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Patty Limerick

Pprotesters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump chant after a rally on the campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago, was canceled due to security concerns in Chicago on March 11. (Associated Press file)

Limerick: True faith and allegiance

April 14, 2016 at 7:59 p.m.

Limerick: True faith and allegiance

Law clerks and Supreme Court staff watch a private ceremony in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court for the late Justice Antonin Scalia. (Jacquelyn Martin, Getty Images/Pool)

Limerick: Obituary writers’ prose and diplomacy

April 17, 2016 at 8:29 p.m.

Limerick: Obituary writers' prose and diplomacy

Boulder's iconic Flatirons awaken the restorative ...

Limerick: Why I fell in love with Colorado

April 18, 2016 at 3:44 p.m.

Limerick: Why I fell in love with Colorado

Donald Trump should be understood as the standard-bearer for the currently booming "Jerk Pride Movement," writes Patty Limerick. (Associated Press file)

Limerick: Jerk Studies 101

April 19, 2016 at 2:08 p.m.

Limerick: Jerk Studies 101

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Limerick: The Paradox of Bernard DeVoto

November 13, 2015 at 4:54 a.m.

Limerick: The Paradox of Bernard DeVoto

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Limerick: The myth of the vanishing Indian

October 16, 2015 at 6:00 a.m.

Limerick: The myth of the vanishing Indian

Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor at The New Yorker magazine, soon after being appointed in 1997. Mankoff will be speaking at the University of Colorado in October. (Associated Press file)

Limerick: Hold on to your sense of humor, America

April 21, 2016 at 8:07 p.m.

Limerick: Hold on to your sense of humor, America

A small stream of wastewater from the Bandera Mine flows into a creek below that feeds into the Animas River on Aug. 13. The San Juan County and the city of Silverton have a rich mining history with hundreds of mines being in the county including the Gold King Mine which spilled wastewater into the Animas River. Many of these mines were left abandoned or not properly bulkheaded which opens the possibility of wastewater draining into the rivers and creeks below. (Brent Lewis, The Denver Post)

Limerick: Historians in times of crisis

April 22, 2016 at 2:10 a.m.

Limerick: Historians in times of crisis

Search and Rescue employee Fred Mason takes the blood pressure of Patty Limerick during a hike in up Mount Dorr in Acadia national Park in Maine. (Courtesy Patty Limerick)

Limerick: National Park Service saves more than history (it saved me)

April 23, 2016 at 11:22 p.m.

Limerick: National Park Service saves more than history (it saved me)

Wyoming Recreation Commission mem颅bers Gordon Wilson, Gordon Machia and Ned Frost pose in May 1969 beside a massive granite marker which now marks the place from which Maj. John Wesley Powell launched his epic Colorado River exploration expeditions. (Photo courtesy Wyoming Recreation Commission, Denver Post file)

Limerick: John Wesley Powell, the original credible heretic

April 22, 2016 at 1:37 p.m.

Limerick: John Wesley Powell, the original credible heretic