Piceance-born author to speak on area’s history

RIFLE I Rifle Creek Museum is hosting another “Remembering Rifle” day with Gracie Petrakian as special guest on July 6 between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Petrakian is author of “Land of Tall Grass.” The book’s name is the translation of the Ute word Piceance. It’s a place where the grass grows so high that one homesteader is described as having had to “call out” to locate a fellow horseback rider who was obscured in…