Grand Valley’s Radical Poets—Making Resistance Sound Good—1894 to Club Q
Poetry and song have always been a part of resistance movements, verse seems to have the power to strengthen one’s resolve—to move people…
Category: Labor Movement
To Feed the Flies: The Anti-War Article Brought Down the Last Socialist Newspaper in the Grand Valley
This anti-WWI article in the local socialist paper was not popular by the new Super-Patriots at the time. The Sentinel, the Post-Master, and…
The Mayor; The Sentinel, and the Socialist Free Speech Fight of 1905
Walter Walker was not the first editor of the Daily Sentinel to wage an all-out war on the Socialist parties in early 20th…
George N. Falconer: A Highlander and his Mother
George Nichol Falconer was born 1863 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His mother “was a daughter of the Clan Fraser, a group of Highland cattle…
GJ Socialists and Irish Revolutionary James Connelly
Grand Junction’s Socialist era is often portrayed as an electoral fluke that elected socialist Mayor Thomas Todd to office in 1909. But it…
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…
Knight of Labor and Grand Junction’s First Library
The Mesa County Library traces its history back to 1897, when two women’s civic organizations merged to form the Women’s Library Association. By…
Populism’s Poet
Jacob Huff was born 1853, in Pennsylvania. A populist, writer, poet, and satirist; Huff called the Grand Valley home for just four years,…
Carl Gleeser: Grand Junction’s First Radical
Before Grand Junction was even a town, a radical and organizer called the Grand Valley home. Meet Carl Gleeser, anarchist, labor organizer, publisher,…