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Mount Evans or Bust: “A Castle in the Sky”

– by Charla Stilling The gold is there, ‘most anywhere You can take it out rich, with an iron crow bar, And where it is thick, with a shovel and pick, You can pick it out in lumps a big … Continue reading

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Riverside

by Hugh Graham, hughgrahamcreative.com Riverside has been dying for a long time. One of the first cemeteries in the american west designed as a park, with paths for carriages, and trees for shade, and roses, for a generation or so … Continue reading

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Trains

by Sharon Feder sfeder.com In the late 1800’s, my great-grandparents, Harry and Mary Aarons, came to Denver from New York city. What motivated them to leave their community back East for a future in young Denver is unknowable… just as … Continue reading

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Under the Viaducts

The viaducts were designed to carry automobile traffic over the railroads, Platte River and flood plain. Ten viaducts spanned the Platte Valley from 6th Avenue to the Brighton Street Viaduct.. Eventually the viaducts deteriorated and were replaced with ground level … Continue reading

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Lakeside Amusement Park

— by Murph Growing up in the 1960s, I always thought the Haneys must be rich because Mary Ann Haney had a playhouse in her backyard that matched her house and one year the Haneys took Mary Ann, myself and … Continue reading

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