Prunes and Rupe

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Prunes and Rupe is a touching story of friendship in good and hard times. Lessons of special relationships and a small community bonding together when help is needed. The small mountain community of Fairplay, Colorado pulls together to help a local miner and his trustworthy mule.

Good deeds are shared and memories live on in the story of Prunes 5/5(6). When Rupe asks his neighbors to help look after Prunes, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the people of the small town and the remarkable prune-colored burrow. Based on true events, Prunes and Rupe is a story of friendship, love, and flapjacks.4/5(2).

The story of Prunes and Rupe is a remarkable and touching tale of an old miner and his dedicate pack mule. Kids will be amazed to find out that the story is based on fact and that Prunes became something of a local celebrity in the mountains of Colorado in the late s.5/5.

Get this from a library. Prunes and Rupe. [Lydia Griffin; Judith Hunt] -- Based on a true story, relates the last days of a burro named Prunes and his owner Rupe, a gold prospector in Fairplay, Colorado.

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Fairplay's memorial to Prunes is a self-supporting stucco wall, into which is cemented a brass plaque, charting Prunes' 60+ years of service to miner Rupe Sherwood, who stood beside the monument when it was unveiled on Ap Prunes died, and Sherwood went a year or so later.

About that Bair wrote, “Then one day the aged legs of old Prunes collapsed, never to climb the trail again. Rupe Sherwood cried, unashamed.

This is the cover of the children’s picture book Prunes and Rupe. It will become a StoryWalk® on Front and Main Streets in Fairplay. The commissioners approved revocable license agreements June 28 with four owners of seven properties where storyboards will be installed.

Before long, he also found a charming children’s book about a prospector and his burro titled “Prunes and Rupe.” One thing led to another, as research often does, and Stockwell found a series of newspaper articles in the Fairplay Flume about Sherwood’s colorful life, written by.

Prunes lived to be sixty-three years old (a remarkable age for a burro) and became something of a town pet when he became too old to work the mines.

Author Lydia Griffin’s children’s book Prunes and Rupe is based on the true story and highlights the bond of friendship that developed between prospector and burro. “There weren’t two. By way of example, one of the stories on is about Rupe and Prunes.

Rupe Sherwood, a tough, independent man, spent his entire adult life looking for and mining the precious metals (mostly gold and silver) of Colorado near the Fairplay-Alma area.

Rupe didn’t care to work the hardrock mines. Instead he prefer to pan for gold. Prunes need to revamp their image.

Most people associate them with the elderly and the infirm, making them possibly the least sexy fruit ever, when in reality they are soft, sweet, deeply flavored — and dare we say sexy. Not only that, prunes are adaptable; they are as good served with duck as they are stewed with sweet port wine and spooned over cake.

Prune lover or merely prune-curious. INDIE PUBLISHERS HONOR CHILDREN’S BOOK: Prunes and Rupe Wins Two "EVVY's" UPDATE - DENVER, CO - Prunes and Rupe, a lavishly illustrated children’s book by Lydia Griffin, illustrations by Judith Hunt, was honored by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) at the fourteenth annual EVVY Awards Banquet, held March 28 in book won 2nd place in the Children’s.

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When Rupe asks his neighbors to help look after Prunes, an unlikely friendship blossoms between people of the town and the remarkable prune-colored on true events, Prunes and Rupe is a story of friendship, love, and flapjacks.

medium eggs, prunes, currants, ground cloves, sherry, suet, lemon and 10 more Rice Pudding with Port and Dried Plum Sauce MyRecipes salt, vanilla extract, granulated sugar, water, port, fat free milk and 7. The Prunes is a name of, at least, two bands: 1) A Danish hip-hop production team consisting of Simon Bonde, Christian Buksti and Peder Pedersen.

2) Virgin Prunes offshoot consisting of David Watson Jr. (aka Dave-iD Busaras), Trevor Rowan (aka Strongman) and Mary D'Nellon, which made two albums, "Lite Fantastik" () and "Nada" ( The book is based on interviews with current and former appointees, other veterans of the executive branch and Congress, journalists, and political consultants.

Book Details PagesAuthor: John H. Trattner. Rupe and Prunes are buried together in Fairplay. Memorial to Prunes in Fairplay, Colorado InRupe Sherwood homesteaded eight miles east of Eagle which later.

A delicious, convenient snack that helps you eat right. Enjoy the healthy benefits of The Feel Good Fruit™.There is mcg of Vitamin K in prune, pitted of prunes (dried plums, uncooked).

The recommended USDA amount of Vitamin K for adults 19 and older is 90 mcg/day. While on Warfarin, you should consume the same amount of Vitamin K daily. The USDA recommends that adults get 90 mcg of vitamin k daily. If the only thing you ate today were. Mary Peace Finley is author of the award-winning Santa Fe Trail Trilogy—Soaring Eagle, White Grizzly, and Meadow Lark.

Judith Hunt is the illustrator Author: Mary Peace Finley.