The Valley draws many extremely intriguing people to its beauties, ambience, and—when not chewing itself to pieces—friendly community sensibilities. Over the many years of its existence the Tribune has paused to tell a story or two about some of these good folk. “Peaks of the Past” is a reminder sometimes of that tradition, and the legacy of the numerous folk who have settled or visited here. One such frequent summer, and for any other excuse, visitor, is a Florida resident with family roots, and property, here since the 1940s. A 1969 graduate of Pueblo’s South High, Russell Higbee went on to the University of Colorado for a couple of years, and then returned to Pueblo to finish his undergraduate work at CSU-Pueblo’s institutional predecessor, the…