Search
06 Aug FIVE STARS: NEW LIBRARY CELEBRATES 12TH ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY, 8/12/2012
Editor’s Note: Telluride’s public library debuted with the arrival of founders Larry and Betty Wilkinson. In 1965, a bookmobile came into town once a week. That was it for book lovers. Years later, the Wilkinson Public Library’s present-day 20,000 square foot library nearly wasn’t built....
25 Jul “UNMASKED”, JUDEO PHOBIA SCREENED AT LIBRARY 8/1
Anti-semitism is not only the longest known form of hatred in the history of humanity. It is the only form of hatred that is truly global. In her film, “Unmasked Judeophobia, The Threat to Civilization,” Gloria Greenfield contends that the 1975 UN Resolution equating Zionism...
19 Jul YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK: WORKSHOP AT LIBRARY
“Whatever your mind can conceive and believe your mind can achieve.” When Napoleon Hill trumpeted those words in 1937, the United States was in the depths of the Great Depression. At the bidding of Scottish entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie, this phrase was the result of 20...
10 May FIVE STARS: RESTORING CIVILITY AT WILKINSON LIBRARY
Editor’s note: In 2011, for the fourth time in a row (and running), the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. With an overall score of 2,471 based on patron use per capita in...
24 Apr WORLD BOOK NIGHT EMBRACED BY LIBRARY BOARD MEMBER
Ed note: TIO apologizes for the late publication of Ryan’s article: this was meant to go up yesterday. On the night of April 23, this former town marshal will walk through the streets of the Shandoka apartment complex in search of – hesitant readers. John...
12 Mar ANNUAL FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE THIS WEEKEND
Early shopping for FOL members and all sales volunteers takes place Thursday, March 15, 4:30 – 630 p.m. The Friends of the Library’s Used Book Sale returns to the Program Room of Telluride’s five-star Wilkinson Public Library on Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17,...
01 Mar TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL: “BEST OF YOUTH” AT LIBRARY
Event is a double-header, Monday and Tuesday nights, 5:30 p.m. Drumroll please. This is the grand finale of the Ciao Cinema! segment of Cinematheque, a cinema club and joint venture between the Telluride Film Festival and the five-star Wilkinson Public Library. The six-part Italian series,...
20 Feb LENTEN FOODS AT WILKINSON PUBLIC LIBRARY, 2/23
Telluride’s five-star Wilkinson Public Library continues its new cooking series, Feasts of Spring, featuring the witty, talented chef/author/anthropologist Dr. Susannah Hoffman. On Thursday, February 23, 6 p.m., Susanna focuses on “Fast of Lent: Classic Lenten Foods.” For a preview, check out this video made by...