The History of Boulder County Rests Here: John D. Slye John D. Slye was born on March 27, 1885, in Manchester, Iowa, to Luman and Elizabeth Jane Williamson Schley. When he and his siblings were children, the family moved to Boulder, Colorado. At about that same time, the family changed the spelling of their name to be more American, but the pronunciation remained the same. Luman and Elizabeth spent the rest of their lives in Boulder and are buried together in Green Mountain Cemetery. After compl

Georgia-Pacific: Plywood’s Southern Yellow Revolution By K. Brad Barfield In the early 1960s, the American forest products industry was defined by a rigid geographical monopoly. Softwood plywood production belonged almost entirely to the Pacific Northwest, where vast Douglas fir forests fed a mature, technologically stable manufacturing system. To the rest of the country—especially the South—plywood was an expensive, imported commodity. Freight from Oregon and Washington added such cost that Sou