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December 2010

[click "Play" to listen to Susan's conversation with Johnnie Stevens]

79 The Telluride Historical Museum is anything but a sleepy repository of dusty old memories. Quite the contrary: at the Telluride Historical Museum, "history" is an active verb. Case in point: the Museum's latest new program, "Ski Into History," featuring life-long Telluride local and Colorado Hall of Famer, Johnnie Stevens.

To put on this unique event –  every Monday throughout the winter season 2011, starting December 27, 10 a.m.  – the Telluride Historical Museum worked diligently with The Peaks Resort & Spa. The Telluride Foundation and Telluride Ski & Golf Company also helped make "Ski Into History" a reality.

25 December, 2010 /

Nutcraker Tanka     by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer   Sometimes I’m like the four-year-oldgirl in the silvery snowflake costumewho stands in the lights at the edge of the stagenot remembering to plie, nor to turn, nor to raise both arms,who remembers only to wave to you. (ed....

24 December, 2010 /

by Lisa Barlow

Tamales_1 Growing up, I thought it was just my family that had skewed tradition a little on Christmas day. The morning always began straight out of a storybook with a delicious slice of homemade Stollen bread, a mug of steaming hot chocolate and the frenzied unwrapping of Santa’s bounty. But for Christmas dinner, while the other families in our New York City apartment building were sitting down to roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, we were tucking in to a pot full of spicy pork tamales.

It turns out we were just borrowing from another culture, and from my mother’s past. She had grown up in San Antonio, Texas, a beautiful city whose architecture and cuisine is influenced by its southern neighbor, the country it once belonged to. The population of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in San Antonio still outnumbers everyone else, and the Mexican-influenced food is some of the best in the country.

 

24 December, 2010 /

 In this week's video, Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel shows us some advanced training with his young Yellow Labrador Retriever, Drake. Telluride Inside...

24 December, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear the final interview about Christmas with Rev. Pat Bailey]

 

kicker: Final interview of series on Christmas Eve. Merry holiday.

CPC - Christmas Eve 2009 006 Telluride Inside... and Out continues with its mini-series about Christmas, interviewing Reverend Pat Bailey of Telluride's Christ Church on the subject of the holiday that's becoming a hot potato, from its name to its meaning.

Despite the beliefs about Christ that relate to the birth stories – although, as Pat pointed out earlier, the earliest writings of the New Testament are the letters of Paul, and Paul seems to have no knowledge of a virgin birth – the church did not observe a festival for the celebration of Christmas until the 4th century, a date chosen to counter the pagan festivities connected with the winter solstice. In fact, the birth of Christ coincides with Saturnalia, a pagan winter solstice ritual. Solstice marks the sun's descent into darkness, heralding the start of winter. Days later, the sun starts ascending in the heavens again, where it resides for another year. In its simplest expression, Christmas is about light, whether it is the natural light of the sun that nourishes from without or the metaphorical Holy Light – or holy light –  that nourishes and heals from within. Ot is it?

24 December, 2010 /

December 23 to 30, 2010
Visible Planets: Morning: Venus and Saturn  Evening: Jupiter

O Christmastime, O Christmas: Happy, happy and Merry, merry!

120908Lights_117 Amidst all the hype, hustle, bustle, commercialism and chaos of Christmas - and I use the word Christmas, even though it’s no longer politically correct and doesn’t really capture the broader spectrum of the word holidays – there is always the underlying message and meaning of this very special time of year that seems to filter through my mind and senses in to my heart and soul. For me, it really is all about love and spiritual generosity, peace and good will to all. I find myself thinking about the most silly and sentimental times, childhood with my family – going up in the mountains to cut our tree or the decadent chocolate mint pie we made for dessert, struggling to earn and save enough money to buy presents or driving downtown to marvel at the magnificent lighting display at the Denver Civic Center. There is something humbling and graceful about Christmas, something that somehow, some way brings out the best in us – even if it’s short-lived and squeezed between the mumbles and grumbles, stress and duress that we also somehow seem to experience at least once or twice this time of year.

23 December, 2010 /
[click "Play" for Ashley Deppen's idea of what to wear]

DSC00434 For sure, not some cliched Christmas sweater, with reindeer dancing across your chest. Especially not in Telluride, where cliches go to die.

And fagettabout the low cut red velvet number trimmed in faux fuh. There already is a Mrs. Santa.

Some je ne suis quoi in red and green? Nope, your holiday tree has that color combo cornered.

23 December, 2010 /

Trimming by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is...

23 December, 2010 /