Looking Back | Leading Forward
The Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable presents History Live!
History Live! celebrates the humanities in Southwest Colorado with lectures, workshops, and live portrayals of historic figures. Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable is proud to offer a full month of programming each September.
Top left: John Taylor, founder of Bayfield, with his wife Kitty Cloud of the Southern Ute tribe. Top right: George Trujillo and his dog, Laddie. Bottom left: Jim Connor on a locomotive in Durango. Bottom right: Olga Little with pack burros. Pphotos courtesy of Animas Museum.
1. John Taylor, founder of Bayfield, with his wife Kitty Cloud of the Southern Ute tribe. 2. George Trujillo and his dog, Laddie. 3. Jim Connor on a locomotive in Durango. 4. Olga Little with pack burros. Photos courtesy of Animas Museum.
2023 Calendar of Events
Downtown Durango Design Perspective
Wednesday September 6, 7-8:15 p.m.
Location: Durango Public Library
First Ladies of the San Juan Country
Thursday September 7, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Location: 130 Noble Hall, Fort Lewis College
The Mosquito: A Human History of our Deadliest Predator
Saturday September 9, 1-2 p.m.
Location: Ignacio Community Library
Prehistoric Talks
Sunday 10, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Location: The Powerhouse
An Evening with Dan Schultz, author of Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West
Monday 11, 6 – 8 p.m.
Location: Maria’s Bookshop
The Virgin Branch Culture of Southern Nevada, with Professor Karen Harry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Wednesday September 13, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Location: Fort Lewis College Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum or via Zoom (link at SJBAS.org)
“Treason in the Textbooks:” Harold Rugg, Visual Culture, & The American Way
Thursday September 14, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Location: 130 Noble Hall, Fort Lewis College
Buffalo Soldiers Return to Animas City!
Saturday September 16, 10 a.m. – 4p.m.
Location: Animas Museum
Buffalo Soldiers Ride the Rails!
Sunday September 17, 9:45 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Location: The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
The History of Hula with Ka Pa Hula I Na Mauna
Tuesday September 19, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Durango Public Library
“History Writing” Book Discussion
Wednesday September 20, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Location: The Animas Museum
Yellow Nose: Ute Dog Soldier
Wednesday September 20, 5:30-7 p.m.
Location: Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum
Removing the Hood: Memory, Forgetting, and White Supremacy in America’s Past
Thursday September 21, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Location: 130 Noble Hall, Fort Lewis College
Overshoot and Collapse of the Ancient Four Corners, A Film by Cloudy Ridge Production
Friday September 22, 7 – 9 p.m.
Location: The Ballroom at Fort Lewis College
Fox Fire Farms
Saturday, September 23, 4-7 p.m.
Location: 5513 Co Rd 321, Ignacio CO 81137
Book Club Discussion of Salone Italiano: The True Story of an Italian Immigrant Family’s Struggles in Southwestern Colorado by Kay Niemann
Tuesday September 26, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. & Wednesday 27, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Location: Durango Public Library
How the West Was Clothed
Tuesday September 26, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Pine River Library
Birding with Audubon
Thursday September 28, 9-10 a.m.
Location: Meet at Oxbow Park & Preserve in Durango
Adventures with John James Audubon
Thursday September 28, 7-8 p.m.
Location: 130 Noble Hall, Fort Lewis College
Charles Darwin and His Revolutionary Idea
Friday September 29, 7-8 p.m.
Location: The Powerhouse Museum
Humanities help us understand the world around us. They allow us to imagine and create the future. Humanities are everything related to humans, their ideas, beliefs, emotions, and relationships.
History Live! is the Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable's series of programs, presented in the month of September, that highlight the humanities.
Chautauqua is a living history program in which performers, in costume and in character, bring historical figures to life in theatrical monologues.
