People

: Mack Aspinall; He was born in Ohio to William Aspinall and Amanda J. Aspinall. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He married Jessie E. Norviel in Logan, Ohio in 1895. US Census records show them living with their children and farming in Zane, Ohio in 1900. The family purchased land on first street in Palisade, Colorado in 1904, where they farmed peaches. In one of his Oral History interviews, Wayne Aspinall once related a story where he convinced his father to take care of his family after he enlisted in World War II at the age of 48, despite his Mack’s objections.

: Madaline Redden; 2010 Cattlemen's Days Junior Miss, 4-H member, daughter of Karen and Brett Redden, fifth generation of Redden family to participate in Cattlemen's Days (from 2010 Cattlemen's Days Brochure) 2017 Cattlemen's Days Queen, sister of Lily Redden, will begin college at the Colorado School of Mines in Fall of 2017, studying Geology and Geological Engineering. Has been a 4-H member for 10 years and an FFA member for 4 years. (source: 2017 Cattlemen's Days Brochure)

: Madam Fran; According to Mesa County Oral History Project interviewee Mary Plaisted, Fran was the madam of a higher end brothel in a nice part of town (nicer than Grand Junction’s red-light district in any case). She also owned a double decker horse-drawn carriage in which beautifully dressed prostitutes rode. The carriage and its occupants probably served as advertising for the brothel. It may also be the same carriage that Mary Agnes (Robinson) Cox refers to in her oral history interview. According to Cox, just such a carriage rode around the field between innings at a baseball game in Lincoln Park when she was a child in (circa 1915). She was told by her father that the women in the carriage were prostitutes for a brothel trying to drum up business.

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