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4 La Vida Local

Love thy neighbor?

Is civility dead in the once peaceful mountain town of Silverton?

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by Jonathan Thompson

5 Word on the Street 6 Soapbox

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7 Land Desk

The missing links

9 State News

With Oxbow done, City turns to other parts of Animas River Trail

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14-15 Stuff to Do 15 Ask Rachel

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16 Murder Ink

Breaking barriers Art Market offers low-cost, high-visibility venue for local artists

by Missy Votel

17 Free Will Astrology 18 End of the Line 19 Classifieds

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On the cover: Alyssa Gonzalez and Will MacFarlane head out on a morning mountain trail run recently. / Photo by Stephen Eginoire

Local combines love of punk rock and brewing into Anarchy Brewing Co.

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We’re only human. If, by chance, we defame someone’s good name or that of their family, neighbor, best

friend or dog, we will accept full responsibility in a public flogging in the following week’s issue.

Although “free but not easy,” we can be plied with schwag, booze and flattery.

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Ear to the ground: “Durango is becoming the Florida of Colorado.”

– Resident commenting on an uptick in creepy local crime stories

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Why spend all that time in the gym drinking Muscle Milk when you could get the same health benefits from simply breathing hard for five minutes?

Ok well not exactly, but kind of.

A new study in the Journal of the American Heart Association says using a specialized breathing technique for just five minutes may help lower blood pressure and improve vascular health, possibly more than aerobic exercise or medication.

The technique is called “High-Resistance Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training” and was developed in the 1980s to help respiratory patients strengthen their breathing muscles. Basically, it entails inhaling vigorously through a hand-held device. “Imagine sucking hard through a tube that sucks back,” the study’s lead author, CU researcher Daniel Craighead, said in a press release.

In recent years, researchers have been testing whether 30 inhalations a day at high resistance, six days a week, could help cardiovascular, cognitive and sports performance. After a six-week study on some patients with above-normal blood pressure, researchers saw blood pressure dip nine points on average. Such a reduction exceeded results from walking 30 minutes a day, five days a week as well as some blood pressure drugs.

“There are a lot of lifestyle strategies we know can help people maintain cardiovascular health as they age. But the reality is, they take a lot of time and effort,” said Craighead. “IMST can be done in five minutes in your own home while you watch TV.” Where do we sign up?

Bang, bang If you just can’t go another Fourth of July without fireworks, you have options.

Across Southwest Colorado, communities such as Durango, Silverton and Telluride have canceled July 4 fireworks because of high fire danger, a seemingly yearly necessity. And despite the welcomed sight of rain this week, that risk remains high, with Stage 1 fire restrictions still in place.

But you can still get your firework fix if you’re willing to drive for it.

The Ute Mountain Ute Casino announced it’s hosting the “largest fireworks display in the Four Corners” on July 3. The Telegraph’s investigative reporting team was unable to confirm such claims, but given the lack of shows across the region, we’ll take their word for it. The show starts just after dusk.

In that same neck of the woods, the City of Cortez is moving forward with plans to put on a fireworks display July 4 in Parque De Vida, around 9:15 p.m. “The area around the Cortez Recreation Center is a secure place … for a celebration for our community,” Fire Chief Jay Balfour said.

And, our neighbors to the east in Pagosa Springs will also be setting off a show July 4 around dusk.

A town employee said the fireworks will be launched from the Pagosa Springs High School but should be viewable from anywhere in town.

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LaVidaLocal Good grief It was well over 400 days since we lost Dan Escalante to an avalanche, but last weekend we finally had a memorial for him. Before I write about the heart wrenching, beautiful, stormy memorial let me start off with a lighter story.

This last weekend, in Crested Butte, I also returned to something I have missed dearly: speaking in front of an audience. I was nervous about this one – not because of public speaking, I really enjoy that – I was nervous because I didn’t know if anyone would show up. Crested Butte has undergone some fundamental shifts in these last five years. After Vail Resort purchased Crested Butte Mountain Resort, the billionaires begun mixing in with the millionaires in Crested Dan Escalante skiing Butte, which has become a near Crested Butte./ place where mostly only the Photo by Braden Gunem. rich can afford to live.

And while I might have a rich fan or two, the bread and butter of my audience is middle class working (or not working too much) dirtbag climbers.

Much to my relief, the charming bookstore, Townie Books, started to fill up shortly after the starting time.

I don’t need a huge audience for a presentation to be fulfilling, I just need an engaged one.

My format is simple: I bring my favorite typewriter for a writing contest, I tell some stories, maybe read some poetry, and do a Q&A. Coincidentally there were as many people from Durango as Crested Butte at the presentation, including two young climbers who are trail building this summer. They reflected on the stories we provide for their generation, as they are out adventuring and creating their own stories. That sentiment was perfect because we were celebrating hitting 20 volumes of The Climbing Zine. And, yes, a presentation in Durango is up next on the agenda, after a jaunt up to Lander, Wyo., for the International Climbers Festival. Stay tuned for details.

The day after the presentation, I attended the memorial for Dan. He died as most of my friends who died young have: adventuring in the mountains. Dan was not a close friend, yet he was a central pillar in our community, and even though it’s been over a year, I’m still crying tears for him. I am crying as I write these words.

The first two hours of the memorial was the most intense display of grief I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life. I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much, ever. Grown men

and women weeping as they told their stories about him. Almost all the speakers said that Dan was their best friend. One person asked the audience to raise their hand if Dan was your best friend, and countless hands went up. I don’t know if I’m doing the majesty that was Dan Escalante justice with my words, but can you imagine the integrity of a human being who had dozens of people that called him their best friend?

Dan was a very loving human being, and he was always there for his friends and family. Our friend Jayson noted that grief is just the love that we felt for that human being. I had to focus on my breathing as the tears choked me up when he said that.

And there we were, brought together by Dan one last time. Near the end of the speakers, the most intense rainstorm I’ve witnessed in years broke out. We were at the I-Bar in Gunnison, an outdoor pavilion, and that storm almost drowned out all the other noise. Dan was such a good man that even Mother Nature was weeping uncontrollably. As so were we. It was a fitting tribute to a man who loved time in nature, away from the crowds.

Though there were hundreds in attendance, I knew there were many more that would have liked to be there, including my dear friend Greg, who lives in Thailand. A few days before the memorial we caught up on the phone – it was morning there, birds a chirpin’ in the background – and it was late night in Durango.

“It’s always the good ones who die young, isn’t it?” Greg reflected.

Damn if he isn’t right. When I reflect on the ones that I’ve lost to the mountains, it is those human beings who aren’t just talented athletes, but really good people. So many come to mind, especially Jeff Paffendorf and Bert Perry, who we lost last winter to an avalanche.

And what to make of all of this? For me, it encourages me to try to spread more love and be kind to more people; to close ones and strangers alike.

Our time here in these bodies is short. We are all flawed and imperfect. I know I am. That is why these rare gems like Dan Escalante are so hard to lose. They are one in a million. Beacons of light in a dark world. But just because we lose them, does not mean we lose that light. And we must try our best to embody that light and love in ourselves and for others.

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– Luke Mehall

High temperature records being shattered in the Pacific NW and causing roads to buckle and power cables to melt

The State of Colorado banning the use of Native American imagery or names for school mascots

“The Mountain Migration Report” showing the effects on mountain towns of people moving after the pandemic: skyrocketing housing prices, displacing of working class, worker shortages, loss of community.

All the bad things.

One for the polar and grizzly bears, with the Biden Administration suspending new oil and gas leases in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge

Bill Cosby freed from jail after a court overturned his conviction for sex assault. Cosby sweaters still not OK.

