How one volunteer connected the dots at RMV’s Freedom Fest
By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice
After Freedom Fest ended, Pueblo resident Randy Thurston was still talking his way through the weekend. Not in order. One speaker reminded him of another, and a story from Saturday connected to something he had heard Friday.
He was not replaying the event. He was still putting it together.
"I still don't know how she pulled it off," he said, meaning Rocky Mountain Voice founder Heidi Ganahl. "I don't know how she even had that vision and then the ability to manifest it. Do you know what it took to get everybody there on the weekend before the Fourth of July? That in itself was impossible."
A little later, after talking through several of the presentations, he came back to it again. "Any one of these speakers, I would've driven a thousa...