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Author: Susan Viebrock




The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art opens for the winter season with its traditional Thanksgiving locals show. The featured artist is Michelle Curry Wright.

Yes, the very same inscrutable Michelle who sits behind the desk of the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, smiling like the Mona Lisa.

The very same Michelle, who rides her bike or roller-blades in the summertime on the bike path, tuned into her iPod, tuning out the world.
23 November, 2009 /
Jane, William Editor's note: Going Places/Doing Things is a new feature on Telluride Inside... and Out. We invite locals and part-time locals to post their experiences on the road: the good, the bad, the ugly. We lead with a story by Jane Shivers, who travels often to interesting places and should be a regular contributor.

Jane, a part-time local, is the principal of Shivers Consulting, which provides counsel on marketing communications, leadership and executive coaching. Jane has more than 30 years experience in public relations and marketing after building her own agency in Atlanta and selling it to Ketchum, a global firm, in 1985. She was Director/Partner at Ketchum from 1985-2002. She is one of 70 women profiled in WOMEN WHO MEAN BUSINESS, a William Morrow book by A. Mikaelian. 


It was love at first sight on Jane’s first visit to Telluride in 1978 and she has been a homeowner here since 1980.  However, husband William Sharp's work as an international tax attorney means frequent trips to Zurich, Switzerland, where the following strange and wonderful post came about. With apologies to PETA, here goes:
22 November, 2009 /
[click "Play" to listen to Ted's comments about training Lulu]

LuLu_Adopt Second Chance Humane Society executive director Kelly Goodin read Ted Hoff's columns in Telluride Inside... and Out and became convinced this dog whisperer could help rescue her rescues. Several weeks ago, we posted a Second Chance success story named Lulu. The following is a copy of an email Kelly sent to TIO in thanks. (In addition to Lulu, the other dog mentioned in the note, "Gina," is our rescue, who is doing wonderfully well thanks to Ted's talent and dedication.)

21 November, 2009 /
[click "Play" to listen to Erik Dalton on outdoor fashion]

Kode_aframeski Editor's note: In Fall 2002, long-time Tellurider Susan Dalton acquired the flagship Jagged Edge store, 223 East Colorado. Son Erik, an avid outdoorsman – skier, climber, backpacker, kayaker – took over the operation. Today, Erik is the store's primary buyer and product tester. Product lines reflect a bias towards grown in America and co-ops that help people in Third World countries. One of Erik's respected vendors, Osprey Packs, perfectly fits the Jagged Edge mold.

Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts regularly does podcasts for Fashion Friday. Her subject is the latest and greatest in women's fashions and accessories and they are heavily laced with estrogen. Kristin is on vacation, so Telluride Inside... and Out decided to give Fashion Friday a very different spin this week, with a podcast by Erik Dalton about Osprey's great new ski/snowboard pack. I know we are pushing the definition of "fashion" with this post. But the people who will want this pack, are generally predisposed to pushing the edge. And besides, it's nice to throw a little testosterone into the mix.

20 November, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Sandra Dorr]

Bilde Friday, November 20, Telluride welcomes acclaimed poet/ teacher Sandra Dorr to town for two distinct events at the Wilkinson Public Library. At 1 p.m., Sandra offers a workshop: “Out of Your Mouth:  Performing Stories and Poems in Public. " She has this to say about that:

 "Sometimes reading in front of a crowd dries your mouth, freezes your throat, and jams your tongue.  This is a workshop for writers, young and old, to bring in samples of work, in poetry or prose, and, through several passes, improve the quality of their reading and thereby make the work, and their voices, live in public.  I will read short excerpts of my work, and explain some of the basics in elocution and just plain enjoyment in reading to an audience.  Come learn how to enjoy reading aloud."

At 6:30, the Program Room at the Wilkinson Public Library reopens for a reading by Sandra Dorr at 7 p.m. She will select works from her latest book of poems, "Desert Water."

19 November, 2009 /

[click "Play" to hear Jon Hubbard on his up-coming courses]  Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts offers its own, original spin on Rosie the Riveter, the American icon representing women who worked in factories during WWII. This weekend, Saturday, November 14, and Sunday,...

18 November, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Ben Williams speak about the Green Gondola project]

Mtn V G 3 Governor Ritter has a very public campaign targeting significant, statewide greenhouse gas reductions by 2020.Telluride Renewed is our two mayors' local response: a challenge to the communities of Telluride and the Mountain Village to produce 100% of our electricity from new renewable sources by 2020. One major step – or should we say ride – in the right direction is entrepreneur Ben Williams' Green Gondola Project, which falls under Telluride's The New Community Coalition's broad umbrella of sustainable initiatives.


The people mover linking the sister towns of Telluride and the Mountain Village is a free service to both communities, but as the world turns, "free" comes at a high price: two million kilowatt hours of electricity each year. Because most of that electricity is generated from burning coal, the gondola generates a large amount of greenhouse gas, contributing to global warming. But Williams came up with a smart answer: power the gondola with on-site solar panels. When completed, the project could reduce emissions into the atmosphere by a mind-boggling 400+ metric tons of carbon dioxide each year or enough gas to fill up 383 Washington monuments.

Now do we have your attention?
18 November, 2009 /
2006-01-238a The economy may be in the deep freeze, but it's a hot time for the hospital on the hill, aka, the Telluride Historical Museum. Echoing the spike in circulation reported by the Wilkinson Public Library, the Telluride Historical Museum this week announced dramatic growth in a year otherwise characterized by downturns.
 
Visitor numbers to what is now Telluride's only museum – the building dates back to 1896, when it served as Telluride's hospital – have increased 12% over last year. Even more significant are increases around outreach initiatives: the Museum's programming impacted 85% more people this year over last, due largely to the first annual Heritage Festival in June, which drew 1500 spectators to the Butch Cassidy reenactment. School programming is also up by over 56%, due to a concerted effort by the Museum to engage local students.  Last month, for example, Museum staff and historian Rudy Davison accompanied Telluride Middle School 7th and 8th graders to the Tomboy ruins to discuss mining heritage and regional geology.
17 November, 2009 /

Telluride radio host Maribeth Clemente takes us on a tour of America's best zoos on her popular program, Travel Fun. The show airs tomorrow, Tuesday, November 17, 6:30 p.m., on KOTO radio in Telluride and at www.koto.org.  Visiting a zoo is one of the most...

16 November, 2009 /

You really wanted to be in Telluride this morning. We snowshoed up our favorite trail under Colorado blue skies tricked out with cotton ball clouds, breaking a path as we climbed through the heavy white snow that accumulated over the past two days....

16 November, 2009 /