Today's Features

Dec. 8 and 9
52nd annual Georgetown Christmas Market: The market is celebrating 52 years of enjoying an Old World Christmas in Georgetown. The outdoor European-inspired market features handcrafted gifts, horse-drawn wagon rides, and free entertainment and admission.

Dec. 7
The Social Ethics Christmas party will be held on Dec. 7 at noon at Marion’s of the Rockies in Idaho Springs.

Dec. 13

It’s all about the voluminous fake sideburns and gigantic fake moustaches in this year’s annual Mill Creek Valley Historical Society play.

Most of the 12-member cast sport fake facial hair of some sort, which is part of the fun in the satirical comedy “Rome and Julia,” which opens Friday. This year’s show, written and directed by society president Larrice Sell, provides a new twist on “Romeo and Juliet” and is based on a tale about Clear Creek County in the 1860s.

 Over the years, my late husband, Bill, and I drove the highway to the summit of Mount Evans many, many times. It was one of our favorite places. We loved the high mountains, and Mount Evans was one of the good guys because he wore a white hat (of snow).

I loved the alpine botany, and Bill always looked for the nesting birds and especially for a black swift flying over. We both were impressed by the silent grandeur of the Continental Divide, and the serenity and peace in the high mountains. In some way, we both seemed to feel at home there.

When part-time Georgetown resident Joan Naylor heard that a little-known lake above town shared her last name, her path to the past inevitably led to county archivist Christine Bradley.

The lives of the two women have been intertwined for the past two years as Naylor sought information about the lake’s history and its possible ties to her family. For Bradley, who acts as the springboard for many historic book and novel projects about Clear Creek, it was all in a day’s work.