Collegiate Bluegrass Programs in Colorado and Tennessee Working Together to Help North Carolina Storm Victims

In many places in the U.S., at most small universities, depending on the location, a full-fledged bluegrass program can be hard to sustain. But, that is exactly what has happened at Colorado College, located near Colorado Springs, Colorado.  A private university founded in 1874; Colorado College was created when the so-called “Wild West” period was still in full tilt. To put it into perspective, this college was formed out of whole cloth two years before General Custer met his fate against the Lakota Sioux Tribe 560 miles north in Montana, and before Billy The Kid had killed his first man in Arizona. The school was also founded one year before Bat Masterson would become the Assistant City Marshall of Dodge City, when Wild Bill Hickock would be shot dead in the Dakota Territory, and seven years before the shootout at The OK Corral happened in Tombstone.  The key to all of this civilized building of higher education institutions, of course, was the completion of the First