes strange. A cute couple might be driving along and somehow, somewhere, they take a wrong turn and find themselves (as Rod Serling would put it so magically) “traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A
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By RICH GRANT THE COLORFUL FALL COLORS OF COLORADO There are more than 2 million acres of aspen trees in Colorado — one billion trees that if placed together would cover Rhode Island and Delaware. Rocky Mountain aspen leaves don’t just turn color in the fall, they positively glow a bright luminescent yellow gold, almost as if they had
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By RICH GRANT If you happen to be looking for a pretty ocean beach where you could get some fresh clams, octopus and squid, you might try Dinosaur Ridge, just outside of Golden, Colorado. Of course, you would be 100 million years too late. Back then, this site was a pretty shoreline of an inland sea that stretched to the
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By RICH GRANT The Battle for the Bloody Bozeman Trail In 1866, gold was discovered in Montana, and it was almost a replica of what had happened in Colorado. The main trails west bypassed and went far south of Montana, so a scout named John Bozeman laid out a new diagonal trail northwest across Wyoming for the dozens of wagon
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