History

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...

Things that go bump on the mountain? Who in Telluride doesn’t like moguls? Things that go bump in the night? Also a familiar, though perhaps less welcomed occurrence in town, where ghosts are known to haunt some of our favorite, well, haunts: the New Sheridan...

The Telluride Historical Museum once again presents “An Evening with Ken Burns,” featuring the award-winning director's very first documentary: "Brooklyn Bridge" (1981). Event takes place Sunday, August 27. Doors: 5:30pm; screening, 6:00pm, Michael D. Palm Theatre. The evening includes the screening, post-film Q&A, and book & DVD...

The following is a note from the Telluride Museum family about events you won't want to miss. Donate here. Go here for more about the Telluride Museum. [caption id="attachment_105172" align="alignnone" width="600"] 1908, Beth Batcheller, son Billy, dog Jack outside of the Wheeler cabin at Woods Lake, courtesy Telluride Museum.[/caption] The...

On the Fourth of July, people tend to put red state/blue state issues aside and, per F. Scott Fitzgerald, “stand at moral attention,” saluting the Stars and Stripes as one nation. On that day, we are meant to honor the young men and women who...

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”- Charles Schultz. Or a poem by regular contributor, poet extraordinaire David Feela which, according to its author, is not "a gushy traditional love poem, but certainly gushy about romance…" Because on...

Martin Luther King (MLK) was a rain-maker, perhaps the rainmaker, at the dawn of our nation’s ongoing – and much challenged of late – initiative to right the wrongs of slavery and promote socio-cultural diversity in America. In 1964, the African American baptist minister won...