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22 Dec Mountain Film: “The Armstrong Lie,” 12/26
Mountainfilm is pleased to present a special screening of one of this year’s best feature documentaries, “The Armstrong Lie.” The film, produced by Frank Marshall and directed by Alex Gibney, is on the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary for 2013. “The Armstrong Lie” is currently...
20 Dec Wade Davis, Sacred Headwaters, a Victory – For Now
The Stikine Valley in British Columbia is sacred to the First Nations people, the Tahltan. The region encompasses one of the largest predator-prey ecosystems in North America. Rich in wildlife – caribou, stone sheep, moose, mountain goats, grizzlies and wolves – and mountain majesty, the...
02 Dec UCSM’s Annual Wine Tasting Fundraiser
University Centers of the San Miguel is the Regional Center for the Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC). It also partners with Colorado Mesa University (CMU), Prescott College, Western State Colorado University, Fort Lewis College, and Northern Arizona University. Since its inception in 2005, UCSM is the only higher education organization...
24 Nov Fall Sunday: Give Thanks for Book Club
There are the obvious things one can be thankful for in Telluride. The beauty of elk grazing on the valley floor, wispy clouds playing hide-n-seek amongst the mountaintops, and of course, early-season snow. But, in the cracks and crevices of our valley’s magnificent geographic features,...
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...
19 Nov Hood River Aviation Museum
One of the great things about travel is finding a jewel you didn’t even know you were looking for. Case in point: Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum in Hood River, Oregon. Susan and I were returning from our trip to Thailand and Vietnam, had...
26 Aug A Few Ways the Telluride Film Festival Thanks Telluride
Many years ago, Telluride Film Festival director and co-founder Bill Pence proclaimed his on-going allegiance to the town. “There would be no Telluride Film Festival without Telluride,” he said, “We try to thank the community in ways that count.” Pence’s truth, routinely acknowledged by the...
17 Aug “A Life That Matters”: Dr. Ken Salyer at Library 8/23
There will be time, there will be time. To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet,” T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock “We present ourselves to the world foremost with our faces,” Dr. Kenneth Salyer explains, “and the people...