Way Back!
Looks like a long time ago! Silvertonians and others dressed in old-fashioned clothes pose in front of the first Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train of the season to arrive in town on Saturday, May 7, 2011. 15 years ago. Photo by: Mark Esper/ Silverton Standard
Poop Festival from 15 years ago. Did you attend?
From the May 16, 1884 edition of the (Ouray) Solid Muldoon: IN SILVERTON, EMPTY BEAN CANS ARE YET TO BLOOM.Gathering wild flowers is the popular caper for the belles and beaux, and the mountain sides are fragrant and radiate with them. Poor Silverton, the snow has not disappeared sufficiently to allow the empty bean cans to show up, but if the weather continues warm they...
