People
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- Geoff Hanson
- "I moved back to Telluride in 2013. It had been 15 years since I lived in Telluride full-time. On Sunday, I’ll leave Telluride after six years and punctuate what for me has been Telluride 2.0. I have many highlights from my time in Telluride the last six years, the climax being the birth of my fourth child, Lollie, who was born on Oct. 25, 2016. Montrose does good birth, let’s put it that way. Coaching my son Benji in hockey, lots of powder days, plenty of good bike rides, new friends, old ones, deejaying at KOTO and going on to serve as the development director there — my cup has overflowed with joyful times in Telluride 2.0. But one of the best moments for me was when Marta Tarbell, my former editor at the Telluride Times-Journal in the 1990s, and the then-editor of The Watch, approached me in 2014 and asked, “Would you consider picking up your music column? You’re such a musicologist and rock ’n’ roll historian.” Moi? Really? Well, if someone says it, maybe it’s true. I accepted and began writing a weekly music column under the moniker “One Step Ahead of the Blues,” the same name I used back in the ’90s and the same name of my radio show on KOTO. At that point, I had not written an article or a column in 15 years. And getting back into the groove of writing was like falling in love again. Words are magical, and stringing them together in unique, informative and humorous ways is sublime. Writing a column gives you the kind of freedom with words that borders on alchemy. I’ve written over 200 columns. Most of them are forgettable, some are pretty good, and a few are solid. I’m proud of most of them and one or two have been pretty awesome. The column that received the most attention was one I wrote about Fare Thee Well in Chicago in 2015 called “A skull and rose by any other name: How Trey put the Grateful back in the Dead.” This piece was the one that got the most traction. It was well-traveled over the internet and made its way into the “References” section of the Fare Thee Well Wikipedia page..." Taken from The Watch article on 02/13/2024 from: https://www.telluridenews.com/the_watch/watch_listen_show/article_0c9d9d1e-cf67-11e9-8e7f-cb0b22daea9b.html
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- Geoff Mueck
- Member of the band Zolopht.
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- George "Bud" Romberg, Jr.
- Bud Romberg.
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- George "Cecil" Harper
- He was born in Loma, Colorado to George Washington Harper and Henrietta (Rhoades) Harper. His parents had moved to Loma in 1910, where they homesteaded. His father worked as a surveyor for the Highline Canal as it was being built. Around 1913, when Cecil was three years old, the family moved to the Horsethief Canyon ranch, which his uncle was renting. They returned to Loma two years later. Cecil attended the Loma School for his first two years, the Valley View School for 3rd and 4th grade, the Sunset School for 5th, and the Loma School for 6th through 8th grade. His mother died of cancer when he was fourteen. He worked as a ranch hand for Tom Cuddy and Doc White, and as a coal miner in Stove Canyon, before moving to Garden City, Kansas. There, he lived with an uncle and worked in a hardware store. He married Anna Nora Jane Blancette of Kansas on July 1, 1930. Upon returning to Colorado, he rented forty acres and farm equipment, farmed beans and raised hogs. He later bought 420 acres of land. In 1948, he and his wife bought and moved into a home built during the Depression as a resettlement residence for people fleeing the Dust Bowl. They had three children. In 1978, the combined Grand Junction Service Clubs honored him for his work as a row crop farmer and for his service on numerous boards, including the Grand Valley Water Users Association, Grand Valley Canals Systems Inc, Loma School Board, Loma Community Council, and the Republican Central Committee. He was a member of the Odd Fellows, the Masons, and the Eagles. *Some information taken from "Clubs honor Christensen, Harper" (Daily Sentinel, March 4, 1978)
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- George "The Skipper" Knox
- George Washington Knox, also known as “The Skipper,” was born on 22 February 1903 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in Oklahoma City where his father was the city’s street car electrical engineer. Knox attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison. On 21 April 1935, Knox married Ella Mae McWhorter in Oklahoma City. Two sons were born to this union: George Knox Jr. and Allen Knox. During World War II, George Knox worked for Douglas Aircraft as a labor relations representative. In 1952, the Knox family moved to Colorado Springs and then to Cascade, Colorado. In 1965, the family relocated to Vail where Knox and son, George Knox Jr. started a cabinet building business. Initially a one-man show, George Knox established Vail’s first newspaper, The Vail Trail on 15 October 1965. Knox served as reporter, writer, ad salesman, bookkeeper, editor and publisher, in addition to creating page lay-outs. Ella Knox wrote a column entitled “Green Thumb Ella.” By 1969, son Allen Knox joined the operation and took over the helm in 1975. The Vail Trail ran between 1965 and 2008. Knox also inaugurated The Eagle Eye, a sister publication that briefly ran in Eagle. At the time of his death on 7 April 1975, George and Ella Knox were married thirty-nine years. Remarkably, George Knox found time to enjoy golf, family and friends in the midst of his newspaper and entrepreneurial career.
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- George A. Corn
- He was born in Colorado to Jesse Corn and Sarah Alice (Cheeley) Corn. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The 1880 US Census shows the family living in Fremont, Colorado, with George, at eight years old, the second oldest of six children. According to Marie (Corn) Tipping, the family settled near Olathe. The 1885 Colorado State Census shows the family living in Montrose County, when George was fourteen years old. The 1900 census shows him working as a laborer in a sawmill in Chromo, just north of the New Mexican border. He married Sarah Duckett on February 8, 1905 in Grand Junction. They farmed on Roan Creek in Garfield County from 1910 to 1920. The census shows them living at 604 Grand Avenue in Grand Junction by 1920, with George listed as a stockman, on Bonita Valley Road in Mesa County in 1930, with George operating a sheep ranch, in Fruitvale in 1940, with George farming, and on Canon Avenue on Orchard Mesa in 1950, where George was retired. According to Marie Corn, he was a foreman for the S Cross Ranch on Pinon Mesa. He was also, reportedly, the first person to drive a car to Pinon Mesa via the Serpents Trail. He died at the age of ninety-one and is buried in the Orchard Mesa Cemetery.