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Article: Black Forest will celebrate rural lifestyle
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- August 11, 2005
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The densely treed, five-acre lots on which most Black Forest
residents live suggest purposeful isolation. But residents disprove
that impression annually during the Black Forest Festival.
Like most Colorado communities, few of the area's 10,000 residents
are natives. Those who move there are fiercely protective of their
rural lifestyle. County planners and commissioners repeatedly cite
Black Forest as an example of a community that makes its voice heard,
loud enough to sway landuse decisions.
The festival, marking its 46th year, celebrates those qualities.
"I've never lived anyplace like this in my life," said Sherrie
Lidderdale, festival spokeswoman. "It's rural, but at the same time, ...
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