Tag: Art And Entertainment
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A poet’s dream in historic Creede | Main Street Colorado
The man known as the poet laureate of the Rockies found inspiration in a nook of southwest Colorado. Cy Warman was moved to write a poem that would be memorized by local school kids generations later. “It’s day all day in the daytime,” goes the famous line. “And there is no night in Creede.” For…
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Mountain vibes rule this remote town | Main Street Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save About 150 years ago, you might’ve seen two Silvertons. Reads the history kept on the local chamber of commerce website: “From the very beginning an imaginary line ran down Greene Street, dividing the town between the law-abiding, church-going residents and the gamblers, prostitutes, variety theaters,…
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West of Denver, a town as good as gold | Main Street Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the final chapter of a legend, a vision came. It was a view, in one direction the high peaks of Colorado’s Front Range and in another the sprawling plains where a buffalo hunter made his name. On his death bed in 1917, the story…
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Telluride a feast for the shopper, eater and sightseer | Main Street Colorado
Along Telluride’s main street, Colorado Avenue, you might not look twice at the brick and white-trimmed building that blends together with its commercial and residential neighbors. This is called the Mahr Building, standing in the place of the old San Miguel Valley Bank. A legend was born here. It was the morning of June 24,…
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Mineral springs and many more spoils along Manitou Avenue | Main Street Colorado
In the 1870s, Dr. Edwin Solly downplayed the Indigenous legend that brought fame to the town called Manitou Springs. Nonsense, Solly seemed to suggest of the people, “believing as they did that the Good Spirit breathed into the water the breath of life.” Quirky shops and tourists line the streets of nearby Manitou Springs on…
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History everywhere you look on Leadville’s Harrison Avenue | Main Street Colorado
About the series Main Street Colorado is a summer series spotlighting downtown stretches of mountain towns that altogether give the state its undeniable character. In walking around Leadville, the imagination naturally runs wild — wild as the West that built this town. It was gold and silver that built this Victorian hamlet. And at a…
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‘Jurassic Park’ in Colorado: Discover dinosaurs at these 8 sites
Near the northern Colorado-Utah border, there’s a river-cut land of colorful rock traversed by the short Fossil Discovery Trail. It is an interpretive trail, with educational signs and remembrances of Earl Douglas. He is the paleontologist credited with the 1915 establishment of Dinosaur National Monument. Along that trail through this sweeping dinosaur graveyard, one panel…
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Ouray’s Main Street exemplifies ‘Switzerland of America’ | Main Street Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save About the series Main Street Colorado is a summer series spotlighting downtown stretches of mountain towns that altogether give the state its undeniable character. Near the southwest corner of Colorado, Ouray gets its name from a man who wanted peace. Ute Chief Ouray would not…
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Weekend things to do around Denver and beyond: Taste of Puerto Rico, classic car show and more
DAILY IN JUNE Learn the history of LGBTQ+ in Colorado during the special Pride Month Rainbows & Revolutions exhibition open now at History Colorado, 1200 Broadway. Artifacts from the Gill Foundation LGBTQ+ Archives and a new, permanent collection of History Colorado spanning three generations. Rainbows & Revolutions is included in the cost of a general admission:…
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Estes Park’s Elkhorn Avenue loaded with food, fun | Main Street Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save About the series Main Street Colorado is a summer series spotlighting downtown stretches of mountain towns that altogether give the state its undeniable character. In 1864, one of Colorado’s foremost men, William Byers, set his sights on Longs Peak. The climb up the 14,000-foot mountain…