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Volume 16, Number 33
October 3-9, 2024
Ella Motriz (left) and David Garcia (right) focus on the job while Kasen Aguirre (center left) and Clay Rumery take a second to horse around — and who can blame them?
Harvesting history Photos by Sue Rollyson
For well over 100 years, potatoes have been harvested in and around Carbondale. The vegetable was a staple export for part of that time. Crops harvested nearby would be stored under the Dinkel Building on Main Street and brought to the surface by a lift (that is still operable today) and loaded onto freight cars at the old railroad depot to be shipped off for folks to eventually enjoy on their breakfast or dinner plates. Today, history lives on thanks to the helping hands of a new generation. For a few years now, ahead of the annual Potato Days celebrations, Hattie Gianinetti has brought students from Two Rivers Community School to pluck spuds from the earth — just as the town’s predecessors did for the past 115 years — at the ranch belonging to her parents, Anne and Mark Gianinetti. Many thanks to the Two Rivers’ eighth grade class for helping collect this year’s lot for the community feast on Saturday, Oct. 5 in Sopris Park! Kayla Escobar (left) and Darlene Marquez doing their part.
Kayden Tran gathers an armful.