About the Producers
Rich Salmon and Larry Knowles teamed up during the Fall of 2005 to produce this film. Rich brought his photography and the 19th century images he had collected from the online archive of the Colorado Historical Society. He wrote the screenplay and recorded the narrative. Larry used Apple software called iMovie to bring it all together. They even went to Silver Plume and conducted a focus group with board members of the George Rowe Museum to verify historical details. The museum subsequently scheduled a Premier month for showing the railroad film, corresponding with the opening of the Georgetown Loop's 2006 summer season.
Lawrence F. Knowles is an octogenerian who retired from the National Park Service in 1988. He served them for 35 years as a landscape architect, producing some wonderful projects in Yosemite, Joshua Tree and Death Valley National Parks, to name just a few. He and Montine have four grown daughters and live in Lakewood, Colorado where he does service work for his church and the Denver Botanic Gardens. Numerous examples of his film and still photography appear on their site. His most expansive publication is called Korean War Letters From a Lieutenant and His Bride (526pp, 8 1/2 x 11 format) and is scheduled for release in May 2011 by Dorrance Publishing Co. His main film production (50:00 min) relates his experience as a platoon leader in a U.S. Army tank battalion in Korea during 1952-1953. One can reach Larry at larry16@mac.com.
Richard F. Salmon retired from IBM Office Products sales (click here for photo) in 1987 and works today as a real estate property manager and real estate photographer. Rich and Verna have a combined family of nine children, 24 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Counting spouses, their offspring now numbers 64. For a 2001 family photo, click here. Verna has been a pyschotherapist for 30 years, specializing in treating depression, anxiety, addictions and codependency. Her website tells the story.
Having begun photography in 1948 while in high school (Bernardsville NJ), Rich became the Harding University newspaper photographer. Later, he served several churches as publications writer and photographer and manager of their offset printing departments. At IBM he was quite successful in selling the IBM Selectric Composer and copier/ printer products. During the 1990's Rich worked as a publications/ printing consultant for Kinko's Copy Stores in Boulder and Denver, Colorado. His publications are listed in the Salmon Family Publications page.
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