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FOOD & DRINK

Patience pays off with Spirit Hound’s aged whisky Page 4

CULTURE

Mountain Folk Festival features more ‘carzy’ events Page 10

ARTS

MUSIC

Original play brings park history to life on stage Page 20

Trucks brings lifetime of experience to new band Page 26

SILVER PLUME • GEORGETOWN • EMPIRE • IDAHO SPRINGS • CENTRAL CITY • BLACK HAWK • GOLDEN GATE • ROLLINSVILLE • COAL CREEK • NEDERLAND • GOLD HILL • WARD • JAMESTOWN • ALLENSPARK • LYONS • ESTES PARK

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COVER STORY: Fishing in Colorado can be the experience of a lifetime, especially for anyone visiting from out of state. For those who fish and live here, the experience may be more common, but no less special. Fishing in Colorado means the opportunity to catch 35 species of both warm- and cold-water fish on 6,000 miles of streams and more than 2,000 lakes and reservoirs. The Northern Front Range offers world-class waters suitable for all types and abilities, including the youngest in your family.

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Fly-fishing in Rocky Mountain National Park /Photo by Matt Inden

Historic Places

Western Boulder County Switzerland Trail of America

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Location: Ward to Eldora Date Listed: National Register, Sept. 18, 1980

Modoc Mill

Location: 4 miles north of Ward Date Listed: National Register, Dec. 27, 1978

Ward Congregational Church

Location: 41 Modoc, Ward Date Listed: National Register, August 8, 1989

Ward School (Post Office/Town Hall)

Location: 66 Columbia, Ward Date Listed: National Register, Aug. 3, 1989 Continued on page 12

Mining, tourism history preserved in Ward, Allenspark PEAK TO PEAK Colorado’s rich history is being preserved through the efforts of locally- and nationally-designated historic places. Each month this year, the MMAC Monthly takes a region-by-region look at the many properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the mountain communities in Clear Creek, Gilpin, Boulder and Larimer counties.

The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. For a property to

be eligible, it must meet at least one of four main criteria involving architectural styles, association with various aspects of social history and commerce, ownership and design/construction.

Western Boulder County is home to several former mining towns including Ward and Allesnpark along the Peak to Peak Highway. Ward was named for Calvin Ward, who prospected a claim on the site known as Miser’s Dream. The town boomed the following year with the discovery by Byrus Continued on page 12

Switzerland Trail rail route west of Boulder.

The train on right bound for Ward and train on left is bound for Eldora.

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Volume 8, Issue 8 • August 2015

Celebrate Colorado, statehood entire month of August PEAK TO PEAK Celebrate the 139th birthday of our wonderful state, Aug. 1, during Colorado Day, then continue to commemorate the anniversary by enjoying all it has to offer the rest of the month, too. August is the perfect month to get out in Colorado to take advantage of everything this great state has to offer. Summit a peak, hike or bike a trail, fish a stream, climb a rock or simply attend one of the many community and regional events scheduled throughout the month.

First visited by Spanish explorers in the 1500s, the territory was claimed for Spain by Juan de Ulibarri in 1706. The U.S. obtained eastern Colorado as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the central portion in 1845 with the admission of Texas as a state, and the western part in 1848 as a result of the Mexican War. Congress created the Colorado Territory in 1861, on the eve of the Civil War. Wartime issues and an economic slump, however, derailed attempts to gain statehood in the 1860s. The process took many

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years, and involved multiple debates in Washington and several votes in Colorado. President Andrew Johnson twice vetoed statehood, in 1865 and 1867, due to the lack of people and reluctance to admit a new state before the South had been readmitted.

Railroad development and silver strikes drew thousands of new fortuneseekers in the 1870s and changed the tide.

President Ulysses S. Grant signed a proclamation admitting Colorado to the Union as the 38th state, Aug. 1, 1876. Colorado is nicknamed the “Centennial State” because it became a state 28 days after the centennial of the United States Declaration of Independence.

The history of how Colorado became a state is somewhat irrelevant as to why most of us moved here or continue to stay, but whatever brought or kept you here, spend August celebrating it!

Addiction Recovery Groups

Sunday Gilpin County H.A.L.T. – St. Paul’s Church, Central City, 2 p.m.

Fall River Group AA Meeting – 701 Elm, Estes Park, noon Monday Clear Creek Road Runners – United Church of Idaho Springs, 2 p.m.

Al-Anon Families – Allenspark Fire Department, 5 p.m.

Early Worms Group AA Meeting – St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal, Estes Park, 7 a.m.

Fall River Group AA Meeting – 701 Elm, Estes Park, noon St. Vrain Group AA Meeting – IOOF Hall, Lyons, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday AA Meeting – St. Rita’s Catholic Church, Nederland 5:30 & 7 p.m.

Clear Creek Road Runners 2 – Georgetown Community Center, 7 p.m.

St. Vrain Group AA Meeting – IOOF Hall, Lyons, 7:30 p.m.

AA Meeting – Golden Gate Grange Community Center, 2 p.m.

Early Worms Group AA Meeting – St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal, Estes Park, 7 a.m.

Fall River Group AA Meeting – 701 Elm, Estes Park, noon & 7 p.m.

Wednesday Gilpin County H.A.L.T. – St. Paul’s Church, Central City, 2 p.m.

Morning Group AA Meeting – Nederland Veterinary Hospital (Back Office), 8 a.m.

Canyon Group AA Meeting – Coal Creek Canyon United Power Offices., 7:30 p.m.

Open AA Meeting – Allenspark Fire Station, 5 p.m.

