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The mountain area’s newspaper since 1958
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
N VOLUME 62 ISSUE 46
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Creating an art scene
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Advisory board calls for renaming Squaw Mountain Proposed replacement name after influential Cheyenne translator BY JASON BLEVINS THE COLORADO SUN
Susan A. Judy is a geologist who turned her love of stones and minerals into beautiful mosaic art. It was a part-time hobby until she retired in 2015. Sometimes her work is abstract, and sometimes it depicts places such as the Tetons. “I have to plan so carefully,” she said, “because everything has to fit.” The size of her artwork has grown
The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board on Thursday made its first recommendation: changing the name of Squaw Mountain in Clear Creek County to Mestaa’ehehe Mountain. After a year of plodding procedural meetings, the board unanimously approved renaming the peak — referred to in debate as “SMountain” — after the influential Cheyenne translator known as Owl Woman, who facilitated relations between white settlers and Native American tribes in the early 1800s. Mestaa’ehehe is pronounced messtaw-HAY. “I think this will be a good change for Coloradans and all Native Americans,” said Fred Mosqueda, the Arapaho coordinator for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Culture Program. Members of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in October filed the application for the name change with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Board on Geographic Names, which has final say over name changes on federal land. Colorado Gov. Jared
SEE OPEN DOOR, P13
SEE RENAMING, P12
Stone and mineral artist Susan A. Judy stands in front of three of her creations, using both two- and three-dimensional stones, durPHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST ing Open Door Studios last weekend.
Area artists open their home studios as part of Open Door Studios BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then there was plenty to
behold as art lovers went from artist home to artist home during last weekend’s Open Door Studios. Thirty-two artists from El Rancho to Evergreen Meadows, Kittredge to Snyder Mountain opened their studios to show others how they create their art, not just what they create. It’s a fall weekend tradition that doesn’t disappoint, and artists showed off their work in every medium imaginable.
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