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La Downfall Local Jonah Barrett-Lesko, 25, was arrested this week for allegedly having sex with a horse at the La Plata County Fairgrounds. And for the record, I used “allegedly” because this is a newspaper— Lesko messaged friends about it and cops read the texts, there was video surveillance that some poor cop had to watch, and Lesko admitted everything, so he totally “allegedly” did it. The cops also found burglary tools in this stable genius’s backpack, which Lesko said were for making swords. He’s being charged with a felony for the tools, but he only got saddled with a misdemeanor for the horseplay.

WordontheStreet With Durango fireworks cancelled this year, the Telegraph asked, “What will you be doing to make a bang this 4th of July?”

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“My plans are literally up in the air.”

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“I’m gonna get drunk with my friends.”

Cheryl

“I’ll be decorating my yard with lights and a 20 foot flag.”

Cisco

“I’m definitely going to buy illegal fireworks and light them responsibly because this is America.”

James

“Does tannerite count as a firework?

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SoapBox Politically correct racism “The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal and a lie.” I offer these words of Nikole HannahJones, whose 2019 essay is part of New York Times Magazine’s “1619 Project,” to the Heritage Foundation and Republican politicians trying to update the look and feel of American racism (aka “the lie”), to make it respectable and politically correct to fit into the mores of the 21st century.

To do so, they’ve taken aim at an academic concept dating back to the 1970s, known as “critical race theory.” The concept essentially makes the point that racism isn’t merely a phenomenon of individual beliefs but something built into social structure. The idea is absurd, opponents say, in a country that is long past its racial troubles and is now colorblind.

As the Heritage Foundation puts it, critical race theory is “an ongoing effort to reimagine the United States as a nation driven by groups, each with specific claims on victimization.”

Can you imagine?

“Democrats want to teach our children to hate each other,” Rep. Lauren Boebert declared recently at a press conference of the Republican Freedom Caucus, of which she is a member.

Rep. Ralph Norman, of South Carolina, put it: Critical race theory asserts that people with white skin are inherently racist, not because of their actions, words or what they actually believe in their heart – but by virtue of the color of their skin.

In other words, to talk about race and American history, especially to bring it into the present and suggest there is such a thing as “white privilege,” is itself racist: a means of sowing divisions between people that otherwise wouldn’t exist.

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As Education Week points out, the topic has exploded this spring – especially in K-12, where numerous states are debating bills seeking to ban critical race theory in the classroom. Indeed, legislation to outlaw the teaching of critical race theory has passed in Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma and Tennessee. However, the bills are so vaguely written it’s unclear what they will affirmatively cover.

The result of this legislation may simply be to discourage any penetrating look at American history in the nation’s classrooms – kind of the way American history has always been taught. Keep the focus on the ideal, as per the words of Thomas Jefferson that “all men are created equal” and keep it away from the lie: that Jefferson owned some 600 slaves and one-fifth of the newly formed country were slaves.

Enslaved people, writes Hannah-Jones, were not recognized as human beings but as property that could be mortgaged, traded, bought, sold, used as collateral, given as a gift and disposed of violently. Enslaved people could not legally marry, were barred from learning to read and restricted from meeting in groups. They had no claim to their own children, who could be bought and sold like cattle or behind storefronts that advertised “Negroes for Sale.”

Yeah, this is pretty awkward. How could this be taught in public school? The Republican solution is to shrug and set all that aside by focusing on a specific, newly proclaimed evil: critical race theory. They want to rally constituents against the true enemy (the Democrats and the “left”) and, in so doing, make sure American racism remains alive and evolving.

For instance, as NPR pointed out, during the Freedom Caucus press conference mentioned above, nearly half of the speakers, even as they denied racism, in-

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voked Martin Luther King Jr., expressing their desire to be judged “by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.’”

So the latest manifestation of racism is that white people are its victims. This is an interesting trajectory.

We’ve moved from outright slavery, which was ended by the Civil War; to the era of Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan, which was ended by the Civil Rights movement; to racism’s present incarnation, which includes the prison-industrial complex, the maintenance of police departments that function as occupying armies in black neighborhoods, ongoing financial inequality, voter suppression and the unaddressed effects of three centuries of racist cruelty and subhuman treatment, which Republicans are attempting to hold together by means of political correctness.

The paradox of this reality – that this was a nation founded on the best and worst of who we are – goes well beyond how to teach history to 10-year-olds. How do we teach American history to the entire country?

Tom Hanks, for instance, in a recent op-ed in the New York Times, expressed consternation over how much American history has remained invisible, such as the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 – a riot of white people running amok in a prosperous black community, which resulted in 300 people killed and 40 square blocks destroyed.

But beyond our awareness of history lies an even deeper matter, or perhaps two: How do we heal our past wounds, as they manifest in the present day; and how do we truly face, and transcend, our founding racism, which remains embedded in today’s social and political structure?

– Robert Koehler, award-winning journalist and author of Courage Grows Strong at the Wound, for Peace Voices

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When discourse derails After Silverton bans Pledge of Allegiance, a little civility might go a long way

by Jonathan Thompson

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wenty-five years ago this spring, I rolled into the small mountain town of Silverton to be the reporter-photographer at the weekly newspaper. The sky was gray, the place was quiet, and the streets somehow managed to be both muddy and dusty at the same time. It was awesome.

The mining industry had abandoned the region several years earlier, and the community was still smarting, economically. Enrollment at the school was dropping.

The tourism industry did pretty well from July 4 to Labor Day but was virtually nonexistent for the remaining nine months. Year-round work was hard to come by and the wages generally low. My pay was $275/week, or less than $5 an hour, but in a town where rents were below $300 a month and for a $100,000 you could get a castle – with a foundation, even – it was enough to get by.

There was also a great little coffee shop, The Avalanche.

Wiley Carmack, an outspoken, rabid conservative known for his vitriolic letters to the editor, held court there almost every morning, alongside a handful of others who leaned leftward politically. The shop was tiny and on cold days – which is to say, always – was shoulder to shoulder with a diverse mix of folks getting jacked up on coffee. That inevitably led to spirited discussions about politics, which inevitably led to outright screaming matches. I’m pretty sure Wiley called me a pinko commie idiot at least once, and I probably had some choice words for him, too.

Town Board meetings were often just as raucous, and joint town-county budget meetings resembled a multi-

badger cage fight. In Silverton, politics are a blood-sport, sometimes literally.

But once the meetings or caffeine-addled debates ended, something else always took hold, something like community. Bitter adversaries would sit side by side at the Miners Tavern without killing each other. Wiley came to our potlucks, and we went to his Christmas party.

Yeah, he got a little mad when we drank his high-shelf liquor, but we were still friends. The 400 or so year-round residents were like a big, quarrelsome, dysfunctional family. Maybe we didn’t always like each other, but in the end, we had one another’s backs, just like the people working underground in the mines.

I am sure that this spirit still exists in Silverton, but judging by the latest fracas, it has worn rather thin and has been tainted by the same anger and meanness that seems to have infected our nation as a whole.

The ruckus over the Pledge is just the most visible manifestation of a battle that’s been building in Silverton for years, a sort of political/social Gold King Mine blowout, if you will. It began back in 2014, when the town voted to allow off-highway vehicles to ply select streets, creating an enforcement nightmare along with a situation in which some residents were subjected daily to the off-roader roar and dust, while others were not. The tension flared up in 2017 when community members tried to re-ban OHVs, and then again when Shane Fuhrman ran for mayor last year.

During the campaign, Fuhrman’s critics portrayed him as a wealthy, big-city outsider who was intent on turning Silverton into the next Aspen or Telluride. Originally

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from Evergreen, Fuhrman – an attorney and businessman – moved to Silverton from Brooklyn a decade ago and bought the historic Wyman Hotel. Judging by social media bile, Fuhrman’s big crime was to update the hotel to a mid-century modern style, which turns out to be more attractive to the clientele of Silverton Mountain Ski Area than the faux-Victorian decor found in other local lodging establishments.