Early Worms Group AA Meeting – St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal, Estes Park, 7 a.m.

Fall River Group AA Meeting – 701 Elm, Estes Park, 7 p.m.

Thursday Morning Group AA Meeting – Nederland Veterinary Hospital (Back Office), 8 a.m.

Clear Creek Road Runners – United Church of Idaho Springs, 2 p.m.

Early Worms Group AA Meeting – St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal, Estes Park, 7 a.m.

AA Meeting, New Horizons Group NA Meeting – 701 Elm, Estes Park, noon & 7 p.m.

Friday Free at Last Group NA Meeting – Harmony Foundation of Estes Park, 7:30 p.m.

Clear Creek Road Runners – United Church of Idaho Springs, 2 p.m.

Wild Basin Book Study – New Covenant Church, Allenspark, 6:30 p.m.

AA Meeting – St. Rita’s Catholic Church, Nederland, 7 p.m.

Early Worms Group AA Meeting – St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal,

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MOUNTAIN MIX – the best of all the rest

August 7

First Fridays at the Hamill House

Enjoy the season’s final blooms and raise a glass to summer at the last First Friday at the Hamill House Museum, Aug. 7 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Enjoy an old fashioned lawn party, complete with croquet, badminton, hor d’oeuvres, wine and beer, free face painting for the kids and other fun activities for the whole family. Unwind and enjoy the majestic beauty of one of the most well preserved Victorian towns in America. Entry is a $20 donation per person or $35 per couple and includes a drink ticket.

Children are free. Visit www.historicgeorgetown.org or e-mail preservation@historicgeorgetown.org for more information.

August 8

Green Ranch Hike

This guided walk, Aug. 8 from 9 a.m. to noon, traverses an area of the Golden Gate Canyon State Park that is not developed and only open to visitors during a guided excursion. Participants will recall the history of the area, catch glimpses of wildlife, and see open vistas of the Front Range. This is an easy three-mile loop through the old corral area and return to the car. Meet Volunteer John Moyer at the Visitor Center to start this walk through history. A valid park pass is required on each vehicle that attends.

Call Interpretive Ranger Jim Bick at 303-642-3203 or visit cpw. state.co.us for additional information.

August 8-9

Meet the wolves of Wolfwood Refuge

Wolfwood Refuge makes its annual visit to Hermit Park Open Space near Estes Park, Aug. 8-9 from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day. Wolf talks take place at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet some of the new ambassador wolves, enjoy petting, take photos, receive wolf kisses and free wolf fur. Wolfwood’s mission is to provide a safe refuge for unwanted and homeless wolves and wolf-dogs. There will be lots of new Wolfwood items for sale with 100 percent of the profits going to the refuge. A $6 daily entrance permit is required for the park. Visit www.wolfwoodrefuge.org and www.co.larimer.co.us/parks/hermitpark.cfm to learn more.

August 9 & 26

‘F.O. Stanley: A Life Well-Lived’ reenactment

Performer Kurtis Kelly steps into the role of the legendary F.O. Stanley, Aug. 9 and Aug. 26 from 2-3 p.m., at the Historic Fall River Hydroplant at 1754 Fish Hatchery Road. Stanley reflected in 1928 that no visitor to Estes Park “has had a more varied experience than I have had.” Stanley, along with his twin brother, also gained national fame as developers of an early and popular form of dryplate photography, and later as developers of the Stanley Brothers steam-powered automobile, which held the land-speed record in 1906. Stanley was also a maker of fine violins and operated a violin-making firm with his nephew, Carleton Stanley. Kelly’s performance, sponsored by the Estes Park Museum, explores these many achievements of Stanley’s long and varied life. The event costs $3 for museum members and youth under 16 years old and $5 for non-members. No registration is required. The Hydroplant will be open for free guided tours before and following the performance from 1 - 4 p.m. For more information, visit www.estes.org.

August 12

Mud Lake Open Space Night Hike

Join Boulder County Parks & Open Space volunteer naturalists, Aug. 12 from 8-10 p.m., for a free night hike to explore the Mud Lake Open Space property near Nederland under the cover of darkness. Participants will hike about one mile round-trip on an easy trail, enjoying the starlight, listening for night sounds and learning about the nocturnal habits of the critters that live there. Bring water, closed-toe hiking shoes or boots, a flashlight and night eyes. To learn more, visit www.bouldercounty.org or contact Larry Colbenson at 303-678-6214 or lcolbenson@bouldercounty.org.

August 17-18

Stage 2 Finish of USA Pro Challenge

Arapahoe Basin Ski Area hosts the Stage 2 finish of the USA Pro Challenge, Aug. 18, billed as the most difficult professional cycling race in America and featuring the world’s best cyclists.

A-Basin has planned two days of camping, concerts and familyfriendly activities for cycling enthusiasts and those who want to get the full Colorado experience while visiting Summit County.

On Aug. 17-18, A-Basin will open its parking lots to reserved camping, with several options depending on the size of the interested group. Availability of campsites is limited, so guests are encouraged to reserve their space online or call to book now.

Food and beverage options—including the famous 6th Alley Bar & Grill—will be available both days. A concert featuring Brother’s Keeper with John Popper, with special guest The Samples takes place on Monday and the Freddy Jones Band will play in A-Basin’s Base Area Village on Tuesday. Both concerts are free and open to the public, even if not camping. In addition to the Stage 2 finish, activities on Race Day include lawn games, a guided nature hike to mid-mountain, a kids’ bike race and free chairlift rides on the Black Mountain Express lift. Visit arapahoebasin.com or call 888.

