I lived in Trinidad from 1979 to 1981 . I went to TSJC. Since then I have lived in Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont. I can honestly say I still feel like I want to go back to Trinidad. There is something very special about this place to me. There are the obvious reasons, the weather, the natural beauty of the area and so on. But for me it's something I can't explain. I really miss this area and hopefully I can come back someday.

My favorite town in Colorado,

I lived there shortly up on the pass on the south side. Trin will always have a special place in my heart. Can hike for days with no trail and get a taste of what it may have been like in the late 1800s. Explore old encampments, fish, and listen to ancient voices on the wind. P+D= Trinidad ❤️

Thank you. I grew up in Trinidad in the 1950s. I love it.

I drove through Trinidad Colorado in the 90’s from Denver and the sight was absolutely breathtaking. The beauty of the mountains was the most beautiful I have ever seen.

My mom was from Trinidad, ten brothers & sisters, they grew up in a very small house in a very rural area. Still have cousins out in Colorado too, a nice place I hope I can go back to visit again someday.....

My dad was born there in 1922. His family was prominent business owners. Amazing place. So glad I was able to visit. It really has an old school that was up hill both ways. Wish I had visited before my dad passed and better yet wish I could have visited with my dad.

When I was young I couldn't wait to leave Trinidad and I did, now I miss the pace and the sight of my loved ones who passed away, I will always be that hardheaded little son of a bitch that used to run the streets there but I will never forget my humble beginnings and how much as a child loved summer time...

Thank you for producing this video! It was so enjoyable to learn about the history of Trinadad. I had no idea! My mother worked with Dr. Beiber. Being Spanish and Native American I appreciate the beginning of Trinidad in the making. This was so informative and I enjoyed every aspect of it! With artistry coming into the fold there is a great future again for Trinadad. I can't wait to retire here!

What a great documentary about my home town. So exciting what is happening there, and wonderful to see people I knew and loved. Thanks especially to Prof. Limerick, who made me feel proud to be from Trinidad.

I very much enjoyed the video. A great addition would have been the fasinating story of Bat Masterson as town marshal of Trinidad and how when Masterson was marshal he kept Doc Holiday from being arrested for murder in Arizona.

Lived there in '67-68 and as a teen couldn't wait to get away from a small town in the middle of nowhere. I wanted bright lights and the big city. Returned in the early '70s to TSJC and felt differently. I was back there last June and liked it a lot more, on a sentimental journey. But it was somewhat sad and depressing with all the weed shops, businesses I knew that were gone. The only one still there and open was the Safeway.

Had a flat tire there on my way to Pueblo it seemed nice. We stopped at the dispensary of course they were nice.

I am from Alabama and have visited Trinidad.Beautiful town and great people and every time i have left i felt like i was leaving home though i never lived there.Will one day soon though it will be home

Can't wait to visit here again everyone always friendly

I'm from Trinidad Colorado.

From over the water - it looks amazing!! Good luck, artists can be quircky but then you want that dont you

Everyone says " I love old towns !" "I love Colorado!"....but nobody says that back in those days it was prohibited to speak español in front of everybody if you have "Spanish" roots in your veins...

Whoop whoop nicely done

got invited to the artcar parade and so i watched to do my homework and learn the history of the location.. pretty amazing

I love this series thank you , Colorado is beautiful I love riding through it .

Colorado provides some of the best 19th - 20th Centuries examples of Architectural designs, in settings that allow fuller observation. Although several Historical Gems have been torn down in Colorado, the development of Historical Preservation Groups has truly made achievements. There's clearly more in 0laces like NY City, but they arent as easily viewed, nor in a setting that offers the more original perspective. I applaude Colorado for having a more Mature Minded concept and standards for securing History for the future generations.

Interesting history of the area

Great weed dispensaries too!

I would rent before you buy a house. I was living there in the early 1970's. Kind of a weird place. Lots of friction between the blacks, Chicano's and the whites. That was on campus, but it spelled over into the town. I can't say I miss the place, but I would like to visit one more time. Maybe go out to Baldy canyon.

In 2017 it was obvious in Trinidad the artist was not the current boom but recreational marijuana was and remains. Real estate values and rental prices are way up. Trinidad could be the recreational marijuana capital of the world and it's flooded with homeless.

Cruz, Lovato, family from Trinidad. 👍🏼

I’m from Trinidad but haven’t lived there since 1989. Where did the $14B go?

