SALIDA Finding a sacred stump in the forest might seem like a fool’s errand, especially in the high country, but that didn’t keep Jim Dickson from searching for perhaps Colorado’s most celebrated bl.
William Levi Dawson ran away from home in 1912 to study music at the Tuskegee Institute. Working through school as a music librarian… and a laborer on the Agriculture Department farm… he was a member of the Institute’s band and orchestra, as well as composing and touring with the Tuskegee Singers.