{"id":2449451,"date":"2019-10-03T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=313748"},"modified":"2019-10-03T04:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T10:04:00","slug":"aspen-history-when-aspen-was-potato-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-history-when-aspen-was-potato-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen History: When Aspen was potato country"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/history-atw-100319.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/history-atw-100319.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/history-atw-100319-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>One 3.5&#8243; x 5.5&#8243; b\/w photograph of Pyramid Peak, with Tiehack on the right and Highlands on the left. circa 1945 Looking at ranches in the foreground. Can see the Maroon Creek Bridge on the far right.<\/strong><br \/><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cStudents help ranchers with spuds,\u201d announced The Aspen Times on Oct. 4, 1945. \u201cFifty-five students of the Aspen schools have brought signed notes from home saying that they would be out this week helping ranchers with the spud harvest. High school classes are not in session this week and about 30 of the high school students are working in the potato fields. All but three students of the seventh and eighth grades are out working also, as are about six from the fifth and sixth grade room. It is hoped that all will be thru and back in school next week.\u201d This image shows Pyramid Peak, circa 1945. Several ranches are visible in the foreground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\">This photo and more can be found in the Aspen Historical Society archives at aspenhistory.org.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/aspen-history-when-aspen-was-potato-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One 3.5&#8243; x 5.5&#8243; b\/w photograph of Pyramid Peak, with Tiehack on the right and Highlands on the left. circa 1945 Looking at ranches in the foreground. Can see the Maroon Creek Bridge on the far right. \u201cStudents help ranchers with spuds,\u201d announced The Aspen Times on Oct. 4, 1945. \u201cFifty-five students of the Aspen [&hellip;]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2449451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 17:03:45","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}