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19 Sep WORKSHOP AT LIBRARY: DREAM ANALYSIS & SELF HYPNOSIS
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...
17 Sep LIBRARY HOSTS SNEAK PEEK OF DOCUMENTARY, 9/19
Every year the Wilkinson Public Library provides free screenings of documentaries produced by the Emmy Award-winning PBS series “Independent Lens.” The program known as “ITVS Community Cinema” first came to the library in Fall 2010 thanks Sharon Shuteran, a major supporter of the Wilkinson and the...
19 Aug SCOTT & SCOTT PERFORM AT LIBRARY & BEYOND
He is not one to parade and peacock around. He simply gets the job done. And he’s cool. I am talking about Scott Doser. Yes, “Scott from the Library” Doser, who came on the scene when Telluride’s consistently five-star institution was offering only three or...
14 Aug LIBRARY COOK-OFF & MORE AT MUSHROOM FESTIVAL
In the context of the Telluride Shroomfest, the world wide web takes on a whole other meaning: we are talking about mycelium, the sentient cobweb-like web of cells, which, in just one magical phase of its life cycle, fruits mushrooms. Shroom evangelists and guests of...
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...