Seasonal Resident Lunn Named to Vacant Position Museum Board Directors
Multi-generational Lake City seasonal resident Joe Harris Lunn, Professor Emeritus in African and Modern European History from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, has been appointed to a vacant position on the seven member board of Hinsdale County Historical Society.Lunn and his wife, Marcia Richmond, annually spend six months each summer at the family’s Wade’s Addition residence. In his letter of application, he stated that if appointed to the vacant directorship, he would attend the society’s monthly winter meetings online.Dr. Lunn was one of three applicants for the board position vacated in August this year by Arlene Gonzales. In addition to the newly-appointed director, other directors of Hinsdale County Historical Society are Grant Houston, Glenn Heumann, Mette Flynt, Peggy Bales, Jesse Kendall, and Mike Harrington.In addition to his university history background, Lunn has an interesting local background dating to his grandparents, Oklahoma residents Harris and Lydia Lunn, who acquired property adjacent to Wade’s Gulch to the south of Lake City in upper Wade’s Addition in 1958. Multiple generations of the Lunn family have spent time in Lake City in the intervening decades, including Joe Lunn and his brother, Bill Lunn, and succeeding generations of their families.In his letter of application, Lunn stated
