History Written to Conclusion
Ken Johnson’s new book, Publishers: Walter and Preston Walker, The Daily Sentinel, is a self-published memoir and scrapbook masquerading as a history book.…
Category: BiPOC History
Elizabeth Taylor’s Legacy of Resilience
The story of the West is far more pigmented and more feminine than Hollywood or the ‘guns and outlaws’ histories will every portray.…
Vigilantes, Sugar Beets, and ‘Evacuees’: the Japanese Settlement of the Grand Valley, a story of Both Racism and Refuge
The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in December of 1941, led directly to one of the darkest moments in American history,…
It is Sometimes More About the Journey
“That was so f@%$ing Scooby-Doo,” I said to no one in particular. I had just gotten off the phone with a local woman…
Why “A People’s History of the Grand Valley”
This project really began in 2006, I was writing for the short live radical paper, “The Red Pill.” Grand Junction was celebrating its…
Escape is Resistance
In or around the 1st of November 1898, two Papago boys escaped from the Teller Institute (Indian Boarding School) here in Grand Junction.…
GJ Police Killings: The First 100 years
Grand Junction was just a couple years old when, in 1883, Town Marshal Tim Crowley shot and killed George Lewis, an African-American who…
Marijuana and the Grand Valley
Tomorrow residents of Grand Junction have a chance of reversing over a century of wrong-headed and racist marijuana laws, locally. It was 10…
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…