Barnes & Noble to Host Book Signing for Legendary Locals of Fruita

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - March 16, 2016 - PRLog -- Barnes & Noble to Host Book Signing for Legendary Locals of Fruita

Local authors, Denise and Steve Hight, will be available to sign copies of book

New York City poet and newspaper editor William Pabor headed to Colorado in 1870, heeding Horace Greeley's advice to "go West." After helping to establish Greeley, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins, Pabor continued west over the Rocky Mountains and founded Fruita as a family-oriented, agrarian-based community in 1884. Since its inception, Fruita has attracted farmers, ranchers, shopkeepers, entrepreneurs, writers, and visionaries, who all came in search of community spirit and the wide-open spaces. The area has also been fertile ground for fossil hunters, and Fruita has both its own fossil, Fruitafossor windssheffeli, and its own dinosaur, Fruitadens haagarorum. Fruita is also known for its unusual characters, including a headless chicken named Mike and a feline journalist named Charlie the Cat. From the 1910 apple queen Mabel Skinner to the pizza queens, Anne Keller and Jen Zeuner, of today, presented here are just a few of the stories of Fruita's always fascinating legendary locals.

Highlights from Legendary Locals of Fruita:

· Fruita's town founder, William Pabor, helped found Greeley, Fort Collins, and Colorado Springs before founding Fruita in 1884 as fruit-growing community.

· Before moving to the West, William Pabor was a well-known poet and song lyricist in the 1850s and 1860s.

· Fruita's legendary locals include a chicken, a cat, a dinosaur sculpture, the world's smallest dinosaur fossil, and a prehistoric mammal.

Join the authors for a signing:

Where:  Barnes & Noble

2451 Patterson Road

Grand Junction, CO 81505

When: Saturday, March 26th, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online (https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467102292).

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