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- Rainbow Valley Boys (United States)
- The Rainbow Valley Boys was a bluegrass band formed by singer and guitarist Paul E. Scott, bass and fiddle player John Rhinehart of Maryland, guitar and mandolin player Paul Bass of Wisconsin, and fiddler Duane Knopp of Pennsylvania. The band formed in 1975. The Scott, Rhinehart, Bass, and Knopp version of the Rainbow Valley Boys may be related to the bluegrass band formed by Buddy Jones, Louis Arsenault and Bob French in 1961, which first performed under the name Rainbow Valley Boys and Sweetheart, and included the wife of Bob French, a musician. The band had its roots in the Northeast and gained a certain amount of notoriety there. During the 1960’s and 70’s, they released albums on three different labels, including Vermont Records. They also toured the United States and became known to a wider audience. *Information for this description was taken from the Wikipedia article “Buddy Jones (Bluegrass musician)” and from The Daily Sentinel article “’Fiddling, plucking, stomping’ part of museum music program” (Tuesday, February 12, 1980).
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- Rebekahs Mesa Lodge #58 (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- As a companion organization to the local Odd Fellows Mesa Lodge #58, The International Association of Rebekah Assemblies met at the Odd Fellows Hall. According to member Helen (Young) Johnson, they met every fortnight. They changed officers every year. They had a subsidiary called a Past Nobel Grands club that met to do textile work in the afternoons (the time switched to evenings as more of the attendees started working outside of the home). Initially, members all had to be related to a member of the Odd Fellows. Now, any woman of good character may belong.
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- Red Cross Land and Fruit Company (Mesa County, Colorado)
- The Red Cross Land and Fruit Company managed the Cross Orchards, located at what is now 3073 F Road in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, Colorado. Cross Orchards was the largest fruit growing operation in the county for many years. It was founded by Isabel Cross and later owned by her younger brother, Walter Bigelow Cross. Isabel (shown living with Walter as children in Vermont in the 1860 U.S. Census), apparently bought the land on which Cross Orchards sits in 1896 along with her half-brother Daniel (shown living with Isabel as children in Vermont in the 1850 U.S. Census). She shortly consolidated holdings on the land by purchasing the acreage owned by Daniel. She offered public stock on Cross Orchards in 1899, but had no takers, and so incorporated the Red Cross Land and Fruit Company in 1909. Walter Cross was rumored to be associated with the Red Cross Shoe brand and its fortune, but this was not the case. Rather, he was in various shoe business partnerships in Denver. His father seems to have been a successful merchant, but was in the tavern and grocery businesses, and not the shoe business. Cross Orchards was one of the largest orchards in Colorado between 1899 and 1923. In 1980, the property was acquired by the Museum of Western Colorado and became Cross Orchards Historic Site. To this day it is a tourist exhibit where visitors get a feel for the fruit farmer lifestyle in the old pioneer days of the Grand Valley. *Some of the information in this entry was acquired from the Museums of Western Colorado's docent guide. The above photo of a barn on the Cross Orchards property was shared with permission of the Museum.
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- Redlands Community Church, Mesa County, Colorado
- According to the website of the Redlands Community Church, it began in 1921 as a spiritual home for farmers who did not want to travel to Grand Junction or Fruita in order to go to church. It was, according to the site, the first church located in the Redlands. Kermit Brubaker served as the pastor there from 1965 to 1972. It is located at 2327 Broadway.