Cindy Kipp
Oh, the miles he traveled!
The following article is quoted entirely from the book, Uncommon Men and the Colorado Prairie by Nell Brown Propst. Others did not even...
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Cindy Kipp
Jan 306 min read
Paoli......a little town that could.
The arrival of the railroad in the late 1800's brought many changes to the growing settlements across the plains of Northeast Colorado....
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Cindy Kipp
Oct 20, 20232 min read
A community forever changed!
On March 17, 2017, the small close-knit community of Haxtun Colorado, would be forever changed. And while the healing began the day...
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Cindy Kipp
Jul 9, 20233 min read
Picture Perfect?
The movie and film production industry were expanding and growing in the larger metropolitan cities in the late 1800's, and by the early...
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Cindy Kipp
Mar 5, 20232 min read
Look Up.....
By the late 1800's, the new pioneers of Northeast Colorado, were getting established with their prairie environment, migrating and...
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Cindy Kipp
Jan 20, 20213 min read
In the Beginning............
.......there was sod and sagebrush and desolate land as far as the eye could see! A land with only occasional jackrabbits feeding on what...
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Cindy Kipp
Dec 19, 20203 min read
A Spoonful of Sugar.....
"There's millions in it," read a local newspaper in Sterling Colorado in 1901, as the dreams of what raising sugar beets in the valley of...
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Cindy Kipp
Jul 5, 20202 min read
Life is.....fragile!
When dark ominous clouds roll suspiciously across the plains of northeast Colorado at the end of wheat harvest day on a July evening, ...
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Cindy Kipp
Jun 21, 20203 min read
Build it.......they will need it.
In those early days, especially in rural and farm areas, taking a photo of anything of importance was a luxury, a far cry from today when...
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Cindy Kipp
Apr 13, 20202 min read
Yes, there is a New Haven!
New Haven, Colorado, a historic community, thirteen miles south of Fleming Colorado, was discovered and settled in 1909, by a inspiring...
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Cindy Kipp
Mar 26, 20202 min read
More than a grocery store.........
With the expansion of the railroad in the early 1900's, family owned general stores sprang up across every small town in the eastern...
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Cindy Kipp
Feb 27, 20201 min read
Lunch ladies..........
What do cooks cook when they are cooking for hundreds a day? That was the challenge of professional school lunch ladies back in the day! ...
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Cindy Kipp
Feb 9, 20204 min read
If you lived................
First sod school in the late 1800's in the Fairfield Community, north of Haxtun Colorado.
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Cindy Kipp
Jul 1, 20191 min read
Famous Band?
While this band, formed in the early 1900's may not of been 'famous" as in Nashville or "Hollywood," it was well known and respected as...
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Cindy Kipp
May 9, 20192 min read
A Jack-Rabbit Drive!
The dust bowl drought of the late 20's and early 30's produced dry land conditions creating a massive migration of hungry jackrabbits...
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Cindy Kipp
Feb 26, 20193 min read
If-you-blink-you'll-miss-it!
Dailey, a tiny town sandwiched between Haxtun and Fleming, Colorado, was and is today the epitome of "small." As the old saying goes...
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Cindy Kipp
Jan 20, 20193 min read
"The dormitory is not a loafing place for town boys and girls."
High school students in the early 1900's that lived in rural communities of larger towns didn't always have the opportunities to extend...
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Cindy Kipp
Jan 9, 20192 min read
Say cheese?
You might not believe this........ but cheese factories in the early 1900's were scattered everywhere across the plains of small towns in...
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Cindy Kipp
Dec 31, 20181 min read
Snapchat of the early 1900's
In the age when communication with loved ones and family members was difficult, a picture postcard was a very inexpensive (one cent...
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Cindy Kipp
Dec 12, 20181 min read
Its about Time!
After 98 years and many costly repairs it was time for a new face lift to the historic clock in the Town Hall in Haxtun Colorado. A much...
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