ARAPAHOE for additional details and complete schedule.

August 21-22

Studio Plein Air Painting

This Art Center of Estes Park class with Jeanne Mackenzie, Aug. 21-22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., will help artists loosen up and become more spontaneous with their painting. Often, artists paint ‘plein air’ with a sense of bravado and then tighten up when they work from a photo. During class, participants will use photo references while learning how to treat them as if painting the scene on location. Emphasis will be on good composition, inviting design, correct values and colors that sing. The instruction and demos will be for oils but those well versed in other mediums are welcome. The class is available to all levels of painters. Visit www.artcenterofestes.com, e-mail info@artcenterofestes.com or call 970-586-5882 for more information.

August 22

‘Ghosts of The West: The End of the Bonanza Trail’ screening

The Historic Park Theater in Estes Park presents a special annual showing of “Ghosts of the West: The End of the Bonanza Trail,” Aug. 22 at 2 p.m. This benefit event to assist in the restoration of the Historic Park Theatre screens the Best Documentary Award-

Town preserves Colorado gold mining history BLACK HAWK The City of Black Hawk recently announced it purchased some of the most historically significant and celebrated gold mining properties in Colorado. The properties, sold by the Blake family, include the famed Gregory Diggings, the Bobtail Lode and the Bobtail Tunnel. These historic sites will be incorporated into Bobtail Tunnel in Black Hawk in 1900 plans to redevelop Gregory Street along with new amenities to enhance rado. “In Colorado, history does not get any richer or any more signifithe Black Hawk resort experience.

Through the acquisition, Black cant than these mining properties,” Hawk will preserve and promote the declared Black Hawk Mayor and contributions these landmarks made fifth generation resident David D. to the history of the city and Colo- Spellman. www,mmmacmonthly.com

The John F. Gregory’s diggings were among the regions first and most productive and led to the formation of the first mining district. Historical records indicate the Bobtail Lode ranks among the most productive of Colorado mineral veins against which others were measured. The Bobtail Tunnel is perhaps the most treasured property acquired. “Many Colorado families will recall going… into the Bobtail Tunnel on a donkey pulled cart,” recalled Spellman.

The details of the Gregory Street redevelopment will be announced later this year along with an official groundbreaking ceremony.

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winning feature film on the ghost towns of the Old West by Colorado-based writer and director E. S. Knightchilde three years after a “sneak peak” of the show in Estes Park in September 2012. The film relates stories of towns from mineral strike to boom to bust, revealing their ultimate fates and legacies. A Q&A session with the filmmakers follows. Visit www.historicparktheatre.com and www. ghostsofthewestmovie.com for additional information.

August 27

Rocky Mountain National Park ‘Centennial Science Behind the Scenery’ program

The Centennial Science Behind the Scenery series highlights scientific activity and learning in the park. Each week a different scientist conducting research in the park will share their experiences and discoveries. Join Lindsay Ringer, Aug. 27 to learn about bringing back native plants after the Bear Lake road construction project. The biodiversity of National Parks is what is loved about natural gems such as Rocky Mountain National Park. Unfortunately, with construction, soil resources are impacted that can alter the direction of plant establishment and encourage growth of weedy, annual species. In addition, nitrogen deposition from the Front Range and from cars, encourages the growth of annual weeds like cheat grass. Lindsay is a master’s student with a passion for research questions that address plant-soil relationships.

This presentation will talk about the soil response and restoration on Bear Lake Road since the road construction in 2012-2013. Visit www.nps.gov/room or call 970-586-1206 to learn more.

August 28

Past Moving Forward benefit auction, wine pull and picnic at Hamill House

Be a part of historic preservation and have a great time at the Hamill House Museum’s Past Moving Forward Benefit Auction, Wine Pull and Picnic, Aug. 28. Proceeds go to the museum’s restoration fund. Enjoy an evening of live entertainment, food, a chance to win great items and a special Wine Pull in which everyone is a winner. Surrounded by the majestic beauty of one of the most well preserved Victorian towns in America from the grounds of the Hamill House Museum, former home of mining magnate William Arthur Hamill. Tickets are $20 each or $35 per couple and include a drink ticket. Visit www.historicgeorgetown.org or e-mail preservation@historicgeorgetown.org for more information.

August 31

Centennial Concert with The Denver Brass

The Estes Park Music Festival presents a free public concert, Aug. 31 at 7:30 p.m. in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Rocky Mountain National Park. It will be performed by the Denver Brass, an elite ensemble recognized throughout the U.S. and the world as one of the premier ensembles of its kind and setting itself apart through its sound, original repertoire and concert performances. Denver Brass features a musical palate as diverse as the culture of the western US to present a sound experience that makes an impression long past the final chord of the concert, much as RMNP leaves indelible memories in the minds of its many visitors. The concert takes place at Stanley Hotel Concert Hall. Call 970- 586-9519 or visit estesparkmusicfestival.org to learn more.

