If you have lived in Park Hill for more than a summer, you already know the 4th of July script. You walk to 23rd Avenue by 1:15, you find a curb between Dexter and Krameria, and you cheer for a mile of floats and marching bands. What is worth noticing this year is where the parade ends. It ends on a single block of Kearney Street that has quietly turned into the neighborhood's civic living room, and the 4th is the one day a year everyone else in Denver sees it.
That block is the thesis of this post. The parade is the excuse to look at it.
The one-mile parade, decoded
The details are worth committing to memory because they change every year in small ways, and this year they do not.
