FOGG Annual Meeting and Potluck Dinner, Thursday, April 26, 6:00 pm, Visitor and Nature Center
Our annual FOGG membership meeting is Thursday, April 26th at 6:00 pm at the Garden of the Gods Visitor and Nature Center. Join in with friends and Friends, hear about the work our FOGG Board and volunteers have been doing and then enjoy a program that will inform and help us all understand how the city of Colorado Springs was part of the City Beautiful movement. Leah Witherow is the Curator of History at the Pioneers Museum and also teaches history at UCCS. She will speak about the City Beautiful movement and how General Palmer’s vision for the city conformed to that philosophy and options how to sustain that vision in times of rapid growth and development. Good Dining: FOGG Board members will provide table-ready entrees. Attending members should bring a side dish, salad, or dessert to serve 8-10 people. Sign up at the VNC Information Desk, in the program office, or on the FOGG website. You may also call the program office at 219-0108 to sign up, or sign up using the form below. Sign up deadline is April 20th. For more information call Marilyn Lee – 719-434-8205.
Walking Tour of the Old North End tour on Monday, May 21 at 10:30 am
Tour participants will gather in the landscaped median north of Uintah Street on Wood Avenue. The route will proceed north on Wood, east on Caramillo St, south on Cascade Avenue and west on Uintah to the point of beginning. We will cover 8-12 blocks and the walk lasts 75-90 minutes.