Wilson Peak – Southwest Ridge – First Try
Wilson Peak is prominent in the Telluride area. We had to make two attempts, once from the Rock of Ages trailhead and once camping at Navajo Lake. This is a fun, challenging Class 3 mountain.
K2 and Capitol Peak (“The King”)
Capitol Peak is undoubtedly the standard bearer of all the fourteeners in Colorado. It features a very long boulder hike/climb to a sub-summit called K2 at 13,688’ followed by a knife-edge ridge crawl to the Capitol summit cap. The final push is a 550’...
Mt. Elbert – My First Fourteener and Again in 2016
Mt. Elbert at 14,440’ is the tallest in the State of Colorado, but one of the easiest to walk up. It is usually many hikers’ first tall peak. I first climbed it in 2002, loved it, but didn’t do a second 14er until 2009. Then in 2016 as prep for...
John Gabel: Immigrant Achieving the American Dream
John Gabel: His personal account of immigrating to America, overcoming great odds; his role creating the gaming machines that fueled the early growth of the Mills Novelty Company (the Klondyke, Monte Carlo, Kalamazoo and The Owl). Then in 1897 he started...
Private Company Boards of the Year 2016 Named – Pelstar
For more information, contact: David Shaw, Private Company Director Magazine, 301-963-6162, dshaw@directorsandboards.com The awards, presented at the Private Company Governance Summit on May 12 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., honor...
Tuft’s Automatic Crystal Fountain: A Magical Tabletop “Geyser” from 1871
Based on a pneumatic principle by physicist Heron of Alexandria in AD 62, the Automatic Crystal Fountain combines beauty with captivating geyser-like fountain using no apparent motive power.
The Music of Coinola “O-Roll” Automatic Instruments
“Listen to a selection of O-Roll music played on the Coinola SO – scroll down, click on any tune or sheet music cover” The history of the development of Coinola machines and the O-Roll format can be found at https://www.rickcrandall.net/a-nickel-for-music-in-the-early-1900s-evolution-of-the-american-orchestrion/...
The complete catalog of all 261 music rolls originally produced for the Encore Banjo, plus all 1800 individual tunes:
Catalog Sorted by Roll Number Catalog Sorted by Composer Alphabetically All 1800 Tunes Sorted Alphabetically Rollography Notes: ...
Little Bear Peak – Bad Boy of the Colorado Fourteeners
This is a pure climbing story because this mountain is a skilled-climbers’ mountain that most recognize as one of the two most difficult of all 57 Colorado fourteeners.
Operators Coinola O-Roll Rollography
Over 700 of the total 1270 “O” Rolls estimated ever made by QRS, Columbia, Capitol and Clark are catalogued and presented including tune composers.