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Children from the Sun Valley Youth Center are among the first to take a spin on the Southwest Rink ice, Nov. 25, in downtown Denver.
Southwest Rink at Skyline Park now open
Southwest Airlines and the Downtown Denver Partnership announced that the Southwest Rink at Skyline Park is open for Mile High residents to take to the ice. City of Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock, along with City Councilman Albus Brooks, City Councilwoman Judy Montero, Downtown Denver Partnership CEO & President Tami Door, Volunteers of America Director of Community Affairs Jim White and Southwest Airlines Denver Station Leader Danielle Reidder, welcomed children from the Sun Valley Youth Center to the Southwest Rink to be among the first to take a spin on the ice. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Southwest Rink in Downtown Denver, Southwest is extending its warm heart within the community by encouraging rink visitors to bring a donation of socks, gloves or mittens to a special Volunteers of America donation area at the rink throughout the entire season in exchange for free skate rentals. Hancock and Jim White personally kicked off the giving season by donating socks and gloves to the Sun Valley Youth Center. “The Southwest Rink at Skyline
Park is quickly becoming one of my favorite events to kick off the winter season,” said Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock. “The city’s collaboration with Southwest Airlines and the Downtown Denver Partnership is creating a new tradition for Denver that is fun and inexpensive for friends and families alike.” “We had more than 44,000 Denver residents, employees and visitors lace up their skates last year at the Southwest Rink at Skyline Park,” said Downtown Denver Partnership’s CEO and President Tami Door. “The Southwest Rink is a shining example of how activation can turn a space into a place that people “LUV”. We thank Southwest Airlines for making this a possibility and for their continued investment in the center city.” The rink is located in Skyline Park next to the historic Daniels & Fisher Tower and near the intersection of 16th and Arapahoe streets. Skating will once again be free to the public with the option to bring skates or rent a pair for $2. For more information, hours and programming, visit southwestrink.com. The rink is made possible by a public-private partnership among the City of Denver Parks and Recreation Department, the Downtown Denver Partnership and Southwest Airlines.
Mayor Michael B. Hancock welcomes skaters to the Southwest Rink at Skyline Park in Denver. Courtesy photos
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Central City Opera presents ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors’ Dec. 4 – 6 Central City Opera partners with St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Highlands Ranch to present Gian Carlo Menotti’s enduring holiday opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Dec. 4, 5 and 6. The production will be performed in English with a live professional orchestra at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Highlands Ranch with an approximate running time of one hour. “While a good deal of our output is concentrated in the summer months, we wanted to provide the community with our brand of storytelling during the Holiday season. We are very excited to collaborate on this new staging of Menotti’s touching tale with Jim Ramsey and Kent Thompson in Highlands Ranch,” saifd Central City Opera General/Artistic Director Pat Pearce. Amahl and the Night Visitors is an enduring hit that has been popular since its premier in 1951. This family-friendly opera has enjoyed thousands of performances and has been touted as an opera that remains meaningful because it’s both concisely written and has touches of whimsy with
a message for the season that reaches home for the audience. Set near Bethlehem just after the birth of Christ, Amahl and the Night Visitors tells the story of Amahl, a poor shepherd who despite a disability is a normal and inquisitive boy who is known (to his mother, at least) as a teller of tall tales. His most recent story is about a star with a tail that moves across the sky like a chariot on fire. When three splendid strangers knock on the door and ask to rest in their tiny home, Amahl is thrilled and fascinated by everything about them. When the visitors describe the miraculous child they are seeking, both Amahl and his mother are moved to give reverence to the child as well. Their humble faith conjures a miracle. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students with a valid ID. Tickets can be purchased at www.CentralCityOpera.org/amahl, by calling the Central City Opera Box Office at 303-292-6700 or in person at Central City Opera, 400 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 525. Central City Opera subscribers receive a 20 percent discount.
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Paws To Give to help homeless pets this holiday season Dumb Friends League invites families to annual in-shelter fund and supply drive
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Kellan children in the past. I am a special pet, and hope you’ll visit today! I am at the Dumb Friends League, 2080 S. Quebec Street, Denver and my ID# is 0690502. To see my other furry friends available for adoption, please visit ddfl.org.
