Reflections Of The Spanish Flu In Denver and Colorado By Stephen J. Leonard For the GPHN On Sept. 27, 1918, Park Hill secured a dubious place in Denver’s history when Blanche Kennedy, residing at 2070 Birch St., became the city’s first reported victim of the influenza pandemic that was then ravaging the world. Kennedy¸ a […]
Bicycle Sales Skyrocket As Paths Clog Up Story and photo by Reid Neureiter, For the GPHN With schools, gyms, and ski resorts closed and sports leagues shut down, cooped-up Denver residents are trying to get exercise any way they can – leading to unprecedented numbers taking up walking and cycling on the city bike paths. […]
Hot Off The Presses! Blockworkers Deliver The News Of The ‘Hood Photo and story by Leslie Hirsch For the GPHN We started delivering the Greater Park Hill News in March. The April 2020 issue was only our second delivery! We learned about delivering papers through our neighbor, who has the paper route across the street. […]
Patience Is The Only COVID-19 Test Available, For Now I wasn’t planning to write about getting hit with COVID-19. I’m not much of a public navel-gazer. I generally believe that my personal trials and triumphs are far less interesting than the characters I encounter in my line of work, and whose stories I get to […]
Great Blue Herons are the largest wading birds in the heron family. They have amazing wingspans of 77-82 inches and stand up to 52 inches tall. Despite their impressive size, Great Blue Herons weigh only 5 to 6 pounds thanks in part to their hollow bones—a feature all birds share. They exhibit distinctive grace as […]
What To Do When The Beast Gives Chase By Ryan Hunter, For the GPHN As I look out the window, I have to say that this “Indian Winter” we’ve had in April is not helping! So what have I been doing to stay sane? Music is a big part of our family. We love to […]
Adjusting To Life Behind A Mask By Elaine Connell, For the GPHN In the beginning it crept up on us gradually … an illness in China … getting bad in Italy … next a few cases here, and a few celebrities sharing their stories … Then things started getting closer to home, as March Madness […]
‘Natural Is Nothing Close To How This Feels’ By Amy Maes, For the GPHN In a different universe, far, far away (beginning of March), one of my mantras to parents was, “screen time is the worst for young readers!” Today, I am teaching on screen, asking my kindergarten students to do assignments on screen. Oh, […]
Greater Park Hill is home to more than 30 places of worship in just four square miles, and its faith community is as diverse and robust as the neighborhood itself. Normally, on Easter Sunday morning, churchgoers would have been showing up in their finest, ready to pack the houses for services of sermon and song. […]
Pandemic Interrupts Annual Fundraiser By Jean Ercolani Park Hill Garden Walk Organizer June 28 would have marked the 20th annual Park Hill Garden Walk. However, instead of celebrating 20 years of this remarkable event, it is with great sadness that the Garden Walk Committee, in conjunction with the Greater Park Hill Community board, decided to […]