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T'dad Talk - September 15, 2020

September 15, 2020 Cameron Wayne
T'dad Talk
T'dad Talk - September 15, 2020
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Today in the news, the Great Fox West Theatre is beginning to reawaken in Trinidad and in the state, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued a La Niña Advisory for the United States last week. In the world, a telegram and lock of hair belonging to Abraham Lincoln sells for $81,000.

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Sunny skies today with highs in the lower 80s. Tonight we’ll drop down to around 50 degrees for the southeast Colorado area.

For Wednesday, not too much different with highs again in the lower 80s.

Now, here’s the news.

This fall, the Fox West Theatre on Main Street in Trinidad will be hosting a season of performances for the first time in nearly a century. Right now, the theatre’s Project Manager Christopher Smith and videographer Elizabeth Holloway are capturing stage performances and beginning October 31 will be releasing some of them to raise awareness about the historically significant structure on their YouTube channel. 

Smith explained that the famous Rapp Brothers architects from Chicago were very likely involved in the design of the theatre and when it was built in 1908 the theatre served as a Vaudeville venue on what was known as the Orpheus Circuit until movies became the next big thing. 

In the 1930s, the stage’s mezzanine was covered with a projector screen and the great performance venue became a movie theater for the rest of the Twentieth Century and a bit into the Twenty-first; the stage (and many rooms) covered or built over, frozen in time.

Smith said they are also working to capture the unveiling of a few places that haven’t had people in them since the 1930’s as well as filming several other unique and rarely seen areas of the theatre in hopes of raising the public’s interest and curiosity.

In 2018, with support from History Colorado, the Fox West Theatre was purchased by the City of Trinidad. With support from Dana Crawford and Urban Neighborhoods, Inc. of Denver, in 2019, the Fox West Theatre Alliance, a 501c3 non-profit organization, was established, to facilitate the preservation of this historic theatre. 

Smith said they are still accepting sponsorships for their video performances that will be seen on YouTube and social media by a large amount of people locally as well as around the nation as interest and awareness for the theatre grows.

Businesses, organizations, and individuals from around Trinidad and from across the world are encouraged to help support the Fox West Theatre by becoming a sponsor. Visit their Facebook page Fox West Theatre, that’s t-h-e-a-t-R-E.

Happening in the state, forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued a La Niña Advisory for the United States last week. They say that conditions are present and will likely continue through the upcoming winter.

La Niña is a cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean near the equator. It can have an influence on weather patterns around the world. It’s the opposite of El Niño.

When a La Niña is present we sometimes see increased hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin, and that is definitely true this year. The National Hurricane Center is currently tracking five named storms.

During a La Niña winter the polar jet stream, which drives weather patterns in the Northern Hemisphere, favors a northern track. In the western United States that means the northern Rocky Mountains tend to be colder and wetter-than-normal. The south often ends up warm and dry. Because Colorado is stuck in between we usually experience a wide variety of conditions from north to south.

While no two La Niña episodes are ever alike we tend to see the most consistent snowfall in northern Colorado along with a lot of wind due to the nearby jet stream. Southern Colorado often ends up warmer and drier-than-normal.

The last La Niña winter in the United States was 2017-2018. It was meager for snow in places like Denver with only 25.7 inches for the season.

In the world, recently UPI reported that a lock of hair from President Abraham Lincoln's postmortem examination, along with a bloodstained telegram delivered shortly after his 1865 assassination, have sold for more than $81,000.

Lincoln's thick lock of hair, about 2 inches long and mounted to the official telegram, sold at auction Saturday, according to a statement from RR Auction of Boston.

The lock of hair ended up in the custody of Dr. Lyman Beecher Todd, a cousin of Lincoln's widow, Mary Todd Lincoln. Todd was present at the postmortem examination and is believed to have wrapped the hair clipping in the telegram, which his assistant, George Kinnear, sent to him the previous day.

The items sold for $81,250, which was more than the $75,000 the auction house expected to fetch since they went up for auction online late last month.

James Todd wrote in a letter dated Feb. 12, 1945, that the lock of Lincoln's hair has remained in family custody, but the auction house said the hair clipping was last sold in 1999.

I’ve seen enough Stephen Spielberg movies to know if it’s around long enough, maybe science can bring him back. Put that on your ballot and check it…

Not too much happening this week but Mount Carmel is still offering their online virtual classes. To see their schedule and register for the link to join, visit their website MountCarmelCenter.org. 

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