Grand Valley’s Radical Poets—Making Resistance Sound Good—1894 to Club Q
Poetry and song have always been a part of resistance movements, verse seems to have the power to strengthen one’s resolve—to move people…
History Written to Conclusion
Ken Johnson’s new book, Publishers: Walter and Preston Walker, The Daily Sentinel, is a self-published memoir and scrapbook masquerading as a history book.…
Quincy’s, Paragon, and Fear: LGBTQ+ Folx Make a Stand and Home Here
In 1979, Paul Freitas re-opened Quincy’s Bar and Grill as Grand Junction, and by default the Western Slopes first ‘gay bar.’ But Quincy’s…
Mesa State College Opens the Closet Door, 1976-1977
In November 1976, the Mesa State Criterion broke the long silence, running a series of articles about Grand Junction’s ‘gay community.’ The articles…
The Closet: LGBTQ+ folx in the Grand Valley, 1881-1976
The Ute people have called this region home since time beyond memory. Like most native cultures, the Utes held space for the gender…
Say Their Names!
Edna Ainsworth was just seventeen years old on August 13th of 1920. The young women had recently had a fight with her sweetheart.…
To Feed the Flies: The Anti-War Article Brought Down the Last Socialist Newspaper in the Grand Valley
This anti-WWI article in the local socialist paper was not popular by the new Super-Patriots at the time. The Sentinel, the Post-Master, and…
The Mayor; The Sentinel, and the Socialist Free Speech Fight of 1905
Walter Walker was not the first editor of the Daily Sentinel to wage an all-out war on the Socialist parties in early 20th…
George N. Falconer: A Highlander and his Mother
George Nichol Falconer was born 1863 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His mother “was a daughter of the Clan Fraser, a group of Highland cattle…