HISTORY COMES ALIVE
High Plains Chautauqua
Wednesday-Saturday, Greeley, 970-339-6365
High Plains Chautauqua takes on The Civil War: A House Divided, beginning with a Tuesday reception featuring Stephen Foster ballads and winding through the week with character reenactors and scholars recounting the war between the states in poetry, folk tales, song and lecture. Free. Details at highplainschautauqua.org
HAUTE UP HIGH
The Cliff House
306 Canon Ave., Manitou Springs, 719-685-3000
The circa-1874 Cliff House finds itself in very good company on Travel+Leisure’s 2006 list of World’s Best hotels, landing at No. 19 on the list of 100 best North American inns, right behind The Little Nell in Aspen and four back from the Ritz-Carlton in Bachelor Gulch. General manager Paul York chalks it up to the warm, gracious staff; the 55-room hotel’s award-winning restaurant; and 17 “celebrity suites,” each named for a big wheel who stayed there, and decorated in period posh.
MARKING TIME
Post Mark Collectors Club Convention
Doubletree Inn, 3202 Quebec St., Denver
Details: postmarks.org
In an age dominated by electronic correspondence, the postmark is especially underappreciated. But some folks understand canceled stamps and envelopes as historical documents that chart global economic progress, and they convene this week in Denver. The meet runs 8 a.m.- 10 p.m. Wednesday-Friday and 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. It’s open to the public.