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FOOD & DRINK CALENDAR

August 1 • High Altitude Herb Walk w/Brigitte Mars – Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center (NED)

• “Table” Wine Dinner w/Chef Curtis Lincoln – Stanley Hotel (EP)

August 4 • Soup Night – Old Gallery (AP) August 5 • Wine & Words Poetry Night – Happy Trails Café (NED) • Community Cupboard Food Bank Food Distributions – Old Gallery (AP) • Cured Farm Dinner – Lyons Farmette (LY) • Bugs & Brews – Rock Inn (EP) • Coffee Chat w/Town Officials – Senior Center (EP) August 6 • Food Pantry – Nederland Community Center (NED) • Summer Socks & Sandwiches – Nederland Presbyterian Church (NED)

August 8 • Wine & Cheese Train – Georgetown Loop Railroad (GT) • Mountain Folk Festival: Mountain Cook-Off, Homebrew Competition – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Allenspark Area Club Annual Pig Roast – Meeker Park Lodge (BC)

• Mountain MidLIFE Social Breakfast – Nederland Community Center (NED)

• Member Picnic – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 9 • Customer Appreciation Party & Chili Cook-off – Mid County Liquors (RV)

August 12 • Blackbelly Farm Dinner – Lyons Farmette (LY) • Town of Estes Park Volunteer Luncheon – Estes Park Events Center (EP)

August 14-15 • Hot Rod Hill Climb Beer & Brat Train – Georgetown Loop Railroad (GT)

August 15-16 • Estes Park Wine Festival – Bond Park (EP) • High Altitude Flamethrowers Chili Fest – Winter Park Resort (GC)

August 16 • High Country Fire Auxiliary Pancake Breakfast – Gilpin Fairgrounds (GC)

• Estes Valley Library Friends & Foundation Annual Benefit Dinner w/Diane Mott Davidson – YMCA of Rockies (EP)

August 18 • Food Bank of the Rockies Food Distribution – Golden Mountain Village (CC)

August 19 • Community Cupboard Food Bank Food Distribution – Old Gallery (AP) • Arugula/Tangerine Farm Dinner – Lyons Farmette (LY) August 21 • Mountain MidLIFE Social Dinner – Nederland Community Center (NED)

• Summer Sandwiches & Socks – Chipeta Park (NED) August 22 • Great Central City Beer Fest – Main Street (CC) • High Altitude Herb Walk w/Brigitte Mars – Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center (NED)

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FOOD & DRINK – restaurants, cafés, bars, breweries and more Patience pays off with Spirit Hound’s aged whisky

I’ve been lucky to have had several different careers from deBy Jennifer Pund veloping software to building custom bathrooms,” he said. “Of LYONS pirit Hound Distillery in Lyons opened with the intention all my different positions, producing craft beverages has been to make whisky. After using quality ingredients in a hand- the most rewarding and interesting.” crafted still, and waiting over two years, Spirt Hound Following the shapes and dimensions of a traditional Scotis finally ready to unveil its flagship spirit. A celebration on tish whisky still, Englehorn hand-crafted their still using copAug. 22 accompanies the official release of the Barrel-Aged per sheeting and a welding torch. It took the group almost a full year to build and construct the Straight American Whisky. equipment needed to distill. “These Spirit Hound Distillery is a guys are craftsmen and artists. This collaboration of five friends who is what really separates us... what have a passion for high qualI really get off on, and I think we ity craft spirits, and the desire to are in a very small percentage, is make their own. “Whisky was the that these guys built these stills. whole plan for opening,” Partner That’s a show piece. That’s a piece Wayne Anderson said. “It’s what of art by anybody’s standard and everybody wanted to make, a Craig designed and built that himstraight malt whisky.” self. They put it all together. They The idea of doing everything by didn’t buy anything but pieces to hand was a passion of the group of weld together. It’s super cool and owners. “It’s the purest mentality it’s in our front window.” of wanting to do something from The group knew that a good whisscratch and have it be our own. Four Spirit Hound Distillery owners celebrate the bottling It’s wasn’t a decision to not take of their very first batch of aged Straight American Whisky. ky takes time. “Rather than cave into the temptation to source our short cuts,” Anderson explained, whisky from another distillery or force a quick age using small “it wasn’t whether we do it that way or not, we did it this way because this is what we are in to, it’s a raw passion about doing barrels or oak chips, we made the early decision to produce a it. It’s not about a brand. It’s about making a product then a straight Malt Whisky of our own, from scratch using 100 percent Colorado barley,” Engelhorn said. brand to go with it” Partner Craig Engelhorn used to dream of distilling his To legally use the terms “Straight American Whisky” SpirScotch-Ale recipe in to whisky when he was the original brew- it Hound Distillery uses only malted barley for the base and er at Oskar Blues in Lyons. “I never really let go of that idea.

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Firefighters meet community at pancake breakfast GILPIN COUNTY Kick off Sunday at the Gilpin County Fair by fueling up at the High Country Auxiliary’s annual pancake breakfast, Aug. 16 from 8-11 a.m. For about 15 years, members of the Auxiliary have been behind the griddle to serve more than 500 hungry community members. Get your fill of scrambled eggs, sausage, pancakes, coffee, juice, milk, and everything that goes with it, for just $8.

High Country Auxiliary member Diane Rittenhouse says the breakfast is an opportunity for the firefighters to interact with community members. They help with set-up and clean-up as well as do some

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of the cooking. “Like all our events, the pancake breakfast takes lots of planning and logistics just to have it come together.

We really give our volunteers a workout,” she said. “ We are blessed we have 30 members, so our goal is to spread out the workload so no one gets exhausted.”

The annual breakfast is not just a fundraiser, but a social atmosphere, too. “It’s a fun event and many come just to see friends and enjoy a good breakfast. It’s a fun event for all,” she said.

The High Country Auxiliary raises funds to assist the county’s firefighters while they are out on calls, organizing meals and other assistance. Funds raised

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High Country Auxiliary members cook up pancakes and more at the Gilpin County Fair, Aug. 16

in past years were used to buy important equipment the Fire and Ambulance services wouldn’t otherwise be able to purchase.

