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Below is a note from the Telluride Museum family. Go here to purchase tickets to "An Evening with Ken Burns," 8/25! Donate here. Go here for more about the Telluride Museum [caption id="attachment_107772" align="alignnone" width="1200"] “Tomboy and Smuggler Miners Tug-Of-War July 4th, 1926. Image, courtesy, Telluride Museum.[/caption] Summer is in...

Go here for details about the Town of Telluride's Fourth of July bash. The original resolution calling for the Continental Congress to declare the United States free from British rule was introduced by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia on June 7, 1776. Three days later, a...

Town of Telluride announces schedule & lineup for 4th of July bash. Laser and drone shows added to the Town Park schedule. To learn more about the event, visit the Town's event calendar at bit.ly/telluridevents or social media channels @townoftelluride. Go here for more about the Town of...

The following is a note from the Telluride Museum family about events you won’t want to miss. The Museum hopes everyone will show up on June 6, 6pm, for a free public reception to unveil the new show:”You Are Here: Opportunity, Exploration, and Endurance in the...

The following is a note from the Telluride Museum family about events you won’t want to miss. The Museum hopes everyone will show up on June 6, 6pm, for a free public reception to unveil the new show:"You Are Here: Opportunity, Exploration, and Endurance in the...

Tuesday, August 8, 2017, friends and family gathered at the Sheridan Opera House to officially honor Wendy Brooks as the Foundation’s 2017 Citizen of the Year. Amen. Been a long time coming for the woman who changed the face of Telluride. That is not hyperbole. It is a stone cold...

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come,” Joseph Campbell. And now it’s time for one of our...

On the subject of the last Big Event of the holiday trifecta, New Year's Eve, Shakespeare took the high road: "Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. Riffing off The Bard's good will, now is the accepted time to make annual resolutions. (Next...

Family, Fun, Football and Feast! The start of the holiday trifecta in nut shell: Thanksgiving. Question on the (groaning) table: What are you grateful for? Who will you miss at your banquet? Regular contributor and poet extraordinaire Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer answers with her moving...

Thanksgiving. The holiday evolved into a story of traditions old and new, a day of family, friends old and upcoming, feasting and football. While all that is good, is it good enough? Shouldn’t Thanksgiving be about more, a day to forget about horrifying headlines and...