Posted by Jason Hussong on Thursday, February 4, 2010,
I love going to places like zoos. Rarely do I read the signs pertaining to the different exhibits,  but I still find them fascinating. I just love watching the animals, particularly if they seem to have a good area set up for them so they seem happy. I know some people struggle with such places as they see the animals caged and not allowed to live and thrive in their actual habitat. But, if it weren't for places like these, I believe a lot more animals would be extinct and tho...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Friday, January 29, 2010,
After living in Denver for over nine years I was pretty sure that I knew of most of the interesting spots around town, particularl  y the ones of a touristy nature. Sure, I may not necessarily be in on the cool and trendy bars, particularly since that's not my cup of tea, but I figured I knew of all the major museums and so forth. Well, a few months ago a friend of mine started interning at the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art and I was instantly corrected. In all this time I had n... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Friday, January 15, 2010,
For years I drove by the signs pointing to the park. I had every intention of visiting it at some point as I lived so close, but never really made it there as something else always seemed to attract my attention. But, over five years after moving from my old apartment, I decided to make my way back to the area and check out the Four Mile Historic Park. I've read a lot of Colorado history books lately and was interested to see how this place fit into the grand scheme. I had some time to ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Monday, October 19, 2009,
I have never really been one for natural history museums. I think it's the dioramas that annoy me and the stuffed animals, especially the big ones, that freak me out. It just doesn't seem natural for some reason to me. But, the side of them that I do like are the traveling exhibits, like the latest Genghis Khan display at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.  The Genghis Khan exhibit just opened at the museum and will run through February of 2010. I was fortunate enough to get a snea...
Continue reading ...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Friday, October 16, 2009,
When I finished talking on the travel panel in downtown Denver with the Public Relations Society of America I felt motivated to go out and do something. Here I had just exchanged a lot of good travel ideas with some top notch people and I wanted to get out and do and see something. I left Maggiano's on the 16th Street Mall though with every intention of just heading back to my car though, until I remembered the Byers-Evans House that is. 
I've been wanting to get a tour of the house wher...
Continue reading ...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
After doing my thing at the DNC and Presidential Experience on Friday, I had some time to kill so I decided to do something that I had been meaning to do for quite some time...I finally visited the expansion to the Denver Art Museum, the Hamilton Building.
The expansion was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. Libeskind is the same architect that  designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany and is also doing the new World Trade Center complex in New York City. The rest of hi... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
Last night I went with some friends to do the First Friday Art Walk along Santa Fe Drive in Denver. Apparently the first Friday of each month this happens in different spots with different galleries  around town. This was something I had heard of before, but never really took advantage of until a friend texted me yesterday asking if I wanted to go.
I was particularly impressed with a lot of the art, especially the Kanon Collective (right), although there certainly was a fair amount of ...
Continue reading ...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
Educate. Empower. Engage.
It is an ongoing exhibit drawing attention to the destructive forces of terrorism and how it can happen to "Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere," a theme that hangs like a dark cloud throughout the visit. I didn't leave feeling empowered and knowing that there are peop...
Continue reading ...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
Most know her as "The Unsinkable"  Molly Brown from the Titanic voyage, but she actually preferred to go by Maggie or Margaret, at least according to my tour guide at the Molly Brown House in Denver. Just a few short blocks from the Colorado State Capitol, along tree lined Pennsylvania Street, sits the Brown home. Margaret and her husband, James Joseph Brown, purchased the residence shortly after they struck it rich with a silver mine investment in Leadville, Colorado.Due to some squa...
Continue reading ...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
The free guided tour of the Colorado State Capitol Building is free for a reason. Yet I, unlike many of the other people in my group, stayed on until the end. I just waited and hoped that there would be some interesting historical nugget the tour guide would throw us that I knew I  wouldn't find in the pamphlet in my pocket. Sadly no interesting piece of information was forthcoming. Nor was the tour interesting. In such places kids usually get restless and garner severe looks from adults...
Continue reading ...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
 I've lived in the Denver metropolitan area for nine years and had not set foot in Cherry Creek State Park until today.
 The park, which is popular with water sports enthusiasts, hikers and bikers, sits right in the middle of the greater metro area, and I've drive by it tons of times, but it's always been a bit elusive for me.
Continue reading ...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
The other day I had a discussion with a friend about zoos when I told him that I was going to go to a free day offered by the Denver Zoo, which so happened to be today. My friend believes that zoos are inhumane and  essentially take the animal out of the animal. They become reliant on humans to feed them and lose any sort of animal instinct that they had in the wild. I, on the other hand, believe that zoos help protect animals and promote species and conservation awareness. Through zoos people m... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
This summer I've tried to make a better effort to
visit some of the local museums and sites and try to further my knowledge of Denver and Colorado. I figure I have no excuse not to with three day weekends. This past Thursday I made my second trip to the Colorado History Museum. A few years back I was playing host to a visiting journalist on a fellowship from Romania and took him the museum so he could learn a bit more about the state. After all, it's not as though most people from outside the...
| |
