ColoradoSunday

Updated: January 03, 2009

(Photos by Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post )
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A better life in the bag
Take a closer look at those red-white-and-blue bags at the Colorado Historical Society's gift shops at its Denver headquarters and at the Byers-Evans House. 
Out there this week
"When Hope Won: The Road to the White House," opening Saturday at the Blair-Caldwell African-American Research Library, 2401 Welton St.; 720-865-2401, aarldenverlibrary.org. 

From jail to Mission Wear worker, Easterling shares her story
Janice Easterling chose sewing over doing jail time on Feb. 11, 2008, a date she cites from memory. Easterling began sewing as a child in Illinois.  

How'd you know?
No winner this week. The place: Alamosa's Southern Peaks Library. 

Find the Place
Commemorating the governor whose compassion cost his political career is this recently named stretch of highway photographed by Denver Newspaper Agency state circulation manager Rick Charbonneau. 

Colorado sculptor Lawrence Argent branches out
Colorado sculptor Lawrence Argent's latest project is far more ephemeral than "I See What You Mean," his installation of the big blue bear peering into the Denver Convention Center. 

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For his 8th birthday, in April, Jackson Moloney decided to give instead of receive, donating $128 he collected to the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program.  
 
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Meet Jamie Eloise Bolane  
 
Meet Colorado artist -- yes, she's an honest-to-goodness artist now -- Linda Drake.  
 
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Professional ultra endurance athlete Diane Van Deren is the first woman from the United States to participate in the 300-mile Yukon Arctic Ultra Race in Canada. And she's doing so after undergoing extensive brain surgery.  
 
 

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Before The North Face or Bibler tents, these shelters served Americans who thought nothing of camping out all year.  
 
 

 

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