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Peoples History of the Grand Valley

Peoples History of the Grand Valley

The People of the Grand Valley's Struggles, Victories, and Movements for Change.

Category: Racist and Reactionaries

BiPOC History / October 28, 2022

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.…

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LGBTQ+ / September 25, 2022

Quincy’s, Paragon, and Fear: LGBTQ+ Folx Make a Stand and Home Here

In 1979, Paul Freitas re-opened Quincy’s Bar and Grill as Grand Junction, and by default the Western Slopes first ‘gay bar.’ But Quincy’s…

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LGBTQ+ / September 25, 2022

Mesa State College Opens the Closet Door, 1976-1977

In November 1976, the Mesa State Criterion broke the long silence, running a series of articles about Grand Junction’s ‘gay community.’ The articles…

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LGBTQ+ / September 25, 2022

The Closet: LGBTQ+ folx in the Grand Valley, 1881-1976

The Ute people have called this region home since time beyond memory. Like most native cultures, the Utes held space for the gender…

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Anti-War / May 11, 2022

Dreamers, Revolutionaries, and Humanitarians: a progressive history of the Grand Valley 1885-today.

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Anti-War / May 6, 2022

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…

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Labor Movement / May 6, 2022

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…

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BiPOC History / May 6, 2022

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.…

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Anti-War / February 20, 2022

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,…

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Anti-War / December 20, 2021

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…

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  • Grand Valley’s Radical Poets—Making Resistance Sound Good—1894 to Club Q
  • History Written to Conclusion
  • Quincy’s, Paragon, and Fear: LGBTQ+ Folx Make a Stand and Home Here
  • Mesa State College Opens the Closet Door, 1976-1977
  • The Closet: LGBTQ+ folx in the Grand Valley, 1881-1976

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