He won the election, nonetheless, and began the thankless and virtually unpaid job as the town’s mayor.

Along with dealing with a pandemic and then the flood of tourists that followed, Fuhrman and his fellow trustees also explored the idea of expanding the small, townowned ski area onto surrounding BLM land to give a boost to the winter economy. They also wanted to add a riverside path, trails, a bike park and other amenities.

That further fueled the become-another-Aspen fears. (Interestingly, the fact that Silverton Mountain operates a heli-skiing operation out of the Aspen airport, ferrying the wealthy to the mountains around Silverton for $17,990 a pop, doesn’t seem to elicit the same reaction.)

But Silverton doesn’t need to become Aspen to have some of the same problems. Despite its grunginess and lack of a major ski resort, airport or reliable high-speed internet, the town has fallen victim to the housing affordability crisis that has pervaded nearly every corner of the West. In that respect, things have changed dramatically since I arrived in Silverton so many years ago.

As the Silverton newspaper guy from 1996-2006, I attended literally hundreds of community meetings I can’t recall ever hearing anyone recite the Pledge at any of 4 July 1, 2021 n 7

these meetings. Even in the wake of 9/11, when American jingoism oozed across the land, there was no Pledge at meetings.

And I’m sure I would have noticed because I would have chosen to sit quietly and respectfully during the Pledge. This is not because I hate America – I don’t – but because I don’t appreciate the “under God” part added during the McCarthy era.

And the “liberty and justice for all” part is aspirational only, with little progress being made to realize that, so the Pledge rings false.

Several years ago, for whatever reason, the Town Board decided to break with tradition and open meetings with the Pledge.

One town trustee opted to sit the Pledge out, which in 2018 sent one townsperson into a blustery rage, but otherwise drew little notice. After he was elected, Fuhrman, too, chose not to say the Pledge during Zoom meetings and, later, at inperson meetings.

Again, it went by without much fanfare, except from a Qanon-esque, conspiracyladen, anonymous blog known as the Silverton Porcupine, which went online early this year to “disrupt … childish, cartoonist agendas.” The author regularly refers to COVID-19 as “a plandemic of control and enslavement by ruling elite masters” and bashes local health officials for trying to keep the community, well, healthy. In another post from early this year, the Porcupine notes that during a Zoom meeting, some town trustees turned off their cameras when the Pledge was said. But far more egregious, the Porcupine goes on to claim,

was that Interim Town Administrator Anthony Edwards, by pledging to a goldfringed American flag, was actually declaring loyalty to the British.

Once upon a time, you could write this off as simple batshit craziness. But in these days of demagoguery and public officials inciting mobs to violence, not so much.

In May, the Silverton Town Board of Trustees voted 4-3 to ban OHVs from town streets. The pro-OHV crowd was lathered into a rage, once again threatening to boycott anti-OHV businesses and the whole stinking town, for that matter.

If anyone dared stick their neck out on social media to thank the trustees for actually doing something about the OHV problem, they were attacked. While all four trustees were blasted for the decision, Fuhrman – perhaps because he’s the mayor or an easy target – drew most of the ire. Once again, he was pilloried for being an East Coaster trying to overrun the town, with his most vocal critic being, well, an East Coaster.

The Pledge hadn’t yet figured into the discussion. Then, just as the OHV-related fire was blowing up, one of Fuhrman’s online detractors threw gasoline on the flames by bringing up the fact that Fuhrman did not stand for the Pledge before meetings.

This not only riled up the angry socalled patriots and flag-fetishists, but it also gave the OHV crowd more fodder for conflating a love of America with the unfettered combustion of fossil fuels.

Fuhrman and friends, by restricting OHVs

and refusing to say the Pledge, were thus doubly un-American. Social media erupted with threats, anger and multiple calls for Fuhrman to go to: a) China; b) Russia; c) back to his own country to ride camels (whatever the f*&# that means). Some folks called him a socialist (the Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist minister); others claimed he was disrupting a tradition that dates back to 1885 (the pledge wasn’t written until 1892 and was not recited at Silverton meetings until recently). Outside social media, Fuhrman was threatened directly and personally – a victim, one might say, of cancel culture, simply for quietly exercising his First Amendment rights.

And so, he made the decision to stop the recitation of the Pledge at the beginning of Town Board meetings, apparently in the hopes of defusing tension.

Whoops. And when some meeting audience members stood to say it nonetheless, he shut them down, telling them he would eject them if they did it again.

That didn’t help matters.

Now the hateful McCarthy-esque rhetoric has blown up as news of the pledge “ban” spreads far and wide. Even Franklin Graham, the evangelical hypocrite, has gotten into the mix, along with Rep. Lauren Boebert, who seems to think that asking people not to disrupt a Town Board meeting by belting out the Pledge is more of an assault on the nation than hundreds of insurgents invading the U.S. Capitol.

I’ve never met Fuhrman. But I have read what he has to say about Silverton,

about the ski area expansion, and about being bullied, and it seems he has the community’s best interests in mind. Like all public officials, he deserves to have his feet held to the fire. But even if he doesn’t quite “get” Silverton, neither he nor anyone else deserves to be treated with such anger and hate, whether they’re from Brooklyn or Butte, whether they belt out the Pledge or sit silently, whether they decorate their property gaudily or with impeccable taste.

I do know some of the people who have been attacked virtually or directly for their stance on OHVs, the ski area or simply for being associated with Fuhrman, and others who have been caught in the crossfire. They are teachers, public servants, old-timers and newcomers, folks who are devoted to the community where they live, work and raise kids. It’s great to disagree with others and even give them a piece of your mind in a Town Board meeting. But afterwards, you should buy them a beer and thank them for their service, not lambaste or threaten them.

Sadly, Wiley Carmack died recently. If he were still around, I’m sure he would have been right in the thick of this brouhaha. He and I may have shared some harsh words with one another; I suspect he might have even called me a “leftist bug” or a “commie idiot.” But I’m also sure that afterwards, we’d still be able to sit down and drink a cup of coffee together like civil human beings. I do hope the denizens of Silverton one day can do the same. n

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Camping crunch

More tourists, fewer places to camp and limited housing could hurt local workers

by Nathaniel Minor Colorado Public Radio

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onathan Civitelli’s mountain retreat is tucked in a stand of pine trees, close to biking trails and just 15 minutes from his bartending job in Crested Butte.

And unlike the $4 million homes just down the road, Civitelli’s place, a campsite in the Gunnison National Forest, is free.

“I’ve been enjoying no service, reading, hanging out,” the 28-year-old Alabama native said. “And then I go into town, work, and save some money in the process.”

It’s hard to say just how many people like Civitelli live in the national forest around Crested Butte – he estimates perhaps 10 of his coworkers at Secret Stash Pizza do. But one thing is for certain: those campsites are more popular than ever before.

And a shift in how the Forest Service manages camping is limiting that important – yet illegal – cheap housing option just as finding an affordable place to live is harder than ever.

Crested Butte had been growing in popularity for years. But the pandemic opened it up in new ways.

As recently as the 2000s, campers would only have to drive 10 to 15 minutes outside Crested Butte to find a spot for their tent on public land, said Jake Scott with the Crested Butte Conservation Corps. The land grew more popular over the years, until the pandemic hit last year and Americans went outside in record numbers.

The six valleys around Crested Butte where dispersed camping was allowed were overwhelmed in the summer of 2020, Scott said. Some campers would even work remotely via a cellular or satellite internet connection for weeks at a time.

The rise in popularity of SUVs also allowed more people to create their own roads through the delicate backcountry, a practice the CBCC is trying to prevent by placing large boulders in strategic places.

