Lincoln Memorial

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    Potato Day’s 2022 mash-up grows engagement

    Potato Day’s 2022 mash-up grows engagement thumbnail Potato Day 2022, poster art by Will Tempest

    For 112 years, through two pandemics, ‘Bonedalers have harkened the fall with a celebration of spuds. At the time of the very first Potato Day, 1910, Eugene Grubb had just published his book, “The Potato” and Irish immigrant Thomas McClure’s red variety, unique to this valley, was gaining national prestige.… read more →

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    As Lincoln Memorial turns 100, Marble town history is written in pure white stone

    As Lincoln Memorial turns 100, Marble town history is written in pure white stone thumbnail A fluted marble drum fabricated for the Lincoln Memorial, rejected because it did not make the grade. Photo by Alex Menard

    After visiting the beginnings of Colorado-Yule Marble Company in the town of Marble, architect Henry Bacon insisted on using its luminous, white stone for the Parthenon-styled exterior of the Lincoln Memorial he was designing. Its color was, he asserted, “immeasurably superior” to the four tried-and-true marble sources also being considered… read more →