By Forrest Whitman
Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War hero and President from 1869 to 1877, is an often forgotten part of history in Central Colorado. Interest in President Grant is sure to peak now that Ron Chernow’s biography, Grant, is out. Chernow made Alexander Hamilton come to life for us and the hit Broadway musical followed. Could a musical be on the way for Grant?
Sidebar by Mike Feeley
Ku Klux Klan – April 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
From the Opening Day remarks of Colorado State Senate Minority Leader Mike Feeley, January 7, 1998
There is another gentleman from Colorado that many of you have heard of, maybe some of you haven’t. His name is Billy Adams. He was from Alamosa. Billy Adams was first elected to public office as county commissioner in Conejos County in 1882. Four years later he was elected as a representative from Alamosa, after one term in the House he was elected to the State Senate where he served, in this chamber, for 38 years. Billy Adams was a Democrat and almost all of his long tenure he served as a member of the minority party.
Essay by Ed Quillen
Ku Klux Klan – April 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
MY FATHER often commented, in the course of some discussion or another, that “back in the ’20s, the Klan pretty much ran Colorado.” When I was in college, a friend who grew up in Denver’s southern suburbs had discovered that the flagpole at the old Englewood High School building (by then converted to a junior high) still bore a plaque stating that it had been donated by patriotic local Klansmen in the 1920s.
Article by Orville Wright
Ku Klux Klan – April 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
POLITICIANS ARE AFRAID of skeletons in the closet — especially around election time. No matter how squeaky clean a candidate claims to be, the opposition usually manages to dredge up dirt from some obscure location and proceed to start slinging mud. You know what I’m talking about. We’ve all recently been force-fed an overdose of political nonsense, so the point won’t be taken any further here.
