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NORAD: Off the Beaten Path, but an Intriguing Colorado Feature

Analysis, Nonfiction, Travel, Writings, Writings / By

For decades, the simple words “Welcome to Colorful Colorado” have greeted millions of visitors, and for good reason. Colorado really is a colorful place, with snow-capped purple mountains, red sandstone spires, green forests, and rolling, golden prairies. Still, there’s nothing wrong with avoiding the tourist-trap locales you would expect to find in a travel brochure […]

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Pioneer Profiles: Spencer Penrose

Biography, DeLyn Winters, Information, Nonfiction, Writings / By

The “Pioneer Profiles” series explores some of the interesting characters that define Colorado history. This article discusses the life of Spencer Penrose. *** Spencer Penrose got a rather inauspicious debut in Colorado Springs. Fresh from a Harvard education that taught him little but decent boxing skills, Penrose had been eking out a living in Cripple

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World War II Stories: The Heroic Resistance of Guam

Analysis, Dana Zimbleman, Nonfiction, Travel, Writings / By

Hours after Battleship Row’s ruins smoldered in Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces attacked the Philippines and Guam. Historians have written extensively about Hawaii’s “day of infamy” and General MacArthur’s 1942 retreat from Corregidor. However, the story of Guam’s heroic resistance to Japanese occupation from 1941-1944 remains unknown in U.S. history. The Chamorros, Guam’s indigenous people, governed

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