July 4 Independence Day 25th Anniversary of NASA’s Pathfinder space probe landing on the surface of Mars (1997)   July 8 Liberty Bell tolls to announce Declaration of Independence (1776)   July 16 77th Anniversary of the first atomic test at Trinity, New Mexico (1945)   July 20 Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong takes historic first steps on the moon […]

 Bastille Day, Saturday, July 9th, 4pm to 9pm at the Hotel de Paris in Georgetown. This annual Bastille Day Celebration welcomes visitors and locals to casually visit Hotel de Paris Museum™. The event is a fundraiser that features a silent auction and cash bar. Hosted by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Colorado. […]

By Winifred Gallagher  “The postal service is one of the oldest federal agencies,” says Daniel Piazza, a curator of philately at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum. “Maybe for that reason, we tend to take it for granted. But we have always relied on it, whether for news from home, prescription medications or e-commerce.” Levi Mandel  From 1753 to 1774, as […]

Since this is the 200th anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail and the 150th anniversary of the platting of Florence, I thought I’d give you a brief history lesson.  (If you found history dull in school, I hope this changes your mind a bit.) From 1822 to 1880 many, many folks came west on the Santa Fe Trail to what […]

By Maureen Timm  The first great invention developed by Edison in Menlo Park was the tin foil phonograph. While working to improve the efficiency of a telegraph transmitter, he noticed that the tape of the machine gave off a noise resembling spoken words when played at a high speed. This caused him to wonder if he could record a telephone […]