Thinking of moving here 😍

MY GRANDPA WAS BORN IN TRINIDAD COLORADO ON MAY 15, 1929.HE ALSO LIVED IN TRINCHERA COLORADO .AND LATER ON PUEBLO COLORADO

Dr Patty Limerick, (I've seen her somewhere before), in a documentary or at a conference ... '?' I recall she is an "Authentic Academic", (follows the "Standards of Science and Research") - vs - "Mainstream Academics" which hold a 19th Century Theory as their focal fact foundation. She isn't afraid of the Facts, it's an impressive trait of ethics.

Greeting from the country trinidad

You all did a great job on that video... except for leaving out TSJCs beautiful little campus and Gunsmithing program and Parker Owen Ackley's history, success there, and influence on industry world wide. Trinidad really is every ounce of the awesome you make it out to be; hope you all are doing great... and looking forward to better still.. pretty sure you are. fishers peak too... so much to say about that town..and it's people incredible.

When the experts say “interacted” with do they mean had “relationships” with them, I ask because “friendship” would be more appropriate in the place of interacted with, traded, also fits, interacted sounds more like “computer” speak, not the usual use of English language. A small, but in my opinion, important point, one that many people seem to make, Architects DON’T build buildings, they design them, builders BUILD buildings designed by Architects, Architects don’t even do the structural engineering side of things, funnily enough, that’s done by structural engineers.

I like the restaurant where the waiters and waitresses sing.

Used to pass thru going to Denver...always hated when I had to stop there for gas, always seemed very shady town to me

I live and love it here

0:19 "the arts hub it is today" . . . . I think you mispronounced "weed"

Hopefully moving to Trinidad Colorado in 20 days and I'm so excited. Just looks like an amazing place to be!

My dad's side of my family was from Trinidad.

What so surprising to me I live in a Caribbean country called trinidad

It's true, my family has flourished since moving here!

Trinidad has a lot of great weed dispensaries. A lot.

Wait what I thought there was only one Trinidad in the Caribbean where I live 🇹🇹

I live in Trinidad

Trinidad is now the neo Amsterdam. Not only did the art help Trinidad. But I have to admit the pot saved that town.

Dr. Bowers didnt leave trinidad if i am not mistaken her life was taken

To be known as the body mutilation capital of the country, I'd try to reinvent the place, too. Glad to see it move from that defining trait.

There was rumors of there being more bars than churches. GO FIGURE SUH

JOYCE

You should do a video on Manitou Springs

Hey Dr Bowers

Have you ever noticed that most town with Spanish names in Colorado don't have Saints names? I believe it's because the. first settlers were Spanish, Portuguese Jews that were running from the Spanish Queen that was executing them for not being Catholic. There are some tombstones in Northern New Mexico that have the Star of David on one side and the cross on the other side. I remember my dad saying we were Jewish.

Sex change capital. I call it Trimyerdad. Ronnie Lane bassist for Small Faces buried there.

San Luis is the oldest town in Colorado

I lived there for about a year and a half.... what a dump!

Sadly Liberal politicians are destroying Colorado.

Don’t gas up there, unless you own a bank.

What's the job market like?

Where is the rest of this video?

Where was Drop City?

I don't know who needs to hear this but, that is not the proper way to use a bookshelf. In fact, there is absolutely NO excuse for that...

phillipes son looked just like Sammy Davis Jr.

It's a shame really, this could be a great place to live if there were job's to be had. Another beautiful place with nothing going on, being "diverse" doesn't pay the bills.

Colorado offers an experiencing of the "Higher Minded aka Mature Minded", that occassionally looses its understanding of Higher Mindedness. Example: Non Judgemental of an Individual's choice of achieving truer self, all9wing use of natural products/herbs, (yet forbidding smoking if cigarettes within a city's boundary). This country orginal economy was built on Tobacco. Regardless of it's negatives, Freed means Choice and Action.

Tunk

Very recommendable! Trinidad: E.g. the former sex reassignment capital of the U.S.

They need better fast food. The trashed out McDonald's and KFC/Taco Bell is about it.

You can come into town a man and leave as a woman!

Lmao I live there

The narrative of this tribute to a great old town is incredibly weak and even inaccurate at times. Trinidad doesn't care. It will survive.

It's funny but not surprising the 1st woke industry was started by a kosher doc.

Terrible