In Telluride it can sometimes seem we are beyond the troubles of the wider world. Sometimes those troubles break into our consciousness in spite of the physical and cultural distance. President Obama has requested that Americans do what we have so often done around the...
Winter at Indian Ridge
We at Telluride Inside... and Out hope to sweeten your Christmas with a recipe from master chef/baker Barclay Daranyi of Indian Ridge Farm & Bakery in Norwood, active members of the Telluride Farmers' Market in summer. In winter, not so much.
Christmas Stollen is loaf-shaped fruitcake, with chopped candied fruit and/or dried fruit, nuts, and spices on the inside, powdered with icing sugar on the outside. Barclay's family has made this traditional German holiday treat every year for decades. "I can't imagine Christmas morning without it," she exclaimed.
The Winter Solstice is one of two times of year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator. The summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere occurs about June 21, when the sun is in the zenith at the Tropic of Cancer. The winter solstice occurs today, December 21, when the sun is over the Tropic of Capricorn. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year and the winter solstice is the shortest. The winter solstice is also the true Yule, which in pagan times and pre-historic culture did not involve a baby Jesus, a manger, wise men, or angels on high.
On Tuesday, December 8, 6 - 8 p.m., the lecture series, Telluride Unearthed, continues at the Telluride Historical Museum. The speaker is Dr. Scott Ortman on the subject of "Archaeology, Oral Tradition, and the Mesa Verde Migration." Ortman is currently Director of Research and Education at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.
Ortman picks up where his Crow Canyon colleague, Dr. Mark Varian, left off on December 1. Varian's overview, "Life is Movement: Pueblo Indians of the Mesa Verde Region," began about 2,000 B.C. Ortman focuses on two of the longest-running debates in North American archaeology: the famous abandonment of the Mesa Verde region in the 13th century, and the relationship between ancient Mesa Verde peoples and the present-day Pueblo peoples of New Mexico.
by Art Goodtimes
Archaeologist Dr. Mark Varien spoke recently in Telluride at the Telluride Historical Museum. If you missed it, you missed a wonderful talk. I know that to be true, even if I was out of town and wasn’t able to attend myself.
[click "Play" to hear Dr. Webster talk about pre-European Southwestern textiles] Telluride Unearthed, a lectures series at the Telluride Historical Museum, continues on Thursday, December 3, with guest speaker Dr. Laurie Webster. The subject: "The Telluride Blanket in Context: An Overview of...
The Telluride Historical Museum, 201 West Gregory Avenue, has arranged an early holiday treat for the community. "Telluride Unearthed" is a series of lectures about way back when, when cultures lived sustainably without benefit of Al Gore, solar panels, or The New Community Coalition because, well, that was the way it was. There were no movies thousands of millennia ago either, so no popcorn with butter. But there was corn and lots of it, which is part of what archaeologist Mark Varien will talk about, when the vice president of programs at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, opens "Telluride Unearthed" with insights about "Life is Movement: Pueblo Indians of the Mesa Verde Region."
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...
Active from Nov. 13th to 20th, the Leonid Meteor Shower peaks on the morning of Nov. 17th. It will be daybreak before Leo reaches it’s zenith, but the Lion will be fully above the horizon by 4:00 a.m. here in southwestern Colorado – the...
Today is the 234th birthday of the US Marine Corps. Telluride Inside...
