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An early schoolteacher in the Redlands area of Mesa County, Colorado. He had a talent, particularly, for winning respect from his young, male students. William Rump, who went to the Redlands School and had Schneider as a teacher, gave this description of him:
“Probably he was well liked by, particularly, the boys. He was a real athletic sort of a fella. In fact, he was the one that was involved in giving those kids all of the lickings. There...
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He worked as a horticulturalist for the Redlands Company’s large agricultural operations in Mesa County, Colorado. He ran a boys club while he lived in Mesa County and remained involved with youth clubs for the rest of his life. William Rump, whose father Charlie Rump was one of the owners of the Redlands Company, had these remembrances of George Kelly during his oral history interview: “Well, that’s where he got his start and among other things,...
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He was born in Montgomery County, Missouri to Edwin Samuel Eames, an immigrant from England, and Cora A. Calvin of Ohio. He came to Grand Junction from Telluride in the early Twentieth century. He ran a gambling hall called the Biltmore above the Merchant's Cafe in what later became the J.C. Penney's building on Main Street. He was said to have been a very generous man with his money, donating baskets of food to hundreds of residents over Thanksgiving....
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He was born to Charles "Chalk" Dinkins and Margaret (Hyatt) Dinkins in Salida, Colorado, and grew up there. According to US Census records, his father worked as a steward for the Elks Club for many years. His mother was a homemaker. He became a machinist for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad as a young man. He moved to Grand Junction sometime in the 1920's or 30's, where he was the co-owner of Costanzas Liquor Store. He married Bernadine Goe in...
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ZEN AND THE ART OF MANSFIELD MAGIC
By Susan Viebrock for The Telluride Planet, Telluride, 2001:
"In the prestigious National Builders Museum in Washington DC you will find not one, but two, works by long time local John Mansfield. Both works are from two of his most successful series which are very different from one another, yet epitomize the art of Mansfield ; very Zen in nature. The first is a sculpture of a handsaw frozen in the act of...
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George Stranahan didn’t need to work a day in his life, being an heir to the Champion Spark Plug fortune.
But this plain-spoken millionaire with a rebel agenda rejected a life of leisure.
Instead, the colorful Stranahan became an unconventional businessman—a guy who jumps into a venture not so much to make a buck but to have a good time or to promote a social or political cause.
In his 75 years, he’s been an award-winning cattle rancher,...
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Though he grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in physics, Ralph Melville always wanted a ski lodge. A friend, Olympic Ski Teamer Brookie Dodge, encouraged Melville to consider Aspen. And so he did, to ski bum, in the winter of 1951.
“I thought the place was overbuilt,” Melville says today. “Lodges had been built for the FIS race in 1950, but now they were all empty.” Melville wanted to stay and ski, so he...
