Uptop: A Winter Poem

By Steven Wade Veatch The winter snow blankets the town of Uptop. A wind blows hard, swirling angry flakes of snow. Light from coal-oil lamp...

The Pulver Gulch Prospect: A Hidden Reserve of Metamorphic Minerals

As U.S. Highway 24 approaches Wilkerson Pass, Colorado, the 1.7 billion-year-old metamorphic rocks of the Puma Hills replace the younger Pik...

Ghost Ranch Dinosaurs: Deadly Cannibals of the Late Triassic

Coelophysis, was a dinosaur that walked on two feet, was generally 6 to 10 feet (1.8 to 3 meters) long, and was among the best known of all...

WMA - Colorado Chapter Showcase/Jam at Florrisant Grange

Come listen to the story of Ed Watkins and Ernest Christison in song and storytelling! John, Kate and I will be performing at the Florissant...

National Day of the Cowboy

Ernest Christison (Drawing by Katy Kinder from a photograph) Today, July 26, is National Day of the Cowboy. I thought it an appropriate time...

Pebble Pups Conserve Cripple Creek's Mineral Collection

     The Pikes Peak Pebble Pups are taking turns this year to work on the mineral collection displayed at the Cripple Creek District Museum....

Past and Present Alder, Colorado

The town of Alder, Colorado along Hwy. 285 viewed from the west In 1926, my great-grandfather, Lewis Christison, moved his family to Al...