The “Pioneer Profiles” series explores some of the interesting characters that define Colorado history. This article discusses the life of Spencer Penrose. *** Spencer Penrose got a rather inauspicious debut in Colorado Springs. Fresh from a Harvard education that taught him little but decent boxing skills, Penrose had been eking out a living in Cripple […]
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(In today’s column, I feature “A Christmas Memory,” a short story written by a fellow native Alabamian, the late Truman Capote. I first heard this story forty years ago. In December of 1977, Mr. Randal Simmons, my seventh-grade English teacher, read it to our class. Even then, I admired its simple and elegant beauty as
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The First Generation 1910: K.D. and Lulu Reverend Kimbal Dolphus Stroud, pastor, teacher, Langston University graduate, appreciated living in Oklahoma territory. His wife, Lulu, was a member of the Creek Indian tribe and minorities had opportunities not often found elsewhere. But when Oklahoma became a state in 1907, segregation moved in. This was not the
On August 27, 1960, a group of black students did a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. At the same time a group of 200 white men gathered in nearby Hemming Park. The leaders, most of whom were members of the KKK, passed out ax-handles and baseball bats and proceeded to
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Searching for the Truth (Always Telling the Truth Means Never Having to Remember Anything) I’ve known and worked closely with Stanton Friedman for the past 23 years since I moved to Roswell and was a volunteer at the International UFO Museum from 1996 to 1998. I had heard and read about Stanton for many years
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Not many people have the honor of meeting a Holocaust survivor, so when I got a phone call offering the unique opportunity of hosting a Holocaust survivor for the day at our school, followed by a book signing, I couldn’t believe it. I fast-tracked approval for the event through the administration and arranged to pick
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