Bring your brown bag lunch and join us for Lunch & Learn. The program starts at 11:45 am in Twinberry Auditorium and will end at 12:45 pm.. We hope that you’ll stay, eat your lunch, drink a cup of coffee and connect with other Front Range Forum members. Lunch and Learn is held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month. You must be a member of Front Range Forum to attend.

The Life and Times of the Malaby Store, Meg Dunn

The Malaby Store is one of Fort Collins oldest buildings, but its history has been somewhat hazy, even to the family that’s owned the building for over 100 years. Learn about this 142-year-old false-front former photography gallery in this talk by Meg Dunn who will cover not only what it was like to live in downtown Fort Collins in the 1880s, but also how the building was moved and the lives that were lived in and around it for decades. Through the life of one building we’ll cover a wide swath of local history including the rail road, our early African-American community, neighborhood life, a tragic murder-suicide and more. Meg Dunn is a premier local historian and the chair of the Fort Collins Historic Preservation Commission.