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A massive camping installation with multiple air conditioners, cars and gas generators stands at a newly designated campsite up the Slate River drainage from Crested Butte on June 19, 2021./ Courtesy of Colorado Public Radio a campground, Scott said, “It would be like I wasn’t even here. It would be like all the trash I picked up came right back.”

That sustained jump in popularity is why the Forest Service is tightening restrictions on where people can camp. Those will come with more modern amenities – fire rings and even outhouses in some places.

Some existing campsites that are too close to waterways or on steep slopes will be removed. But the Forest Service is trying to preserve as many sites as possible, said Gunnison District Ranger Matt McCombs.

In total, McCombs said, the new rules limiting camping will only apply to about 20,000 acres of the Gunnison Ranger District’s 1.3 million acres.

“There is an unbelievable opportunity across the entirety of the national forest to still experience that traditional dispersed camping opportunity,” he said. “And it’ll be like that for a very, very long time.”

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He’s confident he could find a spot if he really needed one. And he already moves sites every few weeks to try to stay in compliance with the Forest Service’s 14-day limit on camping.

But that’s a misreading of the regulation, McCombs said. Campers can only stay for 14 days in a 30-day period, regardless of whether they move sites or not. McCombs said the National Forest shouldn’t be used as housing, despite the new crush of visitors.

“Bottom line is that it’s not a sustainable solution for the housing challenges that we’re facing in these mountain communities,” he said.

Crested Butte Mayor Jim Schmidt said a handful of factors have combined to make housing more expensive and scarce. Some new residents are working remotely and keeping their out-of-town salaries. (Economists say resort towns where many residents make money outside the local economy can distort the local housing market.) And COVID made short-term rentals even more popular, eating up housing stock for locals.

“Unfortunately, I think it might be the new normal,” Schmidt said of the current housing situation.

The Crested Butte town council is considering a moratorium on new short-term rentals and recently allowed camping on private land. The town also recently bought a former bed and breakfast to house workers and declared its housing crisis an emergency, which will enable it to speed up affordable housing projects.

But those efforts could take years and people need housing now. The lack of places to live is leading to labor shortages; some businesses in town are closing a few days a week because they can’t find staff.

“It’s worse than ever,” said Kyleena Falzone, who owns the Secret Stash Pizza and Bonez restaurants in Crested Butte. “If you look in the paper today, there were three rentals and two and a half pages of jobs.”

Falzone said she’s managed to keep her doors open and retain staff because, as a larger business with 130 workers, she can offer benefits like retirement and ski passes.

She said she even lets staff shower and do laundry at her home near downtown Crested Butte.

But Falzone said she recently told town leaders they need to find more immediate solutions, like allowing locals to camp on public land in town.

“And was like, you have to do this now.

You can’t wait or you’re gonna lose everybody,” Falzone said.

One of Falzone’s employees, Alysha Joaquin, was recently booted from her rental because, she suspects, her landlord is preparing to sell the house. She’s since couch surfed, slept in her car and stayed in an otherwise vacant accessory dwelling unit as she looks for another rental. She’s camped out of necessity before, and if that option disappears, she may have to do that, too.

“People are just going to have to pick up and leave,” Joaquin said. “We won’t be able to stay here. Me included.”

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Dogwalkers make their way along the Animas River Trail behind Rank Park on Wednesday. The City will be tackling this section of the popular thoroughfare next, replacing the worn-out asphalt with more resilient concrete./Photo by Stephen Eginoire

Finishing touches With Oxbow complete, City turns to missing pieces of ART

by Jonathan Romeo

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ecades ago, the Animas River Trail was envisioned to become the centerpiece of the city of Durango’s trail system, both for recreation and commuting around town. Now, those efforts are on the verge of realization.

Following on the heels of the longawaited connection of the north end of the trail to Oxbow Park & Preserve last year, the City of Durango has planned over the next few months some finishing touches for the popular travel corridor.

This summer, construction is expected to start on a multi-million dollar pedestrian bridge at 32nd Street, which will effectively remove the last crossing that requires River Trail users to contend with car traffic.

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removed and replaced with a wider, upgraded concrete path.

And, finally, by 2023, the lofty vision to link the south end of the Animas River Trail to the Smart 160 Trail, connecting the city of Durango to the burgeoning Three Springs area to the east, should start to become a reality. Once finished, people will be able to ride from Oxbow Park to Three Springs, a more than 10-mile journey, uninterrupted.

“It’s been a long time coming,” Anthony Savastano, who serves on the city’s Parks and Recreation board, said. “I can’t think of too many towns that have something that expansive. It’s a remarkable thing to have accomplished.”

Laying the groundwork The earliest sections of what would become the Animas River Trail started in 1976 when city crews installing sewer and water lines took the occasion to lay down

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a trail segment from 29th Street to Demon Bridge.

In the years following, more sections were added as opportunity arose, such as the strip from Demon Bridge to Rank Park in 1979, and Highway 160 to Santa Rita Park in 1980. But these efforts were significantly accelerated by a 2005 and 2015 sales tax increase dedicated for recreation projects.

Today, the Animas River Trail stretches nearly 9 miles from its northern reaches at Oxbow Park to Dallabetta Park, near Home Depot in south Durango.

Following the Animas River, the trail is inundated daily with walkers, joggers, cyclists, commuters, anglers, and rafters and kayakers, as well as people just enjoying a picnic along the river banks. In essence, it comprises a whole smorgasbord of Colorado outdoor activities. A recent survey found an estimated 95% of Durango 4

residents use the trail on a regular basis, both for commuting around town and for recreation.

“It’s absolutely fantastic to have that there, for sure,” Tom Knopick, co-owner of Duranglers Flies and Supplies, said. “It’s easy to pull into the river trail, walk up or down, and have at it.”

TLC Time has taken its toll on some sections of the trail, however.

Asa Robbins, general manager at 2nd Avenue Sports, said years ago, a particularly rough patch south of Santa Rita Park was like a whoops section on a mountain bike trail, making for a sort of a rollercoaster ride (tip of the hat to editors who mountain bike and help reporters with such lingo).

“It was almost a fun, technical section of the river trail, which seems ridiculous,” Robbins said. “But for cyclists in general, yeah, I’ve had friends complain about those sections. As a commuter path, it’s necessary for it to be smooth, especially at night when it’s easy to crash.”

Cathy Metz, longtime Parks and Rec director who calls it a career on Friday, said asphalt doesn’t handle wear and tear well over time. Eventually it starts to crack, which is why the city converted to using concrete years ago.

“We’re basically tackling one section at a time,” Metz said.

Just last year, another problem segment along Iris Park was similarly upgraded. One of the oldest sections of the trail, from Rank Park to Demon Bridge, this fall will be widened from 8 feet to 10 feet, and replaced with concrete.

And within the next five years, the city intends to remove and replace the last few remaining asphalt sections on the trail, namely Highway 160 south to Santa Rita Park, and from Demon Bridge north to 29th Street. This project would also include a complete replacement of Demon Bridge.

“The Animas River Trail and upgrades are a priority (for the city), and we try to balance that with new trail extensions,” Metz said.

Stretch it out It appears the last of the major construction projects are on the horizon, too.

In fall 2020, the city of Durango completed a nearly $6 million extension, providing 1.3 extra miles of the trail from 32nd Street north to Oxbow, which includes a 38-acre wildlife preserve and a boat ramp to the Animas.

Next up on the list is the at-times contentious project for a pedestrian route around 32nd Street, the secondbusiest road in Durango.

“I can’t think of too many towns that have something that expansive. It’s a remarkable thing to have accomplished.”

