Donlyn Arbuthnot remembers, as if it were yesterday, the Sunday drives she took as a young child with her mom and dad from their home in Boulder. Often, these jaunts looped through Longmont, where the three would stop at the Longmont Dairy for ice cream. They frequently meandered along back roads past the Bader School House on Oxford Road and continued through Niwot, where she was regaled with stories about the old bank, blacksmith’s shop and creamery.

It’s because of her love of these stories and her rich family history that Arbuthnot eventually pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree in history at Colorado State University. But it wasn’t until a recent illness forced her to quit her 40-hour-a-week job that Arbuthnot truly began putting that history degree to work through her storytelling. Full Story