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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 readingWhen I lived in Oregon, I used to love to garden. Something about getting my hands dirty while planting bulbs, lilac bushes, perennials and annuals, and then nurturing them through watering and loving care to see them bloom each summer provided me with great fulfillment. A lot of my friends who…
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…
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