Monthly presentations at OCC History Center continue through May; tunnels talk March 14
Each will be an hour long and held at the volunteer OCCHS’ Old Colorado City History Center, 1 S. 24th St. The cost is $5 for non-museum members. The first of these, titled “Tunnels Under Our Feet: Forgotten Hollow Sidewalks,” will be Saturday, March 14 at 11 a.m. The speaker will be historian Tracy Beach, who has written a book by that title about the underground tunnels in 14 Colorado cities going back to the 1800s – including Old Colorado City. A Salida resident, Beach spent five years “digging up” tunnel stories related to “red light districts, the KKK, corpses during the 1918 flu epidemic, Prohibition, Jack Dempsey and speakeasies,” a press release states. Coming up April 10 will be a program by museum professional Diane Karlson on little-known artifacts from the History Center collection, and on May 9 Steve Morath, who had two family members among the original AdAMan "Frozen Five" hike up Pikes Peak to mark the 1923 New Year, will provide anecdotes and recollections. For more information, call the OCCHS at 636-1225.
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