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Article: EDITORIAL: Pacified In Pagosa Springs.
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- Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
- Article date:
- December 5, 2006
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Dec. 5--If you should happen to ride into the town of Pagosa Springs, Colo., during the holidays, you might get the impression that the place is the most peaceful on earth. Giant peace signs are popping up everywhere, and a peace wreath hangs on the bell tower in the center of the small town 200 miles southwest of Denver. But that wasn't always the case. The prevalent peace symbols actually stem from a fight.
Bill Trimarco and Lisa Jensen were threatened with fines by their neighborhood homeowners' association unless they stopped displaying an evergreen holiday wreath in the shape of the familiar divided circle from the '60s. Some board members said the ...