– Anthony Savastano, member, Durango Parks and Recreation board

Originally a three-part, $4.1 million bridge, the city of Durango scaled back plans after significant public pushback questioning the need of the project and the amount of money to get it done. Even still, city officials and some members of the public maintained it was a matter of public safety to remove conflicts between trail users and traffic on the busy street.

Ultimately, the city settled on an alternate plan, purchasing a $710,000 property on the north side of 32nd Street to make way for a scaled-back $3.4 million pedestrian underpass.

“I don’t think we understand how at-risk people are (when riding bikes) adjacent to a car,” Mary Monroe, spokeswoman for Durango Trails (formerly Trails 2000), said. “And the car is always going to win.”

Whether for or against, the new bridge will remove the last existing pedestrian-road crossing along the Animas River Trail.

Get out of the car More than 20 years ago, Monroe said Trails 2000 brought together a number of stakeholders to plan for a connection from the Animas River Trail to Three Springs, seen as the next area slated for substantial growth. The goal, this time, was not so much recreation as it was creating multimodal community.

“Getting people out of their cars and around town is an important element to growth and sustainability for Durango,” Monroe said.

Commuting between Durango and Three Springs – which is home to one of the region’s largest employers, Mercy Regional Medical Center – is only expected to increase in the coming years. This will be especially true with the rise in popularity of e-bikes, said Tim Zink, asset manager for GR Properties Group, the developer of Three Springs.

“We’re excited about the options (the extension) could bring to connectivity,” Zink said. “I think it’d be a cool Sunday afternoon ride from downtown to Three Springs and grab brunch. But I think there’s more potential for actual commuter traffic.”

By 2023, the city hopes to start the 2.6-mile connector.

Once complete, it will be a major milestone for all those who envisioned such an asset to the community. But that doesn’t mean the effort for trail connectivity is over. A project to to link downtown Durango to the trail via Camino del Rio is also under way.

“You can’t look at the Animas River Trail as a singular thing,” Savastano said. “It’s a pretty amazing component and connector to a lot of different parks we have. It serves as the spine and a lifeline to greater communities.” n

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Getting artsy Creative District launches weekly downtown Art Market

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ust as folks can peruse and buy the freshest greens and veggies from local growers at the Durango Farmer’s Market, they soon will be able to buy the freshest paintings, sculptures and other works of art from local artists.

Starting Sun., July 11, the Durango Art Market opens up at 11th Street Station, downtown on the corner of 11th and Main Avenue. The weekly market will take place from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. and run through Sept. 5.

The market, which will feature up to 16 artists a week, is the latest project from the Durango Creative District, which was established in the summer of 2018. The goal of the DCD, which operates under the umbrella of the Local First Foundation, is to foster and advocate for the local arts while helping to build a stronger art economy.

Like last summer’s downtown beautification project, the Art Market goes hand in hand with the DCD’s mission, said director Hayley Kirkman.

“The idea is for an art-focused market with a lower barrier to entry that is more visible to passersby,” she said.

For many artists, getting their work into one of the local galleries just isn’t feasible financially or otherwise, she said. Then, once in a gallery, there’s no guarantee one’s work will get seen by a wide enough audience. Selling art online poses a similar conundrum: setting up a website and then finding a way to drive traffic to the site. The Art Market provides a solution to these issues.

“We really need to give artists more opportunities in this community to showcase their work,” she said. “My greatest fear is artists and creatives won’t be able to afford to live here. We really need to prioritize these avenues.”

The idea for the Art Market came about last winter when Alyssia Alex, a sociology student from Fort Lewis College working at the DCD as an intern, was looking for ways to help bolster the creative economy. At the same time, 11th Street Station was talking to the DCD about ways to drive more people into the business.

“It just worked out,” said Kirkman.

Carmen Drulis, general manager of 11th Street Station, said the partnership and outdoor set up at 11th Street, is a natural fit.

“11th Street Station has become the hub for the community to gather, and we are honored to be able to support local artists,” she said.

Alex, who is now serving as the Art Market Coordinator, said mediums represented include everything from pottery and ceramics to paintings and pop art. (Sorry dancers, although performance art is welcomed, please note space is limited.) Although the application window for artists has officially closed, she said the DCD will still consider

Organizers and sponsors of the Durango Art Market, from left: Ken Curtis, First Southwest Bank; Carmen Drulis, 11th Street Station; Hayley Kirkman, Durango Creative District Director; Alyssia Alex, Art Market Coordinator; Cass Walker, First Southwest Bank; and Eddie Box III, Southern Ute artist, gather for a photo at 11th Street earlier this week. The Art Market begins July 11 and runs Sundays through Sept. 5 at 11th Street Station./ Photo by Missy Votel Left: Eddie Box displays some of his beaded artwork. Box is working with the Creative District to get more Native artists represented at the Art Market./ Photo by Missy Votel

any late comers. Artists can apply online at www.durangocreativedistrict.org and need not appear every week but can choose the weeks that fit their schedule. “The goal is to mix up the vendor booths so we have a wider variety and every time you go, it’ll be relatively fresh,” said Kirkman.

In another effort to reduce barriers, artists can either buy their own booth, share a booth with another artist or put up a table under the communal tent. The costs range from $35-$20/week and there is a scholarship, provided by 1st Southwest Bank (which also paid for Alex’s internship), to help offset the entrance costs for artists.

“We think it’s really doable, not enough

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to break the bank,” said Kirkman.

While the focus will be on regional artists, artists from outside the area will also be invited to display their works. In addition, the market is working with local tribal members, including Eddie Box III, a Southern Ute artist, to get more Native art represented as well.

“That’ll be another important avenue for others who can’t find somewhere to show their art,” Kirkman said.

Art Market organizers are hopeful the market will help fill a void during otherwise “sleepy” Sundays in Durango and help bring the community together post-pandemic.

“I’m excited about creating an art community here in Durango,” said Alex, who enjoys creative hobbies like painting, drawing and simple sewing projects. “It will be great to accomplish something that brings the community together through art.”

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No rules, no frills – just beer Anarchy Brewing Co. opens on the south side of Durango

by Jonathan Romeo

tortion. Inside, it’s barebones, with no shiny steel tanks and no real rules to att Sullivan, better known to speak of (Anarchy allows people to friends and neighbors as Sully, bring their own food, as well as the big spent years helicoptering into Durangoan prerequisite, dogs). search and rescue missions, charging At the soft opening Friday, one into burning buildings to fight fires and friend and patron at the bar remarked working in emergency rooms. it felt just like drinking beer in Sully’s But it wasn’t until he decided to start garage, albeit a bigger garage now. And, his own brewery at age 51 that he knew like the song of a siren, interested peothe feeling of a true adrenaline rush. ple walking and biking by saw beer, “I’ve been in the worst conditions, music, crowds and started to pop their and I was never scared,” he said. “But curious, thirsty heads in. this was pretty scary. It’s all on me Sully said Durango’s brewing comnow.” munity has been more than welcomSully just last week held the soft ing, offering advice and even opening for Durango’s newest place to equipment. “It feels like a brothergrab a craft beer – Anarchy Brewing Co., hood,” he said. located at 225 East 8th Ave., in the same Bill Carver, co-owner of Carver Brewcommercial strip as Macho’s south. ing Co., said he wasn’t surprised to hear Durango boasts five local breweries, of the support offered to Sully and Anbut Anarchy (now its sixth) has found archy. its own niche in the craft-brewing Around the time craft breweries scene. Spartan in nature, Anarchy offers emerged in the 1980s, Carver said the no food or frills – just some seats at the industry was dominated by large, nabar or picnic tables, a couple of specialtional companies, which fostered a sort ized batches of homemade beer, and alof brotherhood and friendly competiways, some punk rock music on the tion among the independently owned stereo. brewers.

