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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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//www.instagram.com/p/B4gw-a6ntOEfpxGxpprNeK03qj2UKOJPQE416I0 In the first decade of the twentieth century, John Brisben Walker had a vision of artists performing on a stage nestled in the perfectly acoustic surroundings of Red Rocks, which likely were used by the Ute tribe in earlier times. Walker produced several concerts between 1906 and 1910 on a temporary platform; and from […]

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“I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was ‘Wow!” – jack k -> on the road #larimersquare #denver […]

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