If returning to your hometown, having dinner with your extended family, and eating yourself into a food coma aren’t your bag, Thanksgiving becomes more than a little uncomfortable. Adding to that angst is your drunk uncle who wants to talk politics and "fake" news or...
Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of the book "Braiding Sweetgrass," is the Wilkinson Public Library’s One Book, One Canyon (OBOC) author for 2019. Telluride's third annual OBOC culminates with a visit from Professor Kimmerer on Indigenous Peoples Day, Monday, October 14. She is leading a writing...
Telluride's Friends of the Library Book Sale takes place Friday and Saturday, September 20 & 21, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm; Sunday, September 22, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Free book for kids on Saturday. Email Nancy at nancylandau@hotmail.com if you are interested in volunteering....
My dear dad taught his girls love and respect could not, should not, be turned on and off like a light switch according to a date on a calendar – like Father's Day. That said, David Feela's tribute to his father, the man's surrogate today,...
When World War II began, advertisers argued that celebrating Father’s Day was a way to honor American troops and support the war effort. By the end of the war, Father’s Day may not have been a federal holiday, but it was definitely a national institution....
The greatest love is a mother’s; Then comes a dog’s, then comes a sweetheart’s, Polish proverb. Mother’s Day is always celebrated on the second Sunday in May, so Sunday, May 12, 2019. Though it is not a federal holiday, Mother’s Day is widely celebrated as a...
The 6th Telluride Literary Arts Festival features eclectic events for lovers of books and the written word in general. For the complete 2019 LitFest schedule and presenter bios, visit www.telluridelitfest.weebly.com. For tickets, $20, to the always sold-out Literary Burlesque, this year at the Palm's Black...
Mother’s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907, Philadelphian Ana Jarvis began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. She persuaded her mother’s...
The Telluride Film Festival and the Wilkinson Public Library are collaborating again. Their latest joint venture is a series titled "The Trailblazing Women of Documentary Film." It all begins March 4, 6 p.m., with a 2018 Film Fest premiere, "GHOST FLEET." Director/Producer Shannon Service will...
Did you know that over 50 million roses are given for Valentine’s Day each year? Personally I prefer the bouquet of poems Telluride Inside… and Out will be publishing this week, starting with the following exotic arrangement by beloved poet and friend Rosemerry Trommer, Telluride's...
