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February History Talk
PALISADE HISTORICAL SOCIETY HISTORY TALK
Steve Schulte – “The Wilderness Act of 1964”
Thursday, February 20th – 5 p.m.
The Palisade Historical Society’s monthly history talk at The Ordinary Fellow Winery in Palisade will be former CMU history professor Steve Schulte. He will explain how The Wilderness Act of 1964 was considered a foundational victory for the emerging environmental movement, though the reality, however, is far different. Wayne Aspinall did more to shape the ultimate form of the law than any other lawmaker, and he more than met his goal in allowing the Wilderness Bill to pass – to protect western land and resource users. Congressman Wayne N. Aspinall grew up in Palisade and was a 12-term Congressional Representative from the Western Slope’s Third Congressional District.
Steve published Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West in 2002 which detailed Aspinall’s political career that encompassed some of the most crucial years in the development of the twentieth-century West.
The talk will begin at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 20th at The Ordinary Fellow Winery located at 202 Peach Avenue in Palisade. The program is open to the public in a relaxed and comfortable setting for people to learn about Palisade’s unique history and enjoy a glass of wine. It is free admission to this event, and donations are appreciated. The tasting room opens at noon, so come early!
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New Batch of Palisade Tribunes
Now Digitized
PALISADE, CO (November 8, 2024) – An astonishing 4,154 issues of The Palisade Tribune are now in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection database!
One of the most important on-going projects of the Palisade Historical Society is preserving archival copies of The Palisade Tribune and making them available online for searching and browsing. The Palisade Tribune was Palisade’s newspaper of record from June 1903 until it closed in March 2014. Thanks to generous donors and support from the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, 4,154 issues – beginning with the first edition June 6, 1903, and all issues in our collection through December 25, 1986 – are now on the Colorado Historic Newspapers and Plains to Peaks newspaper databases!
The Palisade Historical Society continues to raise funds to get more of Palisade’s newspaper of record digitized and online. These issues mean the CHNC database now has over 4.7 million digitized pages of Colorado newspapers! This is a wonderful resource of Palisade history! You can search by name or subject or browse entire pages for articles of interest. The Palisade Tribune is digitally available on the CHNC site with over 785 individual newspapers titles. The CHNC is a service of the Colorado State Library. In addition to Palisade news, these Tribunes feature columns from nearby communities, including Mt. Lincoln, Rapid Creek, Cameo, Plateau Valley, Collbran, and Mesa, as well as East Orchard Mesa, Clifton, Fruitvale, and even Mack and Loma. Some of the early 1950’s issues also include copies of The Fruita Times and Plateau Valley newspapers.
Above, we have a Historic Newspaper tab with a direct link to searching the database.
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