Press
B. Travis Wright, MPS tours Colorado presenting Rollins Pass Rewind and Rollins Pass: What Matters Most? and writes/speaks on topics related to historic preservation. Prior media, press coverage, and mentions in book acknowledgments are listed below:
Press for Rollins Pass and adjacent areas featuring work by B. Travis Wright, 2023
• “B. Travis Wright,” Past Forward Micro-Podcast—January 31, 2023
• “Acknowledgments,” Grand County: Images of America (ISBN: 9781467108973) by Penny Rafferty Hamilton, PhD and the Grand County Historical Association (page 6) | Arcadia Publishing—February 20, 2023
• “Public Notice: Notice of Public Hearing [regarding LM-23-1 East Portal Camp Cabins],” The Mountain-Ear (page 29)—May 4, 2023
• “Cabins at East Portal get historic designation,” The Mountain-Ear (page 21)—May 25, 2023
• “Cabins at East Portal get historic designation,” The Mountain-Ear—May 26, 2023
• “East Portal Cabins—history didn’t end when the tunnel opened,” The Mountain Ear (centerfold, page 17)—June 8, 2023
• “East Portal Cabins—history didn’t end when the tunnel opened,” The Mountain Ear—June 11, 2023
Press for Rollins Pass and adjacent areas featuring work by B. Travis Wright, 2022
• “Book Launch,” Sky-Hi News (page 3)—April 29, 2022
• “Studio Spotlight,” KFFR 88.3 FM—April 29, 2022
• B. Travis Wright: State Honor Award—32nd Annual Dana Crawford & State Honor Awards Ceremony | Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver—June 9, 2022
• World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys (Season 4, Episode 5) | Channel 5, United Kingdom—July 1, 2022
• “Event Will Benefit Grand County Historical Association,” Sky-Hi News (page 6)—August 17, 2022
• “Studio Spotlight,” KFFR 88.3 FM—August 19, 2022
• “Rollins Pass: A love story,” The Mountain-Ear (page 24)—December 22, 2022
• “Rollins Pass: A love story,” The Mountain-Ear—December 24, 2022
Press for Rollins Pass and adjacent areas featuring work by B. Travis Wright, 2021
• “First Meeting Of The Year Also The Last For Current Board,” The Mountain-Ear—January 16, 2021
• “Rail Against Losing Track of Our History,” 75th Anniversary Edition of the Sky-Hi News (pages 30-32)—April 2021
• “Proposal for Rollins Pass reopening brings questions of safety, preservation,” Sky-Hi News—May 27, 2021
• “Proposal for Rollins Pass reopening brings questions: Commissioners, historical group promote safety, preservation,” Sky-Hi News (page 7)—May 28, 2021
• “Tales from the Tread: 2021 Brown Bag Storytelling Series,” Steamboat Pilot & Today—Thursday, June 17, 2021
• “2021 Brown Bag Storytelling Series,” Steamboat Pilot & Today (page 15)—Friday, June 18, 2021
Press for Rollins Pass and adjacent areas featuring work by B. Travis Wright, 2020
• “Rollins Pass: a rich history and a perpetual question to reopen or not,” Grand Gazette (page 8)—January 30, 2020
• CBS documentary premiere, “Colorado’s Most Endangered Places 2020: East Portal Work Cabins,” Colorado Preservation, Inc.—January 30, 2020
• “BOCC Workshop on reopening Rollins Pass Road,” Winter Park Times—January 30, 2020
• “BOCC Workshop on reopening Rollins Pass Road,” Winter Park Times (page 19)—January 31, 2020
• “A treacherous trail: County revisits discussions about reopening Rollins Pass,” Sky-Hi News (front page)—January 31, 2020
• “A treacherous trail: Grand County revisits discussions about reopening Rollins Pass,” Craig Daily Press—February 3, 2020
• “Hope for East Portal Camp cabins by Moffat Tunnel,” The Weekly Register-Call—February 6, 2020
