Tag: history
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Consider the cannibal: Could Colorado’s infamous Alfred Packer be innocent?
At a cemetery on the outskirts of Denver, beside an old tombstone, one might sit and think at the bench under the long, sagging limbs of a dark, towering spruce. “Very shady and cold. It’s kind of an ominous spot,” says Jenny Hankinson, curator of collections at the nearby Littleton Museum. That’s how she knows…
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A frozen palace rose in Colorado’s mountains nearly 130 years ago
By now in Colorado, we know of the Ice Castles. The frozen attraction has once again opened to great fanfare in Cripple Creek, just as the Utah-based company has debuted another colorful complex of towers, arches and tunnels in Eagle. Lest we forget, a more grand castle of ice rose in this state 128 years…
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‘I can’t imagine anything luckier’: Colorado Springs locals remember Ski Broadmoor
Whenever he’s back in Colorado Springs, Steve Wilmot’s gaze turns south to Cheyenne Mountain, to the pair of wide lanes running down the mountain’s foot — especially visible after snowfall. “I look all the time,” Wilmot, 72, says from his home now in Fort Collins. “It’s a bit sad. I think that’s the emotion I…
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Annual gingerbread display debuts at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs
Santa has come to town — and he’s riding in a golf cart. This is the scene of The Broadmoor’s annual life-size gingerbread display, which opened Wednesday in the festive main mezzanine at the five-star, internationally known hotel and resort on Colorado Springs’ southwest side. Believed to date back to the 1960s, the gingerbread tradition has…
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Consider the cannibal: Could Colorado’s infamous Alfred Packer be innocent?
At a cemetery on the outskirts of Denver, beside an old tombstone, one might sit and think at the bench under the long, sagging limbs of a dark, towering spruce. “Very shady and cold. It’s kind of an ominous spot,” says Jenny Hankinson, curator of collections at the nearby Littleton Museum. That’s how she knows…
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Clockwise: The timeless art of horology lives on in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Every half hour and hour, a home in Colorado Springs comes to life. Gongs and chimes ring out, melodies from once upon a time. Dozens of old clocks sing their old songs — wooden grandfathers standing tall, German cuckoos hanging on walls. Those little birds…
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Clockwise: The timeless art of horology lives on in Colorado
Every half hour and hour, a home in Colorado Springs comes to life. Gongs and chimes ring out, melodies from once upon a time. Dozens of old clocks sing their old songs — wooden grandfathers standing tall, German cuckoos hanging on walls. Those little birds spring through little doors. Little dancers twirl among other fantastical…
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Book on Colorado’s historic cemeteries tells of forgotten people, places
Eilene Lyon has a curious hobby. “Going to antique stores and picking up old photographs that have a name on them, and I research these people and I write about them on the blog,” she explained from her longtime home in Durango. “The aim is to return the photographs to relatives. That’s been very rewarding…
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New exhibit at Manitou Springs Heritage Center showcases historic and contemporary Indigenous photography
A new exhibit at the Manitou Springs Heritage Center and Museum will blend the past and present impact of Indigenous communities in the West. The center will debut the exhibit Friday, showcasing the historic work of Western photographers E.S. Curtis and Roland Reed, as well as the work of contemporary Indigenous artists. Curtis and Reed…
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Consider the cannibal: Could Colorado’s infamous Alfred Packer be innocent?
At a cemetery on the outskirts of Denver, beside an old tombstone, one might sit and think at the bench under the long, sagging limbs of a dark, towering spruce. “Very shady and cold. It’s kind of an ominous spot,” says Jenny Hankinson, curator of collections at the nearby Littleton Museum. That’s how she knows…