When Sue Hirshman first came to Ouray, she had no idea a little, dark canyon and its inhabitants would become the center of her world.

There, behind the waterfall, in the nooks and crannies of Box Canyon, she found her passion.

And it all happened because her neighbor pushed her and wouldn’t take no for an answer.

Hirshman and her husband, Bill, lived next door to Barb Boland near the corner of Fourth Street and Third Avenue. The Hirshmans started coming to Ouray for summers and bought the hous...