Join the museum for a monthly book club where we will analyze and discuss both non-fiction and fiction works that explore the history of our valley and the works of local authors. Upcoming Book of the Month Books & Museum Host: • May: “The Melting Pot” – with Alyssa Moore • June: “Reflections on a…
Ben Goldfarb will speak with residents about Beaver habitat. Free and open to the public. Ben Goldfarb is an environmental journalist whose work has appeared in National Geographic, the Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, High Country News, and many other publications. He is the author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet,…
“The Rise of Recreation Exurbs & The Demise of Community” describes a fifty-plus year economic, political and cultural evolution of what until now has been an unrecognized development in American society. This work focuses on four new American recreation exurbs that are representative of others like them: Martha’s Vineyard, MA, (a typical ocean-side resort); Crested…
Voters approved Proposition 114 in November 2020, requiring Colorado Parks and Wildlife to make a plan to begin reintroducing wolves to the Western Slope of Colorado by the end of 2023. The wildlife agency first released 10 gray wolves captured in Oregon onto state land in Grand and Summit counties in December 2023. This discussion…
Join Kevin Grange at the Gunnison Branch Library for this engaging presentation on Grizzlies! In Grizzly Confidential, author Kevin Grange—former paramedic and park ranger at Yellowstone and Grand Teton—comes face-to-face with North America’s most fearsome predator, Ursus Arctos. His quest takes him from his home in the Tetons to an eerie, mist-shrouded island of gigantic…
In this “unflinching and wildly entertaining” investigation of the modern New Age movement in America, a journalist aims to understand how women like Amy Carlson (the leader of Love Has Won) and others become devoutly invested in their beliefs (Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords). Today, tarot cards, astrology and crystals are everywhere — on…
This Community Read will culminate during the Crested Butte Center for the Arts’ Mountain Words Festival with a free author talk at the Gunnison Library on Thursday, May 22th at 6pm. FREE COPIES of The Bullet Swallower are available to pick up at each library location beginning May 1. Inside each free book is a…
Join the museum for a monthly book club where we will analyze and discuss both non-fiction and fiction works that explore the history of our valley and the works of local authors. Upcoming Book of the Month Books & Museum Host: • May: “The Melting Pot” – with Alyssa Moore • June: “Reflections on a…
Bring yourself, your favorite beverage and your copy of Whiskey Tender to May Book Club! Author Deborah Jackson Taffa will be at the Mountain Words Festival later in the month, and we are discussing her book in anticipation of her workshop and panel. This memoir traces how a mixed tribe native girl, born on the…
Raise a glass to literary greats with an evening of cocktails inspired by the masters of the written word. On the eve of the Mountain Words Literary Festival, we’ll shake, stir, and sip our way through the Hemingway Daiquiri, Fitzgerald Fizz, and Poe Punch—each crafted with flavors as bold and nuanced as the writers themselves.…