Cleo Parker Robinson is known both for her talent as a dancer and her tenacity in creating a cultural arts institution that serves more than 60,000 people each year.
Dance and Culture for All—from Professionals to School Children
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History
Stapleton Weather Balloon Program Still Going Strong after 79 Years
When it was an airport, Stapleton hosted a three-pronged National Weather Service (NWS) office: an upper atmosphere weather balloon program; a weather forecasting office; and weather observations related to the airport.
Mummy Secrets Revealed in Scans at Children’s Hospital
In a time-bridging partnership, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science teamed up with Children’s Hospital Colorado to scan two mummies and a sarcophagus.
Park Hill’s Historic Struggle for Integration
The ’60s and 70’s were a fascinating and historically important time in Park Hill as it fought to be one of the first integrated neighborhoods in the U.S. But, how integrated is the neighborhood today?
Dana Crawford: Saving the Soul of the City
A book by former Denver Post reporter and now biographer, Mike McPhee, celebrates the accomplishments of major Denver figure, Dana Crawford.
Days of Grace
With the help of her daughter and a good family friend, 96-year-old Grace Roberts Scott wrote a 520-page memoir of her life and family history, which was published this spring.
What is the Green Book?
The Green Book is the plan for the re-development of the abandoned Stapleton International Airport. What was the Green Book vision and has Stapleton met it?
The Green Book: A Bold and Visionary Plan in the ‘90s
How did the Green Book (The Stapleton Development Plan) come to be? And what might have happened without it? This is the story of the people whose determined efforts made it happen and have guided the development. Without them, Stapleton might well have been an industrial warehouse district, a theme park or a race track.
Black Lives Matter Calls for Stapleton Name Change
Black Lives Matter 5280 distributed 2,500 flyers in Stapleton the night of Aug. 8, 2015. The flyer...
1968: The Year That Changed Everything
At the Colorado History Center, visitors relive 1968 through displays that weave together the events of that tumultuous year.
Remembering Dearfield: Black History Is Colorado History
The town of Dearfield, near Wiggins, Colo., was founded in 1910 by Oliver Toussaint Jackson as an African-American agricultural colony and later abandoned in the 1930s during the Dust Bowl. Read about this almost-forgotten town.
April 2010: Front Porch 10th Anniversary Issue: A Stapleton Retrospective
The Front Porch began in April 2000 as a vehicle for Forest City, Inc., as master developer, to keep the surrounding communities and city officials apprised of the progress as development proceeded in Stapleton. Over the years the Front Porch has evolved into a community newspaper and the role of publisher has passed to Stapleton residents, Carol Roberts and Steve Larson, who have worked on the paper since its first issue.