While you’re making your holiday gift list, don’t forget about the furry, four-legged homeless friends in need of a little extra help this holiday season. The Dumb Friends League is holding its annual Paws to Give fund drive now through Jan. 4, 2015, to help the many homeless pets and horses in its care. Each holiday season, patrons are invited to our three facilities—the Quebec Street Shelter in Denver, the Buddy Center in Castle Rock, and the Harmony Equine Center in Franktown—to fill out a “paw” decoration with a donation amount and a message, which then is displayed on our walls. Children and adults alike often write something in honor or memory of a special pet or
horse. Donations of supplies are also welcome to help us care for the animals, and a wish list can be found online at www.ddfl.org/ supplies. This is a great time for patrons to visit the shelters with their families, view the animals in our care, and teach and share the spirit of giving. “For those who aren’t able to adopt, it’s a great way to make a difference in the life of a homeless pet or horse in need,” said Bob Rohde, Dumb Friends League president and CEO. “Any amount you can give—whether it’s $10, $20, $30 or more—is very much appreciated and can make a big impact for the pets and people in our community.” This year’s goal of $20,000 will help the Dumb Friends League care for thousands of homeless cats, dogs, small pets and horses. Donations can be made at our facilities, online at www.ddfl.org/give or by mailing a check to Dumb Friends League
Paws to Give, 2080 S. Quebec St., Denver, CO 80231. The private, nonprofit organization spends an average of $25,901 every single day on companion animal services, including $8,087 daily on veterinary care in its shelters and on two mobile clinics. Last year, 17,656 pets and horses were adopted to new homes, returned to their owners or transferred to partner facilities. In addition to adopting out homeless animals, the Dumb Friends League offers many other services, including rehabilitation and adoption for formerly abused and neglected horses, humane education, behavior training for pets, animal cruelty investigations and spay/neuter surgeries at reduced fees, subsidized by donors, for cats and dogs in underserved areas. For more information about Paws to Give, and to find out how you can help, visit www.ddfl.org/ give or call 720-241-7123.
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Wrap gifts the classy, eco-friendly way By Margaret Malsam Wrapping Christmas gifts in eco-friendly ways inspires me to reuse and recycle with as much creativity as possible. I like to have the outside packaging or container also be a gift. Years ago a relative made large red felt Christmas stockings with our children’s names painted on them to hang on the fireplace for Santa to fill. Now we recycle these personalized stocking every year by filling them with gifts for our adult children. Since a tremendous amount of paper is consumed in the U.S. every year for holiday gift giving, it is important to try to reduce this paper waste. I have been saving sturdy paper bags with handles that I receive with store purchases. To jazz these sacks up, I transform them into gift bags by creating a personalized greeting with art work on my computer and printing it on colored paper. Then I paste it over any advertisement. This also eliminates buying gift tags.
I like shopping at the dollar stores for reusable containers and things to use instead of wrapping paper. This is a great place to buy such things as wastebaskets, bowls, and plastic storage or shoeboxes, cloth grocery bags, towels and blankets, plus felt-tip markers, bows and ribbons for
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DONATIONS Holiday Tours and Teas at Colorado Gerontological Society Historic Denver Mansions Byers-Evans House: Dec. 6, 8, 10 and Holiday Food Basket Drive 15, 1:30 p.m., 1310 Bannock St, Denver. EnDec. 18 – 19, 3 -7 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1375 Grant St, Denver. Donations of food and gift items are accepted during the times and at the location listed. Volunteers are needed Dec. 18-20 to assemble the gift baskets, sort and pack, make holiday cards, and deliver the baskets.
Littleton Fire Department Collecting Gifts for Arapahoe Santa Claus Shop Through Dec. 10. New and gently used toys will be collected for children 0 – 12 who reside in Littleton, Englewood and Sheridan. A list of fire stations can be found at www. littletongov.org/fire.
EVENTS Downtown Denver Winter in the City Through Dec. 30, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m., Skyline Park, 16th Ave. and Arapahoe Street. Stop to play one of the five winter-themed painted pianos along the 16th Street Mall available for the public to play.
Denver Christkindl Market Through Dec. 23, Sunday – Thursday, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. – 9 p.m., Skyline Park, 16th Street Mall and Arapahoe St. Includes bands, choirs, dancing and much more. For a daily schedule, visit www.denverchristkindlmarket. com.
Southwest Rink at Skyline Park Through Feb. 16, Skaters are welcome to bring their own skates or rent a pair for just $2. The carousel runs from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Visit www.DenverPavilions.com for more information.
Tables Extraordinaire Dec. 5, 10 a.m.- 6 p.m., Dec. 6, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church, 5555 S. Yosemite St., Greenwood Village. Lavishly decorated themed tables. Contact 303-773-3411 or stcatherineschurch. org.
Breakfast with Santa Dec. 6, 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. seatings, Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave., Littleton. Sponsored by Littleton Rotary. Reservations recommended. Information 303795-3950.
Visit Santa Dec. 12, 6 – 8 p.m., The Annual Cherry Hills Village Holiday Tree Lighting Event, 2450 E. Quincy Ave. Free painting, family hayrides, warm chili & cookies, hot cocoa and cider, tree lighting.
