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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389 Can You Violate Air Space While Hiking?
388 Winter Hiking
387 Welcome to 2024
386 Bob and Kevin catch up
385 Give Pikes Peak Participant Catamount Institute
384 Give Pikes Peak Participant Friends of Monument Valley Park
383 Give Pikes Peak Participant RMFI
382 Give Pikes Peak Participant Palmer Land Conservancy
381 Who we appreciate on Thanksgiving
380 Kevin has a health scare
379 Give Pikes Peak Participant TOSC
378 A Day in the Life of a USFS Law Enforcement Officer
377 It's Official - We're the Best!
376 A Hike on Fishers Peak
375 Teller Country Regional Animal Shelter returns
374 Colorado Springs city budget; CPW being sued; Fall Colors
373 Fall colors update, hiking the Continental Divide Trail
372 City Parks Budget on the Line; Sun Writer has Facts Wrong
371 USFS Partnership Coordinator Jennifer Peterson
370 Missing hikers on the PCT; it's bear season; Fall colors
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