Dr. Mary Solander was a resident of Boulder where she lived and practiced her profession. Mary was born in Cumberland County, PA and had moved to Colorado in 1870. Her husbandwas a carpenter and she had four sons and one daughter. Boulder residents respected her as the first woman doctor in the area. She regularly advertised her practice in the Boulder county news.Shortly thereafter, Legal notices appeared in newspaper for the sale of the Solander property and a notice of divorce for the Solanders. Mary then went to Butte, Montana and Boise, Idaho and later died in California. However her legend still lives on as the first female prisoner in the Colorado State Penitentiary.















































































































The life of James H. Peabody was a series of unusual circumstances, events and achievements. Even his birth was unique as he was the youngest of 17 children! He was born on August 21, 1852, in Orange County, Vermont, where his family raised crops and children. James attended school in Vermont, and later furthered his education at the Bryant and Stratton Commercial Colleges at Barre and Burlington, Vermont. Three of his brothers fought for the Union in the Civil War.His father moved to Pueblo, Colorado, in 1871 and established the dry goods firm of Peabody & Jordan. James followed him after receiving his business college education in 1872, and worked for three years keeping the books. Early in 1875, he went to work for James Clelland in Clelland's general mercantile store in Canon City, Colorado. He worked his way up to become manager and then a partner of the firm. In 1882, he purchased the business and operated it until 1885, when he was elected county clerk. He defeated the incumbent who had held the post for 18 years. On March 19, 1878, he married Frances Lillian Clelland. They had four children, James, Clellan, Cora May and Jessie Anne.Peabody ran again for a second term in 1904 against Democrat, Alva Adams. The slogan for the Democrats was "Anybody but Peabody!" Adams criticized Peabody's handling of the Cripple Creek and other strikes and promised that he would do a better job of ending the industrial warfare. Despite Adams' apparent victory, the Republicans who controlled the legislature, insisted that fraud and corruption had dominated the balloting process in certain counties. Apparently, however, both parties had used methods that prevented a fair election. Since the legislature was charged with deciding contested seats, the Republicans prevailed and voted to unseat Governor Adams. Peabody was then pronounced the winner upon condition that he resign immediately after taking the oath of office. The governor's chair was then handed over to the Republican Lieutenant Governor, Jesse F. McDonald. Colorado thus had the dubious distinction of having three different governors in one day.Following the election, Peabody returned to his home in Canon City where he retired to private life, devoting his time to caring for his various financial interests. He died November 23, 1917 and is buried in Canon City.















































Matthew Shaffer was born in Canon City, Colorado. His family moved to Torrance, California in 1987 and he began training in Theatre and Dance. Matthew and his sister performed with several children's theatre companies in and around the Hollywood area. In 1993 he attended the Orange County High School of the Arts where he continued his training.Upon graduation, Matthew accepted a full apprenticeship to the renowned dance company, Giordano Dance Chicago. For three seasons he toured the USA and Europe as a principal in the company. While in Chicago he also performed in several stage productions at the Chicago Theatre and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.In 1999, Matthew moved to New York City to continue his training. While in New York, he worked on Broadway, in the Ensemble at Radio City Music Hall, Off-Broadway in Tess' Last Night, and in several pre-Broadway workshops and benefits.In 2004, Matthew returned to Los Angeles where he now lives and works.



















Alece Birnbach.Alece was born in Salida, Colorado, USA. She currently lives and works in Boulder, Colorado. She graduated with an Associate Degree in Advertising Design, from the Colorado Institute of Art, Denver, Colorado, USA. She went to Fremont Center for the Art, Canon City, Colorado.





Ginger Ovnicek is the Capture the Moment Photography Owner. Se owns her own studio to capture moments of everyones lives.Awarded the Best Photographer for 2006 by Fremont County. Awarded Artist of the Month for April 2007.Active member of Wedding & Portraits Photographers International since 2005.Over Seven years experience with Professional Studio Photography.Blossom Pageant Photographer since 2005.


Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff, who is known professionally only by his first name, was born on June 13, 1935, in Gabrovo, a small town in the Balkan Mountains of Bulgaria. Bulgaria was invaded by the Nazis during his early childhood, and later occupied by the Soviets at the end of World War II when Christo was about ten-years-old. He was the second of three sons born to Ivan Javacheff, a chemist and prominent businessman and industrialist, and Tzveta (Dimitrova) Javacheff, a political activist. His family was prominent in Bulgarian artistic circles in the 1950s and young Christo studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Bulgaria's capital city, Sofia. There the curriculum followed the tenets of Soviet Social Realism and Christo learned to paint in the strict realistic styles advanced by the Soviet government. As a member of the Communist Youths he participated in art propaganda projects while in school. In 1956, he went to Prague, Czechoslovakia to study theater design, and there he saw for the first time modern paintings by Matisse, Miro, Klee, and Kandinsky which were relegated to basements and storerooms.In 1996, Christo traveled back to Colorado for his Over the River, Project for Western USA. This involved wrapping roughly five miles of the Arkansas River near Canon City, Colorado with a translucent fabric.

Henry Starr was an American outlaw, specifically, a horse thief, train robber, and was convicted of murder once. The committed murder was of a U.S. Deputy Marshal Floyd Wilson in December 13th, 1892. Henry Starr claimed in court to not have known it was a U.S. Marshal and only to know that a man had opened fire on him without provocation. Distantly related to Belle Starr, he was the last in a long line of Starr family criminals. Twice sentenced by Judge Isaac Parker to hang for murder, he managed to escape the noose due to technicalities and went on to form a gang that terrorized and robbed throughout northwest Arkansas around the turn of the century. He was imprisoned in 1915, wrote his memoirs and even portrayed himself in a silent movie, 'A Debtor to the Law' in 1919. He was the first bank robber to use a car in the commission of the robbery. He was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas, in 1921.































Donald Fredrickson was born in Canon City, Colorado. His father was a lawyer. After high school he commenced medical school at the University of Colorado, but completed his studies at the University of Michigan after being transferred there by the army. During a cycling trip in the Netherlands he met his future wife, Priscilla Eekhof, and they married two years later. They would have two sons.Between 1949 and 1952 he worked as a resident and subsequently as a fellow in internal medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now part of Brigham and Women's Hospital) in Boston. Much of his published work from this period is in the field of endocrinology. Subsequently he spent a year in the laboratory of Ivan Frantz, a cholesterol biochemist, at Massachusetts General Hospital.







Tom Woodward was born in Oklahoma City in 1932. He received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Yale University in 1954 and his masters in Architecture (also from Yale) in 1957.He won 1998 Blossom Merit Award, Canon City Music & Blossom Festival Art Exhibit, Fremont Center for the Arts, Canon City, Colorado.



William H. Adams was born at Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, on February 15, 1861. His father was a native of Kentucky, his mother of New York, and both were pioneers of the lead mining districts of Wisconsin. In 1871 the family crossed the plains by wagon, stopped a short time at Greeley, again at Denver, and located for some time at Colorado Springs. Here William continued a common school education begun in Wisconsin. His parents came west for the sake of their son, George, who was struggling with tuberculosis. George improved for a time, but then died in 1873. While Billy's folks went back to Wisconsin, he and his brother, Alva, stayed in Colorado.In the field of corrections, Governor Adams granted no pardons and rarely reduced sentences; and he never intervened when a death penalty was handed down. A prison riot at Canon City in October of 1929, cost the lives of eight guards and five prisoners, and focused attention upon overcrowding, idleness and other unfortunate conditions existing in the state penitentiary. A fire at the same institution in the following February further emphasized the need for prison reform measures. Adams appointed and supported Roy Best as warden of the state penitentiary, and it was Billy who stuck by Best when he was charged by the federal government in 1952 with torturing convicts and when he was suspended for two years by the State Civil Service Commission.Below us is a photo of him.