Denver Pavilions Holiday Carousel Dec. 12 – 21, Denver Pavilions, 500 16th St., Denver. Free rides will be given from Denver Pavilions restaurants, retailers and entertainment venues with purchase, and from select Downtown hotel partners. Support the Food Bank of the Rockies with the “A Can for the Carousel” campaign, where visitors are invited to donate a can of food for a free ride.
Breakfast with Santa and Mrs. Claus Dec. 13, 20, 23 and 24, 9 – 11 a.m., The Wildlife Experience, 10035 S Peoria St, Parker. Elegant Breakfast Buffet, with Bloody Marys and mimosas available for adults for an additional charge. Kids will have a chance to make festive crafts and give their lists to Santa in person. Seating is limited and reservations are required. Call 720-488-3344 and visit www.TheWildlifeExperiece.org for more information.
joy tea sandwiches, scones, fruit and desserts. The afternoon begins with a tour of the home, which has been beautifully restored to the 1912 and 1924 time periods. Holiday decorations will adorn each of the rooms. Dec. 20, Children’s Tea. Grant Humphreys Mansion: Dec 14, 21 and 28. Tea at the Grant-Humphreys Mansion sets just the right mood for group celebrations, birthdays, showers, motherdaughter outings or for simply taking time to enjoy a cherished friendship. Reservations required, call 303-620-4933 for both locations.
LIGHTS Grand Illumination Through Jan. 25, 5:45 p.m. Lighting display from Denver Union Station to the City & County Building, including the 16th Street Mall, Skyline Park, the D&F Tower. Will use one-third of the energy it did in previous years.
Zoo Lights Dec. 5 – Jan. 4, 5:30-9 p.m., 2300 Steele St., Denver. Denver Zoo is also offering an online discount for the first time to help guests avoid long lines. Largest lighting display in the Rocky Mountain region. Visit www.denverzoo.org.
Cherry Hills Village Tree Lighting Dec. 12, 6 – 8 p.m., Village Center, 2450 E. Quincy Ave., Cherry Hills Village. Face painting, family hayrides, warm chili and cookies, face painting. Visit www.cherryhillsvillage. com.
PARADES Englewood Holiday Parade Dec. 6, 10 a.m., South Acoma to the Civic Center down Englewood Parkway. Info www. myenglewoodchamber.com or call 303-7894473.
9NEWS Parade of Lights Dec. 5, 8 p.m., Dec. 6, 6 p.m., downtown Denver. View the Parade for free along the two-mile route or purchase grandstand tickets for seating in front of the City & County Building. To purchase tickets, visit www.AltitudeTickets.com or call 1-866-461-6556.
Greater Englewood Chamber Holiday Party Dec. 11, Englewood City Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway. RSVP 303-789-4473. Donations respectfully requested, gift certificates, theater cards, and sporting events.
PERFORMANCES ‘A Colorado Choir Christmas’ Dec. 5 – 6, 7:30 p.m., Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave., Denver. Open reception following Dec. 5 performance. Features “Holy is God” by CPE Bach and works by Olaf F. Melius and Paul Christiansen Kelly Parmenter, Conductor. Tickets at 303-8925922 or online at www.augustanaarts.org.
Golden Eagle Concert Band Winter Holiday Concert Dec. 6, 2 p.m., Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton.
‘Festival of Carols’ Dec. 7, 11 a.m., Wellshire Presbyterian Church, 2999 S Colorado Boulevard, Denver. New carol medly by Shawn Kirscher and rare performance of Magnificat setting for three choirs. Free.
‘Songs of Angels: Rutter’s Gloria’ Dec. 7, 7 p.m., Sanctuary, Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Lit-
tleton. Special guest artists, Centerpiece will be Rutter’s Gloria Admission is free, info at littletonumc.org or call 303-794-6379.
Smithtonians Handbell Choir Dec. 7, 2 p.m. Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. The ringers in the group have a combined ringing experience of over 250 years. In recent years the group has performed at Boettcher Concert Hall and the Denver Botanic Gardens. For more information call the library at 303-795-3961.
Classics, Choirs and Holiday Cheer’ Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m., Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Littleton Symphony Orchestra Holiday Concert will feature pianist Simon Shu and Young Voices of Colorado. Tickets at littleton symphony.org.
‘Let It Snow!’ Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m., Mission Hills Church, 620 SouthPark Drive, Littleton. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony, subtitled Winter Dreams, anchors the evening. A silent auction will precede the concert, beginning at 6:30 p.m., and continue throughout intermission. Tickets online at arapahoe-phil.org, by phone at 303-781-1892 and at the door the night of the concert beginning at 6:30 p.m.
