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Bragging rights.
How do you feel about receiving those annual summaries of people whose lives are richer, more traveled and generally better than yours? 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.
Rising fortune
High Desert Foods bakery, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1021 Main Ave., Durango; 970-882-2116
Locavore-licious.
After watching people line up for his bread and baked treats at farmers markets, Dolores rancher Bill Manning opened a retail store last week. It anchors a space shared with four other entrepreneurs to save overhead. Offerings include gourmet comfort food: tamales, burritos, mac and cheese, pot pies and pastries. Open through December.
Iron Men
“Pioneer Steelmaker in the West,” by H. Lee Scamehorn (Bessemer County Historical Society, $28)
Steel will.
This limited-edition reprint (the book was first published in 1976) looks at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., the industry that shaped Pueblo. It covers the years between 1872 and 1903, and includes CF&I’s predecessors, the evolution of the U.S. steel industry, with an epilogue outlining CF&I’s falling fortunes until its bankruptcy in 1993.
