Where is this sculpture, and who made it? Hint: It is not made from French fries. Tell what you know about the urban icon in a note to coloradosunday@denverpost.com. Include a digital photo of yourself, and please remember to include your hometown. We’ll pick at least one story to share next week. The best wins a $50 gas card.
How’d you know?
Last week: San Isidor church, Las Mesitas
WINNER: Laura Drotar, Lakewood
My husband and I had just met when we worked the fires in Arizona in July 2002. We were on a national animal-rescue team retrieving both wildlife and companion animals. We were returning home to Colorado and had taken a wrong turn, and found the church. We decided to return Sept. 27, 2003, to get married in that little old burned-out church! We strung lights, cut weeds and threw flower seeds instead of birdseed or rice.
WITNESS: Gordon Knuckey, Fort Collins
The burned-out San Isidor church, near Antonito, served as the setting of a sunset wedding in September 2003. Nearby residents drove slowly by several times, then finally stopped at the chain link fence to watch. With tears in their eyes, one couple said they were the last to be married there, just days before the church burned decades ago from a stove warming the building before services. I know this because I was the pastor performing the ceremony.
