Selected Projects
Media Cameos
"How Boulder Became America's Startup Capital." Inc. Magazine. 17 February 2014.
We had barely started our tour of the Chautauqua, Boulder's verdant 19th-century park, when my guide for the morning, local historian Carol Taylor, handed me the packet with the "cautionary tales." They were photocopied news articles, all from national publications, all featuring Boulder and all written--in Taylor's mind, anyway--by superficial out-of-towner nincompoops. "Namaste and Pass the Naan," read one's subhead. "You will be hard-pressed to find one person here, including your 85-year-old grandmother, without a six-pack," read another. Over four decades, as Taylor's packet meant to show, writers had missed the town for the lovely trees (and bike paths and mountain views)--unfairly reducing Boulder to a playground where smug eco-liberals puffed legalized marijuana and compared triathlon times. - Burt Helm
"In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty." New York Times. 31 August 2016.
In the spirit of improving both mind and body, I went hiking the next morning with Carol Taylor, a local historian, newspaper columnist and program manager for the Chautauqua. We followed a trail into the Flatirons, soaring triangular crags that were named for their resemblance to Victorian-era clothing irons. As sweat-soaked fitness devotees jogged past lugging backpacks filled with rocks, Ms. Taylor engaged me in a mobile history lecture, explaining that Boulder’s current status as a perpetual contender for “America’s most livable town” was the result of a century and a half’s worth of efforts to imbue its idyllic setting with intellectual cachet. - Tony Perrottet
Recent Projects
Interpretive signage, Penfield Tate II Municipal Building
Interpretive signage, Boyd Smelter site
Indigenous Peoples' Day, Advisory Committee, City of Boulder Human Relations Commission
History of Visual Arts Boulder, introductory chapter for exhibition catalogue
Colorado Modernist Painters, artist biographies and research
Colorado Compensation Insurance Authority, 80 year history
Dearfield, research for the Storytellers Project
Mt. Powell Ranch, history
Privately-owned ranch histories located in North Park, Colorado and Wyoming
The Rise and Fall of Boulder's Legendary Harvest House Hotel
Interpretive signage, Boyd Smelter site
Indigenous Peoples' Day, Advisory Committee, City of Boulder Human Relations Commission
History of Visual Arts Boulder, introductory chapter for exhibition catalogue
Colorado Modernist Painters, artist biographies and research
Colorado Compensation Insurance Authority, 80 year history
Dearfield, research for the Storytellers Project
Mt. Powell Ranch, history
Privately-owned ranch histories located in North Park, Colorado and Wyoming
The Rise and Fall of Boulder's Legendary Harvest House Hotel
Presentations
Boulder and the Sand Creek Massacre
Boulder County Women
The Colorado Chautauqua
The Harbeck-Bergheim House
The Harvest House: Boulder's Mid-Century Modern Hotel
How Big Science Came to Boulder
Juried Presentations
The Hunt for Newspaper Content, Colorado Association of Libraries, 2008
Think Like an Archivist, Be a Better Librarian, Colorado Association of Libraries, 2011
Partnerships and Collaborations
City of Boulder, Historic Preservation
Dairy Center for the Arts, Boedecker Theater
Colorado Chautauqua Association
Colorado Music Experience
Historic Boulder, Inc.
Month of Modern
National Park Service
Native American Rights Fund
Out Boulder
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dairy Center for the Arts, Boedecker Theater
Colorado Chautauqua Association
Colorado Music Experience
Historic Boulder, Inc.
Month of Modern
National Park Service
Native American Rights Fund
Out Boulder
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Program Series
Erie Local History Series
Chief Niwot ~ Legend & Legacy Program Series
Boulder Prehistory Series
Boulder Water History Series
Friday Cultural History Series
Summer Colorado History Series
Chautauqua History Series
Historic Boulder Salon Series
Chief Niwot ~ Legend & Legacy Program Series
Boulder Prehistory Series
Boulder Water History Series
Friday Cultural History Series
Summer Colorado History Series
Chautauqua History Series
Historic Boulder Salon Series
Programming Highlights
Penfield Tate II, Boulder's Humanitarian Mayor, with Penfield Tate III
Searching for Truth and Reconciliation with Ernest House, Jr.
Queer Echoes: Boulder’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, with Dr. Glenda Russell
National Library Week featured presentation, Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, with Colorado First Lady Helen Thorpe
Let All That is Indian Within You Die, The History of Native American Boarding Schools, with Don Wharton
Mod Men: The Work of Boulder’s Postwar Architects, with Mark Gerwing
Colorado 14er Disasters, with Mark Scott-Nash
History of Mountain Lions on the Front Range, with David Baron
The Mahaffy Cache, with Dr. Douglas Bamforth
Birger Sandzen, with Sandzen Memorial Gallery curator Ron Michael
A Scientific Peak: How Boulder Became a World Center for Space and Atmospheric Science, with Dr. Joseph Bassi
Sand Creek in Historic Context, with Dr. Tom Thomas
How Big Science Came to Boulder
Behind the Scenes, The Glenn Miller Story in Colorado, with Alan Cass
100 Years of Colorado Movies, with David Emrich
History on Screen: The Beatles at Red Rocks and A Hard Day’s Night, with G. Brown
History on Screen: Los Seis de Boulder and The Company You Keep, with Nicole Esquibel
Searching for Truth and Reconciliation with Ernest House, Jr.
Queer Echoes: Boulder’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, with Dr. Glenda Russell
National Library Week featured presentation, Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, with Colorado First Lady Helen Thorpe
Let All That is Indian Within You Die, The History of Native American Boarding Schools, with Don Wharton
Mod Men: The Work of Boulder’s Postwar Architects, with Mark Gerwing
Colorado 14er Disasters, with Mark Scott-Nash
History of Mountain Lions on the Front Range, with David Baron
The Mahaffy Cache, with Dr. Douglas Bamforth
Birger Sandzen, with Sandzen Memorial Gallery curator Ron Michael
A Scientific Peak: How Boulder Became a World Center for Space and Atmospheric Science, with Dr. Joseph Bassi
Sand Creek in Historic Context, with Dr. Tom Thomas
How Big Science Came to Boulder
Behind the Scenes, The Glenn Miller Story in Colorado, with Alan Cass
100 Years of Colorado Movies, with David Emrich
History on Screen: The Beatles at Red Rocks and A Hard Day’s Night, with G. Brown
History on Screen: Los Seis de Boulder and The Company You Keep, with Nicole Esquibel
(Above photo: Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site)