<![CDATA[Listening to Auraria's Past]]> https://aurariahistory.org “Listening to Auraria’s Past” is an audio walking tour of Denver’s Auraria neighborhood, which was displaced by the city of Denver in the 1970s to build the Auraria Higher Education Center. For more information, see the project's website at: aurariahistory.org.

]]> RSS.com 2026.428.112250 Tue, 19 May 2026 20:59:37 GMT en edbd1547-a818-539e-8d0d-61b494dd42c8 https://media.rss.com/listening-auraria-past/podcast_cover_20260506_100555_275a352bee9f7f0500b80322c9a521ea.png Listening to Auraria's Past https://aurariahistory.org yes Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, Rachel Gross, Krista Marks, and Indira Saha Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, Rachel Gross, Krista Marks, and Indira Saha false serial podcast University of Colorado Denver, 1201, Larimer Street, Auraria, Denver, Colorado, 80204, USA Auraria, Denver, Colorado, 80204, USA false <![CDATA[Stop 1: Welcome to the Westside]]> 1015 9th Street marks the starting point of the walking tour. This stop, narrated by Displaced Aurarian and Auraria Historical Advocacy Council leader Sheila Perez-Kindle and CU Denver Professor Rachel Gross, serves as a gateway into understanding the Westside neighborhood's history of community, displacement, and activism.

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Credits: Written by Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, and Rachel Gross, with editorial oversight by Sheila Perez-Kindle, Virginia Castro, and Frances Torres. Produced and edited by Krista Marks and Indira Saha. Music by Tony Garcia and Daniel Valdez. Cover art by Bella Briganti. Oral histories courtesy of the History Colorado Center's Museum of Memory project on Auraria. Created in partnership with the Auraria Historical Advocacy Council. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the University of Colorado Denver.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/listening-auraria-past/2841200 1593ceea-d0bd-4826-a3a2-63868c29532f 201 full 1 1 1 1 false Tue, 19 May 2026 20:56:58 GMT false University of Colorado Denver, 1201, Larimer Street, Auraria, Denver, Colorado, 80204, USA Auraria, Denver, Colorado, 80204, USA <![CDATA[Stop 2: Growing Up in Auraria]]> 1027 9th Street was once filled with the voices of children, shared meals, and the rhythms of working-class life. This stop features Gloria Gallegos, who recounts growing up here with her single mother and siblings after arriving from New Mexico in the late 1950s, finding family in the neighbors who surrounded them.

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Credits: Written by Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, and Rachel Gross, with editorial oversight by Sheila Perez-Kindle, Virginia Castro, and Frances Torres. Produced and edited by Krista Marks and Indira Saha. Music by Tony Garcia and Daniel Valdez. Cover art by Bella Briganti. Oral histories courtesy of the History Colorado Center's Museum of Memory project on Auraria. Created in partnership with the Auraria Historical Advocacy Council. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the University of Colorado Denver.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/listening-auraria-past/2841208 8a30e950-9354-4871-ba84-5bd83720319c 173 full 1 1 2 2 false Tue, 19 May 2026 20:59:00 GMT false University of Colorado Denver, 1201, Larimer Street, Auraria, Denver, Colorado, 80204, USA Auraria, Denver, Colorado, 80204, USA <![CDATA[Stop 3: The Torres Family Porch]]> 1033 9th Street — the Torres family home — has long been a place where stories are shared and kept alive. This stop features Dennis Lobato, a second-generation Displaced Aurarian descendant, who draws on his memories of time spent at Grandma Torres's home.

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Credits: Written by Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, and Rachel Gross, with editorial oversight by Sheila Perez-Kindle, Virginia Castro, and Frances Torres. Produced and edited by Krista Marks and Indira Saha. Music by Tony Garcia and Daniel Valdez. Cover art by Bella Briganti. Oral histories courtesy of the History Colorado Center's Museum of Memory project on Auraria. Created in partnership with the Auraria Historical Advocacy Council. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the University of Colorado Denver.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/listening-auraria-past/2841254 68cf318c-dc9b-4b2a-8cf8-bf9dbde934e6 195 full 1 1 3 3 false Tue, 19 May 2026 20:59:05 GMT false <![CDATA[Stop 4: Local Business]]> 906 Curtis Street, now Los Molinos Restaurant, was once a neighborhood grocery that stood alongside other thriving small businesses, such as a bakery and barbershop. Some of these shops were owned by Westsiders and provided residents with accessible goods, an early credit system, and jobs.

