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When I was growing up in Colorado, there was never a shortage of field trips to the various little houses on the prairie sprinkled around metro Denver. The likelihood that we had all tried our hand at churning butter by day’s end: 100 percent.
The mother of all pioneer re-enactments is Four Mile Historic Park, a former stage stop, wayside inn and tavern for travelers en route to Denver. Denver’s oldest home, built in 1859, still stands on the site, and the twelve-acre spread comes complete with farm-equipment relics, live draft horses, chickens and crops.
Tonight from 5:30 to 10 p.m., the park will put the “wild” back in Wild West, during the Four Mile Fling benefit. Cocktails, a silent auction, music by the Roy Laird Band and diversions such as buffalo-chip tossing and bull-roping with pro Leon Vick will precede a dinner of contemporary Colorado cuisine. Admission to the fete is $125, with every dime going to further Four Mile’s mission to preserve and interpret the Western rural heritage and environment of Colorado for a diverse public. The park is located at 715 South Forest Street; for tickets and information, call 720-865-0800 or log on to www.fourmilepark.org.
Sun., Sept. 14, 5:30-9 p.m., 2008
