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Tag: History

May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

Hanging On By a String

The yo-yo has a long history, dating back to China around 1000 B.C. according to the National Museum of Play. Terra cotta […]

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020

Photographer Royal Hubbell

According to an article in the Cañon City Record on September 25, 1895, Royal Hubbell was the only baby photographer in Cañon […]

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020

Sew Important

Currently, our curator is conducting an inventory of artifacts in the historic Rudd Cabin. One such artifact is a sewing machine that […]

May 20, 2020May 22, 2020

Photographer J. Melvin Affleck

J. Melvin Affleck gave his family quite the scare in 1913 when he disappeared one night. On May 22, 1913, the Cañon […]

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020

Is Higher Education Deadly during Pandemics?

By Kodee Summers The 1918 Flu Pandemic, which started in spring 1918 and lasted till early summer 1919, infected an estimated 500 […]

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