History
<p>The Old Main bell joined a cacophony of bells tolling 150 times on Feb. 10, 2009, in celebration of Boulder’s sesquicentennial anniversary.</p>
Founded in 1849, Boulder joyously celebrated its 150-year anniversary on Feb. 10.
Anthropologists often travel the world for their research, but this discovery involved just a six-block stroll from the Boulder campus: a rare stone tool cache containing traces of camel and other animal proteins from 13,000 years ago.
<p>Recall the magic and memories of the late 1950s during this year’s class of 1959 reunion May 7-8. </p>
<p>When <strong>Lelia Hinkley</strong> arrived in Peking, China, in 1921, she was greeted by a famine that placed nearly 20 million Chinese teetering on the brink of starvation.</p>
<p>During the late 1950s, Bob Harvey and his friends listened to folk artists like the Kingston Trio, played guitar and ruminated on the deeper meaning of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 anti-establishment treatise, On the Road.</p>
