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SPIRITS OF GREELEY'S PAST - 2008
This yearly event produces some of the area’s finest historic writing and acting and is presented at Linn Grove Cemetery, Saturday, August 23rd. For times and ticket information call (970) 350-9220
“Spirits” expected to share stories about their historic lives are:
• Mary Ellen Bailey (1869) – gutsy pioneer who ran Latham Station east of Greeley
• Governor Benjamin and Rebecca Eaton (1864) – pioneers who knew life from dirt floors to a three story mansion in Greeley
• William Farr (1870) – Greeley pioneer, blacksmith, homesteader and major potato producer
• David Boyd (1864-1866) – captain of Company A, 40th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry; 1870 Union Colonist who fought Greeley’s grasshopper plague
• Nathan Cook Meeker and Arvilla Delight Meeker (1840s through 1879) – loving couple, Greeley founders, and authors and victims of disastrous Indian policies
• O. T. Jackson (1909) – smart and savvy entrepreneurial dreamer, initiator of the 1909 Dearfield Colony for African Americans east of Greeley
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