Anyone who lives in Mesa county and loves the crisp autumn air and the bright yellow Aspen trees knows one of the best spots to get your fill of beauty is on the Grand Mesa.  The Grand Mesa is the world’s largest flat-top mountain, located 40 miles east of Grand Junction, Colorado. Every year the […]

Dr. Hannah Marie Wormington was a woman who studied and worked hard to stand out and have her voice heard in a profession full of men, and in the realm of discovery her hard work paid off.  Hannah Marie was an anthropologist, a writer of published texts, an educator, an explorer, and an archaeologist. She […]

I first heard about the supposed valley curse in 1990. A friend had gone away to college and come back before finishing. He said, “It must be the valley curse.” When I asked what that was, he explained that when the Utes were forcibly removed from the Grand Valley in 1881, they cursed the white […]

Mesa County Libraries is home to an excellent trove of old, rare, local and southwest-based books compiled in our Rashleigh History Room.  Within the depths of this room, I stumbled across a title sure to intrigue the palette of any fan of both cookbooks and history. Mesa County Cooking with History is a compilation of […]

With the gruesome discovery of the bodies of First Nations children on the grounds of residential schools in Canada, people are also turning their attention to American Indian schools in the United States. These boarding schools operated in the late 1800’s and 1900’s. They were dedicated to the forced acculturation of Native American children, who […]

Shannon Robinson has led a brave and transformational life in Grand Junction. She overcame racism from some fellow students to become the first African-American president of student government at Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University). In the midst of the AIDS epidemic, she helped stage on-campus demonstrations to educate students about the dangers of […]

These 90 degree temperatures have kicked ice cream cravings into high gear. According to the International Dairy Foods Association, ice cream is a commodity that was first documented in America around 1744.  It was originally a treat of the elite, its cool flavors only to be enjoyed by the rich.  Time and technological advances changed […]

Ahh the Wild West.  Tumbleweeds, dry and dusty landscapes, cactus, cowboys chewing on straw and riding horses across the desert… A less featured but equally important symbol of the American West is that of the cowgirl. Annie Oakley and Lucille Mulhall were two tough women who became nationally known for their lassoing, riding skills and […]