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Your Ah Haa Moment: Black and orange and green all over

The trick: Carving out the time on one of the busiest days of Fall for family fun.
The treat: A Spooktacular day at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts.
The event takes place October 24, in conjunction with the 350.org celebrations.

Halloween, the annual holiday celebrated one week later on October 31, has its roots in the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain, marking the end of the summer season and harvest, and the Christian holy day of All Saints, honoring all those who have attained the beatific vision in heaven.

In anticipation of Halloween, Ah Haa opens its doors from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. for parents and kids work together to create creepy crafts and temptations to decorate the ultimate spooky home.

Restoration continues at Telluride’s historic Opera House

Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House, constructed in 1913  by W. A. Segerberg, was a combination vaudeville and movie theatre. Floors connected to the luxe New Sheridan Hotel, facilitating the passage of prominent entertainers of the period, including Sarah Bernhardt, Lillian Gish, and speakers such as Socialist Presidential Candidate Eugene Debs, directly from the stage to their rooms, with little fear of paparazzi dogging them.

However, beauty fades with neglect and this jewel box of a theatre fell into a serious state of neglect that only a major facelift could repair. Enter the Sheridan Arts Foundation.

TNCC: Slow Money gaining momentum

by Kris Holstrom

(editor's note: Kris Holstrom of Telluride's The New Community Coalition was privileged to attend an Inaugural meeting of the Slow Money group in Santa Fe recently. What in the world is Slow Money? Holstrom defines the idea in her own words.)

Slow Money? Think Slow Food for local economies. Slow Food asks us to slow down, appreciate local food and farmers, savor and enjoy the communal experience of sharing food. Slow Money is a new nonprofit. The driving principal behind the international movement is to bring money back down to earth. At the meeting, we talked about how to  slow the velocity of our money,  and create the means to invest money  locally as ”nurture capital," a notion that appealed to a sustainability type like me who has often asked how we as a community can invest in ourselves in new and creative ways. For direction, I return to the mission of Slow Money: build local and national networks, and develop new financial products and services, dedicated to investing in small food enterprises and local food systems; connecting investors to their local economies; and, building the nurture capital industry.