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Learning Through Objects: Fisk Violin

Learning Through Objects: Fisk Violin

Greeley is a town full of music. This has long been the case. When I joined the team at the Greeley museums, I knew that, but I didn’t know that the museum housed a violin by a local maker, George W. Fisk.

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Kindling a Spark: Partnerships in Museum Education

Kindling a Spark: Partnerships in Museum Education

Charged with collecting, preserving, interpreting, and sharing the history of northeastern Colorado, the museums serve approximately 6000 students each year by bringing history to life and helping students understand why it matters.

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Wedding Customs of the Late 19th Century Examined

Wedding Customs of the Late 19th Century Examined

Weddings can be perplexing and overwhelming when you consider the etiquette involved. To make matters more daunting, these social “dos and don’ts” continue to change with time. What would an acceptable wedding in Greeley have been like in the 1880s?

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Greeley’s Spud Love

Greeley’s Spud Love

The Union Colony of Colorado named their new town Greeley in 1870, to be a utopian agricultural community.  One of their first important cash crops was the potato. 

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The DL&NW: Chugging Towards an Abandoned Future

The DL&NW: Chugging Towards an Abandoned Future

In the early 1900s, President Charles S. Johnson and legal representative Judge John D. Milliken of the Denver, Laramie and Northwestern Railway Company (DL&NW) wished to reach Seattle, Washington from Denver by rail. Their plan was to run trains from Denver...

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Tornado Alley? No, It’s Tornado County

Tornado Alley? No, It’s Tornado County

What would your answer be if asked which Colorado County has had the most reported tornadoes since 1950? Would it be a surprise to know that it is Weld County? Well, according to the National Weather Service, Weld County has seen 274 tornadoes from 1950 through 2018....

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