{"id":803824,"date":"2020-02-04T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378470"},"modified":"2020-02-04T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T01:20:00","slug":"frisco-historic-park-museum-kicks-off-winter-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/frisco-historic-park-museum-kicks-off-winter-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Frisco Historic Park & Museum kicks off winter lecture series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Frisco Historic Park and Museum in downtown Frisco, Colo. is an educational treat for locals and visitors.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The Frisco Historic Park & Museum is kicking off its winter lecture series Wednesday, Feb. 5. All lectures are free and will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesdays in the Historic Park & Museum Log Chapel.<\/p>\n

Feb. 5: Summit County Safe Passages
<\/strong>The group will talk about its work to reduce vehicle collisions with wildlife along Summit County\u2019s roadways and to make specific recommendations for wildlife crossing structures and other conservation opportunities.<\/p>\n

Feb. 12: The Ski Troops
<\/strong>Retired U.S. Marine Corps Col. Tom Duhs will talk about how the 10th Mountain Division operated, including recruitment strategies, training at Camp Hale and combat in the Italian Alps.<\/p>\n

Feb. 19: Indigenous Music of Colorado
<\/strong>Songwriter and performer Leon Joseph Littlebird will talk about the history of indigenous music in Colorado.<\/p>\n

Feb. 26: The Buckskin Sculptor
<\/strong>Storyteller and Grand Lake historian Dave Lively will talk about Alexander Phimister Proctor (1860-1950), who was revered as America\u2019s premier animal sculptor.<\/p>\n

March 4: Finding Gold in Colorado
<\/strong>Kevin Singel, author of \u201cFinding Gold in Colorado,\u201d will talk about Summit County and Colorado\u2019s early gold prospecting history.<\/p>\n

March 11: Snow Removal and Avalanche Mitigation on Colorado\u2019s Highways: Past and Present
<\/strong>Colorado Department of Transportation historian Lauren Cooper will talk about the historic avalanche cycle in March 2019, which took out large swathes of old-growth forest and buried major highways up to 20 feet deep.<\/p>\n

March 18: Irish Mining History
<\/strong>National Mining Hall of Fame curator Myles Gallagher will talk about the relationship between Irish pioneers and mountain towns, with a focus on Summit County and Leadville.<\/p>\n

March 25: Mining Camps Speak
<\/strong>Beth Sagstetter, author of \u201cThe Mining Camps Speak,\u201d will guide attendees through ghost town sites in \u201cSherlock Holmes fashion,\u201d demonstrating how to identify the forgotten pieces of the past.<\/p>\n

For more information, go to FriscoHistoricPark.com<\/a> or call 970-668-3428.<\/p>\n

via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Frisco Historic Park and Museum in downtown Frisco, Colo. is an educational treat for locals and visitors.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com The Frisco Historic Park & Museum is kicking off its winter lecture series Wednesday, Feb. 5. All lectures are free and will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesdays in the Historic Park & Museum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 17:41:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}