‘Magnificat in B-flat’ Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m., Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave., Denver. The Augustana Chancel Choir, conducted by Richard Larson, is joined by members of the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra to perform Pachelbel’s masterpiece. The program also features the Augustana Ringers, a string quartet and the choir performing well known carols creatively set by many contemporary composer. The evening is highlighted with an audience sing-along. This event is free and open to the public (with donations solicited) to benefit Augustana Arts Concert Series.
Colorado Women’s Chorale Holiday Sing-Along Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m., Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave., Denver. Tickets are available online at www.augustanaarts. org or by calling 303-388-4962. Free for children.
TubaChristmas Dec. 21, 1 -2 p.m., Skyline Park, 17th & Arapahoe, Denver. Produced by the University of Colorado at Denver’s Arts & Media Department, TubaChristmas is one of the most celebrated and longest-running holiday festivities in
SHOPPING Holiday Cookie Tin Sale Dec. 5 – 6, 10:30 a.m., Cherry Creek Nursing Center, 14699 E. Hampden Ave., Aurora. Wide variety of cookies and baked goods. Info: Michelle Cassidy, 720-363-7432.
Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair Dec. 6, 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m., Goodson Recreation Center, 6315 S. University Blvd., Centennial. The juried show features 76 of Colorado’s finest crafters offering unique handmade items, ideal for gift giving. 303-483-7016.
SPONSORSHIPS Adopt-a-Family or Senior’ Seek Sponsors Dec. 15, noon, deadline to drop off sponsorship donations, 5844 S. Datura St., Littleton. South Metro Housing Options is seeking community sponsors to adopt families (sponsors choose family size) or a senior or disabled resident to assist. Sponsors are provided with “Wish Lists” and program information. For more information or to be a sponsor contact Kathie Covell, Resident Services Manager, at 303-794-3276 or email kcovell@southmetrohousingoptions.org.
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OPINION Best place to help America is right at home KINDLING
By Robert Sweeney
November was a bad month for turkeys and December will be equally bad. It was a bad month for police officers who have a hard job protecting the citizens without using excessive force on citizens who have had too much to drink, are high on drugs or just have no respect for the law. I’ll put my money on the police and sheriff officers who work around the clock to keep law and order and patrol our streets, high-
ways and places of business. Americans have always been a rough, tough bunch of immigrants, renegades, revolutionaries, tea party volunteers, patriots, fur trappers, buffalo hunters, miners and cowboys to name a few resumes in our genes. We had slaves, so did the rest of the world; we had a Civil War and the slaves became free men and women. We’ve had massive immigration of all types and sorts of people from around the globe with various skills and talents. We have become the most unique country ever to be created in the history of the world. History outlines a disappointing future for every empire that has existed and many of those signs are starting to appear in America. Civil unrest, greed and corruption in government, inequalities in distribution of wealth, excessive taxation, rampant increases in national and personal debt, excessive government welfare programs, excessive environmental attacks on free enterprise and energy sources
and a continual parade of purchasing products made in China and then borrowing money back from them for governmental deficit spending. The Ferguson situation has a poor martyr whom has now become a national symbol of racial unrest and resentment toward law and order. Part of the racial unrest is the disappointment in the Obama administration and the hopes that his presidency would elevate the stature of minorities, but to the contrary, his leadership, at home and abroad, has been very disappointing to say the least. We enter December with a lame duck Congress and considerable uncertainty over ISIS, the economy, Ukraine, Iraq and Afghanistan. No doubt the new next few months will be turbulent and where Obama, right after the election, seemed willing to work with the new Congress now has lobbed some new hand grenades at the newly elected GOP House and Senate.
The economy here in the metro Denver is strong and our local stores and malls are doing a brisk holiday business. Small Business Saturday appeared to be a success and shoppers were abundant over the weekend. We continue to urge holiday shoppers to visit their local malls and stores and spend money with local merchants where these dollars pay for schools, law and fire protection, and local government sales taxes. We’re all blessed to live in Colorado and the metro area where jobs are plentiful and racial tensions are low with minorities welcomed into this tolerant community Be thankful for the cooks, roofers, janitors, dishwashers, snowplow drivers and road crews that make our lives much better, and have respect for law enforcement, teachers and each other. Best way to help America is right here at home.
