Tag: History Colorado
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Upcoming exhibit, commemorative stamp to celebrate ‘Colorado’s Photographer’
A new exhibit is opening at the History Colorado Center, celebrating the state’s most beloved nature photographer. “Mountains Majesty: On the Summit with John Fielder” will debut at the downtown Denver center with a ceremony Saturday morning that will also debut a commemorative U.S. Postal Service stamp. Made for Colorado’s 150th anniversary of statehood this…
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History Colorado debuts ‘Moments That Made US’ exhibit to mark state’s 150th birthday
History Colorado debuted a new exhibit on Saturday featuring 50 different artifacts from U.S. history to mark the state and country’s upcoming anniversaries. As Colorado celebrates its 150th anniversary and the U.S. its 250th next year, the exhibit, “Moments That Made US,” intertwines those two histories, said Senior Exhibition Developer & Historian Gwendolyn Lockman Friday…
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With all traces removed from Capitol grounds, fate of Union soldier statue remains uncertain
More than five years after it was vandalized and removed, the pedestal that formerly held a bronze statue intended to commemorate Colorado’s role in the Civil War has been taken away from the west side of the state Capitol. The Colorado Civil War Monument was commissioned to memorialize the 500 soldiers who died fighting against…
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From gold rush ruins, a backcountry hut rises in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save PARK COUNTY • High in Colorado’s central mountains, in an alpine basin of wildflowers and waterfalls, Jeff Crane is dreaming again. He’s gazing upon another mesmerizing sight here, not to mention the ponds teeming with trout, the thick willows frequented by moose, the green hills…
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New exhibit honors Colorado’s plains and late, great nature photographer
Another exhibit has debuted in celebration of Colorado’s most famous nature photographer. John Fielder’s work across the state’s eastern plains is now on display in the John Fielder Mezzanine Gallery at the History Colorado Center in downtown Denver. The exhibit is called “Horizon: On the Plains with John Fielder.” The panoramic spread of large prints…
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Jim Havey, lovingly known as Colorado’s Ken Burns
Jim Havey, who came to be known as the Ken Burns of Colorado with his many films documenting the history of the Rocky Mountain West, died Jan. 19. He was 74. His films – notably “Colfax Avenue,” “Broomfield,” “Centennial Statehouse,” “The Great Divide” and “The Five States of Colorado” – have educated Coloradans for decades and have…
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10 favorite photos from John Fielder’s career across Colorado
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Over a career spanning 50 years and most every square mile of Colorado, it would be impossible to ask John Fielder for his favorite photographs. We asked anyway. He obliged. We asked on the heels of History Colorado announcing Fielder’s legendary lifetime of work has been donated to the public domain. The agency in the…
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New History Colorado series aims to educate on Black history, foster conversations
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In order to more fully tell the Black history story in Colorado, Dexter Nelson II knew he wanted to take a different approach. “A lot of times the Black experience is reduced to slavery, and then Martin Luther King, and then Obama,” said Nelson II,…
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Veteran memorial in Aurora planning for new visitor and education center
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As the Colorado Freedom Memorial — a site in Aurora dedicated to honoring the thousands of Colorado veterans killed in action — approaches its 10th anniversary, the memorial’s caretakers are hoping it’s also the year a longtime vision for it can become reality. The Colorado Freedom Memorial…
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Colorado’s most famous nature photographer donates life work to public domain
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For the past eight months at his home in the Summit County hills, John Fielder spent most every morning and afternoon sifting through photographs tucked away for decades. They were transparencies from his years of hauling heavy film equipment deep into Colorado’s backcountry. The transparencies…