My husband Paul Hebert and I are working on a new book about Routt County, Colorado. Our working title is Mid-Century Migrants to Routt County. The work will feature fourteen life stories of people who came to settle in Routt County in the 1960s and '70s, their struggles to find housing and jobs, and their contributions to the community over time. The book will be a slice of the history of Routt County that is currently missing. The stories are both humorous and heart-warming, and they show that many of the struggles of newcomers today are the same old ones: expensive housing, mediocre-paying jobs, and scarcity of child care. Mid-century migrants came from East and West, mostly to live in Routt County's beautiful environment among friendly ranchers and miners and to enjoy an emerging ski resort here in the Rocky Mountains. Nearly all were getting away from the environments they grew up in, for one reason or another. We are nearly done with editing first-person accounts, as well as the interviews we conducted, and will soon move on to finding a publisher.
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