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[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Sue Whittlesey]


Bisoncalf2 Hwr2 High Wire Ranch is one of about 40 vendors who travel up to a 100 miles to sell their products every Friday, June – October, 10:30a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at the Telluride Farmers' Market.

High Wire is located 53 miles southeast of Grand Junction on Redlands Mesa, where owners Dave and Sue Whittlesey oversee a head of over 200 bison and elk.

Eating Well magazine featured High Wire Ranch in its March/April 2007. Sunset covered the ranch in its February 2008 issue, as did a PBS series on America's heartland.  (The article and video is available online at the America's Heartland website.)

31 July, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Cole Early]

PapaGrowFunkBWPhoto TCTV and the Telluride Mountain Village Owner's Association present "Papa Grows Funk," a free concert on the Telluride/Mountain Village Sunset Stage, Saturday, August 1, 2009, 6 – 9 p.m. The event is part of "Public Access Television Awareness Month, " recognizing 20+ years of TCTV12's contribution to the community.

Created in 1986, TCTV12's mission was and is to celebrate Telluride's culture by capturing its vitality, connecting citizens to on another, and educating through the medium of television.

29 July, 2009 /

Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts held its 17th Annual Art Auction Friday night, July 24. The natives turned out in force – and in costume –  and the overall event was a colorful and smashing success. Ah Haa is still tallying...

29 July, 2009 /

IMG_4147 The Big Green Bus was on Main Street, Telluride for a few hours on Monday, July 27. Did you see it? The Bus is decked out with sustainable bamboo flooring, recycled glass counters, solar panels on the top to feed the systems on board, and its diesel engine has been modified to run on used cooking oil, filtered enough to keep the oil moving through the engine.

The mission of the Big Green Bus is to show how environmentally sound practices can positively impact our carbon footprint, and to encourage people to think about innovative solutions to climate change.

28 July, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Grayson Zulauf]

DSC_7414 Monday, July 27, Dartmouth's Big Green Bus plans to make a stop in Telluride. The vehicle, home for a group of 15 hand-picked Dartmouth students left campus on June 16. Before returning home to New Hampshire, the Big Green Bus will clock more than 12,000 miles through 40 states.

The Big Green Bus is not the first famous bus in America's history. "Further" was a 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964, for $1,500. "Further" was stripped down and remodeled inside and out for a psychedelic journey across the country with Kesey and his Merry Pranksters on board and up to no good. (Further made a guest appearance at Woodstock.)

26 July, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Eileen's interview with CAST's Joyce Burford]

Bagmonster_logo2 More than 30 western mountain towns, including Telluride, have been participating in the Colorado Association of Ski Towns (CAST) Reusable Bag Challenge since March 1st.  In Grand County, the towns of Winter Park, Fraser and Granby are participating together. 

This is a friendly competition between the ski towns to see which community uses the most reusable bags in a six month period.  Organizers have collaborated with local businesses and grocery stores in an effort to kick the bag habit.  In Grand County, more that 90,000 bags have been tallied to date with over 12,000 people exposed to the challenge county wide.

26 July, 2009 /
[click "Play" to listen to Lauren Metzger on the Ah Haa auction]

Auction_poster On Friday, July 24, starting at 5 pm, Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts holds its 17th annual art auction. The fun-raiser is one of the biggest and best parties of the summer season. The theme, "Celebrate Art: Be the Artist You Want To Be," reminds us what the school is all about. "Ah Haa" is an interjection of success – but success can be defined in any number of ways.

Success to Alpine Bank, the title sponsor of the auction, is not just measured in terms of assets on hand. The institution, unique among banks, is all about sustainable growth and supporting non-profits such as Ah Haa that make a difference in the greater community. Success might be a sibling catching his brother or sister in a lie: "Ah Haa! gotcha." Success may be getting the punch line of a joke: "Ah Haa! I get it." Success may be seeing someone or something in an altogether different light.

24 July, 2009 /
[click "Play"  to listen to Daphne and Don]

Someofourfavoritefarmers People come to Telluride in the winter to ski and snowboard. They stay because of the summer.

When the weather cooperates, it is as good as it gets at this time of year. The hills are a riot of wild flowers. The cultural calendar is filled with wonderful things to do at the many world-class festivals and special events. And every Friday, June – October, 10:30 am – 4:30 p.m., the blocks just below Telluride's Elks Park to the Gondola Plaza on Oak Street become a gathering place for the extended Telluride community and guests. Everyone is on a mission to find the perfect tomato, the tastiest meat, mouthwatering cheeses, a lovely bouquet of flowers, just the right piece of jewelry, all available at the Telluride Farmers' Market.

24 July, 2009 /

Auction_poster Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts is community arts center and, from time to time, a place of celebrity. In years past, General Norman Schwarzkopf has shown up for the event, even contributed military paraphernalia and art work. Rumor has it the emcee of this year's event, tonight, July 24, 5 p.m., 300 South Townsend, is none other than Pop artist Andy Warhol, at one time the Michael Jackson of the art world. In the 1960s, it was Warhol who was running the company store when the art world began shedding its idealist trappings and started morphing into the Great American Art Industry. Overnight, Campbell's soup cans and Brillo became icons. Warhol is expected to be accompanied by an entourage.

Also on hand at this year's Ah Haa auction is actress and part-time local Susan Saint James, who created three major works of art in collaboration with painter/teacher Robert Weatherford. Joining her on the runway for the live auction, starting at 7 p.m., are the following artists/donors:

24 July, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's interview with Sally Simpson]

IMG_1104_3 For Telluride local and board member, Ah Haa School for the Arts, Sally Simpson, it was simply a matter of connecting the dots.

Born and raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon, Sally Simpson holds a BA in secondary art education and a masters degree in education from the University of Oregon. She taught art at the middle and high school level in the Oregon public school system for 12 years.

23 July, 2009 /