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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
You are invited!
Friends of Historic Riverside Cemetery
2009 Annual Members Meeting, Reception,
and Walking Tour
When: May 16th, 2009, 10 a.m. – noon
Where: Holy Transfiguration of Christ Cathedral, Community Hall
Address: 349 E 47th Ave, Denver, 80216
(map is available at bottom of this page)
The Friends of Historic Riverside Cemetery is celebrating our first ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
17 March 2009
Friends of Historic Riverside Cemetery Newsletter
Hello, and welcome to the March 2009 newsletter of the Friends of Historic Riverside Cemetery.
As many of you already know, this winter had been a tough one on the landscape at Riverside; most of the mature trees have died since watering was ...
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Julie Hutchinson wrote a terrific feature article on Riverside and the goals of the Friends of Historic Riverside Cemetery (FHRC) in the Rocky Mountain News on February 7, 2009. She does a great job of summarizing the history of the cemetery, and putting it into a contemporary context.
FHRC ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
The Friends of Historic Riverside Cemetery (FHRC) is pleased to announce an ambitious, year-long plan to inventory and assess the condition of Riverside, with a focus on establishing priorities for the preservation and restoration of the cemetery as well as defining opportunities for increasing public awareness and engagement.
Riverside Cemetery ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Tom McGhee of the Denver Post wrote an article called "Some cemeteries dig green burials" that was published on August 26th. In it, he discusses some of the options for finding additional income to support the operations of Riverside (and other cemeteries), including green burial.
McGhee focuses primarily on ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
At the 'Saving Places' conference last week (put on by the fine folks at Colorado Preservation), Riverside Cemetery was selected as one of Colorado's most endangered places for 2008. A number of our friends group attended the announcement luncheon, which included a video created by KCNC Channel 4, the CBS ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
For anyone interested in the remarkable history of Riverside Cemetery, there is no better single resource than Annette Student's book, published in 2006, called "Riverside Cemetery: Where History Lies."
As the Colorado Geneology Blog, cogenblog, said when the book was published last year:
A new book has just been published about Denver’s ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Many of you may have seen the terrific article by Tom McGhee in The Denver Post on October 29th.
Now Adam Goldstein has written a great article on the history of Riverside that was just published in the Commerce City Sentinel Express. The article talks about the many veterans who ...
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