Colorado Springs Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department's Cultural Services Manager Matt Mayberry is the guest on this episode.
We discuss the origins of Colorado Springs, and General Palmers vision of what the city would become. We discuss Palmer's building wide boulevards and planning for large, green spaces, with many parks. We also discuss Colorado Spring's philanthropic history, to include not only Palmer, but also Spencer Penrose, Winfield Scott Stratton, Charles Perkins, and the El Pomar Foundation. Also, the forthcoming Colorado Springs Sesquicentennial.
Photos mentioned during the podcast can be seen here.
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum website
Colorado Springs "COS 150" website
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229 2020 IndyGive participant Medicine Wheel Trail Advocates
228 Hiking in Death Valley; Backcountry Winter Safety; the Monolith; more
227.2 2020 Indy Give Participant Rocky Mtn Field Institute
227.1 2020 Indy Give participant Palmer Land Conservancy
226.2 2020 Indy Give participating group Trails and Open Space Coalition
226.1 2020 Indy Give participating group Wild Connections
225.2 2020 Indy Give Campaign participants Friends of Monument Valley Park
225.1 2020 Indy Give participant Catamount Institute
224 Hiking on Pikes Peak; Being prepared for hard hikes; e-bikes
223 Fishers Peak opens; Indy Give; which GPS works best; misbehavior
222 Missing hiker in Zion NP-What really happened? Crime prevention, and more
221 Mountain lion encounter, missing hikers, winter weather prediction
220 Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers is the guest
219 Fall colors update; is Colorado Springs a safe place?; City budget has increases for parks;, more
218 Fall colors update, winter camping, news about Fishers Peak, more
217 Nimby-ism, Pikes Peak Apex, Fall Colors, a new park, and more
216 Photographing Colorado's fall colors
215 Prepping for cooler weather; fall colors; Paint Mines; Manitou Incline trails, more
214 Care for Colorado, Fishers Peak, Wildfires, Paint Mines, Tip and Trail of the week and more
213 RMFI's Exec Director Jennifer Peterson
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