a month of modern poetry from the archives

Vintage Colorado Poetry / Poem of the Week / September 25 & October 2, 2006

Pike Expedition Bicentennial, 2006 -- America the Beautiful Park, Colorado Springs

Pike marker, Pikes Peak, dedicated 9/26/1906

Zebulon M. Pike Colorado Springs Pike Centennial September 26 - 29, 1906 featuring Sons of Colorado (Denver old timers and their sons) The Sons of Colorado are invited to participate in Colorado Springs' Pike Centennial celebration. They head south with a comic song about Pike in hand ...  An Important Meeting Too Much Enthusiasm "Let us go down to Springs in force ... " Z. Pike E-squire Regional Humor at Pike's Expense Song of the Sons of Colorado by James Barton Adams

Pike monument, Antlers Park, dedicated 9/27/1906

Credit line:  Western History / Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library.  B&W photos.

Archives I // Archives II

James B. Hemesath Editor, Vintage Colorado Poetry jimhemesath@adelphia.net Copyright (c), 2003-2006, Vintage Colorado Poetry