Month: November 2019

You can touch

//www.instagram.com/p/B4i2aD2nvBogakq_XfiGPPduJnnzApJwIlQmjg0 You see it at every museum you visit: “Do Not Touch!” That sentiment is not the case at the Cliff Dwelling Museum. Every visitor can touch and explore without any fear of breaking something or being scolded. Ascend a ladder, peek into all the restored rooms and touch everything. You’ll find signage throughout that […]

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//www.instagram.com/p/B4i0LhGn5w8aJvqt6fMLfN_jG9glnKVFi2e_B80 In 1879 Charles Elliott Perkins, a friend of William Jackson Palmer, purchased 480 acres of land that included a portion of the present Garden of the Gods. Upon Perkins’ death, his family gave the land to the City of Colorado Springs in 1909, with the provision that it would be a free public park. […]

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