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Running Pikes Peak, Part III: The Champion

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminAugust 19, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on August 19, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Even the Pikes Peak Marathon’s greatest champion, Matt Carpenter, has been brought to his knees by the mountain. His first Ascent race…

Running Pikes Peak, Part II: The Pioneers

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminAugust 12, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on August 12, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. The first official race to the top of Pikes Peak was on June 28, 1936. 27 started the nearly 13 mile-race up the…

Running Pikes Peak, Part I: The Trailblazers

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminAugust 5, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on August 5, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. When snow turned him back from the first recorded American attempt to climb Pikes Peak, Zebulon Pike wrote, “I believe no human…

Colorado Springs – Where It All Began 150 Years Ago

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJuly 29, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on July 29, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. It’s not hard to find. In fact, there’s a marker, a relatively plain one, at the southeast corner of Pikes Peak and Cascade…

The New Deal And Its Great Gains For Southern Colorado

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJuly 22, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on July 22, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. The next time you find yourself on a bridge or a path, I’d like to encourage you to look down and appreciate…

COVID-style isolation is not new to military families

LifeBy adminJuly 18, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This essay was published in the Salt Lake City Tribune print edition on July 18, 2021. The text of the essay is included below. My house is empty and I have Salt Lake City to blame for that.  As a career military officer, stationed near Colorado Springs, you’d think I’d be used to my family being away. But with…

A Busy Road In Colorado Springs Could Take You All The Way To Canada

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJuly 15, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on July 15, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. U.S. Route 85 is a nearly 1,500-mile-long highway that runs through El Paso, Texas, to New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota and through Fortuna,…

A Tall Turtle Tale In The Garden Of The Gods

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJuly 8, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on July 8, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. There’s a tall, tall turtle in the Garden of the Gods, and I’d like to tell you a story about it.  But…

Remembering A Manitou Springs Veteran This Holiday Weekend

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJuly 1, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on July 1, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. A few years ago, I was standing in Memorial Park in Manitou Springs when I noticed this enormous rock in the middle…

New Cog, Same Old Tricks – Historic Railway Marks 130th Birthday

KRCC - Peak PastBy adminJune 24, 2021Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on June 24, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Guts, smarts, and money.  Those three things helped make the cog rail in Manitou Springs happen.  The guts came from a Civil…

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