Joe Kimm, my former father-in-law and a friend and mentor for over fifty years, will turn 100 years old on August 18, 2011. We learned yesterday that Joe's flying career, which spanned 42 years of Northwest Airlines early history, has earned him a place...
Tim at Telluride Mountainfilm
On July 28, Telluride Inside... and Out received the following note from Telluride local, filmmaker Beth Gage, who with husband George, is making a documentary, "Bidder 70," about environmental activist Tim DeChristopher. Tim, a Mountainfilm regular over the past three years, recently received his sentence for his act of nonviolent civil disobedience.
"Dear Susan,
You may have heard but Tim got a 2 year sentence and was whisked out of court and into a prison van in chains within minutes of his sentence. I thought you might like to re-print Terry T Williams letter to the editor.
Hugs,
Beth"
Yes, it's true. Telluride Inside...and Out wholeheartedly supports the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program. With us it is strictly personal: my husband Clint has been an Adaptive instructor for 12 years and counting. For him the work is soul food. But helping others with special challenges is important work no matter where in the country it is going on.
In the state of Colorado, Steamboat Springs also has an active adaptive program, Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports, a chapter of Disabled Sports USA and a US Paralympic Sportclub.
Telluride Inside... and Out is alerted to stories in a variety of ways. The most obvious is a heads up in the form of a press release from any one of the non-profits or special events in the region. But sometimes a person just calls with his or her hair on fire about something or someone, an upcoming adventure or noteworthy accomplishment. That is how this post came about.
Our friend Judy Thompson phoned out of the blue one day to brag on two of her friends: Dr. Nancy Kerr and husband, Dr. Mark Hauswald. Judy was super excited because the couple, Telluride locals, had just gotten word about receiving a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Yet, like many Telluridians, my husband, Andy, and I crave adventure. We crave travel. We crave escape. Indeed, the very cravings that pulled us into this valley are the same that push us out from time to time.
We needed to get out of our house for a while. To get away from our same routines. And most importantly, we needed to re-explore a town we hadn’t been to in few years and see how it stacked up to our own.
We’d heard the biking in Crested Butte was amazing. As relatively new addicts of the sport, we were eager to get our wheels muddy and test its trails. When we’d been to the town several years before, we’d gone to this astoundingly good coffee shop called Camp 4 Coffee. Would it be as good as we’d remembered?
By Eileen Burns
Grab your cowboy hat and boots folks, The San Miguel Basin Fair and Rodeo is in town and promises to be jam packed full of events and competitions for everyone in the family. From the adrenaline rush of a pro cowboy taking a wild and thrashing 8 second bull ride around the arena, to little Johnny next door, hanging on with sheer guts, as he tumbles through his first mutton busting competition, Norwood Colorado is the place to be this weekend. The fair grounds are located just 40 minutes from downtown Telluride, on Wrights Mesa. The CPRA Rodeos will take place both Friday and Saturday evenings starting at 7:00 pm. Entry fee to Rodeo is only $9.00. There will be plenty of vendor stands with food, pop and beer, including the kids' favorites: sno-cones and cotton candy.
Just a little reminder that the San Miguel Basin Fair and Rodeo is taking place right now down in Norwood. The festivities began at 6:00 pm on Friday, July 15th, @ the County Fairgrounds Outdoor Arena with a Greased Pig Contest - PRIZE...
Note: Our good friend, Bean, husband to beautiful Helen, son of good friend Ed Bowers - now deceased - and Jane Bowers, nephew of longtime, old time Telluride locals Jim and Kathy Bowers, crossed from this world to the next last Sunday, July 9,...
It's hard enough to let your child ride a motorcycle for the first time. Imagine he or she grows up to be a professional motocross stunt rider, like Chas Burbridge.
Chas and some of his friends who live on the Western Slope are coming home to Norwood for the Freestyle Motocross Exhibition on July 16 (Saturday) at the San Miguel County Fairgrounds. The event is a fundraiser for the Wright Stuff Community Foundation and its Prime Time Early Childhood Education Center. Chas and the other professional FMX team members travel all over the country and world to stage events like these, performing in front of stadiums full of thousands of people, but this show will also be a homecoming for the local boys.
You can see by looking at these two star charts from the Sky & Telescope website how much the Moon changes from day to day, night to night. It's fun to track our most intimate planetary companion across the backdrop of the fixed star...
