Telluride author Susan Dalton captures Mountainfilm's best memories in "Mountainfilm: 40 Years." The beautiful coffee table book costs just $49 (tax included) and can be pre-ordered now here. Go here for information on Mountain's symposium on Migration. Go here to order tickets/passes for the 40th annual Mountainfilm...
Atz Kilcher is the eldest son of Yule and Ruth Kilcher, who emigrated from Switzerland to Alaska in the late-1930s, joining some of the town of Homer's earliest homesteaders. Today, Kilcher appears regularly along with family members on the Discovery Channel's popular "Alaska: The Last...
In the face of climate change, building resilience in mountain towns is a subject near and dear to the hearts of Telluride locals. Author and dean of the School of Environment & Sustainability at Western State Colorado University in Gunnison, John Hausdoerffer will address ‘The Future of...
On Wednesday, February 28, 6 p.m., meet author Bill Matson and Floyd Clown, a member of Crazy Horse's family at Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library. The program is hosted by the Telluride Library and Between the Covers Bookstore. Scroll down to listen to a podcast featuring Matson...
The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program continues its 20-year tradition of offering a national Fischer Prize contest in honor of attorney/poet Mark Fischer, who died in 1987, and his wife politician/painter Elaine Cantor Fischer, who passed away just three years ago. “Both were beloved members...
Before he was either a saint or a holiday, Valentine was a Christian priest martyred in the third century. Some legends say he was executed for defying an edict against conducting marriages for Roman soldiers whom the emperor believed would fight better without family ties....
Telluride regional local Kierstin Bridger got several early Xmas presents. In October she won a Women Writing The West Award in the Poetry category for her book, "Demimonde," which delves into Telluride's sultry, salty past and our ladies of the night. (More on that here.)...
Google “last minute Xmas gifts” and 100s of ideas show up, among my favorites: a gift of your time, like offering to babysit for your friends’ progeny; tickets to a sporting event or concert; a charitable donation in a friend or loved one’s name; or...
The Star of Bethlehem – often just called the Christmas Star – is a major symbol of the holiday season throughout the world. Picture the silhouettes of three regal men on camels. They are gazing across gently rolling hills or dunes of white, to a...
The term solstice means “sun stands still.” On the year’s two solstices (winter and summer) the sun appears to halt in its incremental journey across the sky and change little in position during this time. Of course, contrary to appearances from Earth, the sun’s “changing...
