Featured Author

Amy J. Born
Biography
As a longtime Evergreen resident and contributor to Colorado Serenity, Amy has interviewed many local characters over the years. If you are one or know one who’d like to be featured, Amy would love to talk to you. She also writes for fun and profit as a freelancer, helping businesses and professionals enhance their online presence through website content, blogging and more.
ARTICLES
Evergreen’s Beloved Character: El Rancho
The plight of El Rancho hangs in the balance of being preserved or destroyed. To those who treasure El Rancho’s history and heritage, its legacy and beloved building are worth preserving. Barbara and Eugene Sternberg’s book, “Evergreen: Our Mountain Community,”...
Christine Adele Moore
“Imagination Is Everything” —Albert Einstein Bold, striking colors resonate with my sense of wellbeing. This proved true when I was introduced to Christine Adele Moore, who is the second Center for the Arts Evergreen’s Artist-in-Residence. An emotional uplifting...
Marc Romero Defines “Survivor”
At the age of 17, when his future should have been filled with hope, Marc Romero tragically lost his leg in a horrific motorcycle accident. He reveals, “My childhood wasn’t easy. My dad divorced my mom when I was 13. Because of his leaving, I was inspired to help my...
Dan Nuchols: An Enduring Character of Evergreen
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....
Darst’s Show Barn Lives On
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...
Evergreen’s Main Character: Downtown From the Kleist’s Point of View
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...
Horses Help to Establish Lasting Friendships
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...
Marcia Walsh: A Woman of Character and Distinction
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...
A Father’s Gift of Love
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...
Creativity and Courage Define Pem Dunn
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...
The Legendary Dan Lincoln
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...
Deep in the Heart of Evergreen: Pete Anderson and the Anderson Family
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...
