Why It Matters

  Say “Colorado” and people envision snow capped peaks and lush mountain meadows teeming with wildlife. That’s a pretty fair picture of the Colorado where Jim was raised and eventually married, but the southeastern end of the state more closely resembles its neighbor New Mexico than it does a Coors commercial. The Air Force built…

Colorado mountain towns today are home to the rich, or at least the doing-better-than-average, while the poor scrape by in the cities (and the plains, but I’m getting ahead of myself). This is a relatively recent development, though. When Otis and Mable purchased their expanded hunting cabin in the 1950s, Evergreen was an affordable town…