On April 11, Glenwood Springs-based author Nancy Bo Flood received the Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for her illustrated children’s book, “Badger Clark: Poetry Wrangler,” a tale about South Dakota’s first poet laureate and an unsung hero of cowboy poetry. “Badger Clark: Poetry Wrangler” follows the song-filled life of Charles […]
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Free-for-All Book Fair returns to Glenwood Springs with nearly 10,000 free books
The third annual Free-for-all Book Fair will take place on Saturday, Dec. 13 at the Glenwood Springs Community Center. The event is organized by board members Rebecca Percy, Brynne Gordon, Caitlin Causey and Karen Urnise — all mothers, professionals and book lovers. The event started with approximately 2,000 books in New Castle; this year, nearly […]
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First-ever Aspen Literary Festival offered inspiration for bookish community
Note: Annalise Grueter is a member of the Aspen Writers Network and participated in an Aspen Summer Words juried workshop this past June. Literature came alive in Aspen the last weekend of September. Tents full of books, artwork, readers and writers decorated the lawn of the Red Brick Center for the Arts. The main tent […]
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Alpenglow Books & Gifts illuminates community and the value of reading
Last October, Katie Hake and Spencer Chu opened the doors to Alpenglow. The independent bookstore sits along Grand Avenue in Glenwood Springs, just a few doors down from the Bluebird Cafe and Doc Holliday’s Saloon. Light filters into the wood, snow and floral aesthetic of the shop through west-facing windows. In just 10 months, Hake […]
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Aspen Literary Festival’s first draft due Sept. 26-28
EDITOR’S NOTE: Annalise Grueter is a member of the Aspen Writer’s Network and participant in its Summer Words workshops. Currently, a tribe of people devoted to painting a picture in black and white for the mind’s eye are eagerly discussing their craft in Snowmass Village. This is the 49th anniversary of Aspen Words, and the […]
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Kevin Fedarko compels audience to get involved with outdoor stewardship
The second 2025 Aspen Winter Words event sold out weeks in advance, and it wasn’t a surprise. The Feb. 5 event at The Arts Campus at Willits (TACAW) featured outdoor writer Kevin Fedarko. His second narrative about the Grand Canyon, “A Walk in the Park,” came out in May 2024 and, just a few weeks […]
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Lou Dawson: A tale in four skis — and a romance
Lou Dawson has had a storied, outdoors-oriented life; much of it adventure-filled and exciting but also with great challenges.A pioneer of ski mountaineering and alpine touring (AT) in this country, Dawson is probably best known as the first person to ski all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountains (fourteeners) — a feat for which he was […]
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Scuttlebutt & Calendar – July 13, 2023
Mt. Sopris Run-off Registration is open for the 44th annual Mountain Fair footrace. Now called the “Mountain Fair 4-Miler,” participants will catch a shuttle from Sopris Park to Prince Creek Road at 8:30am on July 29. Strollers and dogs are welcome and costumes are encouraged. Sign up at Independence Run & Hike for $40. The […]
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Bookworms find cozy digs at Carbondale bookstore
Yes, you read that right. Carbondale has a bookstore again. White River Books is located on Second Street, between Main Street and the Rio Grande Trail. Owner Izzy Stringham said, since welcoming her first customers on March 3, “pretty much everyone is over the moon that there’s a bookstore back in town.” Carbondale has not […]