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Credits: Written by Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, and Rachel Gross, with editorial oversight by Sheila Perez-Kindle, Virginia Castro, and Frances Torres. Produced and edited by Krista Marks and Indira Saha. Music by Tony Garcia and Daniel Valdez. Cover art by Bella Briganti. Oral histories courtesy of the History Colorado Center's Museum of Memory project on Auraria. Created in partnership with the Auraria Historical Advocacy Council. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the University of Colorado Denver.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/listening-auraria-past/2841257 24e59039-827f-46e2-9fe5-eb660ce95d6b 229 full 1 1 4 4 false Tue, 19 May 2026 20:59:08 GMT false <![CDATA[Stop 5: Play in Industrial and Residential Spaces]]> The large building on 9th Street used to be a pickle factory, representing the overlap between Auraria's industrial and residential worlds, where children played freely among factories and alleyways. It features memories from Frances Torres and Gloria Gallegos of growing up in the Westside's mixed environment of homes, businesses, and open space.

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Credits: Written by Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, and Rachel Gross, with editorial oversight by Sheila Perez-Kindle, Virginia Castro, and Frances Torres. Produced and edited by Krista Marks and Indira Saha. Music by Tony Garcia and Daniel Valdez. Cover art by Bella Briganti. Oral histories courtesy of the History Colorado Center's Museum of Memory project on Auraria. Created in partnership with the Auraria Historical Advocacy Council. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the University of Colorado Denver.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/listening-auraria-past/2841262 6ed0f348-5190-435b-98b1-bab8cef2dc5b 217 full 1 1 5 5 false Tue, 19 May 2026 20:59:13 GMT false <![CDATA[Stop 6: Community Gathering]]> St. Cajetan's Church was the cultural and spiritual center of the Westside neighborhood — a gathering place for worship, celebrations, education, and community life. This stop draws on memories from displaced residents James Mark Tafoya and Frances Torres and displaced descendant Katelyn Puga. Their stories bring St. Cajetan's back to life as a site for music, marriage, and communion.

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Credits: Written by Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, and Rachel Gross, with editorial oversight by Sheila Perez-Kindle, Virginia Castro, and Frances Torres. Produced and edited by Krista Marks and Indira Saha. Music by Tony Garcia and Daniel Valdez. Cover art by Bella Briganti. Oral histories courtesy of the History Colorado Center's Museum of Memory project on Auraria. Created in partnership with the Auraria Historical Advocacy Council. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the University of Colorado Denver.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/listening-auraria-past/2841265 7609365c-739c-47f4-b53f-af075e40d4e0 280 full 1 1 6 6 false Tue, 19 May 2026 20:59:16 GMT false <![CDATA[Stop 7: Urban Renewal Takes Aim at the Westside]]> The parking lot alongside 9th Street Plaza was once a dense block of buildings, businesses, and homes. To help listeners understand how all of this ended up paved over into a concrete parking lot, this tour stop draws on a long history of discrimination in city zoning and urban renewal policies and practices.

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Credits: Written by Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, and Rachel Gross, with editorial oversight by Sheila Perez-Kindle, Virginia Castro, and Frances Torres. Produced and edited by Krista Marks and Indira Saha. Music by Tony Garcia and Daniel Valdez. Cover art by Bella Briganti. Oral histories courtesy of the History Colorado Center's Museum of Memory project on Auraria. Created in partnership with the Auraria Historical Advocacy Council. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the University of Colorado Denver.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/listening-auraria-past/2841269 cbb0103b-e181-4310-b65d-cc7dc369d490 345 full 1 1 7 7 false Tue, 19 May 2026 20:59:18 GMT false <![CDATA[Stop 8: The Trauma of Displacement]]> This stop along the edge of Ninth Street Historic Park highlights the lack of monuments and memorial sites commemorating the displacement and features the harsh memories of moving day from Displaced Aurarians Tony Garcia, Rita Gomez Delgado, Frances Torres, and Sheila Perez-Kindle.

