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Rocky Mountain National Park celebrates its centennial in 2015, and there’s no better birthday present for all of Rocky’s friends than Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years ($39.95, Farcountry Press, 2014) by award-winning Colorado author Mary Taylor Young. “Rocky was established as a national park in 1915,” notes Young. “But the story of any park with ‘Rocky Mountain’ in its name begins not just 100 years but a billion years ago.” Young’s lively prose carries the reader back in time to formation of the very rocks we see today. If geologic time could be speeded up, she writes, the forming of the landscape of Rocky Mountain National Park would play out in a grand spectacle of crashing tectonic plates, spouting volcanoes, gouging glaciers and mountains thrust skyward. Young understands the park’s allure. “I’ve been coming to Rocky since I was a little girl,” she says. “I credit childhood summers at my family’s cabin on Deer Mountain with setting the course of my life as a nature writer and zoologist.” The Rocky centennial book is Young’s fifteenth book focusing on the wildlife, landscape and heritage of Colorado and the West. She has taught seminars for the Rocky Mountain Nature Association every summer since 1988. Young’s enthusiasm for her subject shines throughout Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years, reflected in her meticulous research and engaging storytelling. She adroitly braids the lives of intrepid rangers, CCC workers, artful road engineers, dedicated scientists and droves of tourists into a grand tale, exquisitely illustrated with more than 250 historical and landscape photographs. As America lights the candles for Rocky’s 100th birthday, discover why there is so much to celebrate—a billion years’ worth! Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years is available at local bookstores and gift shops, through online retailers, or from Farcountry Press at 800.821.3874, FarCountryPress.com.
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vid Shneer, the Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History and director of the Program in Jewish Studies. “By anchoring the university’s Archive of Post-Holocaust American Judaism with the story of the Holocaust itself and the destruction of much of European Jewish religious and cultural life, CU is now one of the only places in the world to be able to demonstrate how global Jewish life continued and flourished in the United States after World War II.” The archive is the life work of Harry W. Mazal, a retired businessman from Mexico City who made San Antonio, Texas, his home and became an internationally recognized Holocaust collector and researcher. Working with numerous volunteers, Mazal dedicated his life to creating a vast repository committed to defending the voices and memories of the victims of the Holocaust around the world by promoting scholarly research related to Holocaust studies, Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and bigotry. “The Mazal Holocaust Collection is a unique collection of materials about the Holocaust,” Lipstadt said. “It will help make the University of Colorado Boulder one of the premier places for research on a myriad of aspects of the Holocaust. It is an amazing collection of documents which will be an asset to students at the university and researchers throughout the world.” After Mazal’s death in 2011, his family wanted to ensure that his life’s work and legacy would continue to be available to scholars, researchers and educators around the world. A portion of the books from the Mazal Library has been donated to the new Texas A&M University–San Antonio. The rest of the library, including the highly valued archive and limited edition books, has been donated to CU-Boulder. “The Mazal Holocaust Library was everything to Harry,” said daughter Aimee Mazal Skillin of Lone Tree, Colo. “It was his heart and soul and he made it his mission to debunk Holocaust deniers. His archive material was vast and CU has the capability to maintain, restore and share these valuable resources with the world.” For more information on CU-Boulder’s Program in Jewish Studies and the Archive of Post-Holocaust American Judaism visit JewishStudies.Colorado.edu
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