Book Beat Evening with Mike Madigan

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Book Beat Evening with Mike Madigan

Thursday, February 25 2010, 6:00pm

BOOK BEAT EVENING with Mike Madigan, whose book is titled, "Heroes, Villains, Dames & Disasters." This National Best Books finalist is a souvenir collection of 150 years of front-page stories from the Rocky Mountain News, which closed Feb. 28, 2009 -- 55 days short of what would have been its 150th anniversary on April 23, 2009.
This oversized book re-creates historic and nostalgic moments in Colorado and U.S. history. By reprising original front pages and news reports from the paper, readers can experience what it must have been like to read about Lincoln's assassination, the trial of Alfred Packer, the Gold Rush, the sinking of the Titanic, the blizzard of 1913, the Denver Mint robbery, Prohibition, the birth of Red Rocks, World War II, airline sabotage over Colorado, the Beatles' visit to Denver, landing on the moon, Watergate, Colorado's worst wildfire and more.

Free, no reservations needed. More details to come.

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Hall of Fame

The Denver Press Club will induct five greats of Denver and Colorado journalism into the club’s Hall of Fame at its 14th annual banquet on
Friday, October 2.

Dick Kreck, Marilyn Robinson and Paula Woodward will be honored for outstanding journalism careers, and posthumous awards also will be given to Red Fenwick and Harry Rhoads.

Tickets are $65 and can be purchased by logging on to blacktie-colorado.com, then on Denver under the Event Calendar, and then clicking on October 2. The deadline for ticket purchases is Wednesday, Sept. 30.

The social hour will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the dinner and the awards ceremony at 7 p.m.