Gunnison – Daveno Historica

Gunnison – 1918

History is full of stories about cities that sequestered themselves during times of plague. In recent history, one of those cities was Gunnison, Colorado, which “declared a quarantine against all the world” during the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918.

Mildred Carpenter: School and Marriage

When I first entered high school, the principal had us write down what we would like to do when we graduated. I said “be a teacher.” Three weeks later I was in charge of the study hall…

Mildred Carpenter: Adventures with Nella

I used to wash dishes at Gram’s hotel [the Sportsman’s Hotel] for a nickel, and then spent it for a Hershey candy bar, so Gram got her dishes done pretty cheap.

Wilma Hughes: Starting life near our hunting lodge

“My earliest childhood memory was when I must have been two or three years of age. It was when my family lived in Colorado.”