[caption id="attachment_22301" align="alignright" width="200"] Barb Brattin, director, Wilkinson Public LIbrary (and Finn)[/caption] Editor's note: In 2011, for the fourth time in a row (and running), the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. The Wilkinson...
Editor’s Note: Kierstin Bridger is the 2011 winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. Possibly the edgiest member of our family of fabulous writers/poets, including Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and “Feelosophy” major David Feela,...
[caption id="attachment_21715" align="alignleft" width="217" caption="Amanda Eyre Ward, award-winning author, "Close Your Eyes""][/caption] Fresh back from Lithuania, I’m inspired to slink off into the woods and hunt edible gold. Witnessed through a car window so many times on our trip were families, led by grandmothers in head...
Editor's Note: Telluride’s public library debuted with the arrival of founders Larry and Betty Wilkinson. In 1965, a bookmobile came into town once a week. That was it for book lovers. Years later, the Wilkinson Public Library's present-day 20,000 square foot library nearly wasn’t built....
Editor’s note: Our Tall Tales contributor, Mark Stevens, is the author of “Antler Dust” and “Buried by the Roan.” “Buried by the Roan” is a finalist for the 2012 Colorado Book Award. Both books are on the shelves at Telluride’s own Between the Covers Bookstore,...
Anti-semitism is not only the longest known form of hatred in the history of humanity. It is the only form of hatred that is truly global. In her film, “Unmasked Judeophobia, The Threat to Civilization," Gloria Greenfield contends that the 1975 UN Resolution equating Zionism with...
Even if you’re not a diehard sports fan, there’s something about that Olympic music* that gets you right there. As the background sonata for the battleground of interconnected nationalism, it stirs up a brew of nostalgia, history, politics, statistics, and achievement. An avid Olympiphile since...
"Whatever your mind can conceive and believe your mind can achieve." When Napoleon Hill trumpeted those words in 1937, the United States was in the depths of the Great Depression. At the bidding of Scottish entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie, this phrase was the result of 20 years...
Editor’s note: In 2011, for the fourth time in a row (and running), the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. The Wilkinson Public Library ranked fifth in the nation among public libraries with...
Now in its second year, Lawn Chair Classics, a film series sponsored by the Wilkinson Public Library, shows classic films from the 1970s and 1980s. Screenings take place at the Telluride Conference Center, Mountain Village, every Tuesday at dusk through September 11, 2012. Many of...
