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The Gold Hill Inn

“So where do you want to go for your bir thday?” I mused over this for a moment.  Given how arduous the journey has become driving Boulder Canyon, I preferred to stay local.  While there are a couple of restaurants that I’ve liked in Nederland, they didn’t seem special enough…

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Windstorm

As we drove along the Peak to Peak Highway, the winds buffeted my car.  I clutched the steering wheel as first one gust, then another, caused the car to shift sideways.  As we pushed on, the sand deposited by the CDOT trucks whirled into sandy, snowy cyclones that whipped against…

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Colorado’s Mining History

I’m working on putting together a temporary exhibit at work on Boulder County’s mining history, so have been reading a lot recently about the subject.  The county actually manages the Nederland Mining Museum, a small museum filled with artifacts and stories of local mining.  As I delve deeper into the…

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