Las Animas - Bent County Library District

The economic impact of the Pole Canyon Wind project on the Huerfano County economy has been divided into two components; 1) the impact of the construction of 150 wind energy towers, and 2) the impact of the ongoing operation of the wind towers and the rent paid to landowners.

The stated goal of this project is the economic development of Huerfano County through herb production and processing. Investigating new ways of looking at agriculture which are sustainable and which have expanding markets is one way to develop our economy, Organic herb production is already happening here on a small scale, and could develop into a major acricultural commoditym if local herb production is encouraged. Encouraging farmers to produce...

Since circa 1560, the Spanish ruled the land of Huajatolla Valley and lived in relative peacefulness, raised their cattle, sheep, made their wine and worshipped their God until the emergence of the eastern immigration which changed their lives forever. "Huajatolla: Breasts of the Earth" is the story of an uneducated, orphaned Anglo land who by either accident or an old Indian's prayer to his gods, was introduced into a family of aristocratic Spaniards....

[Guerrero-Murphy's] poems traverse autobiographical landscapes--the San Luis and Huerfano valleys of southern Colorado; and surreal places--the places of dreams, hospitals, backyards, her Alaskan childhood. Everything is animate and in conversation with the author, from mastodon bones to her own bones. The poems move with ease and wit among memory and dream, while the boundaries between the speaker and everything else are fluid, often harrowing, always...