Join Townie Books on the Rumor’s Patio for a signing and casual conversation with local author Roger Kahn, featuring his new book, The Rise of Recreation Exurbs & The Demise of Community. In this insightful work, Kahn examines how places like Martha’s Vineyard, Crested Butte, and Tahoe have transformed from working- and middle-class communities into…
Come discuss The Skin and Its Girl with us at Townie Books for PRIDE month. A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping debut, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage. In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family’s ancestral home in…
Were you T-O-P of your C-L-A-S-S when it came to spelling? Do you keep a dictionary on your bedside table in case of emergencies? Do you enjoy watching other people stumble over “chrysanthemum” in front of a crowd? Gunnison County Libraries invite you to the first annual Adult Spelling Bee on Friday, June 27 at…
Join us at the Gunnison Library at 10:30 am on Saturday, June 7 for Super Saturday Storytime. We will be joined by Tenderfoot Childcare Center’s Cool Kids Club for June’s theme of Solar Soiree. Stories and activity from the Trailhead Children’s Museum for the whole family. Free & open to the public.
Join us on Sunday, June 22 at 3:30 pm at the Gunnison Library for the return of Caregiver Conversations. Caregiver Convos are monthly book discussions about raising children, facilitated by Louise Perry, MSW. Read & Discuss: The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom by Nancy Reddy About…
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…
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…