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Festival celebrates Colorado wine ESTES PARK The First Annual Estes Park Wine Festival—featuring tastings from over 20 Colorado wineries, fresh food, local Colorado vendors and live music—is a celebration of Colorado wine in the heart of downtown Estes Park in Bond Park. Soak in the summer sun, Aug. 15-16, while sipping on a variety of locally created wines, from red to white and pink. The Estes Park Wine Festival offers the opportunity to learn more about each style of wine and the unique process of how wine is made in the state.

Participating Colorado Wineries include Aspen Peak Cellars, Avanti, Bijou Creek Vineyards, Blue Mountain Vineyards & Cellars, Blue Skies Winery, Colorado Cellars Winery, Maison La Belle Vie Winery, Snowy Peaks Winery, Cottonwood Cellars, Red Fox Cellars, Ten Bears Winery and What We Love: The Winery.

This year, Wild Cider Hard Cider will give participants a chance to try different flavors of hard cider like apple, pineapple, berry, pumpkin and more.

Delicious food will also be available from Mile High Lobster Shack, Island Style BBQ, Mateo’s Catering, Tayziac J’s, and Bigs Meat Wagon.

Find the perfect accessory for your wine collection at the festival’s vendors.

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al by Anderson, Sweet and Saucy, Wine Shop at Home, The Zesty Moose, Baca St. Ange Collection, Cutci cutlery, Burnetts Pottery and Ordinary Couples Travel, Creative Cork Concepts, D&R Enterprises, License Plate Posse, Rocky Mountain Outback Hats, D/Marie Rocky Mountain High and Totally Nuts.

Live music is scheulded both days of the event as well. On Saturday, live bands include Primary People at 11 a.m., Partially Stable at 1 p.m. and Fireweed Bluegrass takes the stage at 3 p.m.

Sunday music is provided by Caleb Crain at 11 a.m., Ponder the Albatross at 1 p.m. and Equally Challenged at 3 p.m.

General admission tickets can be purchased before the event at King Soopers, on Ticketwest website or through the festival website. Tickets are $30 a day or $50 for a weekend pass and include a wine glass, wine tote and unlimited tastings. VIP tickets are $75 a day, $125 for the weekend or $200 for two weekend passes and include seating in the VIP tent with wine and catered food, wine glass, wine tote, plate that holds a wine glass and unlimited tastings. All tickets are for 21 and over.

For more information, click on www. estesparkwinefestival.com or call Tim at 970-218-4545.

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Herbalist hosts edible plant walks NEDERLAND Learn to identify local high altitude plants for their edible and medicinal properties with medical herbalist and nutritional consultant Brigitte Mars, Aug. 22 from 10 a.m.-noon. Participants meet at Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center in Nederland and head to the local trails.

Mars has over 40 years of experience as an herbalist. She teaches Herbal Medicine at Naropa University, Bauman College of Holistic Nutrition and others. She has taught at Omega Institute, Esalen, Kripalu and The Mayo Clinic, blogs for the Huff-

ington Post and is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild.

The herb walk is $25 per person and kids under 6 are free. Ages 6-12 and seniors cost $10. No experience is necessary but pre-registration is required.

Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center is located at 20 Lakeview Dr. in Nederlnad. Call 303-258-0495 or visit www.brigittemars.com or wildbear.org for more information or to register.

The Great Central City Beer Festival attracts large crowds to Central City’s main street.

Beer, music flows in Central City

By George Watson CENTRAL CITY Sample some of Colorado’s best brews and support the Gilpin County Historical Society at the Great Central City Beer Fest, Aug. 22 from 1-6 p.m. Back for its fourth year, the event features 25 breweries and unlimited pours that will flow along with live music, food and art vendors on Central City’s historic Main Street.

While the event is relatively small compared to some of the state’s many other beer festivals, it still sets itself apart.

“Most beer festivals are preaching to the choir,” Very Nice Brewing Brewer Jeff Green said. “This one is unique in the fact that there are many first-time craft beer drinkers and they are getting a heck of a baptism with some really great breweries from their immediate area. Many walk away with the seeds of a new passion.”

It’s also popular with the staff of the breweries that participate. “Everybody, including those brewers who attend many other beer festivals throughout the year, say the cozy atmosphere of closed-off Main Street, ability to quickly duck into local businesses if it rains, food vendors and music program make the GCCBF one of their favorites and want to be invited back each year,” Dostal Alley Brewer Dave Thomas said.

Very Nice Brewery will be back for the fourth time this year. Green, who feels all craft beer benefits from “exposing folks to beer other than just the yellow and fizzy stuff,” backs the festival because “first and foremost, we get to support local, it’s in our back yard after all.”

According to Thomas, the event is “maybe the only beer fest that is held in tandem with and supports a historic cemetery crawl.” The 27th Annual Gilpin County Historical Society Cemetery Crawl takes place at the Bald Mountain Cemetery above Central City from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Proceeds from the beer festival also support the historical society.

Visiting with the other craft brewers and having the cemetery crawl characters and Wild Bunch gunfighters walk the street along with craft beer and music aficionados is something else Thomas appreciates about the festival. More importantly, “some of the brewers who attend GCCBF pour beers that have never been available for sale or at any other beer festival,” he added.

Live music will also be featured during the event. The Lookout Mountain Boys, Jewel & The Rough, and the Potcheen Folk Band will all take the stage.

The Great Central City Beer Fest is free and open to the public, but if you want to participate in the brew tastings, tickets can be purchased at TicketsWest online or at King Soopers and City Markets in advance for $30. Tickets will be on sale at the event, if available, for $40. VIP tickets for early admission, a private VIP tent hospitality zone, casino comps and appetizers, are $50 each.

