This Year, When you Think of Helping History, Think of Helping Haiti

During the year 2010, the Estes Park History Rescue Project will temporarily “ double brand” itself as the Estes Park Haiti Rescue Project. While access to EPHRP’s ever-growing digital database, microfilm collection, and monthly history programs related to Estes Park and the surrounding area will continue to remain completely free throughout 2010, unobtrusive links to well-known national charities involved in the relief effort in Haiti will now appear on the EPHRP website, estesparkarchives.com, and donation boxes will be available near the concession table at the Lake Shore Lodge meeting room during Saturday monthly programs for any new items - canned goods, bottled water, school supplies, toys, summer clothing, shoes, etc., you can provide for earthquake survivors. Initially, these donated items will be transported to Loveland and combined with shipments going to Haiti through Colorado agencies such as H.E.L.P. International. By this summer, however, when the bulk of Estes Park visitors and seasonal residents return, and air transport into Haiti resumes for everyday citizens, one or more weekly EPHRP programs will be devoted entirely to Haiti, with invited speakers updating the community to the current situation on the ground. Following this, local individuals will fly directly to Port-au-Prince to provide donated supplies, their transportation paid for through private funds. As with all EPHRP projects, this effort is voluntary, nondenominational, and apolitical, and 100% of everything donated will go directly to the charity selected or to the people in need, with nothing diverted to administrative or transportation costs. In this respect, if anyone in Estes Park or the surrounding area is a native of Haiti, France, or any current French overseas departments and territories, or is fluent in both French and English or Creole and English, and wishes to donate a few hours of volunteer work each month, please contact EPHRP spokesperson John Meissner at 970-232-4145.
> Red Crescent - www.ifrc.com
> American Red Cross - www.redcross.org

Our Mission

Estes Park Archives assembles, catalogs, and preserves the history of Estes Park, Colorado, and surrounding regions, making fully-searchable electronic versions of this material instantly accessible to everyone - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, political affiliation, or beliefs, no matter how wacky. Whether you are a published academic heavyweight, an armchair historian, a fifth-generation homesteader, a brand-new summer resident, a grizzled foreign treasure hunter in search of Lord Dunraven's liquor cache, a kid with a homework assignment, or simply an interested Rocky Mountain National Park visitor waiting for a break in the weather, everyone is welcome.

Estes Park History Rescue Project pays up to $10,000 for selected early Estes Park and Loveland newspapers, as well as top dollar for early Estes Park pamphlets, postcards, newsletters, books, photographs, menus, programs, handbills, posters, etc. Because some of these items are held in public institutions and private collections, we don't publish an exact buy list, to remove any appearance of offering bounties or encouraging theft. Please contact us if you are thinking about selling your paper items and ephemera. We can make you an outright offer, list the items for you on Ebay, or provide a free written estimate of their value for donation purposes.