Carol Taylor

United States

Columnist and Freelance Contributor at Daily Camera

Articles

10 Health Habits to Embrace in 2025

Jan 11, 2025 | southerndallasmagazine.com | Carol Taylor

Make 2025 the year of you. We greet each new year with renewed energy for our dreams and goals. The first step to making them a reality is to focus on the foundation — physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. It’s not something that can be fixed or accomplished in a few days or weeks but takes steady dedication throughout the year with daily decisions. Each of those decisions support our health and set us up each day for success in navigating the challenges of life.
Buxton tennis players at Wimbledon

Aug 23, 2024 | buxtonadvertiser.co.uk | Carol Taylor

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowBuxton Tennis Club member, Caleb Wales, and his doubles partner, James Galloway Booth, reached the national finals of Play Your Way to Wimbledon. Caleb and James recently achieved every aspiring tennis player's dream - to win matches on the world famous Wimbledon courts.
Heavy rain easing, but DFW Airport hit by delays, cancellations

Apr 20, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Julia James |Sarah Bahari |Carol Taylor

At DFW Airport, more than 550 flights had been canceled and nearly 800 had been delayed, according the flight tracking website FlightAware.
Guest opinion: Carol Taylor: Demolishing the Harvest House Hotel is shameful

Dec 8, 2023 | dailycamera.com | Carol Taylor

Why do we have a historic preservation program, if not to protect places like the Harvest House Hotel? Sadly, the city’s historic preservation staff approved a full demolition of the hotel — an award-winning mid-century modern building that is also the site of pivotal social history. Ralph D. Peterson architects designed a bold, curved hotel that embraced the setting on Boulder Creek and allowed for a spectacular view of the Flatirons.
In Retrospect: Carnation business flourished in Boulder

Dec 3, 2023 | dailycamera.com | Carol Taylor

Some say carnations are old-fashioned, as holiday floral arrangements have become more sophisticated over the years. But not long ago, Colorado carnations were the stars of the season. Carnation growers discovered that Colorado’s abundant sunshine and cool summer nights produced enviable blossoms. Competition came from California, but critics agreed the Colorado-grown carnations were bigger and better. Boulder farmers had carnations greenhouses as early as 1884.
In Retrospect: KGNU started broadcasting in a bungalow at the Harvest House Hotel

Nov 5, 2023 | dailycamera.com | Carol Taylor

KGNU went live on May 22, 1978, but the alternative radio station was years in the making. It began with a class offered through Boulder’s Community Free School in 1973, called “A Desperate Attempt to Start an FM Radio Station — Part 1,” according to news articles. Some 30 people showed up. One was Glen Gerberg who would become KGNU’s first station manager. Frustration with the University of Colorado’s failure to start a commercial-free FM station was one of the reasons that fueled the effort.
In Retrospect: The land Boulder sits on had many ownership claims

Oct 8, 2023 | dailycamera.com | Carol Taylor

Who claimed the land we now know as Boulder? From archaeological evidence as well as oral histories, we know that Indigenous people have lived in Boulder for more than 13,000 years. All told, some fifty modern tribes were in Colorado before white settlement. For hundreds of years, Ute territory and hunting grounds spanned all of Colorado and beyond. The Cheyenne and Arapaho migrated down from the Great Lakes region sometime around the 1700s.
Boardinghouses were once key to CU Boulder lodging

Sep 10, 2023 | dailycamera.com | Carol Taylor

Back in the 1940s, university students didn’t require fancy housing. They made do with what was around them. Some lived in dormitories or Greek houses, and many students rented a room in a family home on University Hill, furnished with just a bed, dresser, desk and a good reading lamp. Quite a few students lived in boardinghouses. Longtime Boulder resident Elaine Clow Larson, now 98, arrived in 1945 to attend CU Boulder, she remembered in a recent interview.
Progressive Era programs improved quality of life in Boulder

Aug 13, 2023 | dailycamera.com | Carol Taylor

The Progressive Era, 1890-1920, was vibrant with reforms and programs designed to create a more equitable and healthier society. The era followed the Gilded Age, when industrialists flaunted their wealth alongside the extreme poverty of others. Many groups rallied to help our community become a better place to live during this time. LiteracyWomen’s groups started advocating for a library in the late 1800s. Several reading rooms were already established, but some required payment.
In Retrospect: Beloved Boulder band Freddi and Henchi shaped the ’70s scene

Jul 16, 2023 | dailycamera.com | Carol Taylor

Fred Gowdy and Marvin Graves, charismatic lead singers for the Freddi-Henchi Band, had a significant impact on Boulder in the 1970s. Freddi was Fred Gowdy, and Marvin Graves was Henchi — a shortened form of henchman, his nickname from college wrestling. The band first performed in Colorado in the late 1960s, after founding the funk and soul group, also known as Freddi-Henchi and the Soulsetters, in Phoenix.