Let’s remember Pearl Harbor REMARKS
By Mort Marks
Dec. 7, 1941 — 73 years ago — 7:58 a.m., the following words rang out — “Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. AIR RAID! Pearl Harbor. THIS IS NO DRILL!” Those words broadcast on that peaceful Sunday morning by Adm. Patrick Bellinger shattered the complacency of the United States. The surprise element was stunning — one radar operator got some blips indicating a massive movement of planes, but when he looked closer, he thought the radar was wrong or that the blips were our own B-17 bombers being shifted from Wake Island to
Pearl Harbor and thus did nothing. The first wave of Japanese aircraft deployed for Wheeler Field, Hickman Field and Battleship Row where 26 destroyers, five cruisers and eight battleships were moored. The Japanese using aircraft carriers launched wave after wave of torpedo bombers and fighters against soldiers, sailors, and airmen who had just started their Sunday morning routines. By 8 a.m., two of our battleships had been dealt fatal blows. Most of the officers and men of the battleship Arizona were aboard when the first bombs and torpedoes began to rip it apart. Of its crew of 1,400 men, 1,103 were killed. On other ships, long lines of ammunition handlers were organized to feed the guns, which began to fire back at the swarming Japanese planes. On the cruiser New Orleans, Chaplain Howell Fogey, a “Sky Pilot” was among the ammunition passers and when a Japanese plane was hit, he called out what soon became an often repeated shout throughout the war — “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.”
Two hours later, after the Japanese aircraft returned to their carriers, our Navy had lost 2,000 men and 710 more wounded. Our Army and Marines suffered 327 killed, 433 wounded and additionally 70 civilian airfield workers had also been killed. The Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in world history. America totally unprepared for war was immediately brought into World War II when the next day President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke before a joint session of Congress. Even though many members of that Congress had been bitter political foes of the man on the rostrum, as the president looked out over them, they cheered him madly, because like most Americans on Dec. 8, 1941, they were angry, frightened and confused — and he was the president of the United States. Sam Rayburn, who was then the speaker of the house, time after time, lifted his gavel and rapped for order. Finally, the cheering subsided and the president spoke: “Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 — a day that will live in infamy — the United States of
America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” President Roosevelt then asked Congress to declare war on Japan and Congress complied. The Senate was unanimous and in the House, Rep. Jeanette Rankin of Montana was the one dissenting vote. World War II, which had started two years earlier after Hitler’s blitzkrieg of Poland, had suddenly come to America with a bewildering suddenness. The mood of Americans, however, was to win the war, although it would take almost four years of fighting in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. WIN we did — as our armed forces fought and civilians at home worked to turn out their weapons. At the time, the words to one song rang out — namely “Let’s Remember Pearl Harbor. As we go to meet the foe — Let’s Remember Pearl Harbor — as we did the Alamo. We will always remember they died for liberty — Let’s remember Pearl Harbor — And go on to victory!” Let us today, in the year 2014, also remember Pearl Harbor!
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December 4, 2014 • DENVER HERALD-DISPATCH • PAGE 7 Doobie Brothers singerguitarist Patrick Simmons performs at Fiddler’s Green in Greenwood Village this summer. Dan Fong was the band’s official photographer in the mid-1970s and will publish a photo book about those experiences next year. Photo courtesy of Dan Fong
During his tenure as the Doobie Brothers’ official photographer, Dan Fong shot the cover for 1974’s What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits from the scaffolding above the stage.
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By Peter Jones A walk through a photo exhibit with Dan Fong is a trip through music history. “This was at Denver Coliseum,” the photographer says, pointing to his shot of The Who guitarist Pete Townshend. “He had just broken a champagne bottle in his hand before the show. Luckily, it was his right hand.” Across the room, an on-stage photo of singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, shot from backstage, triggers another anecdote from Fong. “I got kicked out of that concert because she didn’t allow cameras,” he says. “I was in the back up on the scaffolding. I stuck my camera between curtains. It just happened to get real quiet when I pushed the shutter. She heard it and turned around.” Next up, a shot of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney at McNichols Arena. “I was supposed to meet him that night, but he didn’t want to meet us. His security was way worse than most,” Fong recalls. Since 1969, Fong has shot thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of musician photos in Denver and elsewhere, often in the employ of the late concert promoter Barry Fey, but sometimes under Fong’s own auspices, simply taking his camera
backstage without benefit of official permission. The photographer would often double as head cook, having famously prepared a luau for the Rolling Stones at Fey’s Cherry Hills Village home during the band’s legendary 1972 tour. By the mid-1970s, Fong was working for the Doobie Brothers as that band’s official photographer and personal chef. During that period, Fong shot the covers for two Doobies’ albums, What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits and Takin’ it to the Streets. Over the decades, Fong accumulated what would become a disorganized array of photos, only a small percentage of which have ever been published or even seen outside of Fong’s circle. “You have to see my studio. It’s filing cabinets full of stuff. I literally have thousands and thousands of photographs that I’ve been going through,” he said. So far, Fong has turned his months of spring-cleaning into at least one book. The Brothers: My Time With the Doobie Brothers is set to publish next spring. Some of Fong’s photos from the forthcoming volume, as well as those of the Stones, Led Zeppelin and many others, are on display through Jan. 3, 2015, at the Robert Anderson Gallery, 12426 E. 3rd Ave. in Cherry Creek North. Prints are for sale. The Herald recently asked the
66-year-old photographer to share some memories. Herald: What prompted you to finally sift through the archives? Fong: When I did photographs, I just put them in the folder. It’s been in the last seven to 10 years that I decided that I really needed to get in my archive and make something of it. I don’t want my kids to have to deal with it because they don’t know anything about it. I want to put this in a form that stays historically, whether it’s book form, iPad or whatever. I’m doing the Doobie Brothers book, but I can tell I’m going to have to do a book of all my stuff. Herald: What is your approach on the Doobie Brothers book? Fong: They’re excited about it because I’m doing it from a real personal standpoint, my experiences of what it was like going with them on tour. The more I get into it, the more content there is. I’ve done a whole bunch of interviews with them. With the iPad book, you can be interactive, so I’m sticking soundbites and video in there. Herald: You were also the band’s caterer? Fong: They liked to eat after the show, and after the show there’s nothing open – just Denny’s and IHOP. So they weren’t eating well. They hired me to come in and feed them. I’d cook in the dressing room for like 30 people every day.