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Credits: Written by Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, and Rachel Gross, with editorial oversight by Sheila Perez-Kindle, Virginia Castro, and Frances Torres. Produced and edited by Krista Marks and Indira Saha. Music by Tony Garcia and Daniel Valdez. Cover art by Bella Briganti. Oral histories courtesy of the History Colorado Center's Museum of Memory project on Auraria. Created in partnership with the Auraria Historical Advocacy Council. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the University of Colorado Denver.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/listening-auraria-past/2841270 3dacb9e4-16e3-46d4-b62c-2e7feb4f9054 286 full 1 1 8 8 false Tue, 19 May 2026 20:59:19 GMT false <![CDATA[Stop 9: The Histories That Get Remembered]]> This stop at the entrance to Ninth Street Historic Park focuses on historical preservation efforts during the 1970s and explains why and how these old houses are still here.

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Credits: Written by Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, and Rachel Gross, with editorial oversight by Sheila Perez-Kindle, Virginia Castro, and Frances Torres. Produced and edited by Krista Marks and Indira Saha. Music by Tony Garcia and Daniel Valdez. Cover art by Bella Briganti. Oral histories courtesy of the History Colorado Center's Museum of Memory project on Auraria. Created in partnership with the Auraria Historical Advocacy Council. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the University of Colorado Denver.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/listening-auraria-past/2841275 f3f9d2cc-30d4-4e2d-bb28-fc327d5a3f0c 160 full 1 1 9 9 false Tue, 19 May 2026 20:59:26 GMT false <![CDATA[Stop 10: Redress and Renovation]]> 1050 9th Street — also called the Centennial House — has been a pivotal site for memorializing both the displacement and the ongoing struggles to access and expand the promised Displaced Aurarian Scholarship. This stop emphasizes the value of education for Displaced Aurarians and their descendants.

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Credits: Written by Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, and Rachel Gross, with editorial oversight by Sheila Perez-Kindle, Virginia Castro, and Frances Torres. Produced and edited by Krista Marks and Indira Saha. Music by Tony Garcia and Daniel Valdez. Cover art by Bella Briganti. Oral histories courtesy of the History Colorado Center's Museum of Memory project on Auraria. Created in partnership with the Auraria Historical Advocacy Council. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the University of Colorado Denver.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/listening-auraria-past/2841277 a9a58dce-3de7-4339-b8d7-8add2999d7e2 263 full 1 1 10 10 false Tue, 19 May 2026 20:59:28 GMT false <![CDATA[Stop 11: Resilience]]> "Displaced But Not Erased" — the mural located at 951 9th Street and the tour's final stop — was designed with the community's input to commemorate the neighborhood that once stood there. This stop, which features displaced Aurarian Sheila Perez-Kindle, closes the tour by asking listeners to remember this community and share its stories.

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Credits: Written by Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, and Rachel Gross, with editorial oversight by Sheila Perez-Kindle, Virginia Castro, and Frances Torres. Produced and edited by Krista Marks and Indira Saha. Music by Tony Garcia and Daniel Valdez. Cover art by Bella Briganti. Oral histories courtesy of the History Colorado Center's Museum of Memory project on Auraria. Created in partnership with the Auraria Historical Advocacy Council. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the University of Colorado Denver.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/listening-auraria-past/2841279 28a49d00-5cb5-4f0d-8412-49017e5720a5 216 full 1 1 11 11 false Tue, 19 May 2026 20:59:31 GMT false <![CDATA[The Full Tour]]> Listen the full audio tour "Listening to Auraria's Past." This combines all eleven tour stops into a single, uninterrupted listening experience.

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Credits: Written by Cameron Blevins, Michelle Comstock, and Rachel Gross, with editorial oversight by Sheila Perez-Kindle, Virginia Castro, and Frances Torres. Produced and edited by Krista Marks and Indira Saha. Music by Tony Garcia and Daniel Valdez. Cover art by Bella Briganti. Oral histories courtesy of the History Colorado Center's Museum of Memory project on Auraria. Created in partnership with the Auraria Historical Advocacy Council. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the University of Colorado Denver.

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