To-go cups will be allowed in and out of licensed establishments and casinos, too.

Visit www.centralcitybeerfest.com to learn more or ticketswest.com to purchase tickets in advance.

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Whisky release celebration features music, food, whisky slap, more Continued from page 4 aged for a minimum of two years in full size, 55 gallon white American oak barrels, chard on the inside. “It’s basically scotch, what we are making, but we can’t call it scotch because we are in Colorado.

But it is malted barley and there’s a little bit of peat smoke, so, it’s got a lot of that similar grassy notes,” Anderson said.

The distillery, which held its Grand Opening in December 2012, had just started production when the flood of 2013 hit the town of Lyons in September. “We had six barrels put away when the flood hit and we were down for a while,” Anderson explained. “Once we got the whisky pro-

duction going again and started barreling, there was a gap. So the time between barrel six and barrel seven is about a seven month gap.”

Whisky lovers don’t need to fear, Spirit Hound produces about a barrel to 1.5 barrels a week, so they have plenty in storage to keep the bottles coming once the first barrels are empty. “Of the six barrels we put away before the flood, we are going to bottle five of them for the whisky release,” Anderson explained. “Once these five barrels worth are gone, we won’t have whisky again until around March, and then it will be a regular progression. Technically these are all over two years old, so

we are letting it go longer to shorten the provide music. Lyons’ Root Cellar & Praha Restaurant will have food available for gap between the last one and the next.”

Now it’s time to remove the corks and purchase. At 4 p.m. the first Spirit Hound Whisky Slap will take make bottles of whisky place and all you need is available for purchase. a partner, $25, and a deBottles go one sale for sire to be slapped. It in$60, Aug. 22 at 11 a.m., cludes a shot of whisky with no advance purin a commemorative shot chases and only one glass and a T-shirt. Regisbottle per person. Spirit ter at www.spirithounds.

Hound Distillery will com or the day of to parmark the occasion with a ticipate. day-long party featuring While at the release, four live bands, food pick up a bottle of their trucks, and an unofficial other handcrafted spirworlds largest whiskey its like gin, rum, vodka, slap at 4 p.m. white whisky, Richar Parking for $5 and do’s Coffee Liquor and overnight camping for Partner Wayne Anderson (right) Sambuca. The distillery, an additional $10 will be and Distiller Steve Williams (left) located one mile east of available at Bohn Park with the handmade whisky still.

Photo by Jennifer Pund downtown Lyons 4196 with a shuttle running Ute Hwy is open daily at 11 a.m. for tastall day.

The Groupers, Whisky Autumn, Inter- ing, cocktails and information about the state Stash Express and Cadillac Grip will distilling process.

FOOD & DRINK CALENDAR • Spirit Hound Whiskey Release Party – Spirit Hound Distillery (LY)

August 26 • Spice of Life Farm Dinner – Lyons Farmette (LY) August 27 • Food Pantry – Nederland Community Center (NED) August 28 • Past Moving Forward Benefit, Auction, Wine Pull and Picnic – Hamill House Museum (GT) August 29 • Beer & Brat Train – Georgetown Loop Railroad (GT) WEEKLY FOOD Sunday • Tasting Room Open for Cocktails – Dram Apothecary (SP) • Service Industry Sunday – Stage Stop (RV) • Brunch & Bloody Mary Bar – Oskar Blues (LY) • Brunch – Lyons Fork (LY) • Funday Specials – Pizza Bar 66 (EP) • Brunch – Sweet Basilico (EP) • Champagne Brunch – The Other Side (EP) • Brunch Buffet w/Amanda Valley – Waterfront Grille @ Estes Park Resort (EP)

Monday • Lovin’ Cup Community Kitchen – Deli at 8236’ (NED) • Maggie’s Marvelous Meatloaf Special – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Dinner Special – First Street Pub (NED) • Pastor’s Pantry Food Distribution – Whispering Pines Church (CCC)

• Charity Night – Lucha Cantina (GT) Tuesday • Taco Tuesday on the Patio, Coffee Cupping w/Megan & Karina – Salto Coffee Works (NED) • Taco Tuesday – Mothers Saloon (GT) • Burger Madness – Cables Pub & Grill (EP) • Tuesday Soup Day – Wheel Bar (EP) Wednesday • Burger Madness – Sundance Café (NED) • Pastor’s Pantry Food Distribution – Whispering Pines Church (CCC)

• Whiskey Wednesday – Pizza Bar 66 (LY) Thursday • Gyro Thursdays – Troia’s Café & Marketplace (GT) • All-You-Can-Eat Catfish Thursdays – Da Rivuh Fish & BBQ Company (IS)

• Craft Beer Night – Wondervu Café (CCC) • Sandwiches & Socks – Nederland Community Presbyterian Church (NED)

• Breakfast for Dinner – Sundance Café (NED) • Open Mic Potluck w/Taylor Radio – Spirit Hounds Distillery (LY)

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Friday • Tasting Room Open for Cocktails – Dram Apothecary (SP) • Prime Rib & Shrimp Scampi Special – Troia’s Café & Marketplace (GT)

• Idaho Springs Farmer’s Market – Courtney Riley-Cooper Park (IS)

• Chef’s Specials – Stage Stop (RV) • Tacos Don Pablo – Blue Owl Books (NED) • Ribeye Steak Special – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Pastor’s Pantry Food Distribution – Whispering Pines Church (CCC)

• Burger Madness – Lyons Dairy Bar (LY) • Brunch – Lyons Fork (LY) • Chef’s Special – Cables Pub & Grill (EP) • Community Corner Café – Shepherd of the Mountain Lutheran Church (EP)

