Weisbrod Aircraft Museum restoring Vietnam Era gunship helicopter
The Weisbrod Aircraft Museum recently received a Vietnam Era helicopter and volunteers are restoring it.
and last updated 2021-04-16 21:41:46-04
PUEBLO â A museum in Pueblo is restoring a piece of American history.
The Weisbrod Aircraft Museum recently received a Vietnam Era helicopter and volunteers are restoring it. Basically this bird was built up during the Vietnam war to kill people and break things. It was designed to carry guns, rockets, and grenades and be there to support the troops on the ground, one volunteer said. We have a whole lot of Vietnam veterans come up to it and the biggest thing that we get is healing for them. On something like this you can just see them, they are real tense, and then they ll come over you know to touch the gun or kind of get in that position. It s just like their whole body just relaxes and it is like the sheen comes off of them, a volunteer said.
From microbrews to munchies, magic and museums, United Way’s Flavor of Pueblo Restaurant and Experience Week, set for Sunday through April 17, is designed to spotlight the city’s rich food culture and many ways to play.
Puebloans are invited to stop by the Cactus Flower, 4610 N. Elizabeth, for pineapple margaritas and prime rib quesadillas.
Brues Alehouse, 120 Riverwalk Place, is offering cool microbrews and Chef Alex Gardner’s chicken chicharron tacos with Asian pear slaw, picked red onion, jalapeno, and spicy honey drizzle on agave wheat tortillas topped with micro cilantro greens for garnish.
Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, 31001 Magnuson Ave., also will be open for business from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
“That’s Ruth,” Brown said.
“She was definitely lovingly persistent. She didn’t give up and she never gave in. If she wanted it she just kept driving for it.”
Another of Steele’s crowning achievements involved a one-of-a-kind statue that was previously located in Denver’s City Park.
The statue depicts King with Emett Till, the 14-year-old African American boy lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. It is believed to be the only statue of its kind.
“Once she was able to get the Lincoln Home turned into a museum I think she went back to (Denver) Mayor Wellington Webb and, probably, persistently with love, hinted she would really like to have that statue,” Brown said.
Pueblo humanitarian Ruth Steele, who spent her entire life advocating for civil rights and the preservation of Black history, died Jan. 17 from stomach cancer at the age of 85.
Steele, a founder of the Pueblo Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission, was best known for her efforts to bring the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday to Pueblo in the 1980s and her preservation of the historic Lincoln Home a former orphanage and senior home for Pueblo’s Black population that Steele later transformed into the Pueblo Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission and Cultural Center and Museum.
Her death came one day after the holiday commission’s annual march through Pueblo to commemorate King’s life, which Steele led for more than three decades, and one day prior to the federal MLK holiday.