In conjunction with the 2015 annual exhibit: Forces of Nature: Telluride's Prehistoric Journey, the Telluride Historical Museum presents a series of free monthly lectures featuring experts in the local and regional natural history of Telluride, as follows: “The Electric Edge of Academe: The Saga of Lucien L....
According to history.com, during the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’ Day. Every year on Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day groups rallied in New York City’s Central Park–a public reminder, said Parents’ Day...
A collaboration among Between the Covers Bookstore, Jagged Edge Mountain Gear, and Telluride Mountain Club starts Tuesday, June 23, Jagged Edge. Between the Covers Bookstore (BTC), Jagged Edge Mountain Gear, and Telluride Mountain Club (TMC) have collaborated on a new project: The Mountain Lit Author Series. Tor Anderson,...
Telluride Film Festival Cinematheque at the Wilkinson Public Library – Summer Series. This Monday’s Cinematheque welcomes a very special guest - Glory Fioramonti, Susan Sarandon's stunt double in “Thelma & Louise." The Telluride Film Festival and Wilkinson Public Library are thrilled to present THELMA AND LOUISE (1991, 106...
Jill Burkey of Grand Junction received the $1000 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize for her poem, “Beginning Mind,” at a ceremony May 16, 2015, during the Talking Gourds poetry program segment of the Telluride Literary Arts Festival. [caption id="attachment_51009" align="aligncenter" width="384"] Jill Burkey, winner, Mark Fischer Poetry...
Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer of Placerville, Telluride, was named the third Poet Laureate of the Western Slope during the Talking Gourds Poetry Performances Saturday, May 16, 2015, at the Ah Haa School of the Arts during the Second Telluride Literary Arts Festival (LitFest). Emeritus Laureate...
Telluride’s one and only public library is turning 40 and we are celebrating! To honor the 40th anniversary of the Wilkinson Public Library, on Friday, May 29, 7 p.m., the Telluride community is invited to AFTER HOURS IN THE STACKS. The celebration features drinks and appetizers, interactive theater by Telluride Theater;...
Memorial Day is a federal holiday, first first widely observed May 1868. The celebration commemorated the sacrifices of soldiers during the Civil War. Following the proclamation, participants decorated graves of more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers. In years since World War I, the day has become a celebration...
Seven talented women writers reveal vulnerability through Literary Burlesque. "Close to the Bone," Friday, May 15, 7 p.m. at the Ah Haa School. What’s beneath the language of poetry? What does it mean to be vulnerable, to be a woman exposed? How much is too much...
“This is an opportunity to get together and party around the joy of reading. It is a celebration of that good ole fashioned past-time,” said Between the Covers Bookstore co-owner Daiva Chesonis, one of the original conspirators behind Telluride’s newest shoulder-season happening: Telluride Literary Arts Festival (LitFest), Thursday, May 14-17. A long-...