“Hopefully we’ll have some live “When the little brewers came music,” Sully said. along, we all banded together because After serving 22 years as a firefighter we were small,” Carver said. “I think in Albuquerque, Sully moved to Duthat ‘watching out for each other’ feelrango in 2015 and joined Flight for Life ing has been maintained all these years, (the folks who save you when you’ve even though the number of breweries had a bad accident in the backcountry Durango welcomed its sixth local brewery last week with the opening of Anarchy Brewing has grown a lot.” or require emergency medical transport Co., spearheaded by owner Matt “Sully” Sullivan. After working in firefighting and paraScott Bickert, owner of Animas via helicopter).

Brewing Co., said he felt the support medics, Sullivan decided to start his own nano brewery at 225 East 8th Ave. Courtesy photo He spent the last year and a half, when he started in 2014. however, as an emergency room tech“I think back in the day, before I got nician at Mercy, dealing with the madhere, they coined the term ‘coop-petiness of the COVID-19 pandemic, tion,’” he said. “They were here for me among all the other stresses that come when I opened and first moved to with working in the ER. town.”

“It was exhausting,” he said. “And Durango’s brewery scene has seen having been a paramedic for 30 years, some shake up in recent years.

I was just tired.”

Within the past few years, mainstays A lover of beer, Sully had been brewDurango Brewing Co. and BREW Pub & ing his own batches ever since his early Kitchen closed. A spot called Chainless 20s growing up in Albuquerque. He Brewing Co. opened in the former Dunever found a calling within the tradirango Brewing Co. location, but closed tional arts, but with brewing he found abruptly and without notice recently. A a creative outlet. His friends, the lucky new brewpub, called Durango Beer & recipients of his creations, would alIce Co., appears to have opened in the ways nudge him to open his own brewsame spot. ery. And he’d always give the usual Regardless, breweries all over face a excuses: no money, no time. challenging recovery from the past year The COVID-19 pandemic, which after the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused the upheaval of so many saw numerous shut downs and limitapeoples’ lives and careers, changed all tions on capacity. Now, in what feels that. He quit his job at Mercy, cashed like the back end of the pandemic, in his 401k and went all in on running his own brewery.

He hopes to work up to five to seven barrels with about 10 restaurants and bars everywhere are suffering from staffing “I decided it was time to live my dream,” he said. “And beers on tap in constant rotation. shortages. if you’re going to swim, you better jump all the way in.

“Beer and I have a good relationship,” he said. “So we Sully, for his part, is optimistic that as long as he offers There’s no half-doing it.” just feel each other out.” good beer, and has the support of friends and neighbors, Sully knew a few things from the start: he wanted to The atmosphere of Anarchy Brewing Co. was just as im- he’s on the right track. The steady stream of customers durbegin small, be a spot for locals, ideally located off Main portant. A punk rocker and skater at heart, Sully wanted ing the soft opening certainly was an encouraging sign, and Avenue, and ooze the spirit of punk rock. On the beverage the space to serve as an ode to the music he loves – like The he hopes to have a grand opening in about two weeks. front, his forte is brewing small-batch, high-alcohol beer. Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Flogging Molly and Social Dis“It always comes back to beer,” he said. n

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Fourth of July Breakfast, 7:30 a.m.11 a.m., Rotary Park. Hosted by the Rotary Club of Durango

Cafe au Play free outdoor baby group, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., 495 Florida Road (behind Christ the King church). 970-7499607 for info.

Fourth of July Celebration, events all day featuring live music, picnic and street dance. More info at durangogov.org/1260/4th-of-July-Events

Void Where Prohibited plays Ska-BQ, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St. Ben Gibson Duo play, 5 p.m. Serious Texas BBQ South, 650 S. Camino Del Rio.

Bayfield Fourth of July celebration, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., events all day featuring pancake breakfast, fun run, food, beer garden, parade, live music.

Adam Swanson, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Firecracker 5K & 2K Fun Run, 10 a.m., Bayfield Primary School, 511 E. Mustang Lane. The theme this year is “Let’s not overdo it.” Register at www.momentum24-7.com

Jose Villareal, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Family Magic Show with Mysto the Magi, 7 p.m., Tico Time Resort, 1 mile south of the stateline.

Reeder and Spencer play, Wines of the San Juan, 233 NM 511, Blanco, N.M.

Deadline for “Stuff to Do” submissions is Monday at noon. To submit an item, email: calendar@durangotelegraph.com

Live music, 6-8:30 p.m. every Thursday, James Ranch, HWY 550, Hermosa.

Gary Walker plays, 2 p.m., Magpies, Fireworks may be canceled. Again. But the City of Durango is pulling out the 707 Main Ave. th Trivia night 6:30-8:30 p.m., The stops to make sure the 4 is as festive as can be this year. A full day of activities Powerhouse, 1333 Camino Del Rio. No is on tap, starting with a gourmet breakfast, a picnic in Buckley Park with beer Kirk James Blues Band plays, 2:30groups larger than eight. $5 suggested team garden and free music by the Badly Bent and Kirk James, followed by a “street” 4:30 p.m., Buckley Park. donation. dance at the Transit Center parking lot featuring music by local favorites, the Stillhouse Junkies (and more beer.) For a full schedule, visit: durangogov 4th of July Street Dance, 5-9:30 p.m., Beam Me Up Starlight Trivia, weekly .org/1260/4th-of-July-Events Durango Transit Center, 250 W. 8th St. 7:30-9:30 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main.

Featuring Ska beer garden, kids activities, “The Sandlot,” free Movie in the Park, 7:45 p.m., local food and live music

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Buckley Park Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 8-10 p.m., The Roost, 128 E. College Dr. Blue Moon Ramblers play, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Hip-hop night, 8 p.m., featuring Diabolical Sound Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Platoon, Def-I, Sage Cornelius, iLL Methods, DIRTVeNT Rap Battles, Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College.

Rob Webster plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Gary Walker plays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-Pierre Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave.

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Reeder and Spencer play, Fur Trappers Steakhouse, 701 E. 2nd Ave. Lacey Black plays, 5-8 p.m., Serious Texas BBQ South, 650 S. Camino Del Rio. Adam Swanson, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Dustin Burley, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Durango Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-12 p.m., Saturdays through October. TBK Parking Lot, 259 W. 9th St. www.durangofarmersmarket.com Explore the Japanese bokken (sword) and jo (staff) 9:30-10:30 a.m., Claire Viles Park (across from St. Columba). www.durangoaikido.com Void Where Prohibited plays, 2-6 p.m., Tico Time Resort, 1 mile south of the stateline.

Lawn Chair Kings play, 5 p.m., Mancos Brewing Co.

Void Where Prohibited plays, 6-9 p.m., outside at Gazpacho, 431 E. 2nd Ave. Ben Gibson Duo plays, 6 p.m., Derailed Pour House, 725 Main Ave.

Adam Swanson plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Matt Rupnow plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Disco Night, 6-9 p.m., Chapman Hill Roller Rink.

Friday Nights at Fox Fire Farms, music, food and wine, 6-9 p.m., Fox Fire Farms, 5513 CR 321, Ignacio.

Family Magic Show with Mysto the Magi, Fridays thru the summer, 7 p.m., Tico Time Resort, 1 mile south of the stateline.

Ben Gibson Duo plays, 6 p.m., Fur Trappers Steakhouse, 701 E. 2nd Ave. Gary Walker plays, 6 p.m., Dandelion Café, 725 E. 2nd Ave. Disco Night, 6-9 p.m., Chapman Hill Roller Rink.

Void Where Prohibited plays, 6 p.m. The Balcony, 600 Main Ave..

Monday05 Outdoor Storytime, 9:30-10 a.m., Pine River Library, Bayfield.

Meditation and Dharma Talk, 5:30-6:15 p.m.

