Fort Uncompahgre College Presents
Echos of the Uncompahgre
Lecture Series
Lectures and Oral Histories on the cultures and traditions of the Uncompahgre Valley
Ritual and Violence on the Puebloan Frontier: The Early Pueblo I Settlement of Florida Mesa, Durango, Colorado.
Wednesday
Sept. 10th @7pm
Rand Greubel
Research Fellow
Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists
Rand Greubel is a former co-owner and principal investigator at Alpine Archaeological Consultants in Montrose. He worked as a professional archaeologist in the western US for almost 40 years. A Colorado native, Rand grew up in Montrose, graduating from Montrose High School in 1978. He obtained a BA degree in Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an MA in Archaeology and Heritage from the University of Leicester, UK. His first professional experience was working on the Old Dallas archaeological project (Ridgway Reservoir) under Dr. William G. Buckles in 1980. Over the course of his professional career he participated in hundreds of archaeological surveys and dozens of excavations in the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, Plains, Rocky Mountains, and Southwest regions. Although retired, Rand continues to dabble in Colorado archaeology.
Sense of Place: The Gunnison River Valley
Wednesday
Sept. 24th @ 7pm
Joe Colwell
Local Author
Although he grew up in a small Illinois town, Joseph has spent over 50 years living and working across the West. During his college years at the University of Idaho studying forestry and wildlife management, he worked in Idaho State Parks, and Mt. Rainier and Grand Canyon National Parks. He then spent over 27 years with the US Forest Service in five different national forests in four states. After retirement from the Forest Service, he spent ten summers doing fire information work on wildland fires, assisting the media and homeowners in understanding wildfires. As a second career, Joseph Colwell has authored eight books.
Joseph and his artist wife (and editor) Katherine now own and live on their 40-acre nature preserve in Delta County in western Colorado. They specialize in assisting others in exploring creativity, using nature as the source of inspiration. They can be reached through ColwellCedars.com or jcedarsj@gmail.com.
Recent Old Spanish Trail Research
Wednesday
Oct. 1st @ 7pm
Jon Horn
Research Fellow
Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists
Jon Horn is mostly retired from Alpine Archaeological Consultants, of which he was a co-founder in 1987. Jon arrived in Montrose in 1984 after graduating from Lewis & Clark College in Portland with a BA in History in 1979. He got his MA from the University of Idaho in Anthropology with a focus on Historical Archaeology. Over his 45-year career, he has worked in every western state except Nevada recording 1,000s of historic and prehistoric sites and writing over 350 cultural resource technical reports. Jon has prepared 33 National Register of Historic Places nominations, six Historic American Engineering Record packages, and was one of the key authors of the Historical Archaeology Context for Colorado and the Historic Context for Irrigation for the state of Wyoming. Jon’s work has enabled him to delve into historic homesteading, ranching, railroads, irrigation systems, precious metal and uranium mining, hydroelectric power production, logging and lumbering, and a variety of other historic industries and technologies. He has a particular fondness for historic trails and wagon roads and has been involved in the recordation and evaluation of the Old Spanish Trail since 2010.
220 Years Ago in the West - Reflections on the Journal's of Lewis and Clark
Wednesday
Oct. 15th @ 7pm
Danny Barela
Local Historian/Fort Uncompahgre Advisory Board
Danny Barela has been a history buff since the age of six. H introduced his family to their first Mountain Man Rendezvous reenactment in Glade Park in June of 1996. He has since enjoyed many summer and winter rendezvous and has time at Ft. Uncompahgre. In 2003, he led an Academy on Lewis and Clark at the Fort for the Delta County School District. Western exploration, Native American Culture and outdoor recreation have remained persistent interests.