Peak Past: Remembering The Tragedy That Killed The 1961 US Figure Skating Team
*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…