Tag: Larry Dorsey
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Colorado museum hopes to rise from the ashes after Marshall fire’s devastation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When the Marshall fire swept through Superior in December, it consumed the vast majority of the town’s original coal-camp homes and the community museum, the cherished repository of its mining and farming history. While those physical landmarks have been lost, volunteers are working steadily to…
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Dangerous legacy: Tens of thousands of Coloradans live near one of the state’s many underground coal-mine fires
The veins of mining run deep in Superior, a Colorado community founded on coal and recently redefined by fire. For generations residents needed only to go a few miles west during winter to see plumes of steam and smoke rising from fissures in the Earth, from an underground coal mine fire that started before many…