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Nederland was horrified at first when it learned a resident had cryogenically preserved his deceased grandfather, but now it is grieving the celebrity corpse’s possible move to Estes Park —For more than 20 years, the tiny mountain town of Nederland has enjoyed a macabre claim to fame: a cryogenically immortalized grandfather lying under dry ice in a shed. As Estes Park prepares to kick off the new Frozen Dead Guy Days on Friday, the festival’s former home is grappling with the fallout, and asking itself tough questions. Who owns the culture of a frozen dead guy? And what is Nederland...

Celebration Includes Parade, Lookalike Contest NEDERLAND, Colo. -- Nederland celebrated the second annual "Frozen Dead Guy Days" over the weekend. For the second year, residents of this town near Boulder honored an 89-year-old Norwegian man who was cryogenically frozen after his death in 1989 and stored in a shed in town. Local officials tried to stop the experiment. But once they figured out there wasn't much they could do, residents decided to make it the focus of a winter festival. Saturday, a slow-moving parade complete with the shed and a grim reaper passed through town. Then, there were coffin races...