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Original article can be found at CBS Denver Originally published on July 31, 2020 By Jeff Todd DENVER (CBS4) – The board that will look at names of public spaces and geographic features in Colorado was named. The 12 members of the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board are a mix...

Original article can be found at CU Boulder Today Originally published on July 31, 2020 By Andrew Sorensen Patty Limerick, faculty director and chair of the board of CU Boulder’s Center of the American West , will play a central role in Colorado’s historic effort to reassess names of state...

Original article can be found at NPR Originally published on July 27, 2020 By Kirk Siegler Over the weekend as large crowds of protesters in Portland chanted in support of Black lives and against an ongoing federal police crackdown around the courthouse, some heads turned when a few young men...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on July 13, 2020 By Patty Limerick Recent limitations on access to hair stylists would not have troubled Medusa, the Greek Gorgon whose hair-do was actually a “snake-do.” Looking at Medusa was never a pleasure, but gazing in her...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on June 20, 2020 By Patty Limerick If my parents intended to protect me from the harsh realities of American life, space and time conspired to knock the pins out from under their plan. Since my parents both worked,...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on May 18, 2020 By Patty Limerick In my butterfly days, I said exactly what I was thinking at the very instant that I thought it. This custom gave me a great deal of pleasure, as well as a...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on April 17, 2020 By Patty Limerick “Normal it will not be,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said this week, giving us an unexpected opportunity to hear what Yoda would say if asked to share his vision of the post-pandemic...

Original article can be found at The CU Independent Originally published on February 20, 2020 By Noelle Videon Patty Limerick’s early interest in the history of the American West was in the stories untold — the stories about the people that she had known as a child who were so...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on November 19, 2019 By Patty Limerick Let’s say that an author has written a pronouncement that is universally quoted in support of the cause that matters the most to you. Should you respond by calling attention to the...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on October 25, 2019 By Patty Limerick Andrew Harnik, The Associated Press. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, on Facebook’s impact on the financial...