Early Chinese Laundries, Target for Racist for Decades
May 31st 1885, John C. Montgomery carried out a census of the residents of the small dusty town of Grand Junction. Of the…
Month: March 2021
Meet GJ’s Abortionist Grandma
Marie J Ford was born in 1897 in Missouri, her family moved to Woody Creek when she was a child. She moved to…
Teller Institute Student, Becomes a Vaudeville Star
Meet Emma Rainey. (b. 1889, d. 1918) Emma was a young girl when she left her home amongst the Bannock–Shoshone tribe near Pocatello,…
Radical Mom, Will Be Missed
“When I first met Connie she was a young idealistic revolutionary posing as a college student, but living as an activist—studying the world…