Herald: What’s the story behind the photo of the Doobies flipping off the camera? Fong: That was a photo I used to carry around in 8x10s. There were always these radio guys who did really bad interviews. So I always had these pictures and I’d hand it to the guy. Some of them would say, “Is this a joke? Is this a nice thing or a bad thing?” I let them figure it out. Herald: Did Barry Fey introduce you to this whole world? Fong: Barry introduced a lot of people to rock ‘n’ roll. He made a lot of people be successful. Without Barry, this music market wouldn’t be like it is now. When Barry did a show here in Denver, he’d do the same show in Lincoln, Neb., Kansas, St. Louis, Texas, Arizona, Salt Lake City. I would go with him on all those gigs. Herald: What was your official job? Fong: I worked for Barry taking care of the artists backstage and I had access to the stage and everything. Even though I was doing that other stuff, I was always a photographer. Herald: How would you describe your style? Fong: I don’t shoot in front of the stage. I don’t do what they make you do now where you get the first three songs. Every newspaper photographer in the United States has the same picture. If I can’t get on
stage, I don’t shoot. If you look at the perspective of all my photographs, they’re on stage. Herald: What are your strongest memories of the Stones’ notorious 1972 tour? Fong: There was a lot that happened. I cooked a big 13-course luau dinner at Barry’s house. We did duck and roast pig over the fire. We had pineapples flown in from Hawaii. We did it that way because Jagger wanted to sit on the ground. I had to bring two women to their plane when they arrived in Denver for Mick. That was my assignment. At the party, when Jagger came up and talked to me, he’s got glitter he threw in his eyes. He’s got makeup on. He’s wearing a ballerina outfit, a sequined vest with little feathers around the bottom and slippers. I’m looking at him, going “I don’t know, man.” The only thing I could ask him was “Do you want any food to take home with you?” He was gracious. He was a nice person. Herald: What band did you enjoy shooting the most? Fong: Probably The Who because they let me do whatever I wanted. They were nice. They took care of me. That was the first band that I was able to experience getting mobbed in the limousines. It was something I had never experienced. Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger and concert promoter Barry Fey attend a luau prepared by photographer Dan Fong at Fey’s Cherry Hills Village home in 1972. “Without Barry, this music market wouldn’t be like it is now,” Fong said. Photo courtesy of Dan Fong
The Who guitarist Pete Townshend performs his famous windmill at Denver Coliseum. “He had just broken a champagne bottle in his hand before the show. Luckily, it was his right hand,” photogra- Photographer Dan Fong has made a career of capturing the excitement of live concert performances. A retrospective of his work is on display through Jan. 3, 2015, at the pher Dan Fong remembers. Robert Anderson Gallery in Cherry Creek North. Photo by Peter Jones Photo courtesy of Dan Fong
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One-room schoolhouses Colorado has more than the rest of the nation
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By Linda Jones e’ve all seen them in our travels, crumbling relics that obviously served as schools back in the day, now forgotten and forlorn. In 1910, nearly 80 percent of America’s school buildings were one-room schools, and in 1918 there were 190,000 one-room schools across America, concentrated in rural areas of the Midwest and South and in mountain mining locales in the West. As late as 1945, half of our nation’s schools were still oneroom buildings. Colorado had more of these as a percentage than the rest of America because of our many isolated mining towns. Today there are fewer than 400 one-room schools across America and these survivors are mostly in small Western mining towns. Many of today’s senior citizens went to a one-room school or lived in a small town surrounded by several in outlying marketing villages. These schools were simple frame construction, built by the men of the surrounding community. Most were painted white, a few, red. Originally the blackboards were just that: boards painted black for student use. Usually each student had a small slate board to use and reuse, but large slate blackboards for schoolroom
walls came later and made the individual slates obsolete. Teachers in one-room schools were usually single women and they lived in one room of a family’s home near the school because it would be unseemly for a young, single woman to live alone. Occasionally a teacherage, or small house, was built near the school for a married teacher’s (male or female) family. A teacherage still exists near Florissant and has been placed on the list of National Historic Sites. Often the teacher was a former student in the school who had “gone away” for a year’s training at the state teacher’s college. This was the path followed by LaVerna Mitchell of Gilpin County. After a year’s training, she returned to the Bay State one-room school near presentday CH 46 in Golden Gate Canyon. In addition to teaching all eight grades, Mitchell rode her horse to the school at dawn to clean the room, start the fire, begin a soup or stew for the student’s lunch and shovel any snow that had fallen. That last chore was somewhat rare for Mitchell, as the Gilpin County schools, unlike their Plains cousins, only held school from early May through September because of the heavy snowfall above 9,000 feet. Schoolhouses became the
