Boulder City Correspondence – October 2017
What Makes Something Historic?
Why preserve an old building? Is it the architecture? Did something significant happen there? Is it attached to a historic event or a noted person in history? If it has a...
Boulder City Correspondence – August 2017
Bullock’s Field, the old Boulder City Airport
Prior to 1933, Boulder City's "airport" was a graded dirt strip that accommodated the occasional private plane. In 1933, Noel Bullock leased the land from the Bureau of...
Boulder City Correspondence – July 2017
Snow White Sang at the Boulder Theatre
Somewhat neglected in the story of Boulder City is the fact that Boulder Dam was built not just to generate electrical power but to inspire a nation.
The architect...
Boulder City Correspondence – May 2017
America's Heroes and Boulder City, or Why We Love Veterans
Larry was a special friend, a fishing buddy. Fishing buddies lie, cheat, compete, and, sometimes, are even willing to die for one another. The first...
Boulder City Correspondence – February 2017
Keyhole Canyon
If Zion Canyon in Utah is a cathedral where one feels the overwhelming glory of nature, then Keyhole Canyon, just south of Boulder City, is a splendid sanctuary where your soul can talk...
Boulder City Correspondence – December 2016
The Birds of Lake Mead
Chirp, caw, quack, squawk, squeak, coo are parts of the cacophony of sounds performed in winter at the edge of the inland sea along the constantly receding shoreline in what...
Boulder City Correspondence – October 2016
Good Citizens
The biggest event of the year in Boulder City is the Annual Art in the Park held downtown below the graceful trees of Wilbur Square and Bicentenial Park on the weekend of October...
Boulder City Correspondence – September 2016
A Walkable City & Alabam the Toilet-paper Man
Everyone has seen something that looked like something but which they are sure couldn't really be. In front of the historic L.A. Water and Power Building in Boulder...
Boulder City Correspondence – August 2016
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Lake Mead and Boulder City
There would be no Boulder City without Lake Mead. Boulder City's was created to be the headquarters to build the Hoover Dam, which created Lake Mead. And there it...
Boulder City Correspondence – July 2016
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Boulder City 68th Annual Damboree 4th of July Celebration
One of of the joys of Boulder City is scale. Unlike the the sometimes over the top spectacles of nearby Las Vegas, Boulder City is small town...
Boulder City Correspondence – June 2016
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The Magic Forest of Wee Thump
Boulder City is really at the intersection of so many crossroads. While in Boulder City one just needs walk to Highwy 93, and if you go north you...
Boulder City Correspondence – May 2016
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Discovering Boulder City
Travelers tend to run into Boulder City, coming and going from somewhere else. Going to Lake Mead and Hoover Dam. Coming from Phoenix to Las Vegas, or vice versa. But there...
