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(“Grace Greenwood”, ca. 1860. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Special Collections, Pikes Peak Library District. Image Number: 001-8837. Portrait of journalist Grace Greenwood (1823-1904). As a correspondent for the New York Times, Ms. Greenwood climbed Pikes Peak to the Army Corps’ Signal Station on November 22, 1873.)

Local arts maven Kathleen Collins reads excerpts of Grace Greenwood’s October 22, 1873 New York Times column “A Story of Pike’s Peak” (Right-click or option-click on the link to download, or click on the play button to stream)

Grace Greenwood’s “Story of Pikes Peak” read by Kathleen Collins

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To read Grace Greenwood’s entire two-part column about her ascent of Pikes Peak in 1873, Click HERE for Part 1, and HERE for Part 2.

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