Loveland Museum retrospective remembers 144 lives lost while exploring recovery and resilience
LOVELAND — Fifty years after one of Colorado’s deadliest natural disasters, the Loveland Museum is helping Northern Colorado remember the people, places and stories forever changed by the 1976 Big Thompson Flood.
Connected by the Canyon: 50 Years Since the Big Thompson Flood is on display in the museum’s Dunning Gallery through Nov. 28. The exhibition uses photographs, maps, recovered objects and oral histories to tell the story of the canyon before, during and after the disaster…