Winter 2010

Annual Winter Lecture Series

"Books to Begin a Decade"

Presented by the Friends of the Glenwood Springs Library and the Frontier Historical Society

 January 21^st 

From Redstone to Ludlow:  John Cleveland Osgood’s Struggle against the United Mine Workers of America. 

Local author, F. Darrell Munsell examines Osgood’s role in the early days of mining in Colorado.  As an organizer of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, he was the UMWA’s most formidable foe in its efforts to organize workers in the Colorado coalfields.  His approach to the threat of unionism ran the gamut from “The Redstone Experiment,” a model company town to the Ludlow tent colony and its subsequent massacre at the hands of armed guards paid for by Osgood.  Munsell is Professor Emeritus at West Texas A&M University and former president of the Redstone Historical Society.

 February 18^th 

Our Place:  People and Conservation in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River Valleys chronicles local landowners who have placed their property into a conservation easement to protect the land from future development.  The book is a beautiful pictorial legacy to these people who have sacrificed financial gain by not developing their property in order to preserve a piece of our agricultural heritage.  Author Martha Cochran, Executive Director of the Aspen Valley Land Trust, presents.

 March 18^th

Social Class in the Writings of Mary Hallock Foote by Christine Hill Smith reintroduces us to the writings of Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) who was one of the most popular female writers of her generation.  Foote followed her husband from a middle class background in the East to the mining and agricultural communities of the West.  Foote examined the lives of women experiencing the West on their own or with their families and explored the issues of class and gender on the frontier.  Christine Hill Smith is associate professor of humanities and communications at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs.

 April 15^th

The Mining Camps Speak:  A New Way to Explore the Ghost Towns of the American West.

Authors Beth and Bill Sagstetter go beyond typical guidebooks to help you get the most out of your visits to various ghost towns.  In addition to guiding you to historic mining towns, the book details how to become a historical sleuth and find clues to what life was like for residents in those mining towns many decades ago.

 All programs at 7:00 p.m. in the basement meeting room of the Glenwood Springs Branch Library at 413 Ninth Street.  Free and open to the public.  Refreshments are served.

Spruce-Up at Linwood

Our Annual Clean up Day at Linwood Cemetery

 Saturday, May 22nd

The Frontier Historical Society sponsors an annual clean up day in Glenwood Springs' oldest existing cemetery prior to Memorial Day and the busy summer tourist season.  Beginning at 10:00 a.m., meet at the trailhead to the cemetery at 12th and Bennett.  Bring gardening tools, a hat and sunscreen.  Lunch will be provided and we will work until 3:00. 

Fall 2010

Ghost Walk

2010 Historic Ghost Walk through
         Linwood Cemetery           

(Glenwood's Pioneer Cemetery)

October 15, 16, 17

 October 22, 23, 24

 October 29, 30, 31

Tours at 7:00, 7:45, 8:30 and 9:15 on Fridays and Saturdays
     7:00, 7:45 and 8:30 on Sundays             

Buy your tickets as soon as they go on sale October 1st, as this event sells out quickly!

Tours Leave Promptly,

So Don't Be Late!

Meet at the trailhead to Linwood (Pioneer) Cemetery at 12th and Bennett where tour guides lead you up to and through Glenwood's oldest cemetery. You may meet "Doc" Holliday and Kid Curry as well as many other Glenwood Springs pioneers and hear their stories. Different performers each weekend.

Tickets are $15 per person and go on sale October 1st 2010. Tickets are available for purchase with Visa or MasterCard by calling the museum (970) 945-4448 or in person at the Frontier Historical Museum. 

Bring a flashlight or lantern and dress appropriately for the weather.  The trail to the cemetery is a moderately strenuous hike.  Kerosene lanterns are also available for purchase at the trailhead for $10.

R. W. Boyle as Doc Holliday