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Tomorrow is a day off for me, and unlike today, I will be staying on “the hill.” What a relief! What is staying on the hill? A day that I will not be leaving the friendly environs of our house and the little town of Nederland to drive down to…
Continue readingAs you drive up from Boulder to Nederland via Boulder Canyon, cresting a hill, the town of Nederland appears on the other side of a very large body of water, Barker Reservoir. It’s really quite picturesque — a huge mountain lake next to a small town ringed by towering mountain…
Continue readingI’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…
Continue readingThis is probably not news to most people who live in other parts of the country. Of course, summer has arrived, the calendar says it is so. But after one of the coolest and rainiest Mays on record, and a cold, rainy start to June, at times it looked in…
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