Online at www.durangodharmacenter.org Adam Swanson plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Rob Webster plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Tuesday06 Summer reading program at Durango Public Library, Tuesdays thru July 31. Programs and events for babies, kids, teens and adults. For info, stop by or call 970-375-3380.

Teen Summer Program: Horse Quilling, 11 a.m.– 12 noon, Pine River Library, Bayfield. 4

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Dear Rachel, My favorite worthless trivia fact is the insane number of condoms that are supplied to the Olympic village. But this year, it got even better.

The official statement from Tokyo 2020 says, and I’m serious, that “The distribution of condoms is not for use at the athlete’s village, but to have athletes take them back to their home countries.” How high do you think the IOC is, exactly?

- Love in the Time of COVID Dear Rubber Match, Hey, amateur athletes can’t be paid, so at least they can hardcore eBay that stuff. Or, they could follow the rest of that statement I Googled, which says the IOC wants athletes to raise HIV/AIDS awareness with the condoms. At like 14 condoms an athlete, that’s not a whole lot of awareness. Not when you’re one athlete at a time, taking on an entire country.

Go for the gold, Rachel Dear Rachel, Why am I never content with what I have? I love this town. I love the access to nature, and the good beer, and the fact that we aren’t big enough for a Trader Joe’s. But when my friend

came to visit from Austin, I was just embarrassed that we didn’t have any live music going on that first night. I suddenly wanted Durango to be everything it’s not. Clearly I am unhappy.

How can I find inner peace to love wherever I am and not care what anyone else may think?

- Unsatisfied Soul Dear Traitor Joe, HOW DARE YOU BE HAPPY WE LACK A TRADER JOE’S. I mean, I personally don’t care, because to me Trader Joe’s is a lot like heroin. That’s the end of the simile; it’s like heroin, full stop. But everyone else seems to think Trader Joe’s is the best/only reason to leave Durango. I can’t drive as far as Bayfield without someone saying, “Oh hey, while you’re out, would you swing down to Albuquerque and hit up Trader Joe’s for me?”

Only for gas money, Rachel Dear Rachel, I bought cannabis seeds from my local dispensary to try growing my own for the very first time. But I didn’t ask a lot of questions, and I’m now learning from the internet that I need to gender the plants so they don’t pollinate. Do you know what I paid for six seeds? A lot more than I would have paid for the three (or so) female seeds I’m bound to get. If I get six dude plants, do you think I can get a refund?

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Twin Buttes Farm Stand, Tuesdays thru October, 3-6 p.m., 165 Tipple Ave., www.twinbuttesfarm.com

Explore the Japanese bokken (sword) and jo (staff) 5:30-6:30 p.m., Claire Viles Park, durangoaikido.com

Adam Swanson plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Adam Swanson plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Sean O’Brien plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave

Terry Rickard plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Bitcoin Study Group, Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m., Zia North patio. Meet people and learn about Bitcoin. For info., call 970-426-2464 or email bitcoinstudygroup@protonmail.com

The Jeff Solon Jazz Duo plays, 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays thru Sept. 8, Dandelion Café, 725 E. 2nd Ave.

Acoustic Music Jam, Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m., Rotary Park, all instruments and singers welcome. 970-259-3408.

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Spanish Conversation Hour, 1-2 p.m., Pine River Library, Bayfield.

Virtual book club, 2-3 p.m., For info., e-mail spenser.snarr@durangogov.org.

Dear Total Noob, The marijuana industry might bank on high prices, but not on ripping people off. Trust me: your seeds are female. I don’t know how I know this, just that any industry with that much cash has figured out how to look between the seeds’ legs to figure out their gender. After all, a happy customer is only one whose plants can’t get it on, much like the one Olympian who will actually return home with a pocketful of condoms.

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Mamma Mia! July 8-Aug. 1, Lions Wilderness Amphitheatre, Farmington. www.fmtn.org/shows.

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Call for artists for downtown art market, every Sunday from July 11-Sept. 5. More info. at durangocreativedistrict.org

Summer reading series, 10 a.m., talk about mountain lions and bears, Sunnyside Library.

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Femme fatale Like the Roaring Twenties, ‘The Other Typist’ is worth a revisit

by Jeffrey Mannix

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In variance with publishing’s summer exit, I won’t review any of their red shirts this month, but instead go back to a 2012 release under the imprint of Amy Einhorn Books for G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Other Typist. A debut sensation by Suzanne Rindell and perhaps her first published writing, it’s a thoroughly wonderful book worthy of saving to read and reread.

Rindell lives in New York City and recently received her PhD in American modernist literature from Rice University in Houston. As confusing as that

may sound, there is nothing muddled about her writing.

The Other Typist is a stunning book and as nuanced and florid a mystery as ever written. Rindell is eminently worthy of a PhD based solely on this novel. Maybe that’s why she could live so far off campus.

The Other Typist is written in the first person, about two women who transcribe confessions in a police precinct in New York City, circa 1924. Rose Becker, our youthful narrator, has achieved her pinnacle of upward mobility with her move to this low-level job. She’s a plain woman, brought up in a Catholic orphanage, lonely but stoic, determined but naive. Her life changes dramatically when the “other typist’’ is hired – Odalie Lezare, a femme fatale with bobbed hair, short skirts, expensive jewelry and subtly perfumed poise. She immediately overawes everyone with guile, seduction and mystery.

Everyone in the precinct – detectives, administration and especially the typing pool of maidens of modest tastes – vie for Odalie’s attention. She might be called a breath of fresh air in a humdrum world at variance with the increasingly illegal and compelling Roaring Twenties. And for reasons unknown but immediately suspect, Rose is the chosen confidant of the ravishing new typist, and we’re off on a frenetic ride to the underworld of New York’s speakeasies, grandiloquent women, illicit fun – and murder.

The Other Typist has been compared to F. Scott Fitzger-

ald’s The Great Gatsby for both foreshadowing the changing culture ushered in by the Jazz Age, and for similarities in prose itself. Rindell admits that her research of the period was exhaustive and that she clung to The Great Gatsby as if it were the Holy Grail. Rindell is not Fitzgerald, nor can a careful reader accuse her of sentimentality.

But The Other Typist hasn’t a single redundancy, cliché or overworked word. It is perhaps the cleanest work of fiction offered up in this day; a book to make Strunk and White heady with pride.

The Other Typist is a story about obsession: how an attractant is at first loathed by envy, resisted by parochiality, timidly accepted in service and then embraced with impulsive abandon. Ruth becomes the obsequious mirror image of Odalie, accepts an invitation to move into Odalie’s plush Manhattan hotel suite, dresses in Odalie’s raffish clothing, swills expensive cocktails offered by Odalie’s rakish male acquaintances, and winds up in the deep end of a cesspool without having first taken a whiff.

What can she be thinking of, this waif of a typist?

How can she be swept into this world of what she had been taught by the nuns to be sin and debauchery? And how can a country girl’s fascination turn into an obsession from which she may never recover? And who exactly killed Theodore Tricott?

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Columnist Linda Weltner says that there’s a dual purpose to cleaning your home, rearranging the furniture, adding new art to the walls, and doting on your potted plants. Taking good care of your environment is a primary way of taking good care of yourself. She writes, “The home upon which we have lavished so much attention is the embodiment of our own self love.” I invite you to make that your inspirational meditation for the next two weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time,” said author Amy Hempel.

Hmmmm. I’m the opposite.

To cultivate peace of mind, I try to speak and live the truth as much as I can. Lying makes me nervous. It also seems to make me dumber. It forces me to keep close track of my fibs so I can be sure to stick to my same deceitful story when the subject comes up later. What about you, Taurus?

