Photos courtesy Grand County Historical Association
As a child, Donald Dailey would help fill 12 ounce plastic bottles from the Colorado River and send them in an aluminum case to Denver.
His parents, Hot Sulphur Springs residents Buck and Shirley Dailey, spent 20 years taking daily water samples for the United States Geological Survey.
Grand sits at the headwaters of a river that nearly 40 million Americans rely on. The Colorado River travels 1,400 miles across a watershed that includes seven US states, two states in Mexico and carves the Grand Canyon.
Sunday marks the 100th Colorado River Day, recognizing the anniversary of the day the river got its name.
“Going to Trinidad” by Granby author Martin Smith is now on sale. The new nonfiction book focuses on a doctor and his protégé, who both performed gender-confirming surgeries in an unlikely southern Colorado town for over four decades, along with two of those patients.
After moving to Granby five years ago, Martin Smith began hearing stories about Trinidad, the unlikely home to what the New York Times once called “the sex-change capital of the world.”
A veteran journalist and former senior editor of the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Smith had already written five novels and four nonfiction books. His writing process tends to focus on the news of the time, and his newest book, “Going to Trinidad,” was no different.