Allie Flint
No hard or fast rules governed the position of Lafayette’s Poet Laureate, to which Allie Flint was elected by acclamation in November 1947. Few town events went unacknowledged in verse and several of Mrs. Flint’s poems are collected in Lafayette History: Treeless Plain to Thriving City.
She was born in 1877 in New York, came to Colorado in 1898 and after taking nurse’s training and marrying, moved in Lafayette in 1908. She was the mother of legendary motorcycle cop Harry Flint and a supporter of religious, civic and social activities in the community.
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