Ghost Walk, Ghost Talk

was a huge success. Over the two night weekend, (Saturday and Sunday) over 800 people came to visit six of Boulder's very scary historic homes.

Headquarters was the old Highland School, built in 1891, the first historic building that was successfully preserved and landmarked. Today the Highland School has become a showcase office venue, and houses Boulder's distinctive City Club.

Each house featured a room for the psychics to sit and talk to the ghosts that reside in each home. Boulder, Colorado has some of the most fun Holloween adventures in the state. Homes on the tour included the John Harris home (one of Boulder's best known mining men; the Alexander Safely home (Safely played a role in the Sand Creek Massacre); the home of Millard Fillmore Leech, a larger-than-life man who was instrumental to the construction of the Switzerland Trail, a narrow guage railroad line. Also on tour was the home of Leander and Ida Bearss who came Boulder from Nebraska in the late 1800's, and whose family continued to live there until 1945; and the house that was the home of the mother of Boulder's colorful photographer, "Rocky Mountain Joe" Sturtevant.

Also on tour was the Hanna Barker house . . . one of Boulder's oldest homes . . . . The Barkers, Hannah and Ezra . . . whose name is found on Barker Dam, and Boulder's Barker park . . . The Hannah Barker house has been donated to Historic Boulder. Historic Boulder is rehabilitating the house and bringing to light the story of Hannah Barker, probably one of the most important women in Boulder in the late 19th Century.

Boulder's Best Scary Events -- Halloween

Wow . . . Historic Boulder produced, directed, and presented Ghost Walk, Ghost Talk over the weekend (Saturday and Sunday nights). A captive and fascinated audience toured six of Boulder's historic homes with a past. These homes are located in the Highland Lawn area and included a sitings and conversations with a few spirits in the nearby Columbia Cemetery. More on the homes and what went on inside in the next post.