It’s difficult to write about all that occurred after Riley passed away. I struggle with what to share. I’m just a regular person who had extraordinary things happen to them. I would have considered myself an agnostic before this, sometimes moving into the atheist category. I grew up going to the Church of Christ as a child until we moved to Florida and we became Presbyterians. I never related to all of the fire and brimstone of the Church of Christ. I was told they thought d

Mary Colter was an architect, designer and decorator for the Fred Harvey Company from 1902-1948. She designed many hotels and restaurants for them as the Santa Fe Railroad expanded its lines across the Southwest, including many structures at the Grand Canyon when the railroad built a line to the South Rim. She was a woman ahead of her time who found her passion at a young age and pursued it with all she had. I discovered Mary and her work at the Bright Angel Lodge Museum when