Traditions https://breckhistory.org/tag/traditions/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:27:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://breckhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-BreckHistoryLogo-1-jpg-32x32.webp Traditions https://breckhistory.org/tag/traditions/ 32 32 Victorian Hair Art and the Macabre Rituals of Death in Early Breckenridge https://breckhistory.org/victorian-hair-art-and-the-macabre-rituals-of-death-in-early-breckenridge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=victorian-hair-art-and-the-macabre-rituals-of-death-in-early-breckenridge Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:23:16 +0000 https://breckhistory.org/?p=4177 “Hair is at once the most delicate and last of our materials and survives us like love. It is so light, so gentle, so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to...

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]]> Breckenridge’s No Man’s Land Celebration– An Excuse for a Party https://breckhistory.org/breckenridges-no-mans-land-celebration-an-excuse-for-a-party/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breckenridges-no-mans-land-celebration-an-excuse-for-a-party Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:41:53 +0000 https://breckhistory.org/breckenridges-no-mans-land-celebration-an-excuse-for-a-party/ Locals of Breckenridge, CO celebrated No Man’s Land Festival for decades, eventually leading to Ullr Fest, its famed winter carnival.

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]]> Breckenridge, CO: The First Ullr Dag Festival https://breckhistory.org/breckenridge-co-the-first-ullr-dag-festival/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breckenridge-co-the-first-ullr-dag-festival Sun, 14 Feb 2021 04:26:48 +0000 https://breckhistory.org/breckenridge-co-the-first-ullr-dag-festival/ Breckenridge’s first winter carnival, Ullr Dag, had a tall order to fill: make Breckenridge stand out from other ski resorts in Colorado.

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