Saying that a place was an "Internment Camp" is really just a nice way of saying that it was a "Concentration Camp." Such was the case on the high plains of southeast Colorado outside the little town of Granada. There, just west of town, was the Japanese internment camp from World War II known as Amache - a home to thousands of Japanese Americans who were literally torn from their homes in the west, and placed in supervised camps farther inland where it was believed they wouldn't be a thre...

Mesa Verde National Park was to be my last...

For years I drove by the signs pointing to the park. I had every intention of visiting it at some point as I lived so close, but never really made it there as something else always seemed to attract my attention. But, over five years after moving from my old apartment, I decided to make my way back to the area and check out the Four Mile Historic Park. I've read a lot of Colorado history books lately and was interested to see how this place fit into the grand scheme.

I had some time to ...

The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Area is a refuge in the middle of Denver that offers opportunities for hiking, wildlife viewing and catch-and-release fishing. But, only a small part of it is available for exploring at the present time; most of the site is still being restored to how it looked before the middle of the 20th century when the Plains Indians inhabited the land or it was used for pioneer farming.

In 1942 the U.S. Army started producing mustard gas, and later ner...

The CELL, or the Center for Empowered Living & Learning, is located in the cultural district near the Denver Art Museum, the Colorado History Museum and the main branch of the Denver Public Library.

It is an ongoing exhibit drawing attention to the destructive forces of terrorism and how it can happen to "Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere," a theme that hangs like a dark cloud throughout the visit. I didn't leave feeling empowered and knowing that there are peop...

Most know her as "The Unsinkable" Molly Brown from the Titanic voyage, but she actually preferred to go by Maggie or Margaret, at least according to my tour guide at the Molly Brown House in Denver.

Just a few short blocks from the Colorado State Capitol, along tree lined Pennsylvania Street, sits the Brown home. Margaret and her husband, James Joseph Brown, purchased the residence shortly after they struck it rich with a silver mine investment in Leadville, Colorado.

Due to some squa...

The free guided tour of the Colorado State Capitol Building is free for a reason. Yet I, unlike many of the other people in my group, stayed on until the end. I just waited and hoped that there would be some interesting historical nugget the tour guide would throw us that I knew I wouldn't find in the pamphlet in my pocket.

Sadly no interesting piece of information was forthcoming. Nor was the tour interesting. In such places kids usually get restless and garner severe looks from adults...

The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is about a three hours drive southeast from Denver, near the Kansas border, in Kiowa County.

The National Historic Site is the place where, on November 29, 1864, more than 650 United States troops attacked a group ...

I've lived in Colorado for nine years and just today finally went to see the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. I've been wanting to go for so long, but just never really took the time to do so until now.

I picked up a friend early this morning and we made the two hour drive, which was only due to the morning rush hour traffic, to the park, which sits just a few minutes drive south of the small town of Florissant, Colorado.

Besides a handful of petrified tree stumps, there's n...