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This photo of the marquee of the Holiday Twin Drive-In Theatre in Fort Collins was taken in July of 1997. More than 20 years later, the marquee still looks a lot like that, and the theater is still up and running. It’s one of only about eight drive-in theaters still open in Colorado.
Most theaters were forced to close their doors during the pandemic, but drive-ins have found new opportunities and new audiences. With spring just around the corner and the state’s handful of drive-in theaters gearing up for the season, KUNC arts reporter Stacy Nick spoke with Michael Kilgore, author of “Drive-Ins of Route 66” and “Drive-Ins of Colorado,” to find out more about our outdoor theater history.
City of Smiths Station holds annual âMLK Citywide Clean-Up Dayâ
City of Smiths Station holds annual âMLK Citywide Clean-Up Dayâ By Jessie Gibson | January 23, 2021 at 5:09 PM EST - Updated January 23 at 6:44 PM
SMITHS STATION, Ala. (WTVM) - The City of Smiths Station held its annual âMLK Citywide Clean-Up Dayâ Saturday morning.
Martin Luther King Day of Service was created by former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Harris Wolford and the late U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia.
âWhen I look and see our people involved in our community, it tells me that they care about it and thatâs what important to us,â said Morris Jackson, organizer of the event. âYou need to care about the community that you live in and the way the show it is also to keep it cleanâ
Connection to Fredericksburg region: Eight years ago, I decided to live in Fredericksburg after researching the area on the Internet. I had been living in Turkey for four years with my wife (who is Turkish). I liked the areaâs affordability, history and closeness to D.C. However, I am a native of New Jersey.
I was inspired to write a book because: I was originally rewriting and researching my grandfather’s autobiography about his Navy career when I found on ancestry.com a first cousin, who informed me of my great-grandfather. Once I looked into his life a German immigrant who had two families, fought in the Civil War and endured in New York City’s worst neighborhood I got hooked and wrote a novel based on him.