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Photos courtesy of Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum AdAmAn club members ascend Pikes Peak along the Pikes Peak Cog Railway tracks, circa 1925. The new exhibit âCOS@150,â a timeline of the cityâs history told through 150 objects, opened Saturday at Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Itâs part of the cityâs yearlong string of events celebrating the sesquicentennial.
Prairie Lives Last week we met Ivanhoe’s Norma Jean (Pederson) Johnson, who graduated from Ivanhoe High School in 1940; continued her education at the St. Barnabus School of Nursing in Minneapolis; and graduated as an RN in 1944. Like many of her fellow nursing graduates, she volunteered for military service, in her case with the Army Nurse Corps. Norma Jean completed her Basic Training at Camp Carson, Colorado before deploying to Manila, the capital of the Philippines, with the newly-formed 316th General Hospital. Manila was in ruins from weeks of heavy fighting, with much of the city ce...
Prairie Lives This year the world commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. We are remembering contributions of persons from our region, most of whom are no longer with us. During WWII the women serving in the Navy WAVES, the Coast Guard SPARS, the Marine Corps Women Reserves, and the women WASP pilots were all restricted from overseas service. But the 59,000 WWII-era Army nurses had no such restrictions and 32,500 served overseas. Let’s meet an Army nurse who served overseas. Ivanhoe’s Norma Jean Johnson was born in Ivanhoe in 1922 and attended public school, gradua...
Selecting Colorado Springs as the permanent location for USSPACECOM is one in series of basing decisions that the United States military has made over many decades in the Pikes Peak Region. In establishing Camp Carson, Peterson Field, Ent Air Force Base (first home of NORAD), Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, the United States Air Force Academy, and Falcon Air Force Station (now Schriever AFB), our community has risen to each occasion with our dedication and support to the process for the mission, and the people carrying out the mission, to call Colorado Springs home. The Pikes Peak Region...
Submersion. i would have had to do a canon ball. >> this is endlessly fascinating, your summer camp run by gang members. it's so well written. matt and i arrived at camp carson in that summer of '88 as boys and left as young men whose souls had been darkened by four weeks in the joint. we were like tim robins and morgan freeman. not your typical camp experience. >> this is my dad trying to do the right thing. his dad never sent his son to summer camp. we go to new hampshire and there is a lake and identify leaves and make things out of tongue depressers. what he didn't see in the fine print wa...