Our
Grandfather was a prominent landscape architect in
and around Colorado and the West until his death in
1974. We have created this website in order to address the many
untruths currently being perpetrated on the local community by
neighbors of our family's property.
You are invited to form your
own opinions based on the first-hand information and facts we provide
you. Nobody knows better than his very own family, the contributions
our
Grandfather made to our community. We urge you to look at both
sides of the story, taking into account that we actually knew our
Grandfather,
S.R. DeBoer, and the efforts of our neighbors to paint us
as distant and uncaring are
truly inappropriate. We have been a
constant presence on our property for 86 years and are currently being
forced to defend our dedication to his legacy by those who have only
been in the area for 15 years and who never met our
Grandfather. We do not know why our family, S.R.
DeBoer's family, would be treated with such hatred and hostility if
those perpetrating the lies really do hold our
Grandfather with such
high regard, as they claim. Our
neighbors have instigated a hate and
smear campaign against our family (they veil it as an attempt to preserve history), thus creating a lynch mob
mentality within our community. While we have
offered to speak with our neighbors and explain our
situation, they choose to only speak to those who are
like-minded, hold
secret meetings (without inviting us,
S.R. DeBoer's family) and continue
to make our family out to be against historical preservation and crazy enough, tree and animal haters, among
other things. The
family has never had any plans to demolish "The Office" (pictured above) and has never stated such a thing. We value it's existence and hold high affection for it, since we grew up in and around it.
We appreciate that our
Grandfather has been included in regional history books. We believe that, although books have shown
the great things our
Grandfather contributed, there is really only so
much one can learn from such a book. In our opinion, if people really
wanted to learn about
S.R. DeBoer, the man, the first order of business
would be to talk to those who knew him best, his family. To date, this
has not happened. Therefore it is clear to us that our neighbors are just using our
Grandfather's legacy for their own personal gain.