The Thorn Lake schoolhouse in Rollinsville is the last surviving oneroom school in Gilpin County and has been declared a Gilpin County Landmark. Photo by Linda Jones
The town of Gilpin school, circa 1900 (Gilpin is a ghost town now)
social centers for the surrounding farming, ranching or mining community. In addition to hosting holiday programs and graduations, the buildings were used for neighborhood meetings, dances, socials and polling places. Gilpin County is small – only 149 square miles – yet 15 school districts were created within its borders. In 1861, only two years after the socalled Pikes Peak Gold Rush began, five towns in the county already had school districts: Black Hawk, Central City, Russell Gulch, Nevadaville and Rollinsville. More districts followed: Gilpin, East Portal, Apex, Lake Gulch, Bay State, Mountain House, Hughesville, Quartz Valley, Tolland and Thorn Lake. Outlying school districts were created around large mines or near the ranches in the eastern part of the county. The Thorn Lake schoolhouse is the last surviving one-
Photo courtesy of Gilpin History Museum
room school in Gilpin County and has been declared a Gilpin County Landmark, despite its checkered past. Thorn Lake District 10 had its start on Feb. 28, 1889, when the county received state money to help organize a new school district in the northeast part of the county. The school was not built until 1896. The building served as a school through 1931 but in 1932, its students were bused to Black Hawk. Then the “moving history” of the school began - in its 120year history, it has been moved four times. The school building was moved to Rollinsville in 1960 to serve as a volunteer fire department station. That’s when the door was cut into one end of the building for the fire engine. The building moved again in 1967 to Gap Road (close to where it had started as a school) to serve as a volunteer fire department building there, but it quickly
deteriorated into a storage building for the family owning the property it sat on. The owners of that property agreed to donate the structure to the county, who declared it a Gilpin County Landmark on April 3, 2007, and moved it again to Rollinsville the next year. But when the owner of the land it occupied in Rollinsville died, it faced one more move - across Tolland Road to land owned by the county. Now it has a permanent home. A State Historic Fund grant allowed the Gilpin County Historic Preservation Advisory Commission to have its history and structural integrity researched by professionals and the HPAC plans to restore it. However, the building needs to serve a purpose; it is hoped it can become a visitors center/museum for the thousands of visitors who travel on the Tolland Road each year.
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150 YearsAgo
Black Kettle & The Sand Creek Massacre
By Linda Wommack safe. Anthony even presented a As Black Kettle rode in soli- white flag to Black Kettle, a sign tude across the wind-blown of his intentions to protect the prairie of eastern Colorado, his Indians. expression revealed the concern Now, as Black Kettle gravely and worry of the elder Indian rode toward his camp, his mind chief. In the crisp autumn air of was filled with events of the past 1864, Black Kettle reflected on summer and worry over the the bloody summer that had wit- coming winter. When the winds nessed terror and murder across brought the snow, would there be the plains. Roving bands of young enough game to feed his people Cheyenne and Arapaho warand timber to warm the tepees? riors had raided eastern On the early mornColorado and westing of Nov. 29, 1864, ern Kansas, causChivington’s ing alarm and troops moved rage among the into position white settlers. near Black Finally, TerKettle’s camp ritorial Gov. along Sand John Evans C r e e k . called for The “100 a military Day Volforce to unteers” end the were soon Indian joined by problem. more than Black Kettle, one of only two known photographs. William N. 100 men Photos courtesy of Denver Public Library, Western History Collection Byers, of of the Colothe Rocky rado First diers were caught in their own his wife lived. By late afternoon, people. Mountain the battle was over and ChivingAn Indian War campaign was R e g i m e n t , crossfire. News, called Meanwhile, many Indians ton received a hero’s welcome in launched in November 1868. Led followed by for the “immesoldiers from managed to escape across the Denver. It would be three years by George Armstrong Custer, the diate extinction Fort Lyon, led by prairie, including Black Kettle. before a Congressional inquest military militia moved toward of the