DENVER — The efforts to preserve the history of Little Saigon in southwest Denve r have come to fruition in a new exhibit being showcased at History Colorado.
The exhibit is based on a series of thoughtful conversations with the people who made the community the safe haven it was back then, and the celebrated culture center it is today.
"One thing about the Asian community is that people can be pretty reticent and resistant to sharing their stories," said Jasmine Chu, the programs and communications manager for Colorado Asian Pacific United (CAPU). "It was really important to us to kind of come up with a methodology to make people feel comfortable. So that included finding community navigators and history takers within the community, actually, to both be taking the histories and giving