DOCENT/STORYTELLING

The Good Guide: A Sourcebook for Interpreters, Docents, and Tour Guides

TED Talks Storytelling: 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks

Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work and Play

How to be a Tour Guide: The essential training manual for Tour Managers and Tour Guides.
Author: Nick Manning

Personal Interpretation: Connecting Your Audience to Heritage Resources. Author: Lisa Brochu
& Tim Merriman

DOVIA – Directors of Volunteers in Agencies

AASLH – American Association for State and Local History
NAI – National Association for Interpretation
ANFRM - Association of Northern Front Range Museums
RMGA – Rocky Mountain Guide Association
http://blog.preservationnation.org/2013/12/11/10-tuesday-tips-good-tour-guide/#.U2knQvldXTo

ARCHITECTURE
Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945

What Style Is It? A Guide to American Architecture

A Field Guide to American Houses

Field Guide to Colorado’s Historic Architecture and Engineering

http://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/files/OAHP/crforms_edumat/pdfs/1625Field.p
df - 204 pages, not that great

Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture by Ernest Bruden

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture by Francis Ching

Architecture: A Spotter’s Guide Classical Temples to Soaring Skyscrapers, Sarah Cunliffe, Sara
Hunt, Jean Loussier

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, Matthew Frederick

Architecture Is Elementary, Nathan B. Winters

Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton. NPR segment on the book:

(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6247700)
The Queen City: A History of Denver, Lyle W. Dorsett

HISTORY OF DENVER
Denver: Mining Camp to Metropolis, pages 1 to 235
University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 978-0-87081-240-8
Orders and Order Inquiries: (800) 621-2736

Denver: The City Beautiful

Denver at Work, pages 95 – 137

Getting to Know Denver: five fabulous walking tours, Francis J. Pierson

Denver in Our Time: Volume One: Big Money in the Big City, Phil Goodstein

Denver's Capitol Hill: one hundred years of life in a vibrant urban neighborhood.

RAILROADS
Denver: Mining Camp to Metropolis, Stephen J. Leonard and Thomas J. Noel

o This is the book where several readings are from and uploaded on the docent
website
o “A Spiderweb of Steel” in Mining Camp to Metropolis

HISTORIC PRESERVATION/ADAPTIVE RE-USE

“Reinventing Downtown” article in Day 4