Last week in Atlanta was a going home of sorts. I spent three days with many of the people I had shared a way of life with for over 33 years, my years as a pilot for Northwest Airlines. It was a bittersweet gathering given...
October is the time of year when turning leaves signal cooler mountain air. It also means the end of a busy bike season in the San Juans. For those who want to squeeze in one last event before the snow flies, Mountain Village has got your...
Telluride Foundation Releases New Program to Nurture an Ecosystem of Entrepreneurs The Telluride region has a rich history of innovation, invention and reinvention. The well-known collaboration between LL Nunn, Nikola Telsa and George Westinghouse in 1891 forever changed the delivery of energy. The mining era transformed the...
Studio and Home Tours in Telluride Creative District Time was, when the door slammed behind Telluride Blues & Brews Fest, folks headed out of town for the fall off season. Nowadays not so much. Nowadays the "off" in "off season" simply connotes "off the mountain after...
Twelve years making grants available to regional nonprofits The Telluride Foundation’s annual Community Grant application is now available. Nonprofit organizations serving the people who live or work in San Miguel County are encouraged to apply. Grant applications are due Monday, October 29, 2012, by 5 p.m. A...
[caption id="attachment_23398" align="alignright" width="300"] Telluride in the 1970s[/caption] Join the Telluride Historical Museum for a special Seventies-themed, free, Architectural Tour with George Greenbank. Meet at the Museum Saturday, September 29, 9:30 a.m. The focus of the tour is an update on Telluride as a National Historic Landmark...
Boy in bras? Nope, not a drag club. Anything but a drag. Mark your calendar for Thursday, October 18, 7 p.m., historic New Sheridan Bar, when the Ah Haa School for the Arts presents its third annual BRAvo event in support of the San Miguel Resource Center and...
God Speaks to Each of Us God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like flame and make big...
To make his point, Victor Garlock, Ph.D. and author, tells a whale of a tale in a metaphor drawn from the Polynesian culture: "Standing on a whale fishing for minnows." Minnows, he explains, are life's noises, the distractions our mind and senses glom onto everyday that...
HUD Announces Recipients of Inaugural Secretary’s Award for Community Foundations THE U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in partnership with the Council on Foundations, recognized The Telluride Foundation as one of 10 recipients of the first annual Secretary’s Award for Community Foundations. The award...
