NOTE: Detailed information of the lecture topics will be posted on niwothistoricalsociety.orgPlease check our website for more Niwot Historical Society information.

NIWOT GAZETTENewsletter of the Niwot Historical Society

April 2019

Be a part of Niwot’s future by helping to preserve our past.

Wednesday, April 24, 20197:00 PM, Doors open at 6:30 PM for coffee and conversation

Left Hand Grange Hall, 195 2nd Ave, at Franklin St intersection

General Admission: $5.00, No charge for members of the Niwot Historical Society

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Join us on April 24th to learn about prehistoric discoveries !!!.

DinosaursOf The Rocky Mountain West: New Discoveries and Old Approaches

NOW&Then Lecture Series

Like the pages of an upturned book, nearly the entire history of dinosaurs and their lost ecosystems were revealed by the uplift and erosion of mountains across the Rocky Mountain region. The fossils of Colorado were among the first to be discovered over a century ago, revealing fantastic forms like

the plated Stegosaurus and the giant, long-necked Sauropods. However, numerous new discoveries along the Colorado Front Range, and elsewhere in the West, have begun to reveal new dinosaur

species and ecosystems that can teach us about life on a dynamic planet. Using the same techniques as early paleontologists mixed with new technologies and enthusiastic volunteers, the

Denver Museum of Nature & Science has leaped to the forefront of discovery.

Presenter: Dr Joe Sertichis the Curator of Dinosaurs at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.His research focuses on dinosaurs and the ecosystems during the Late Cretaceous. His field based research is split between the Gondwanan confinents of the southern hemisphere and western North America. He is one of the primary researchers on the Madagascar Paleontology Project exploring the latest Cretaceous of Madagascar and has expanded the search for dinosaurs to olderdeposits across the island. He is also working on several projects searching for the latest Cretaceousdinosaurs of Africa, including work in northern Kenya and Egypt.

In North America, Dr. Sertich leads the Laramidia Project, currently working to uncover a lost worldof dinosaurs in the Cretaceous of southern Utah, northwestern New Mexico and northwesternColorado.

Niwot Historical Society

P. O. Box 354, Niwot, CO 80544-0354or online at

niwothistoricalsociety.org

Niwot Historical Society BoardPresident: Kathy Koehler

info@niwothistoricalsociety.orgSecretary: Mary Claire Collins

Treasurer: Darwyn HerbstDirectors: Donlyn Arbuthnot, Rob Gordon,

Joan Grunzweig, Vivian Knaus, Leonard Sitongia, Diane Zimmermann

~ Committee Chairs ~Accessioning & Archives: Vivian Knaus

Museum Open House: Mary Claire CollinsMembership: Diane Zimmermann

Newsletter & Programs: Kathy KoehlerPhoto Leases: Joan GrunzweigConsulting: Donlyn Arbuthnot

Walking Tours: Mary Claire Collins, Rob Gordon, Joan Grunzweig, Diane Zimmermann

Web Master: Leonard Sitongia

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Members, Volunteers and Friends are our valuable resource.

Past Article on the Niwot Home & Garden Club

We were honored to host the “Shoot at the Superior Depot” lecture in February and the Publishing your Ancestry” workshop in March this year. Both presentations had great attendance and information. We learned about the Colorado labor wars in this area in the early 1900s from Larry Dorsey and publisher Dina Carson shared so many ideas for publishing personal research. .

NOW&Then Lecture Series

“Shoot Out at the Superior Depot”

“Publishing your Ancestry”

Come by the Fire House Museum to

view the display featuring the

Niwot Home & Garden Club.

February 29, 1952

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