Belle Zars

Independent Researcher and Historian

Belle Zars is an independent researcher and historian. She grew up in and around Hayden, Colorado, the granddaughter of local homesteaders and later ranchers, Ferry Carpenter and Eunice Pleasant Carpenter. She has long been fascinated with the experience and practice of belonging in community. She holds a doctorate from Harvard University where she wrote her dissertation on the Elkhead School and district consolidation. Her love of this place evolved and grew into her book, Only Connect, which explores the human presence and sense of community in this contested landscape. Routt County, and in particular, the Elkhead area north of Hayden, is her stammplatz – her usual place in the world and where her roots are deep and wide.

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