• Taste & Create – Snowy Peaks Winery (EP) Saturday • Tasting Room Open for Cocktails – Dram Apothecary (SP) • Salmon Picatta & Chef’s Choice – Troia’s Café & Marketplace (GT)

• Dinner Specials – Da Rivuh Fish & BBQ Company (IS) • Chef’s Specials – Stage Stop (RV) • Ribeye Steak Special – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Food Pantry – Nederland Community Center (NED) • Brunch – Lyons Fork (LY) AP = Allenspark BC = Boulder County BH = Black Hawk CC = Central City CCC= Coal Creek Canyon EM = Empire EP = Estes Park GC = Gilpin County GRC = Grand County GGC = Golden Gate Canyon GH = Gold Hill GT = Georgetown IS = Idaho Springs

JT = Jamestown LC = Larimer County LV = Loveland LY = Lyons NED = Nederland RV = Rollinsville SA = Salina SMG = St. Mary’s Glacier SP = Silver Plume SC = Summit County WD = Ward WP = Winter Park

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Fishing can be perfect way to experience Colorado lifestyle, scenery before work, during lunch or after work

By Jeffrey V. Smith FRONT RANGE or after school where as that wouldn’t be olorado’s Front Range fishing is some possible in other [areas]. We tend to say, if of the best in the world. A wide ar- you’ve ever thought about fly fishing, strike ray of streams, creeks and lakes offer while the iron’s hot. Check it out right now. any level of angler a lifetime of water to It doesn’t get any closer. It doesn’t get any discover and 35 species of fish. It’s a fly easier to step into it.” fisherman’s dream and opportunities for The area offers anglers warm- and coldspin casting, lake fishing and even hitting water specials, but “our trout fishing is a trout farm abound as well. The area also what I’d consider to be the major draw, the offers breathtaking settings for first-timers better fishing,” Hick said. “Some the areas to learn the art of the sport. Don’t forget, that are excellent to fish from the standpoint other than one weekend each year, a fishing of ‘drive less fish more,’ Boulder Creek is license—available online and in a variety right up the canyon and it’s wonderful. The of stores all across the region—is required [national] park can provide that more spiribefore you can tual experience set a hook. where you’re at This year, elevation and thanks to a heavy the wildlife and snowpack and you’re away abundant rain from the road, well into sumthat sort of thing. mer, conditions I mean some of are some of the these spots are 13 best they have miles away yet been in years and you feel like 113 currently, condimiles away.” tions are at their Another aspect peak. With plenof fishing in Colty of world-class Fishing on Georgetown Lake can be a relaxing orado that can be water to call way to avoid I-70 traffic. appealing, espePhoto by Jeffrey V. Smith upon and several cially to those visways to learn for free, anyone remotely in- iting, is that it’s easy to incorporate fishing terested in fishing can find a way to make it into an itinerary of other activities Colorado happen all across the Northern Front Range offers. “We have year round fishing possiregion. Cutthroat, rainbow, brook, brown bilities and have a year round season, it’s not and lake trout can be found easily in most of open or closed so you can go basically any the area’s natural waterways. A wide variety time you want to, “Hicks explained. “For of other types can be found in stocked lakes that reason, you can go and ski in the mornand ponds and the endangered greenback ing and fish in the creek below the ski resort cutthroat and Colorado River cutthroat, in the afternoon… to me that is really livColorado’s only native fish, can be found in ing the Colorado lifestyle. Some people will Rocky Mountain National Park. mountain bike to a more remote section of a The best way to get started is visit a stream to sort of couple two of the things we shop close to where you’d like to fish and are known for.” talk to its employees. They, most likely, In Clear Creek County, people come from are wetting their lines all over the world to more often than most, go rafting and visit and are well aware Mt. Evans. “We get a of where to go and lot of people that will what’s biting locally come get a day license on a day to day basis. and go out and fly fish Fishing and fly tying for a day,” Josh Patclasses or monthly terson of Clear Creek events like Bugs and OUtdoors said. “Some Brews at the Rock people just want to hit Inn in Estes Park are it to get off the road another way to meet for an hour while other local men and wompeople want to make it en who fish, as well Colorado Cutthroat caught above their whole vacation.

Clear Creek. as pick up a few tips, Georgetown on Photo We get people from all courtesy of Josh Patterson tricks and pointers. over the place.”

One of the best aspects of fishing in the This year is particularly good for fishFront Range, is the ease of access. “We ing local waters. “I would say right now like to say drive less, fish more,” Randy we have an excellent water year,” Hicks Hicks, owner of Rocky Mountain Anglers said, “the rivers are dropping and clearin Boulder said, “We have fisheries that ing, which are the best words you can are outstanding, that some people in other hear as an angler, and there are plenty of parts of the country might drive as much as bugs hatching. If there are bugs hatching, two or three hours to get to. We have them we should be able to go out and catch fish. out the back door. You can engage in these Across the state right now, I haven’t had a

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bad report in the last two weeks anywhere, which basically means we are in… the best six weeks of fishing the state has to offer.”

Numerous resources are available online, in books and at local shops to provide all the information necessary to pick up the sport or take your skills to the next level. Guided trips and classes are a great way to get going quick and avoid frustration. Fishing can also be the perfect way to experience the Colorado lifestyle and enjoy much of what the state has to offer.

“We have what I consider to be world

famous national attractions,” Hick said.

