Limerick: Good luck to Colorado’s new state historians — you’ll need it
While there is something inevitably flattering in the idea that it takes four men and one woman to replace me, I cannot keep from worrying about the fate of my...
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Patty Limerick: Prodding a historic friend to do better
Maintaining public silence is no longer tenable. Integrity demands a more open statement of my disappointment in and my hopes for the performance of the state historical society.
Limerick: E pluribus unum? These days it’s closer to “out of one, many.”
In the domain of national slogans, E pluribus unum -- 鈥渙ut of many, one鈥� -- is distinctively braced and ready for trouble.
Limerick: In search of the elusive dignity
In 2018, that wondrous human quality named 鈥渄ignity鈥� has been keeping a very low profile.
Limerick: Lessons from a strenuous social psychology experiment, a.k.a. a 50th high school reunion
Throughout our rattled nation, the 68-year-old members of the Class of 1968 (this is almost a numerical pun!) are coming together and transcending their differences with good will.
Limerick: Saved from stalemate and antagonism
Fellow Coloradans, why are so many of you聽 sinking so deep into truancy and never showing up in my class? I do not want to threaten, but if this situation...
Limerick: Am I doing everything I can to protect my students?
Is there something that I and my comrades and colleagues in the teaching profession should be doing right now to ensure the safety of students?
Limerick: A course correction based on historical mistakes
The settlers of the past were, more often than not, smart people. But they were in a rush and thus proportionately slow to recognize and minimize undesirable consequences. We don't...
Limerick: From state historian to talking head
When I became the Official Colorado State Historian, I came into possession of a breathtaking portfolio of powers. Given the malfunctions in the civic sense of humor in 2017, it...
Limerick: Forgetting, then remembering, Colorado’s great Belle Turnbull
Belle Turnbull was a noted Colorado writer who published poems that received national recognition. So how did a new book about her life and writing come about?