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Back in the days when Safeway was Evergreen’s largest grocery store, it was as much a hub for gabbing with friends as shopping for groceries. Most of us factored in time for long-winded chats knowing grocery shopping was, if not the first mission, clearly the second....

WHR Helmsman 89th with Darst on left. Darst Buchanan’s Show Barn, located at 27965 Meadow Drive, has endured its charm since the day it was built in the 1940s to present day. It was there that the legendary oil and gas man, originally from Springfield, MO, built his...

The Kleist siblings (the five J's). Top row: Jeff, James, John. Bottom row: Jody, Julie.  When my then in-laws moved to Evergreen in 1979 so the mother-in-law could be closer to Willie Nelson (true indeed), my beloved father-in-law treated me to never-to-be-forgotten...

Al Huffman as Buffalo Bill Cody. Moving to Evergreen with a horse in tow on a cloudless summer day in 1985, Means Meadow, now named Elk Meadow, beckoned me to ride every trail and fly without wings through magical meadows. Much has changed over the years when owners...

Ninety ­three years young, Marcia Walsh has climbed Kilimanjaro twice, the Dolomites in England, Cinque Terra in Italy, a volcano in Tanzania, and the Inca Trail in Peru. She’s also twice biked Ride the Rockies, one of the longest running bike tours in the country...

Wyoming native Gail Woodrow was born in Worland, Wyoming on a bitter cold day in February 1913. His mom, Edna, left England and sailed to America for reasons unknown. She trekked her way to Worland via covered wagon, where she fell head-over-heels for tenant farmer...

Pem and Jo Ann standing before Pem’s painting of their grandchildren, Kevin and Katrina, hiking in Elk Meadow over 20 years ago. From Pem Dunn’s childhood to traveling the globe as a pilot for the Navy and United Airlines, the passions in his life have been the love...

In 1919, Owen LeFever, a prominent Denver judge, purchased 40 acres of mountainside, located on Evergreen’s Upper Bear Creek Road. LeFever’s friend, another prominent Denver judge, was selling because his daughter, Nellie Whitney, who preferred living on the gorgeous...

Gustav and wife Matilda Anderson left Sweden in 1881, made their way to Evergreen, and homesteaded 160 acres in Clear Creek County on Yankee Creek. Son Frank arrived on May 22, 1884. Soon thereafter, Gustav and Matilda leased their land, worked on the railroad in...