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September History Talk
The September History Talk “The History of The Grand Valley Irrigation Company” will be presented by Charlie Guenther on Thursday, the 26th at 6 p.m. at The Ordinary Fellow Winery in Palisade
The Palisade Historical Society’s monthly history talk at the Ordinary Fellow Winery, 202 Peach Avenue in Palisade, will be “The History of the Grand Valley Irrigation Company” by its Assistant Superintendent, Charlie Guenther.
The Grand Valley Irrigation Company’s canal is the oldest in the Grand Valley. It began in late 1881 under the name Grand River Ditch Company. The Diversion Dam and headgate are located south of Palisade near the east end of Riverbend Park. The canal carried water for the first time on May 16, 1883, and the initial 22 miles of canal stretched from Palisade to Fruita. The GVIC now serves approximately 40,000 acres with irrigation water stretching from Palisade to Mack in the area south of the canal down to the Colorado River.
The talk will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 26th at The Ordinary Fellow Winery. This program is open to the public in a relaxed and comfortable setting for people to learn about Palisade’s unique history and enjoy a glass of wine. The tasting room opens at noon, so come early. There is no admission, but donations are appreciated.
The October “History Talk & Creative Writing Open Mic”
will be hosted by Trish Hopkinson
Thursday, October 24th – 6pm at The Ordinary Fellow Winery in Palisade
The Palisade Historical Society’s monthly history talk at the Ordinary Fellow Winery, 202 Peach Avenue in Palisade, will be “History Talk & Creative Writing Open Mic” hosted by Trish Hopkinson, local poet and literary advocate. She will share poems from early issues of The Palisade Tribune, talk about how The Palisade Tribune has inspired her latest poetry project, and where you can access past issues online.
This will be a special creative writing open mic event for attendees to share their favorite poems or stories on the history of Palisade. Come 15 minutes early to sign up for the open mic and share your own poem or story inspired by the history of Palisade! Readers will have up to 3 minutes to share their work. Not interested in sharing? Join us in the audience, and support those on stage!
The event will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 24th at The Ordinary Fellow Winery. This program is open to the public in a relaxed and comfortable setting for people to learn about Palisade’s unique history and enjoy a glass of wine. The tasting room opens at noon, so come early. There is no admission, but donations are appreciated.
More Palisade Tribune Historic Newspaper Issues Available Online
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024 – Almost 4,000 issues of The Palisade Tribune (3,948 issues, to be exact!) are now on the Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection Website!
The very first issue of The Palisade Tribune – June 6, 1903
One of the most important on-going projects of the Palisade Historical Society is preserving archival copies of The Palisade Tribune and making them available online for searching and browsing. The Palisade Tribune was Palisade’s newspaper of record from June 1903 until it closed in March 2014. Thanks to generous donors and support from the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, 3,948 issues – beginning with the first edition June 6, 1903, and all issues in our collection through December 16, 1982 – are now on the Colorado Historic Newspapers and Plains to Peaks newspaper databases!
The Palisade Historical Society continues to raise funds to get more of Palisade’s newspaper of record digitized and online. These issues mean the CHNC database now has over 4.7 million digitized pages of Colorado newspapers! This is a wonderful resource of Palisade history! You can search by name or subject or browse entire pages for articles of interest. The Palisade Tribune is digitally available on the CHNC site with over 785 individual newspapers titles. The CHNC is a service of the Colorado State Library. In addition to Palisade news, these Tribunes feature columns from nearby communities, including Mt. Lincoln, Rapid Creek, Cameo, Plateau Valley, Collbran, and Mesa, as well as East Orchard Mesa, Clifton, Fruitvale, and even Mack and Loma. Some of the early 1950’s issues also include copies of The Fruita Times and Plateau Valley newspapers.
Above, we have a Historic Newspaper tab with a direct link to searching the database.
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