Earlier this year, on a picture-perfect sunny day in mid-June, my colleague Alex Bachrach and I had the opportunity to visit the quarries at Lyons Sandstone, in Lyons, CO, about an hour outside of Denver. We were warmly greeted by the Buster family — the husband-and-wife team of Bernard and Brenda, along with their nephew Josh — and spent a couple of hours checking out the various deposits of stone and processing operations on the property. It was a thorough, informative visit, and the Busters were clearly used to showing guests around the site.
As often happens in publishing, it was a few months before we had an opening to run an article on the operations at Lyons Sandstone, and in this case, November would be the issue in which the story would appear.