People
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- Gentry L. Key
- He was from Tennessee, and settled two miles west of Clifton in 1906 on the advice of his doctor, who told him to move west for the health of his lungs. There, he planted a peach orchard.
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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)