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- Highway 160 Bridge Project Set to Start
- Prowers Journal Alert Winner Claims Prize
- Public Invited to Meet City Administrator Candidates this Thursday
- LUB Reviews Financials, Approves Scholarship Renewals
- Another Monthly Increase for Lamar City Sales Tax
- Another Monthly Increase for Lamar City Sales Tax
- Motel Lodger’s Tax Proposed to Lamar City Council for November Ballot
- Lamar Teen Center Moving to Lincoln Elementary School
- Lamar 18 & Under Team Wins Merchants Park Tournament
Category Archives: Big Timbers Museum
Santa Fe Trail – All Roads Lead Home
At the heart of America, Lamar, Colorado sits resolutely on the Santa Fe Trail, a cross roads of sorts that brings all to the heartland. Did you ever wonder where you could go that literally brings all roads home? The Santa Fe Trail offers more than simply a trail upon which cattle were driven, wagons wound their way through vast grasslands to travel the trail westward home. From St.Louis Missouri to Santa Fe New Mexico, the Santa Fe Trail rolls across grass lands and prairie, mountain and hillside, leaving trenches where wagon wheels trod. The Chisholm Trail crosses somewhere near Lamar Colorado – from south Texas where cattle met the railroad and traveled east to feed the mass multitudes of people. No matter where you are in the United States, the bottom line is – Lamar, Colorado, where All Roads and Back Roads – they all lead home.
Posted in Back Roads, Big Timbers Museum, History, Madonna of the Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Tourism, Travel
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Kids Day a Winner at Sand & Sage Fair
3 year olds over heard discussing the petting zoo at Prowers County Fair Grounds today revealed the essence of cows. “They moo loud.” While little pigs, calves and llama/alpaca drew a crowd, child chasing turtles scared them away. Treats at the fair grounds and many activities, including Color Pages passed out by the Big Timbers Transportation Museum entice children and parents to return to the fair on Saturday for more fun activities to come. ************************** Be sure to stop in to the Book Depot downtown Lamar for Grand Opening, this week. *************************** Don’t miss the Sand & Sage Fair, FREE Barbeque with Rodeo Tickets on Friday and Saturday. This feed, traditionally put on by the Prowers County Sheriff’s Department and served by the Lamar Noon Lyons is to die for. Make your choice of Pork on Friday or Beef on Saturday and enjoy the Rodeo.
Lamar’s Newest Surprise is Visible from the Highway
WOW! What a terrific surprise it is! Having been a part of the Museum and the Historical Society for the past several years, I’ve been amazed at the progress Curator Kathy Scranton has made with the new Big Timbers Transportation Museum. YAY! Good job Kathy! When we arrived in Colorado from a trip to the east coast, we were invited to the Truck Stop for dinner and I noticed the digging and heavy equipment behind the museum. At first, I thought it was something with the highway department, then I realized it was the museum building Kathy Scranton had been working on as the Curator of the Big Timbers Museum. When grants became available from the Department of Transportation, Kathy went to work, first contacting everyone who might know something about it, then working every spare moment to get the grant written. She had plenty of helpers visiting the museum frequently to help her put the words on paper, get the grant written and out. Often guests in the museum offered thoughts and ideas or suggestions. Members of the board literally put in extra effort (several hours, a trip to Pennsylvania and building a new business) to get more information read more…