Food for your mind!
The First Friday of every month, join the Colorado Historical Society for a lunchtime program on a variety of topics. Programs will be from 12:15 until 1 p.m. Bring a lunch or purchase food at Neusteters Museum Store—drinks and cookies will be provided. The cost is $4 for members, $5 for nonmembers. First Fridays will be held year-round. Reservations are not necessary but can be made by calling 303/866-4686.
 May 2 Hard Traveling: Tales and Tunes of the American Hobo
Wyoming folksinger, guitarist, and communication professor Chris Kennedy presents a program combining poetry, history, and song to explore the hobo’s life and times. Hobos were homeless wanderers, an itinerant workforce, riding freight trains in search of jobs in America’s fields, mines, and factories. Sometimes glorified as romantic and adventurous, a hobo’s life was also difficult and lonely. “Hard Traveling” addresses how hobos fostered America’s growth and economy, how they were exploited, why they were drawn to the lifestyle, why they vanished, and how their legacy lingers.
June 6 Everybody but Zeb: The Archaeology of the Pike’s Stockade Area
Recently, archaeologists surveyed more than 900 acres surrounding the Society’s reconstruction of Lt. Zebulon M. Pike’s winter stockade. Remnants of the original 1807 cottonwood log structure, or of items left by the men, remain elusive. But what they did find revealed a fascinating story of human occupation dating to periods well before and well after Pike’s brief stay. Join Kevin Black, the Society’s assistant state archaeologist, to learn more.
July 4 Correcting the Past: The Memory of Historical Injury and the Hope for Remedy
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Friday, July 4
Correcting the Past:
The Memory of Historical Injury and the Hope for Remedy
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Executive Order 9066, which authorized the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, did a lasting injustice to all American citizens, whatever their ethnicity. Patricia Limerick, faculty director and chair of the board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, argues that memories of the camps offer guidance and perspective on a universal dilemma in human nature. She’ll explore that dilemma by matching the episode to case studies taken from the history of Australia and South Africa.
This special Independence Day First Friday program will be offered free of charge as part of the Japanese American National Museum’s Enduring Communities National Conference at the Hyatt Regency, 650 15th Street, Denver, at 11 a.m. More information on the conference can be found by following this link.
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