Re: last stages ... of Alzheimers

Dear Doug, Ed, George, Hank et al -

Actually, "Alzheimer's" is German for "Old-Timers" ... but it has nothing to do with my memory -
or at least not with anything I actually witnessed - just my exceedingly sharp eyes. (For an old
Curmudgeon, that is.)

IIRC, I read here on the NGDF that the D&RG ran from Denver to Grand Junkyard and the Rio Grande Western ran from Grand Junkyard to Salt Lake City, and they didn't merge until sometime in the 1920s (?) to become the Denver & Rio Grande Western, so the ad is off by at least 50 years when it claims the latter was incorporated in 1870. This isn't something I actually saw, just something I read about.
Like stages.
Honest.

- Russo

p.s. I'm only distantly related to Kokopelli. One of his descendants was a Tuzigoot princess who married one of the soldiers in an early survey party. She was my Great⁶-Grandmother, so I'm 1/256 Tuzigoot.   According to tribal legends, we abandoned Chaco Canyon and moved to Val Verde (between Jerome and Sedona) several generations before the coming of the white man, so Kokopelli is possibly my Great¹²- or Great¹⁵-Grandfather.