*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on February 25, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. It’s the hardest word to say, but one we’re all going to have to embrace this year…sesquicentennial. It marks the completion of…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on February 18, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Robert Frost once wrote, “good fences make good neighbors,” but the fence matters less if both sides agree on where their land…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on February 11, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. When I first visited the new U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, one display nearly put me on the ground. It…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on February 4, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. History is dusty books, musty newspapers, and crusty teachers. But history is also stories—our stories— and those stories can be beautiful. I’ll…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on January 28, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. “It’s too bad,” the guy said. “There’s just so much history being lost.” We were standing in Saint Andrew’s Church in Manitou…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on January 21, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. “Daddy,” my daughter commanded, “hold my hand.” She was on a tree stump at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, behind the new penguin…