Family-Kids

I had this romantic notion about gathering wood for the winter, our first winter with a wood stove. I envisioned us traipsing through the forest, the kids in wool mittens, picking up freshly cut rounds of aspen and oak and piñon, breathing in the scent...

Last Friday, Sophia Cinnamon, our VISTA student, and I were pleased to join nearly 40 others in Montrose for the Farm to Cafeteria Conference put on by Carol Parker and the Valley Food Partnership. Elaine Brett of Slow Food Western Slope started us off with...

I thrive on challenge. I seek it out. Celebrate it. And teach others to do the same. I firmly believe in the growth that can come from stepping outside the all too familiar boxes people operate within on a daily basis. And my job jibes with...

Officially, I was supposed to do nothing. I was supposed to lie on the same couch where I had been for the past nine days and rest. And ice. And breathe. I had just had the quintessential ski town surgery, an ACL repair. This after having...

Summer in Telluride is fast becoming a fond memory of sunlit adventures with friends and family, BBQs and bare feet. For most people, summer in the region is a great time to be outdoors doing the things we love every year. But I am program...

PROGRAMMING WITH STRONG NUMBERS, A NEW INCLUSION PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND A NEW HOME! Soon the streets of Telluride will see fewer kids clad in green and yellow Telluride Academy shirts. As the Academy winds down its 32nd year of programming, it seems there...

In my sailing days I was sometimes asked: "What do you do all day?" My questioner was asking about my time in port; there was an assumption I was "busy" when at sea. But at anchor...

26th annual Telluride Academy's Mudd Butt Mystery Theater Troupe August  10 and 11 The Telluride Academy's Mudd Butt Mystery Theater Troupe is a four-week theater intensive covering all aspects of what it takes to make a play happen. Through the Mudd Butts, kids aged 10 –...

Summer is finally here, and while most students are relishing their summer break from school, a select few are experiencing a Pinhead Institute Summer Internship. Founded in 2003, Pinhead's internship program enables students to spend summers studying science toe to toe with global scientific and industry...