History

Join the Telluride Historical Museum for the 15th annual “Feasting on History,” a benefit dinner for the Museum, on Friday, August 17, 6 – 9 p.m. Tickets for Feasting are $250 with all proceeds going to support the mission of the Museum. Purchase here. Also, on Sunday, August 26,  6...

To make the new Museum Campus in Ridgway a reality, the two museums involved in the project will need a lot of help. If you want to lend your support through volunteerism or with financial contributions or expertise, please call 970-316-1085 (OCRHM) or 970-318-0322 (RRM). Ridgway, Colorado,...

The Telluride Historical Museum's Daffodil Days are a chance to support both the Museum and the American Cancer Society. To that end, the Museum is selling daffodils on site, at Alpine Bank, on Colorado Avenue & Pine Street, and in front of the Market at Mountain...

The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important, and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. Recently Cleo wondered out loud whether the Trump administration should authorize the release of both the Nunes and Schiff memos....

The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important, and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. Recently Cleo turned her attention to the new federal rules on pot, asking whether the federal government should allow states...

The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important, and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. Recently Cleo Abram explored the hot button issue of net neutrality. Recently she tackled the massive, very unpopular tax bill...

On Saturday, December 9, noon- 4 p.m., the Telluride Historical Museum and Schmid Family (on Wilson Mesa) co-host an “Olde Fashioned Christmas at Schmid Ranch.” Celebrate the season with this FREE Telluride tradition. Find your Christmas tree and enjoy festive crafts, hot cocoa, warm chili, Christmas carols, sleigh...

In the very first story we posted for this trip, we mentioned how Maori lore describes New Zealand's North Island as a great fish that got plucked from the sea. Today, the mouth of that fish is Wellington, compact and as pretty a national capital –...

We now know for sure where Little Bo Peep's charges got off to. Only several days into New Zealand and there is absolutely no doubt. Sheep salted the landscape, 50 shades of green, as we continued on our Kiwi adventure south from our home base in Tauranga...