Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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On a daily basis, the routine at Denver's Cheesman Park at the intersection southwest airlines tickets of 8th Street and Franklin remains southwest airlines tickets the same.  With sunrise, runners and  walkers, many with dogs, begin pouring onto the  crushed granite path that circles this Denver southwest airlines tickets oasis.  Soon sunbathers take to their favorite corners, picnickers unpack their baskets and cars begin lining the meandering road that leads counter-clockwise around the park.  On summer evenings, concert-goers throng to the eastern edge of the park, entering the Denver Botanic Gardens from the Gardens' west gate for another night of award-winning music at their Summer Concert Series.  From the marble Greek Pavilion, visitors can see 150 miles up and down the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, a vista that is punctuated by Pike's Peak to the south and Long's Peak to the north.  This is a docile scene of people socializing, relaxing and enjoying another day in Denver's exquisite outdoors. The picture wasn't always so peaceful. Cheesman Park is situated atop a portion of Denver's first city cemetery.
In 1858, General Larimer jumped a claim belonging to the Arapahoe Indians, claim jumping being a common practice at the time, especially when Native Americans were involved.  One morning in November, Larimer and his son staked out the area now taken by Cheesman Park,  the Denver Botanic Gardens and Congress Park.  The cemetery was originally home to paupers, criminals, and then eventually Jewish, southwest airlines tickets Catholic, Protestant and Chinese settlers.
An Act of Congress in 1872 mandated the land as property of the United States Congress via an 1860 treaty with the Arapahoe nation.  Woefully mismanaged by undertakers, gamblers and lesser city fathers,  the cemetery was a shambles by 1890.  Consequently, the bodies were to be relocated and the area was designated southwest airlines tickets a city park simply named Congress Park.  The Chinese were ceremoniously efficient and respectful to
their dead, sending remains home to China after a brief memorial.  The Jewish and Catholic communities were equally fervent in seeing to their dead.  But that left the remains of the homeless, crime victims, their perpetrators and, evidently, the Protestants, to be dismembered and boxed in smaller coffins by an undertaker named McGovern. He had been contracted to remove the remaining dead bodies at $1.90 per coffin. southwest airlines tickets McGovern became well paid, bored with the job, and proceeded to simply dump the leftover remains back into the ground, patting down the soil to an acceptable grade and going his merry way.
It is fairly well documented that disturbing the remains of the dead makes for some pretty put out poltergeists. Reports southwest airlines tickets of being overtaken by waves of warm and cold are common among those venturing into the shadowy depths of the park after nightfall.  The Greek Parthenon, a memorial to Denver water baron Walter Scott Cheesman from his wife, is an ideal place to sit on a moonlit night and listen for the wailing of a particularly plaintive young woman.  There are no gruesome tales of supernatural antics in Cheesman Park but simply regular reminders that the acts of one or two men can keep a ghostly pot stirred decade after decade after decade.
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