Colorado Armchair Historian

Head into Colorado Art of Facts and grab a piece of local Colorado history!

This place has a wide range of Colorado history to choose from and I could spend hours browsing and listening to the stories from Tim of each item in there.

Oh, you know just herd of bighorn sheep, just nibbling away while people were walking their dogs in Mountain Shadows Park…

I have put my collection of local Manitou Springs/Colorado Springs/Colorado maps, books, and ephemera in the hands of Colorado Art of Facts in lovely Manitou Springs!

Once inventoried, one can go a fetch themselves a piece of cool Colorado history!

Colorado Art of Facts has pretty much everything a Colorado history enthusiast would want. From original Van Briggle pieces, Coors memorabilia, a bloodshot glass eye to anything Manitou Springs! A really cool place!

These are just a few of the items that will be there….

Cheers!!

Colorado Art of Facts

Tim, I have sent you an email! I am downsizing my collection of local (CS/Manitou Springs) books, maps, photos and ephemera.

I work at the Keg, so I can bring if you’d like to peruse!!

A few of the items….

Not Forgotten Colorado

I just got this book in and thought of your page!!

The Blue Hour in Garden of the Gods.

The “blue hour” is the brief window just before sunrise or just after sunset when the sun has dipped below the horizon and the sky takes on deep, rich blue tones. For humans, it creates a calm, almost dreamlike atmosphere—colors soften, shadows fade, and the landscape feels peaceful and still. For wildlife, it’s a time of transition: daytime animals settle in, nighttime creatures begin to stir, and species like deer become most active in the low light. It’s a quiet moment where the day hands off to the night, and nature shifts gears.

Right next to Colorado’s oldest prison sits the Museum of Colorado Prisons, built inside the old women’s prison from the 1930s. The history here goes all the way back to territorial days—before Colorado was even a state.

What makes this place different is how real it feels. The original cells are still there, filled with things inmates actually made and used—some of it pretty unsettling.

Walking through it, there’s a heavy, almost eerie feeling. The kind of place where the past doesn’t feel that far away. You can almost imagine what it was like to be locked inside those walls.

Paint Mines optical illusion.

Taken today at the Paint Mines Interpretive Park.