For your peace of mind, do you prefer to rely on dishonesty or honesty? I’m hoping that for the next four weeks, you will favor the latter. Cultivating judicious candor will heal you and boost your intelligence.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In her essay about education, “Don’t Overthink It,” philosopher Agnes Callard reminds us, “No matter how much we increase our investment at the front end— perfecting our minds with thinking classes, long ruminations, novel-reading, and moral algebra—we cannot spare ourselves the agony of learning by doing.”

That will be a key theme for you in the next four weeks, dear Gemini. You will need to make abundant use of empiricism: pursuing knowledge through direct experience, using your powers of observation and a willingness to experiment.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that when our rational minds are working at their best, they inspire us to cultivate our most interesting and enlivening passions. They also de-emphasize and suppress any energy-draining passions that might have a hold on us. I’m hoping you will take full advantage of this in the coming weeks, Cancerian. You will generate good fortune and sweet breakthroughs as you highlight desires that uplift you and downgrade desires that diminish you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo author Wendell Berry suggests, “It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.” Although there’s wisdom in that

formulation, I don’t think it’s true a majority of the time. Far more often we are fed by the strong, clear intuitions that emerge from our secret depths—from the sacred gut feelings that give us accurate guidance about what to do and where to go. But I do suspect that right now may be one of those phases when Berry’s notion is true for you, Leo. What do you think?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1750, more than 250 years after Columbus first visited the New World, Native Americans were still a majority of the continent’s population. But between 1776 and now, the United States government stole 1.5 billion acres of land from its original owners—25 times the size of the United Kingdom. Here’s another sad fact: Between 1778 and 1871, America’s federal administrations signed over 500 treaties with indigenous tribes—and broke every one of them. The possibility that these sins will eventually be remedied is very small. I bring them up only to serve as possible metaphors for your personal life. Is there anything you have unfairly gained from others? Is there anything others have unfairly gained from you? The next six months will be prime time to seek atonement and correction.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh advises you and me and everyone else to “seek the spiritual in every ordinary thing that you do every day.” You have to work at it a bit, he says; you must have it as your firm intention. But it’s not really hard to do. “Sweeping the floor, watering the vegetables, and washing the dishes become holy and sacred if mindfulness is there,” he adds. I think you Libras will have a special knack for this fun activity in the coming weeks. (Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a series of “Mindfulness Essentials” books that includes How to Eat, How to Walk, How to Relax, and How to Connect.

I invite you to come up with your own such instructions.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My unexpected interpretation of the current astrological omens suggests that you will be wise to go naked as much as possible in the coming weeks. Being skyclad, as the pagans say, will be healing for you. You will awaken dormant feelings that will help you see the world with enhanced understanding. The love that you experience for yourself will soften one of your hard edges, and increase your appreciation for all the magic that your life is blessed with. One important caveat: Of course, don’t impose your nakedness on anyone who doesn’t want to witness it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): If you analyzed the best-selling songs as measured

by Billboard magazine, you’d think we were in the midst of

a dangerous decline in population. The vast majority of those popular tunes feature lyrics with reproductive themes. It’s as if there’s some abject fear that humans aren’t going to make enough babies, and need to be constantly cajoled and incited to engage in love-making. But I don’t think you Sagittarians, whatever your sexual preference, will need any of that nagging in the coming days. Your Eros Quotient should be higher than it has been in a while.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donna Tartt, born under the sign of Capricorn, writes, “Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.” In my view, that’s an unwarranted generalization. It may sometimes be true, but is often not. Genuine beauty may also be elegant, lyrical, inspiring, healing, and ennobling. Having said that, I will speculate that the beauty you encounter in the near future may indeed be disruptive or jolting, but mostly because it has the potential to remind you of what you’re missing—and motivate you to go after what you’ve been missing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On July 21, 1969, Aquarian astronaut Buzz Aldrin was the second human to walk on the moon. It happened during a spectacular astrological aspect, when transiting Jupiter and Uranus in Libra were trine to Aldrin’s natal Sun in Aquarius. But after this heroic event, following his return to earth, he found it hard to get his bearings again. He took a job as a car salesman, but had no talent for it. In six months, he didn’t sell a single car. Later, however, he found satisfaction as an advocate for space exploration, and he developed technology to make future trips to Mars more efficient.

I hope that if you are now involved in any activity that resembles Aldrin’s stint as a car salesman—that is, a task you’re not skilled at and don’t like—you will spend the coming weeks making plans to escape to more engaging pursuits.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Astronomers say the Big Bang birthed the universe 13.8 billion years ago. But a star 190 light years away from Earth contradicts that theory. Its age seems to be 14.5 billion years, older than the universe itself. Its scientific name is HD 140283, but it’s informally referred to as Methuselah, named after the Biblical character who lived till age 969. Sometimes, like now, you remind me of that star. You seem to be an impossibly old soul—like you’ve been around so many thousands of lifetimes that, you, too, predate the Big Bang. But guess what: It’s time to take a break from that aspect of your destiny. In the next two weeks, you have cosmic permission to explore the mysteries of playful innocence.

Be young and blithe and curious. Treasure your inner child.

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Hemingway: America’s flawed genius

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ixty years ago tomorrow, July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway, America’s premier author, took his own life at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. He was 61 and for the previous 10 years had been in ill health, not only physically, but mentally.

Hemingway suffered nearly a dozen major concussions, and, as a boxer, took many blows to the head. It is practically certain he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy – CTE – the same brain injury suffered by many NFL players. CTE was recognized only in “punch drunk” boxers back then, but its probability in Hemingway perfectly fits his increasingly erratic behavior. CTE coupled with Hemingway’s consumption of alcohol and unsupervised prescription medicines, and his belief he would never write again, stoked the deep depression that finally drove him to suicide.

In April, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s PBS documentary, “Hemingway,” triggered another cycle of Heming-

way interest – and scorn. Hemingway’s life does not play well to modern sensibilities. Hemingway – the he-man – is well known. He glorified big game hunting, drinking, brawling and chauvinism. But privately, his character was far more flawed. He betrayed friend after friend including all four of his wives. His three sons severed contact with him.

He invented a public persona that glanced only occasionally off the truth. Then he felt driven to live up to his own myth. Fueled by his heavy drinking, he could be casually cruel and a bully. He was obsessed with fame. In later years, his outsized ego could turn his boorish behavior into self-caricature.

Hemingway was the poster boy for toxic masculinity long before that term was coined. He would be easy to dismiss or deride in our enlightened age except for the one thing that does not fade away: the jaw-dropping talent of his timeless literature. Hemingway was a master of the short story. He wrote classic novels; even the second-tier

ones are memorable. He frequently appeared in the nation’s magazines. He invented a new form of non-fiction and was a widely read war correspondent. He participated in three wars: WWI, the Spanish Civil War and WWII. He was the rock star of writers in the first half of the 20th century, with charisma to burn; known and adored wherever he went. And he ate it up.

Hemingway was a man’s man until you scratched the surface. Beneath the bravado, he was insecure, sensitive and deeply aware of pain in others. He knew his own wounds, and he could agonize over the wounds he inflicted on others. Beneath the macho shell was the artist’s artist. His writing was exquisitely honed, delicate and minimalist. He called it “the iceberg theory” of writing – what he left out was as important as what he put in.

Hemingway was generous to those less fortunate and often opened his home to others.

How much of Hemingway’s talent is tarnished by his failings? Humility and genius rarely go hand in hand, but genius does not justify cruelty. Each reader must make up their own mind. There is no Hemingway School of Writing because he cannot be parsed from modern literature.

There was pre-Hemingway and now there is post-Hemingway. All American writers after Hemingway show his influence. Every writer since has felt his touch. Hemingway stumbled often and hard, but he was doing some heavy lifting. Do yourself a favor and pick up some Hemingway for your summer reading. You will be transported to another time and place and life. Be prepared though. You will not return the same. n

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