• “East Portal Cabins to be preserved,” The Mountain-Ear (page 28)—February 6, 2020
• “East Portal Cabins To Be Preserved,” The Mountain-Ear—February 18, 2020
• “East Portal Moffat Tunnel,” CBS4 Denver—February 20, 2020
• “Pottery shard reflects on the history of Rollins Pass in Colorado,” Discover Vintage America—March 1, 2020
• “Colorado’s Most Endangered Places 2020,” CBS4 special hosted by Dave Aguilera—March 28, 2020
• “Dave Aguilera Hosts ‘Colorado’s Most Endangered Places’,” CBS4 Denver & MSN/Microsoft News—April 1, 2020
• “Colorado’s Most Endangered Places 2020,” CBS4 special hosted by Dave Aguilera—April 18, 2020
• “East Portal Camp Cabins, Part 1,” On the Rails with Forrest Whitman Podcast—TBD 2020
• “East Portal Camp Cabins, Part 2,” On the Rails with Forrest Whitman Podcast—TBD 2020
• “Rollins Pass Art: Karen Vance to donate a masterpiece for GCHA to raffle beginning September 1,” Grand Gazette (page 12)—August 27, 2020
• “Rollins Pass Art: Karen Vance to donate masterpiece for GCHA fundraiser,” Winter Park Times—September 3, 2020
• “Karen Vance to donate masterpiece for GCHA fundraiser,” Winter Park Times (page 16)—September 4, 2020
• “From the Artist: Karen Vance on her newest creation for the Grand County Historical Association,” Grand Gazette (page 4)—September 24, 2020
• “GCHA to raffle off painting for history,” Sky-Hi News (page 2)—September 25, 2020
• “GCHA unveils painting to be raffled off in support of history,” Sky-Hi News—September 25, 2020
• “Karen Vance Donates a Masterpiece to Grand County Historical Association,” Winter Park Times (page 19)—October 2, 2020
• “From the Artist: Karen Vance on her newest creation for the Grand County Historical Association,” Winter Park Times—October 2, 2020
• “GCHA is Raffling Karen Vance’s Newest Masterpiece: ‘The Trestle on Rollins Pass,'” Grand Gazette (page 8)—October 29, 2020
• “The Significance of Setting on Rollins Pass,” Grand Gazette—November 25, 2020
Press for Rollins Pass and adjacent areas featuring work by B. Travis Wright, 2018-2019
• “Local authors of Rollins Pass history book to hold launch party Saturday,” Sky-Hi News—May 10, 2018
• “Local authors of ‘Rollins Pass’ to hold launch party,” Sky-Hi News (page 9)—May 11, 2018
• “Rollins Pass focus of a new history book,” MMAC Monthly (page 12)—May 2018
• “Author-hosted event celebrates book release,” MMAC Monthly (page 12)—May 2018
• “Book It: The five best literary events this week,” Westword—May 7, 2018
• “Taking the pass,” Sky-Hi News (front page)—May 16, 2018
• “New book sheds light on diverse history of Rollins Pass,” Sky-Hi News—May 16, 2018
• “Library hosts Rollins Pass presentation, film screening, July 31,” MMAC Monthly—July 11, 2018
• “Rollins Pass – Rare images and Film screening,” The Weekly Register-Call—July 12, 2018
• “Indian Peaks Traverse: The Journey Continues,” Indian Peaks Traverse—January 8, 2019
• “Where we were: Rollins Pass yesterday and today,” The Mountain-Ear—April 20, 2019
• “Tales from the Tread: Brown Bag Storytelling Series returns,” Steamboat Pilot & Today—July 2, 2019
• “Couple that wrote book on Rollins Pass concerned after dirt bike drone video surfaces,” CBS4 News—July 31, 2019
• “Drone Video Captures Dirt Bikers On Rollins Pass,” MSN/Microsoft News—August 1, 2019
• “Where we were: Read in Ned: Rollins Pass Rewind,” The Mountain-Ear (page 9)—October 24, 2019
• “Colorado’s Most Endangered Places: East Portal Camp Cabins” documentary interview, CBS News—December 18, 2019
