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Denver Center For International Studies, A Beacon Of Hope In Denver Public Schools

April 15, 2022 Dennis Gallagher 1

The Gallaghers and Flahertys of North Denver were happy that John F. Kennedy got elected president. My grandmother, Nora O’Donovan Flaherty, my mom’s mom from County Cork in Ireland, told me how delighted she was […]

Shaping Our Future by Remembering Our Past

The Bells of Mount Carmel Church

March 14, 2022 Dennis Gallagher 5

A few years back I was visiting with Councilman Ernie Marranzino whose family lived one house west on Osage, behind Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church at West 36th and Navajo. It was around noon […]

Shaping Our Future by Remembering Our Past

Transfiguration Church in Globeville: An Oral History

February 15, 2022 Dennis Gallagher 2

North and West Denver are blessed with many historic churches and synagogues which help build strong and vigorous communities, knitting together an important fabric that makes neighborhood stories memorable and worthy of remembering. Today, we […]

Shaping Our Future by Remembering Our Past

North Denver’s Most Famous Former Resident?

January 15, 2022 Dennis Gallagher 1

Of all the folks who have trodden across the dusty and muddy streets of old Denver, perhaps the most internationally famous resident is Golda Mabowitz who lived with her sister Shayna Korngold in a humble […]

Shaping Our Future by Remembering Our Past

Judge Ben B. Lindsey, The Kid’s Judge

December 15, 2021 Dennis Gallagher 3

Benjamin Barr Lindsey never forgot his working class roots, and that’s why I have always admired him.  Lindsey was only 11 years old in 1879 when his family moved to Denver from his native Tennessee. […]

Shaping Our Future by Remembering Our Past

Hooker Street, Boulevard F, and The History of Street Names

November 14, 2021 Dennis Gallagher 4

In a detailed addendum to her book “Rediscovering Northwest Denver,” North Denver historic author, Ruth Eloise Wiberg, includes a supplement of all the street names in our neighborhoods and the previous names of the same […]

Shaping Our Future by Remembering Our Past

Great Civilizations Treasure Parks and Open Spaces

September 15, 2021 Dennis Gallagher 4

Thomas Jefferson, author of our Declaration of Independence, had been horrified at the poverty, squalor, and congestion which he observed in European cities. He could not have been any clearer about open space and living […]

Shaping Our Future by Remembering Our Past

What is The City But The Parks?

August 16, 2021 Dennis Gallagher 3

Denver remains unique in American cities because of its Mountain Parks system.   If Denver’s leaders had not acted when they did way back in 1912, all of the land which now makes up the jewels […]

Shaping Our Future by Remembering Our Past

Downplaying Our Declaration Reading

July 15, 2021 Dennis Gallagher 2

Every year for about 30 years, Tom Noel, John Stewart, and I look forward to being invited to a wonderful annual civic event unique in the city and special to our civic memory. This year […]

Shaping Our Future by Remembering Our Past

Lakeside, The Place to Shed the Coronavirus Blues

June 15, 2021 Dennis Gallagher 1

All things considered, I believe after all the sequestering we have put ourselves through, distancing from each other, and all the non hugging, that Lakeside Amusement Park, right here in North Denver, is the place […]

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