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November 2010

 

(Above is a trailer of one of the locally made historic documentaries about Telluride. Learn more about the region's history at the Telluride Historical Museum.)

Telluride Historical Museum is pleased to announce the fun events planned for this winter. How about “History & Hamburgers?” Make it a date! Visit the Telluride Historical Museum any Thursday, Local’s Day, and in addition to free admission, receive a sweet deal at a local restaurant. The Museum is open late, 'til 7p.m., on Thursdays. The food specials will vary.

Don’t miss the Telluride Historical Museum’s winter exhibit, “The 1970’s: Makin’ it Work,” an exploration of the transitional decade that saw the birth of a ski resort and the death of mining. And December is Noel Month at the Telluride Historical Museum. Visit the Museum store, play Savings Roulette and find 10-50 percent off historical images, stocking stuffers, books, mugs and more.

02 November, 2010 /

IMGP2160 Telluride Inside... and Out headed out of town at 4:30 a.m., the dark time when Rethymnon turns its streets over to cats stalking scraps from bags of garbage put out for collection, and a few stragglers, mostly guy gangs, done stalking women, ready to turn in just ahead of their alarm clocks.

Clint and I made our way quickly through the narrow, winding path leading to the car park, grateful, in the absence of string, that we had rehearsed the route, reminding ourselves what our guide Joanna Kalypso Glyptis, had told us about what the town planners had in mind. Rethymnon's  variation on the theme of labyrinth was intentional, designed so that its denizens with local knowledge could easily elude invaders or pirates in hot pursuit.

Joanna feels most guidebooks and guides talk the party line, not the facts. For example, Knossos was never a palace. Palaces have kitchens. No places to prepare meals were ever found on the site. The dolphins in the queen's room, the ones our guide told us signified music and harmony? The illustrious Welshman Arthur Evans who excavated the place did some redecorating. The dolphins were transplants from another location. Heresy?

01 November, 2010 /