Museum on Main Street in Paonia
2024-06-17 - 2024-07-20 | Blue Sage Center for the Arts, 228 Grand Avenue, Paonia, Colorado, 81428
Colorado Humanities will tour “Crossroads: Change in Rural America,” a Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MoMS) exhibit to 10 Colorado communities August 2023 to December 2024. The exhibit takes a broad look at the characteristics of rural America, how an attraction to and interaction with the land formed the basis of rural America, and how these communities and small towns evolve.
The exhibition opens in Paonia at the Blue Sage Center for the Arts, 226 Grand Ave., Paonia, CO 81428, on June 17, 2024 and will be on view through July 2, 2024 before moving to the other communities.
About “Crossroads: Change in Rural America”
“Crossroads” explores how rural American communities changed in the 20th century. Currently, most of the United States landscape remains rural with only 3.5% of the landmass considered urban. Since 1900, the percentage of Americans living in rural areas dropped from 60% to 17%. The exhibition looks at that remarkable societal change and how rural Americans responded.
Americans have relied on rural crossroads for generations. These places where people gather to exchange goods, services, culture, and engage in political and community discussions are an important part of our cultural fabric. Despite the massive economic and demographic impacts brought on by these changes, America’s small towns continue to creatively focus on new opportunities for growth and development.

Motheread/Fatheread Colorado Institute – Denver
2024-06-25 08:30 - 2024-06-27 16:00 (America/Denver)
Motheread/Fatheread Colorado trains facilitators to work with groups of parents of infants through early elementary school in a series of sessions proven to raise children’s Teaching Strategies GOLD Language Scores and help them to discover the vital link between literature and life. Children whose parents participated in the program showed higher rates of growth on the Teaching Strategies Gold Language Domain. Registration is required in advance to attend the training.
Training runs Tuesday through Thursday, June 25, 26, and 27, from 8:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day. To apply, click the button below. Applications close June 7.
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