Phil Goodstein Live at Tattered Cover Colfax

Join us as we celebrate Phil Goodstein's newest book and learn all about the many different hauntings in Denver on Tuesday, November 25th at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location.

Registration includes the following options:

• A $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store

We will have a limited supply of books for guests to purchase in store.

If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Cemeteries are as much for the living as the dead. This is a central theme of The Scenic History of Denver Cemeteries, a planned four-volume look at the city’s hallowed grounds. After reviewing how the community’s first burial ground was on what became Cheesman Park, and then going to Fairmount Cemetery in volume two, the city’s leading historian, Phil Goodstein, has turned his attention to the area’s four Jewish final resting places, Emanuel Cemetery, an autonomous section of Fairmount, Mount Nebo Cemetery in old Aurora, Rose Hill Cemetery in Commerce City, and Golden Hill Cemetery at 12000 West Colfax Avenue, a place once known as the final stop on Colfax.

From the time of the Pikes Peak gold rush, Denver Jewish Cemeteries observes, Jews have been part and parcel of the Mile High City. They have participated in all aspects of the community. Besides business leaders there have been labor agitators. Physicians, musicians, restaurateurs, dreamers, schemers, and scoundrels have all been part of the mix. Now the reader can discover who they were.

The volume also looks at cemetery lore. It explains why pebbles are often on Jewish tombstones and the meaning of Hebrew letters and symbols. Jewish Cemeteries looks are divisions within the Jewish community and how burial spots reflect the values of the living. In the process, it connects Jewish Denver with the rest of the city. As such, the book is not only a distinctive history of the necropolises of members of the faith, but it is a history of Jewish Denver and the Mile High City as a whole. It belongs on the shelf of anybody interested in the diversity and unity of the community.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Over the years, Phil Goodstein has given a wide variety of walking tours from neighborhood walks to bar crawls to bicycle expeditions. Most of all, he has conducted “The Seamy Side of Denver” and the community’s pioneer modern haunted house tour, “Ghost Walk on Capitol Hill” since the 1990s.

Along the way, he has published widely on the city with more than 25 volumes. Some of them are foundation texts on which all other tour guides depend such as The Ghosts of Denver: Capitol Hill and The Seamy Side of Denver. He often walks backward on his tours, claiming he is talking to himself and seeing if anybody is interested in listening to him.