Children of the High Line
High Line Canal (1950 to 1990) history project, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Agricultural History and Rural Studies, Department of History, 603 Ross Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; history.iastate -kehrberg.shtml
Tell your canal stories.
Historian and Centennial native Riney-Kehrberg is collecting stories from people who played along or used Denver’s High Line Canal between 1950 and 1990. Write for details.
Coast-to-Coast yard sale
U.S. 50 in Cañon City, Cotopaxi, La Junta, Las Animas, Montrose, Poncha Springs, Rocky Ford, Salida and other points, Saturday and May 17;
50 is nifty.
The country’s biggest garage sale — 3,000 miles long, through 100 counties — spans two days next weekend at locations along the highway some call the loneliest road in America. Here’s your chance to be part of a unique national event, and find some bargains, too.
A traveling salute
The Vietnam Moving Wall, Thursday to May 18 at Cerise Park, Main St. at Chipita Ave., Montrose
Thank a veteran.
The Moving Wall, a half- sized replica of the celebrated Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will make its only Colorado stop in Montrose later this week. In honor of Armed Forces Day on Saturday, local residents are holding a special ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday at Cerise Park.
