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Black History: Inside the lives of Fort Collins' early Black residents


Not long after they got married in the early 1990s, Sharon Kelly-North and her new husband, David North, were invited to Sharon s grandmother s tidy brick home in Seattle.
Mattie Lyle was almost in her 90s by then and  likely inspired by a photo slideshow the newlyweds had recently put together  she enlisted them to help her go through a hat box filled with old photographs of her own.
After being a hobbyist photographer for most of her life, Mattie had stacks of old snapshots to sort through  black-and-white remnants of a life well-lived.
Somewhere in the box, there was a photo that showed Mattie and her late husband, William Lyle, in the 1930s or 1940s back when they lived in Fort Collins, Colorado gathered with friends during a visit to Denver. ....

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