Category Archives: Hospitality

New Big Timbers Museum Hours

Big Timbers Museum – New Hours of Operation WINTER HOURS – SEPTEMBER 1ST to MAY 31ST Tuesday – Saturday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. SUMMER HOURS – JUNE 1ST to AUGUST 31ST Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Closed Sundays, Mondays, and County Holidays Thank you, – Kathleen Scranton, Curator Phone – 719.336.2472 художник на икониИкони на светциХудожникОткъде да купя икона

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Cow Palace Inn Goes Green

Updated and renovated, the Cow Palace Inn in Lamar, Colorado offers a location for conferences, great hospitality and collective events. According to new owner Doug Thrall, the Inn will be open and on board for the Two Shot Goose Hunt in late November. For more information about this southeast Colorado Landmark, please visit the Lamar Ledger.

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Hometown Promotions – Lamar, CO

Sometimes I come across something that is just too exciting NOT to share. One of my favorite artists in the area is Patsy Place Wollert Oxley, and I noticed recently that she has a blog online celebrating Wednesday Windows. Had to visit her blog and the first thing I saw was a photo of the 3rd Street Nest, a Bed and Breakfast in Lamar, owned by Jane Felter. Both women are highly skilled professionals who have lived in Lamar area their entire lives. Patsy’s blog Artsy Place is currently sporting some familiar old windows around the community, including some memorable read more…

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Lamar’s Fall Festival

If you’ve got anything on your schedule for September 17th, 2011, you need to change it to Visit the Lamar Fall Festival in Lamar, Colorado. Absolutely NOTHING tops the Fall Festival in Lamar when local vendors and cottage industries camp out along Main Street with tables of everything you can think of from books (Oris George will BE there) to needle point, solving all your gift giving questions for the fall. In fact, most of us start stocking up with gifts for Christmas during the Fall Festival. Carol Owens, of Country Treasures shared plans for her Grand Opening on the read more…

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Main Street USA Rockin’ the Earthquake

You may already have heard about the earthquake in southern Colorado. This little town in southeastern Colorado is rockin’ it out with news and updates by the minute, sharing their input from local news sources and local citizens experiencing the vast shaking that rocked their world on August 22, nearing the midnight hour. Numerous after shocks rumbled through the area, rockin’ the socks of the cowboys

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