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High Plains Guide Festivals, Fairs, and Rodeos 2018 HIGH PLAINS GUIDE FESTIVALS, FAIRS, AND RODEOS 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS 10 16 24 Hobson’s Colorado The Life of a Choice: A Letter Abandoned County Sheriff from Fort Lyon 30 32 34 50 Years of The “Old Wells” Community of Cheyenne After That Theater County 36 38 44 414,000 Acres Lillian Cline A Journey of of Hidden Sapp Stones Treasure Kiowa County Independent Publisher: Betsy Barnett 1316 Maine Street Editor: Priscilla Waggoner 47 P.O. Box 272 Layout and Design: William Eads, Colorado 81036 Brandt A Hundred (Plus) Years of Hanagans Kiowa County Independent © July 2018 kiowacountyindependent.com July 2018 | HIGH PLAINS GUIDE | i ii | HIGH PLAINS GUIDE | July 2018 kiowacountyindependent.com FESTIVALS, FAIRS, AND RODEOS kiowacountyindependent.com July 2018 | HIGH PLAINS GUIDE | 1 EVENTS KIOWA COUNTY FAIR & KIT CARSON DAY LINCOLN COUNTY FAIR & RODEO Kit Carson, Colorado RODEO Eads, Colorado September 1, 2018 Hugo, Colorado September 5-9, 2018 August 6-11, 2018 https://www.facebook. BACA COUNTY FAIR & http://seelincolncounty.com/ com/Kiowa-County- RODEO event/2018-lincoln-county-fair- Fair-2018-272585516634180/ Springfield, Colorado rodeo/ July 23-August 5, 2018 SAND & SAGE ROUNDUP https://www.facebook.com/ KIT CARSON COUNTY FAIR & Lamar, Colorado BacaFairAndRodeoInc/?ref=br_ PRO RODEO August 4-11, 2018 rs Burlington, Colorado https://www.sandandsageroundup. July 23-28, 2018 com/ ARK VALLEY FAIR & RODEO https://www.facebook.com/ Rocky Ford, Colorado Kit-Carson-County-Fair-Pro- Rodeo-164647266888216/ BENT COUNTY FAIR & August 15-19, 2018 RODEO www.arkvalleyfair.com Las Animas, Colorado CROWLEY COUNTY DAYS Ordway, Colorado July 21-28, 2018 GATEWAY CONCERT & https://www.facebook.com/ STREET DANCE July 20-29, 2018 bentcountyextension/ Holly, Colorado https://www.facebook.com/ CrowleyCountyDay/ September 29, 2018 MAINE STREET BASH https://www.facebook.com/ Eads, Colorado events/2079799958928659/ LAS ANIMAS COUNTY FAIR July 28, 2018 Trinidad, Colorado www.plainstheater.com/maine- DIAMOND RIO CONCERT July 24-28, 2018 street-bash1.html Burlington, Colorado https://www.facebook.com/ LasAnimasCountyFair/ July 28, 2018 CHEYENNE COUNTY FAIR & https://www.facebook.com/ RODEO events/670625796611668/ HOLLY GATEWAY CAR SHOW Cheyenne Wells, Colorado Holly, Colorado July 30 to August 4, 2018 TRINIDADDIO BLUES FEST September 29, 2018 https://www.facebook.com/ Trinidad, Colorado https://www.facebook.com/ cheyennecountyfairandrodeo/ events/2079799958928659/ August 24 & 25, 2018 trinidaddio.com DOWNTOWN CUSTOM & COLORADO STATE FAIR CLASSIC EXPO Pueblo, Colorado Lamar, Colorado August 24-September 3, 2018 August 17 & 18, 2018 https://www.coloradostatefair. https://www.facebook.com/ com/ events/1927250534202455/ kiowacountyindependent.com July 2018 | HIGH PLAINS GUIDE | 3 KIT CARSON DAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 THEME: “TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROAD” 7-9 a.m. Breakfast, in the school lunchroom, Following Parade Family Games, north of school, sponsored by Class of 2020. sponsored by KCRD and hosted by Justin & Emily Golding. 8 a.m. Rodeo, at the Stephanie Paintin Memorial Arena. *Must be 4 & 7 p.m. Melodrama “Male Order Brides”, in registered before KC Day* Pool Hall on Main Street. Tickets available at Kit Carson Market, $7.00 10:30 a.m. Exhibits, in Community Building, ea. There will also be a performance exhibits check in Friday August Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. 31st, 5-9 pm. 5-7 p.m. Dinner, in school lunchroom, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free Barbecue, east side of sponsored by Class of 2020. Community Building; donations accepted and appreciated. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Dance at Prairie Park, east of school. Dance to “Rodeo Road Apples”; 1 p.m. Duck Race, in front of Kit Carson $5.00 per person. (Inclement weather Market. Ducks can be purchased in dance will be in the old gym.) advance from Singing Grass Trading Company for $5.00 each or contact All Day *Vendors, on Main Street. (If Tara Gaynor. Ducks will be available interested in a spot to set up contact for purchase to 1 hour before race the business or home owner in the time on September 2nd. area you would like to set up.) 1:00 p.m. Parade line up and registration, *Register for “Who Came the in front of school with Ronald & Furthest”, at the Community Bldg. Shirley White and the National Winner receives their choice of Honor Society students. either 2 melodrama tickets or 2 dance tickets. 1:30 p.m. Parade, on Main Street, theme: “Take Me Home Country Road”. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Poker Run, at Once Was (formally Gade’s Hardware). $10/hand - $5/extra card. Acceptable transportation: walking, bicycle, riding lawnmower, motorcycle, 4-wheeler, golf cart. kiowacountyindependent.com July 2018 | HIGH PLAINS GUIDE | 5 By Priscilla Waggoner blazing sunset through the “Welcome to Colorful Colorado” future when the simplicity of earli- broken window of a vacant, and don’t turn it off until they see er times will not even be a distant A tumble-down farm house. a skyline of skyscrapers in the dis- memory. They see powerful stories A rusted out feed truck in the tance, the blur of the abandoned just waiting to be imagined and middle of nowhere with ominous farmhouse is no more than further then told. But, above all, they see storm clouds overhead. proof of a dying lifestyle. To others art. Real, surprising, inspiring and A suspension bridge fending off who have been driving both tractors extraordinary art that embodies the nature on its way to a distant blue and trucks since they were 12 or 13 understated and often overlooked ribbon of the Arkansas. years old, the rusting, oxidized hood beauty resting at the heart of this These images and others are of a broken down feed truck in the most authentic part of Colorado. scattered like tumbleweeds through- field is as common to the landscape It’s that love of the art that led out the Canyonlands and High as this year’s wheat crop or last to their creation of @coloradoaban- Plains of Southeastern Colorado. year’s cattle. doned, an Instagram site where they And, yes, passersby will see in them But Vincent Gearhart and Lex display the images they’ve each cap- what they will. Nichols see something else in these tured on their own. To those who set their cruise images. Something…more. They Gearhart and Nichols are pro- control at 65 the moment they pass see vestiges of the past. They see a fessional photographers, each born 10 | HIGH PLAINS GUIDE | July 2018 kiowacountyindependent.com and raised in the region, each with his own remarkable talent and his own distinctive style. They’re also good friends, a relationship that goes back almost twenty years. Nichols first met Gearhart when Gearhart operated a silkscreen shop, and Nichols needed printing for the jerseys he wore in cycling compe- titions. Several years later, Nichols, who had been working for years as a professional photographer, began teaching classes in photography at Otero Junior College. Gear- hart was, in his words, “a point and shoot” photographer with the desire to learn more. After taking Nichols’ class (twice and the second class fi- nally “took”), Gearhart advanced to the next level and quickly began to explore all that photography had to offer. While it may have been Nichols who introduced Gearhart to a new level of photography, it was Gear- hart who, proficient as he already was in video production and Pho- toshop, introduced Nichols to the wonders of image-editing software and the infinite possibilities of ap- plying that software to already pow- erful images. “We used to show each other our work,” Lex explains, “and, one day, Vincent showed me an image he took of…” He hesitates, trying to recall the exact location. “Around Gobblers Knob,” Vin- cent interjects. “And the sunlight er in the exploration for other in- “With the rural-ness of where coming through the rafters of that teresting subjects, each one photo- we live,” Lex reflects, “you get just old place.” graphing whatever aspect ultimately a few miles outside of town, and “Right…” Lex smiles, remem- caught his eye. That soon blossomed it’s hard to drive these county roads bering. “I looked at that image Vin- into planned day trips several hun- and not see something that’s broken cent took, and I just thought…man, dred miles long that took them fur- down and dilapidated. Some peo- that is so cool.” ther and further afield. And they’ve ple say, ‘Clean up the crap in your Before long, they joined togeth- been rural explorers ever since. yard. Tear down your barn before it falls.’” He laughs, briefly. “But I just see it different than that. I drive past In maybe as short as ten years, a lot of some old barn that’s leaning, and I these things will be gone. People will never think…oh, man, I just want to cap- ture that image, just like it is. And I know they were here or what life was like. know if I don’t, someday I’ll wish I had, but it will be too late. All of We do what we do to give people a glimpse that just sparked something and...” He pauses, looking for the right into a life they never knew. words. “Well, it just put fuel on the kiowacountyindependent.com July 2018 | HIGH PLAINS GUIDE | 11 fire to seek more.” painted. The things they left behind. raphers also display the enormous For Lex, part of the intrigue is It’s like they just…left and didn’t respect and integrity Nichols and in capturing the moment as it hap- come back. You can’t help but won- Gearhart practice in all of their in- pens.
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