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Category Archives: KRCC – Peak Past

A Busy Road In Colorado Springs Could Take You All The Way To Canada

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJuly 15, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on July 15, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. U.S. Route 85 is a nearly 1,500-mile-long highway that runs through El Paso, Texas, to New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota and through Fortuna,…

A Tall Turtle Tale In The Garden Of The Gods

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJuly 8, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on July 8, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. There’s a tall, tall turtle in the Garden of the Gods, and I’d like to tell you a story about it.  But…

Remembering A Manitou Springs Veteran This Holiday Weekend

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJuly 1, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on July 1, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. A few years ago, I was standing in Memorial Park in Manitou Springs when I noticed this enormous rock in the middle…

New Cog, Same Old Tricks – Historic Railway Marks 130th Birthday

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJune 24, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on June 24, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Guts, smarts, and money.  Those three things helped make the cog rail in Manitou Springs happen.  The guts came from a Civil…

A Peek Behind Our Nearly-Perfect Rocky Mountain Rectangle

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJune 17, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on June 17, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Places are places to my 10-year-old daughter — she’ll often confuse cities with states. We’ll go to Leadville and she’ll ask when…

A ‘Rock Clock’ in Monument Valley Park Tells The Geological History Of Our Region. Here’s How You Can Find It.

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJune 10, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on June 10, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. I’m no geologist but I can’t help myself when I come across a pretty piece of pearly white quartz or a silver-flecked…

‘Queen Of The Utes’ Chipeta’s Legacy In Colorado

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJune 3, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on June 3, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Chipeta — often called “Queen of the Utes” — was nearly 70 when she joined in Colorado Springs’ 40th birthday party as…

The Midland Rail Line Is Still In Service…Kind Of

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminMay 27, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on May 27, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Some roads are too good to go away. Or maybe they’re too tough to die. Like the Midland.  The Colorado Midland Railway was born…

‘They Moved Where?’ – Why Florence, Colorado Is More Than Meets The Eye

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminMay 20, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on May 20, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. “They moved where?” I said to my wife. My in-laws built a house in Florence this past fall, about 40 miles south…

A Peek Into The Night Past From A Muddy Paw Print

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminMay 13, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on May 13, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. If history is the study of what came before, a mud print makes a fine artifact.  Especially in the Spring.  Winter’s last…

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