Past Events

January 25, 2020••• Saturday 11am “Colorado Springs, A Changing Landscape” is history and photography combined as this volume explores the city of Colorado Springs through Glenn Wesley Murray’s photographs made during the 1930s to 1960s, contrasting with contemporary images made by local Colorado Springs photography students. Their challenge, to document the same locations that Murray photographed, sometimes more than 80 years later, and apply their creative eye to the changes, the progress, and sometimes, the unfortunate loss of our city’s…

Feb 29th at 11:00 am The Pikes Peak Library District celebrates Black History Month and the Manitou Springs Heritage Center hosts a presentation by Dennis Moore. Mr. Moore will give an informative presentation on the Buffalo Soldiers.  Buffalo soldiers were African American soldiers who mainly served on the Western frontier following the American Civil War. In 1866, six all-black cavalry and infantry regiments were created after Congress passed the Army Organization Act. Their main tasks were to help control the…

March 11, 2020••• Wednesday 7:00pm-8:00pm ••• "Gail Murphy, Colorado's Rosie the Riveter" The Pikes Peak Library District celebrates Women’s History Month and the Manitou Springs Heritage Center hosts a presentation by Gail Beaton.  Join the Pikes Peak Library District and the Heritage Center as we welcome Gail Murphy, Colorado's Rosie the Riveter, as portrayed by author and historian Gail Beaton. Gail developed the character of Gail Murphy to help to portray women's war work and the home front during World…