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 p.m. 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,” says 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 treating the audience to a sampling of Eiseley’s mesmerizing prose and poetry.
“But be forewarned,” Raham adds, “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 W. Mountain Ave., and museum hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, visit globalvillagemuseum.org or call 970.221.4600.