When History Colorado recently published its long-sealed registry of local Ku Klux Klan membership from the 1920s, it blood-tied two longtime Denver cultural institutions to the most vile supremacy group in American history. And they did not duck, cover, spin or pivot.
Instead, they chose radical transparency.
The 1,300-page roster included George Figgis, the first director of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, who was a dues-paying member of the KKK while running the museum from 1910 to 1935. It also included Robert Stanton, brother of eventual Bonfils-Stanton Foundation founder Charles Stanton and himself president and treasurer of the charitable organization from 1987 until his death in 2000.
No punches pulled in Colorado Klan exhibit
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Available Monday, April 5 How will Denver come back from the pandemic? That s just one of the questions that will be explored by History Colorado s Building Denver, which kicks off with a podcast on April 5 and builds to a major exhibition opening on May 29:
Building Denver: Visions of the Capital City. The four-part podcast series,
Living Denver, was produced in collaboration with House of Pod, and illuminates stories of four different Denver neighborhoods through the lens of the city’s residents, including four poets: Ramon del Castillo (North Denver), Kenya “Mahogany” Fashaw (Five Points), Josiah Lee Lopez (West Side/Lincoln Park) and Jonathon Stalls (City Park/North Park Hill). First up: Five Points, on which Fashaw reads her poem “Change Gon’ Come,” inspired by Sam Cooke and the neighborhood. Find out more at historycolorado.org/building-denver.
It s March in Denver, so the weather forecast is between zero and 91 inches of snow this weekend. The fun part? You won t know which until the last minute. So if all your frantic toilet paper, frozen pizza and beer purchases are in vain, here are eight things to do on the city s food and drink scene, plus another eight for the rest of March.
Bonnie Brae restaurant Brightmarten (pictured pre-pandemic) is pouring South American wines on March 12.
Courtesy Brightmarten
Friday, March 12 The Denver Box is back with another installment, this time from Highland neighborhood joint FNG. For the month of March, order one of three meals from the Denver Box website, and you ll get enough food (and drinks!) for four people from the comfort food kitchen for just $100. Choose from meatloaf with chipotle ketchup, mashed potatoes and gravy, onion rings and broccolini; chicken parmesan and pasta, grilled zucchini, focaccia and green salad; or enchiladas chicken or vegetarian sweet potato wit
“I experienced so much brutality, abuse and crime, and it was hard to stay positive,” he recalls. “I grew up in a house that was more than a hundred years old made out of cob mud and grass. I remember that I would help my grandmother once a month mixing and patching up the holes that animals and erosion made on the wall.”
Since his family struggled to put food on the table, buying toys was out of the question so Monterroso started creating his own.
“I started to make shelters with branches and mud to play with my friends imagining a beautiful and safe place where no one could get in to hurt us,” he says. “I made toys [and] cars out of carved wood. I would make spaceships, plates and just about any shape with mud and clay. I learned to use what materials were around to create my own imaginary toys and games, to the point that kids that had toys preferred to play with the toys I was making.”
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