Ice cream social, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, City Park Pavilion, 2300 Steele St., Denver
Let’s dish.
There’s free ice cream for all at the District 8 Ice Cream Social. The benefactor: Denver City Councilwoman Carla Madison, so the flavors include “political.” The event is associated with an old-school fair. Turn-of-the-century (19th to 20th) apparel encouraged.
Ready for its close-up
Bent’s Old Fort Goes To the Movies, June 4 and 5, Bent’s Fort, Otero County; 719-383-502, .htm
Happy golden year.
Bent’s Old Fort, once the only permanent settlement between Missouri and the Mexican settlements, celebrates its 50th year as a National Historic Site. Festivities focus on the fort’s latter-day status as a filming location of four made-for-TV movies, including “Centennial” and “How the West Was Won.”
Final stories
“Florissant, Colorado Pioneer Cemetery: The Stories Behind the Tombstones,” by Laura L. Moncrief and Nancy M. Boyd ($29.95 hardback), available at the Cripple Creek Museum gift shop.
What lies beneath.
Historians Moncrief and Boyd painstakingly chronical the genealogical backgrounds of 109 Colorado pioneers buried in the Florissant cemetery. Some entries include startling details: Zillah Howarth died “from burns sustained . . . when a can of kerosine exploded in her hands.”
