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Bragging rights.
Do those printouts dropping from holiday cards leave you more cynical than sentimental? We’re looking for mass- issued missives that exhaustively and smugly chronicle family (or individual) accomplishments. Names and identifying details will be omitted to protect privacy.
A moving event
Relocated historic cabins, Cripple Creek District Museum, 500 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; 719-689-2634
Cabin fever.
Two venerable cabins scheduled for demolition were saved from the wrecking ball and moved to a history museum in Cripple Creek.
Frozen in time
Bredo “Grandpa” Morstoel, Nederland
The really big chill.
Twenty years ago this week, Norwegian civil servant Bredo Morstoel was cyrogenically frozen by request after his death. High fees at a California cryogenic facility forced grandson Trygve Bauge to transfer Morstoel’s body to a Tuff Shed in Nederland, where Grandpa receives monthly installments of dry ice. The phenomenon inspired Frozen Dead Guy Days — and a local law prohibiting body storage on private property.
