MEMOIRS:
LaVern Johnson tells her family history beginning with her great grandfather Reese’s family farm and its operations… her parents, siblings, husband, children and grandkids.
==How she met her husband, her first jobs, her ‘crusade’ list.
==written in 2014 at age 87
Concise list of groups and committees and boards and commissions that LaVern Johnson was on, and the KEY accomplishments
==Brief family bio.
Want to know what LaVern did over her 94 years? Here is a list:
==Office held in Town of Lyons
==History Preservation Awards
==Service Awards, Colorado
==newspaper columnist
==Lyons square dance group co-founder
==campaigns worked on
==reprint of dedication of LaVern Johnson Park
==includes PHOTOS
MAY is Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month
==free events, where the public and all historic and history preservation societies and organizations applaud the efforts of both individuals and groups who have preserved and reconstructed a historic house or commercial building, using “history preservation” guidelines in the past year.
==links to events across the state
HISTORY: Marguerite Peoples ran the Lyons Cafe for 48 years,.. known as the Pie Place. On this Mother’s Day week, we celebrate her as “the Mother Who Fed the Town”!
This is part of her journal in which she recalls the many people who were part of her cafe’s history over the decades.
She was honored as Boulder County Business Hall of Fame recipient in 2006.
Campaign to save Lyons Middle/High School.
In 1948 a wave came across the US to close ALL SMALL TOWN high schools and consolidate. This is the story of how Lyons citizens fought for decades to save their High School… and not have their children bussed to Longmont.
Also, the history of the school property and Lyons Valley Park that used to be farm land owned by LaVern Johnson’s family.
Women’s History Month
==Mary Cronin – hear the story of her goal to climb all 14ers 1921-1934
==How Women’s History Month got started
==Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame (portraits of our high-achieving women)
==March 3-13
World Denver and CBS4, and Women Powering Change join together to present events.
==March 6-12
Honoring Women in Construction
++LINKS to articles and events++
February is BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
Six Museums in Colorado who tell the story of African Americans in our state.
==Lincoln Hills exhibit in Colorado History Museum
==Black American W Museum (Dearfield focus)
==Blair Caldwell Library
==Barney Ford House Museum (Breckenridge)
==Five Points Neighborhood
Stiles African American Heritage Center
Colorado has received two $50,000 grants to fund two African American projects.
==History Colorado will create an African American Heritage Trail across the state (based on oral histories to be collected)
==Black American West Museum and Heritage Center will expand its governance of the house of Dr. Justina Ford in the Five Points neighborhood.
