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Why does Pueblo have tunnels not just in downtown, but also in neighborhoods?
What have Puebloans of old produced while living within the town? Why is the community so full of art?
These stories and more will be featured in a speaker series in Downtown Pueblo.
Gregory Howell, a storyteller and event curator, has created a storyteller speakeasy series that he is bringing to the Senate Bar and Grill in downtown Pueblo, aiming to showcase some of Pueblo s hidden stories in a 15-week series, called The Dig.
Howell hopes the series creates a way for community members to dig into Pueblo s history and present.
Courtesy of Steelworks Center of the West
Superintendent of schools, J.F. Keating, Miss Carlile and children of Bessemer School working in their garden, Pueblo, 1902.
A $50,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency is funding a project to help people grow their own food by building 25 raised bed gardens at area homes and giving residents the knowledge, tools and materials for successful harvests. A demonstration garden will be constructed at the Steelworks Center of the West.
Executive Director Christina Trujillo said the project hearkens back to a historical legacy ofteaching life skills to steelworkers, coal miners and their families. [It brings] back some of those practices into modern society and how they can best benefit the overall community that we’re targeting,” she said, adding that this type of education will help revitalize the neighborhoods affected by the Superfund.