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University of Colorado music student Louis Saxton plays his cello at the makeshift memorial fence outside King Soopers supermarket on Table Mesa Drive, Monday, March 29, 2021. The memorial is for the 10 people killed at the store when a gunman opened fire on Monday, March 22, 2021.
Less than a day after the mass shooting in Boulder on March 22, the flowers began to arrive.
So did balloons, candles, signs, notes and stuffed toys. They arrived handheld by mourners looking to pay their respects to the ten lives lost at the grocery store. In the subsequent week, what began as a sparse collection of small bouquets blossomed into an emotional outpouring of grief with hundreds, if not thousands, of items marking a spot that may never be the same.
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On March 18, the Orange County Regional History Center will honor determined journalist Mabel Norris Reese in an online event. In the 1950s and ’60s, Reese, who covered news in Lake County, courageously opposed segregation and injustice, at peril to her career and her safety. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King tells the story in his 2018 book “Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found,” which brought renewed attention to Reese’s career and importance.
Thursday, March 4, 2021 by Clarissa Moon (WMFE)
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Orange County Regional History Center Executive Director Pamela Schwartz. Photo: Orange County Regional History Center
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The Orange County Regional History Center has a new executive director. The museum announced last week that Pamela Schwartz, previously the center’s chief curator, has been named executive director after serving as interim director since January.
Schwartz joins
Intersection to discuss the museum’s exhibit for the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, the ongoing COVID-19 collecting project and what’s next for the center.