Hospitality & Tourism  February 5, 2020

Collaboration breathes new life into Dead Guy Days

NEDERLAND — A quirky festival that some had given up for dead is getting set to again welcome tens of thousands of people to this Boulder County mountain village, thanks to a new partner and more collaboration with town officials.

The 19th annual Frozen Dead Guy Days, which sprang from a Norwegian immigrant’s efforts to keep his deceased grandfather packed in cryogenic freeze in a Tuff Shed until future advances in medical technology might revive him, is expected to bring upward of 25,000 visitors to Nederland on March 13-15, complete with its signature coffin races, frozen t-shirt…

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With BizWest since 2012 and in Colorado since 1979, Dallas worked at the Longmont Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post and Public News Service. A Missouri native and Mizzou School of Journalism grad, Dallas started as a sports writer and outdoor columnist at the St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News, then went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before fleeing the heat and humidity for the Rockies. He especially loves covering our mountain communities.
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