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03 Dec Telluride Nordic Association: Ski Swap & Pot Luck Social
The Telluride Nordic Association (TNA) is a 501©(3) non-profit dedicated to the education and enhancement of Nordic skiing for individuals of all ages and abilities in the Telluride region. TNA has an all-volunteer working board which spends countless hours making Nordic skiing a reality. Still,...
01 Dec Telluride Ski Tree: Lighting Ceremony Friday, 12/6
People with quirky personalities are drawn to resort towns like ours. And that’s a good thing. Counterculture types tend to think up frankly awesome, if completely eccentric, sometimes history-making things. (Remember L.L. Nunn?) Kennebunkport, Maine has a Lobster Trap Tree. Why not a one-of-a kind...
20 Nov TIO Oregon: Mosier & Arlene Burns’ Zee Shackteau
Stay tuned…. There will be a Telluride connection… Always is. Mosier, Oregon: The population of Mosier, Oregon was not always 421. There were even fewer people, about 280 locals, living in the picturesque hamlet when Arlene Burns discovered the place in 1992. First settled...
17 Nov History Colorado Opens 7,000-square-foot Exhibition “Living West”
Here’s an interesting article by Colleen O’Conner about the ambitious new exhibit that opens on November 23rd at the History Colorado Center in Denver and is divided into three sections; “Mesa Verde,” “The Dust Bowl” and “Our Mountains:” The lost world of the Ancestral Pueblo people,...
15 Nov Telluride Gives Raises $56,000+
November 12, 2013, the Telluride Foundation and regional nonprofit organizations united for a 24-hour online giving campaign, Telluride Gives, to benefit local charities. Donors were able to search for and chose a nonprofit to which to give, making an unexpected, gift to local organizations. The...
15 Nov ALACAZEM 2013.11.14
November 14 to 21, 2013 Visible Planets: Morning: Mars, Jupiter Evening: Venus As the last “eclipse window” of 2013 slowly closes, I am filled with the deep, powerful emotion and down-to-earth acceptance that only a Scorpio/Taurus eclipse cycle can bring. I am reminded that feelings...
13 Nov Second Chance: The Cat Shrink
My name is Calypso, and I speak for the trees. Oh wait, that is the Lorax. Start again…my name is Calypso and I speak for the cats. Not sure how to speak feline? The Humane Society of the United States has developed a tool to...
11 Nov TIO Vietnam: No Hue, Out!
Boots on the ground: nothing trumps local knowledge when we are planning an itinerary. The resounding success of our first trip to Thailand was thanks to help from our friends, Telluride locals who also live part-time in that country: Sunny Griffin and Steve Eiche, Esther...