Schedule & Presentations
Poets, Professors, and Provocateurs
of the Pikes Peak Region
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Reserve your seats for this free event!
Poets, Professors, and Provocateurs
of the Pikes Peak Region
Can't attend this year’s Symposium? You can still watch via live stream at
facebook.com/PikesPeakLibraryDistrict
Reserve your seats for this free event!
Saturday, June 8, 2019, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
8:30 a.m.—Doors Open at East Library, 5550 N. Union Blvd., Colorado Springs, CO 80918
9 a.m.—Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Ideas Made Manifest – Selling Colorado Springs
Steve Ruskin – "Tribe & Jefferay’s Bookstore: Colorado Springs’ Original Purveyor of Poetry, Scholarship, and Provocative Ideas"
Jane Bardal – "Mrs. Captain Jack, Mining Queen of the Rockies/ Ellen E. Jack, Miner and Author"
Eric Metzger – "Chemistry Prof, Gen. Macallister and Van Briggle"
10:45 – 11 a.m. Break
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Visions, Stories, & Yarns
John Nizalowski – "From the Mountain’s Roots: Frank Waters and Colorado Springs"
Rick Sturdevant – "Intersections: Robert Heinlein and the Pikes Peak Region"
Chris Nicholl – "Time Travel Is My Business - Lillian de la Torre Bueno McCue (1902 – 1993)"
Kathy Sturdevant – Provocateur Marshall Sprague: “Supreme Teller of Fascinating Tales About People and Events in Colorado Springs History.”
12:30 – 1:15 – Complimentary Light Lunch
1:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Provocateurs & Prodigious Provenance
Matt Mayberry – "The Role of the Ormeses in Documenting Local History"
Susan Leighnor – "Botany Bay in the Shadow of Pikes Peak: Botanist Ruth Ashton Nelson"
Caleb Hall – "Family History from Unconventional Sources: Discovering the History of the “Ordinary Person” of the Pikes Peak Region Through Cookbooks of a Calhan Family"
J Richards – "Ellen T. Brinley – Philanthropist Providing a Century of Community Service to Colorado Springs and Beyond"
3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
Reception & Special Presentation
Schedule and speakers subject to change.
8:30 a.m.—Doors Open at East Library, 5550 N. Union Blvd., Colorado Springs, CO 80918
9 a.m.—Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Ideas Made Manifest – Selling Colorado Springs
Steve Ruskin – "Tribe & Jefferay’s Bookstore: Colorado Springs’ Original Purveyor of Poetry, Scholarship, and Provocative Ideas"
Jane Bardal – "Mrs. Captain Jack, Mining Queen of the Rockies/ Ellen E. Jack, Miner and Author"
Eric Metzger – "Chemistry Prof, Gen. Macallister and Van Briggle"
10:45 – 11 a.m. Break
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Visions, Stories, & Yarns
John Nizalowski – "From the Mountain’s Roots: Frank Waters and Colorado Springs"
Rick Sturdevant – "Intersections: Robert Heinlein and the Pikes Peak Region"
Chris Nicholl – "Time Travel Is My Business - Lillian de la Torre Bueno McCue (1902 – 1993)"
Kathy Sturdevant – Provocateur Marshall Sprague: “Supreme Teller of Fascinating Tales About People and Events in Colorado Springs History.”
12:30 – 1:15 – Complimentary Light Lunch
1:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Provocateurs & Prodigious Provenance
Matt Mayberry – "The Role of the Ormeses in Documenting Local History"
Susan Leighnor – "Botany Bay in the Shadow of Pikes Peak: Botanist Ruth Ashton Nelson"
Caleb Hall – "Family History from Unconventional Sources: Discovering the History of the “Ordinary Person” of the Pikes Peak Region Through Cookbooks of a Calhan Family"
J Richards – "Ellen T. Brinley – Philanthropist Providing a Century of Community Service to Colorado Springs and Beyond"
3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
Reception & Special Presentation
Schedule and speakers subject to change.