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The Myth of the Lafayette Vampire: Stakes and All
In an unsuspecting municipal cemetery in Lafayette lies the vampire Todor Glava, a coal miner who died in 1918 from influenza. Are you scared yet?
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Natural Hair Survives Colonization: Resistance, Business, and the CROWN Act
For centuries, specifically White Western European-descended Americans have held the reins on what are considered acceptable hairstyles for the people it has colonized and/or subsumed under its empire. It has taken all that time, up until very recently, to begin…
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Spotlight on Colorado Jazz History
This month's Spotlight is a departure from our usual focus on a person or band, but Colorado's jazz scene at large is as deserving.
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A Sheep, A Duck, and A Rooster Climb Into a Balloon | Summer Sports
Here’s one that doesn’t come to mind for most people, though it’s on numerous bucket lists and is almost universally unrecognized as an extreme sport: hot air ballooning.
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Origins and Dissemination of Cannabis Throughout the World: A Brief History
The cannabis plant has been used by humans for thousands, possibly tens of thousands of years.
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Faces of Summer: Black Lives Matter Edition
In the end, a destination we haven’t reached and I’m not sure we ever will, history will remember this year, and these protests, in the same ways that history remembers the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. In the…
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The Changing Neighborhoods | Home & Hood
Introduction by Johnathen De La Vaca What are neighborhoods? Beyond places of comfort, spaces of familiarity, there are the small patches of planet Earth where we build our lives, grow our families, and plan for our futures. These neighborhoods are…
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Made in America Redux: Return of the Trade Degree
“Made in America”: the phrase that was once synonymous with manufacturing excellence, the product of a place and a people steeped in deep histories of craftsmanship, creativity, and vocational trade know- how. But it’s been said that times change, and…
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Tales of the Northern Coal Field
Lafayette was the first city in the region to have electric lights, provided by the abundant coal from the Simpson Mine. Houses with electricity had a single light bulb in the ceiling. The lightbulb operated from 5 AM to sunrise,…
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Tales of the Northern Coal Field: Tools of the Trade
These artifacts recall another way of life. Back then, a quill pen (and later a fountain pen) would last your whole life. Now, pens come in bags of a hundred, each one intended to last a week at most.
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