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Look past the 'breadcrumbs'
Perhaps it's been lost in the shuffle of everything else going on in your life. But the people of Ukraine continue being battered by Russian aggression; the war there rages on. And people — regular people like us — are still dying. They are displaced. They are losing their families.
This afternoon, I had the privilege of sitting down with a young Montrose resident, Harrison Hall, and his mother, Melissa. They were part of a recent 12-day trip through Europe and, while in Poland, the group's leaders discovered Ukrainian refugees were just about a block away from their hotel.
What followed was a visit and, for Harrison and Melissa, a transformative experience. Harrison says that over here, our TV news is only giving us "breadcrumbs" about the full horror of what is going on.
I'll soon be publishing a story about what he and his mother told me. Please do not forget the people of Ukraine.
(Melissa and Harrison Hall on Monday, July 18. Harrison, a freshman at CMU, holds a heart made by a Ukrainian child.)
Get your history on!
Our museums rock! Museum of the Mountain West this past weekend hosted Farm and Ranch Heritage Days, opening up to the public to stroll the grounds and the many historic buildings. There were also activities aplenty, as Brody Listenbarger, the young wrangler in the photo below, shows. He roped that steer after just a few demonstrations from his mom, Brenna.
On the opposite end of town from Museum of the Mountain West is the Montrose County Historical Society Museum, in the historic railroad depot, 21 N. Rio Grande Ave. You can enjoy a pretty good stroll through history there, too, as well as various programs/walking tours.
And further south, at Chipeta Road and U.S. 550, lies the Ute Indian Museum, celebrating the culture of the first peoples known to be in this valley.
(Brody Listenbarger at the Museum of the Mountain West on July 16)
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