“The Low Down From the High Up” By Polly Oberosler
This is collection of some of my writings over the last 25 years or so.
It covers rural mountain life in Colorado, personal musings while sitting around the camp fire, growing up, etc. There is something for everyone!
A grassroots nonprofit aims to turn Alonzo Hartman’s elegant 1890s castle into a public house and event venue.
I recall the smooth whirring sound of my 4-wheeled homemade skateboard under my feet perfectly amplified off the domed shaped roof as I circled around and around on the wood floor in “The Pavilion”. The faster I went inside that circular old building with the chest high windows passing by me, the more the walls…
I grew up climbing cliffs, riding horses, fishing, hunting, bicycling, playing basketball, working and yup, writing in the Colorado Rockies. I was born third in the family of four at the end of the baby boom, to middle aged parents who had lived challenged, but good lives in the wake of the Great Depression. They were resourceful and…