Greeley Stampede

It's an ancient newspaper quagmire: An event comes to town once a year, and everyone expects the paper to cover it, but how do you give people something they'd want to read. Doyle Murphy covered the Greeley Stampede last year in an interesting way, looking for documentable moments in the lives of people around the Stampede. Meghan Murphy's on it this year. Here she is with the first two installments: Watching over the Watermelon Feed and Leading the way to the Stampede: Norma Trujillo fumbles through her purse, locating her wallet and carefully feeling for $2 in bus fare. She takes a deep breath, sighs and clutches her bag.
"I saw her on the bus yesterday, she was really nervous," her friend, Vicki Baker, says.
Norma, 27, hasn't been to the Greeley Independence Stampede in eight years. Since her grandmother passed away in 2000, the blind woman hasn't had a trusted friend to take her. Then she met Vicki.

"I saw her on the bus yesterday, she was really nervous," her friend, Vicki Baker, says.

Norma, 27, hasn't been to the Greeley Independence Stampede in eight years. Since her grandmother passed away in 2000, the blind woman hasn't had a trusted friend to take her. Then she met Vicki.