Food for your mind!
The last Friday of every month, join the Colorado Historical Society for a lunchtime program on a variety of topics. Programs are 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. Reservations are not necessary but can be made by calling 303/866-4686.
In January, February and March,
programs will be held on the LAST Friday of the month, as these are the LAST programs we will have in our building before we close and build the new History Colorado Center!
 January 29 Denver’s Capitol Hill Neighborhood
Join historian Amy Zimmer for a fascinating photographic journey through a storied Denver neighborhood. When Henry Brown donated land in 1868 for a future state capitol, no one could imagine what the area around “Brown’s Bluff” would become. Twenty years later, Capitol Hill was the city’s most fashionable residential district. Capitol Hill evolved through the years from millionaire’s row to skid row, and remains one of Denver’s most diverse and intriguing neighborhoods.
February 26 Denver’s City Park and Whittier Neighborhoods
Discover the hidden history of the Whittier neighborhood and City Park through never-before-published photographs. History Colorado’s Shawn Snow will tell how visionary pioneers such as Alfred Case and Jacob Downing amassed real estate holdings far from downtown when the city was barely ten years old. Their speculation paid off when the newly arrived railroad led to a population explosion. The erstwhile prairie dog domain evolved into a middle-class haven of fine Victorian homes blessed with a 320-acre park just to the east.
March 26 Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family
Author Dick Kreck—back by popular demand—will host one of the last programs held in the Colorado History Museum. The high-profile Smaldone crime syndicate got its start in the bootlegging days of the 1920s and flourished into the late twentieth century. Connected to such notorious figures as Al Capone and Carlos Marcello, charismatic Clyde Smaldone was the family’s leader from the Prohibition era to the rise of gambling to the family’s waning days. Through candid interviews and firsthand accounts, Kreck reveals what it meant to be a Smaldone and explores the mix of love and dysfunction that is part of every American family.
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