Loren Eiseley, the renowned anthropologist and philosopher,
made a key discovery in Northern Colorado in 1935 that forever changed the timeline of Native American occupation on this continent.
Uncover this discovery and the anthropologist’s captivating writings in Loren Eiseley: Haunted by
Ghosts from Colorado's Ice Age from 6-7:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 13, at the Global Village Museum of
Arts and Cultures.
“In 1910, Loren Eiseley’s father hoisted his young son on his shoulder to witness the passage of
Halley’s Comet on its 75-year cycle around the sun,” said presenter R. Gary Raham. “Years later,
Eiseley wrote, ‘At four I had been fixed with the compulsive vertigo of vast distance and even more
endless time.’”
Eiseley studied science at the University of Nebraska and became an anthropologist. As a graduate
student in 1935, he joined a Smithsonian expedition in Northern Colorado that unearthed artifacts of an
ancient Folsom culture in a site known as Lindenmeier. Raham, a local biologist, author, and illustrator,
will outline the details of Eiseley’s discovery while also treating the audience to a sampling of Eiseley’s
mesmerizing prose and poetry.
“But be forewarned.” added Raham, “Like Eiseley and myself, you may suffer from the compulsive
vertigo of discovering our place in the endless sea of time.”
Tickets for the presentation are $10 per person and available at globalvillagemuseum.org. As the
program is expected to sell out, early reservations are encouraged. The program is in conjunction with
the Museum’s Main Gallery exhibit, It’s About TIME, which runs through May 24. The exhibition is
funded in part by the City of Fort Collins’ Fort Fund.
The Global Village Museum is located at 200 West Mountain Avenue, and Museum hours are 11 am to
5 pm Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, please visit globalvillagemuseum.org or call
970-221-4600.