Cheyenne.” Anthony. Camped Those Indians who could not flee would denounce Chivington and the Washita River. Eager for an caving to the presIndian fight, it mattered not to in the ravine were the bloody insanity, died on the his actions. sure, Evans enThe Cheyenne and Arapaho Custer that the camp he located some 600 Indians, spot. Eyewitness testimony estilisted Col. John M. Col. John M. Chivington primarily women mated the number just less than would again raid and pillage was peaceful and on government Chivington to orga- led his soldiers at the and children, along 200, while Chivington would during most of 1865, in retalia- Indian land. On the morning of nize the “100 Day Sand Creek Massacre with Lone Bear, boast 600 “hostiles” killed. Two tion. Black Kettle was not among Nov. 27, 1868, almost four years 150 years ago on Volunteers.” White Antelope, thirds of the dead were women them. While he was widely to the day of the Sand Creek MasNov. 29, 1864. Black Kettle Left Hand and and children. White Antelope blamed for the massacre by his sacre, Custer ordered his men to knew from experience this new Black Kettle. was among the first killed in the own people, he continued to work open fire on the sleepy Indian vilmilitia would set out on a fullThe attack came at dawn and military fire. Once the firing be- for peace and asked his people lage. The slaughter of innocent scale war and would not relent, lasted more than eight hours. gan, he left his lodge with arms not to retaliate. In 1867, Black Indians was completed by 10 even to the peace-seeking Black “Take no prisoners,” Chiving- extended, in the traditional sign Kettle signed the Treaty of Medi- a.m. Kettle and his Cheyenne people. ton ordered. of peace. He was shot down in a cine Lodge. Promising peace, the Custer later reported more Among the Indian tribes of the Indians gave up their land along than 100 Indians killed, the capThe attack became one of the single round of fire. plains Black Kettle was widely worst acts of savagery in ColoraBlack Kettle immediately flew the Arkansas River, in exchange ture of women and children, and respected as a fierce adversary do history. When the first shots the American flag, as well as the receiving land on the Indian res- much destruction. of the Pawnee and Kiowa, yet he were fired by the troops, several white flag given him by Maj. An- ervation in today’s Oklahoma. Again, Black Kettle witnessed believed in peace with the white warriors ran up the creek bed thony. The military onslaught By the fall of 1868, a forlorn the slaughter of his people, beman. In 1861 he had signed the and hastily dug pits to establish a continued. Black Kettle eventu- and defeated Black Kettle settled fore fleeing by horseback with his peace treaty at Fort Wise, prom- line of defense. As a military op- ally took his wife and fled toward with some 2,000 warriors in the wife, Maiyuna. They were shot ising to remain along the Arkan- eration, the battle was a horrible the prairie. His wife was shot, and valley of the Washita River in dead and fell on the bank of the sas River and not interfere with bungle. The surprised warriors, as troopers rode near, they put Indian Territory. Black Kettle river. the emigrants along the Smoky who were ill armed, managed to eight more bullets in her body. instructed his people to live in Black Kettle the man, the InHill Trail. hold their own and keep the sol- Black Kettle returned for his wife, peace with the White man. As dian chief, the advocate of peace, Soon, the Indians began to diers at bay throughout the day. and seeing her alive, threw her autumn settled into winter, Black died at the hands of those he complain that the dry lands near Command was lost early on, as over his shoulder and ran. He Kettle again wondered what the trusted, sought peace with and the Arkansas River held little fighting was confused, and sol- later extracted the bullets and cold months would bring to his believed in. wildlife and the white settlers removed much of the timber in the area. The Cheyenne Dog Soldiers refused to obey the new treaty and launched raids among the white people, culminating with the murder of the Nathan Hungate family 30 miles south of Denver. When the scalped and horribly mutilated bodies were brought to Denver and displayed before the public, mass hysteria gripped the town. Gov. Evans issued a proclamation dispatched to the Indian camps by messengers, ordering all peaceful Indians to assemble at Fort Lyon. Those Indians who did not comply with the order would be killed. The order authorized the citizens of Colorado Territory to “go in pursuit of all hostile Indians on the plains ... kill and destroy, as enemies of the country, wherever the Indians may be found.” When Black Kettle responded to the governor’s demands at Fort Lyon, Maj. Scott J. Anthony instructed Black Kettle and White Antelope to move their people to Sand Creek, some 40 miles from the fort. Anthony told Black Kettle his people would be This photo was taken at Camp Weld. Wynkoop and Capt. Silas Soule are kneeling. Black Kettle is seated in the second row.
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