Audio slideshow by Chris Doorley Words by Lucy Higgins “I broke my neck 16 years ago in a diving accident,” Topher Downham said as he sat on the porch of Chautauqua Park’s Ranger Cottage. Although the accident left him a paraplegic, Downham, who is the education and outreach coordinator at the city of Boulder’s Open …
Category Archive: Narrative
Looking Out for Lemurs in Madagascar
On a sunny but cool July morning in 2010, anthropologist Michelle Sauther is holding a sleeping lemur in her gloved hands as she examines it for parasites. Her colleague, Frank Cuozzo is peering into another ring-tailed lemur’s mouth as he prepares to make an impression of its teeth with blue dentist’s clay.


A Democrat Rides the Partisan Train
Activism, Analysis & Commentary, Climate Change, Featured, First-person, Narrative, Opinion, Politics
Oct 18
by The Boulder Stand
Back in the spring of 2009, I was sitting alone in a relatively slow train, returning early from a youth environmental summit dubbed ‘Powershift.’
Tags: democrat, liberal, partisan, politics, powershift, Sarah Palin, train, young republicans