The Memory of Giants

Legacy, Erasure and Reckoning in the North Fork Valley

From my kitchen window I look at my backyard, across the North Fork River, and up at Cedar Hill, or “P Hill” as many know it locally, for the requisite P on its flank. It rises above the Town of Paonia and above the homestead of Sam Wade, town founder. The high school has since consolidated to Hotchkiss, ten miles down the road, to the chagrin of some o…