“Certainly the wildlife, the flora, fauna and Rocky Mountain National Park can make a day spent in those locals amazing. Then you put into it catching an endangered species like the greenback cutthroat and its sort of something that is over the top.

I’ve had people refer to fishing some of the lakes in RMNP that are at tree line, as spiritual experiences. I don’t necessarily know if its life-changing, but it is memorable and it can be different than anything some of these people have done before.”

FISHING SHOPS, SUPPLIES & FISHING LICENSE OUTLETS Colorado Parks & Wildlife * 1313 Sherman Street, 6th Floor, Denver, CO 80203 cpw.state.co.us •303-297-1192

Front Range Anglers * 2344 Pearl St. , Boulder, CO 80302 frontrangeanglers.com • 303-494-1375

Arapahoe & Roosevelt National Forests: Boulder Ranger District 2140 Yarmouth Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301 www.fs.usda.gov/main/arp • 303-541-2500

Boulder County Parks & Open Space Rogers Park & Walker Ranch www.bouldercounty.org/os • 303-678-6200 South Creek Ltd. Custom Bamboo Rods 415 Main St., Lyons, CO 80540 www.southcreekltd.com • 303-823-6402

Canyon Lakes Ranger District 2150 Centre Avenue, Building E Fort Collins, CO 80526 www.fs.usda.gov/main/arp • 970-295-6700

Clark’s Hardware * 4100 Ute Hwy., Lyons, CO 80540-0000 ww3.truevalue.com/clarkshardware • 303-823-6531

Clear Creek Ranger District 101 Highway 103, Idaho Springs, CO 80452 www.fs.usda.gov/main/arp • 303-567-3000

Laughing Grizzly Fly Shop * 10675 Ute wy., Longmont, CO 80504 Laughinggrizzly@comcast.net • 303-772-9110

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY Black Diamond Ski & Cycles * 1540 Argentine St., Georgetown, Colorado www.facebook.com/BlackDiamondSkicycle 303-569-2283

LARIMER COUNTY Scot’s Sporting Goods * 870 Moraine Ave., Estes Park, Colorado 80517 www.scotssportinggoods.com • 970- 586-2877

Clear Creek Outdoors * 1524 Miner St., Idaho Springs, CO 80452 www.clearcreekoutdoors.com • 303-567-1500

Estes Anglers * 338 West Riverside Dr., Estes Park, CO 80517 970-586-2110 • info@estesangler.com www.estesangler.com

Safeway – Idaho Springs * 2425 Miner St., Idaho Springs 80452 303-567-4471

Estes Park Mountain Shop * 2050 Big Thompson Ave., Estes Park, CO 80517 www.estesparkmountainshop.com • 970-586-6548

Mountain Evans Trout Fishing 4125 Highway 103, Idaho Springs, CO 80453 www.mtevanstroutfishing.com • 303-567-4017

Kirks Mountain Adventure & Flyshop * 230 E. Elkhorn Ave., Estes Park, Colorado 80517 www.kirksflyshop.com • 970-577-0790

GILPIN COUNTY Golden Gate Canyon State Park * 92 Crawford Gulch Road, Golden, CO 80403 cpw.state.co.us/placestogo/parks/GoldenGateCanyon 303-582-3707

Trout Haven Fishing Pond 810 Moraine Ave., Estes Park, CO 80517 www.trouthavenfishing.com • 970-235-3202

JEFFERSON COUNTY Golden River Sports * 806 Washington Ave., Golden, CO 80401 www.goldenriversports.net • 303-215-9386

Lake Estes Marina * 1770 Big Thompson Ave., Estes Park, CO 80517 evrpd.com/marina-info • 970-586-2011 True Value/Radio Shack * 461 E. Wonderview Ave., Estes Park, CO 80517 970-586-3496

BOULDER COUNTY Indian Peaks Ace Hardware * 74 South Highway 119, Nederland, CO 80466 www.indianpeaksace.com • 303-258-3132

Sasquatch Fly Fishing at YMCA of the Rockies * 2515 Tunnel Road, Estes Park, CO 80511 www.sasquatchflyfishing.com • 970-586-3341 x1153

Kwik Mart – Nederland * Nederland, CO 303-258-3208

Elkhorn Fly Rod and Reel * 3121 W Eisenhower Blvd., Loveland, CO 80537 elkhornflyrodandreel.com • 970-227-4707

Kwik Mart – Coal Creek Canyon * Golden, CO 303-642-3061

Rocky Mountain National Park 1000 Highway 36, Estes Park, CO 80517-8397 NPS.gov/ROMO • 970-586-1206

Rocky Mountain Anglers * 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, CO 80302 303-447-2400 • info@ rockymtanglers.com rockymtanglers.com

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MOUNTAIN CULTURE – high-country living and activities

Festivals/Special Events August 1 • Historic Georgetown Horse Drawn Wagon Tour

Mountain Folk Festival features more ‘crazy’ events

• Idaho Springs Community Blood Drive – Clear

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• 68th Annual Hilltop Guild Festival & Bazaar – Kelley House (AP)

August 1-4 • Larimer County Fair – Loveland (LC) August 1-9 • Boulder County Fair – Longmont (BC) August 4 • National Night Out Cookout – Chipeta Park (NED) August 5 • Stop Hunger Community Event – Teens, Inc. (NED) August 6 • Northern Front Range Rec. Sports Shooting Management Partnership Open House – Peaceful Valley Resort (AP)

August 7 • First Friday Old Fashioned Lawn Party – Hamill House Museum (GT)

August 8 • Mountain Folk Festival – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Hermit Park Welcomes the Wolves – Hermit Park Open Space (EP)

August 8-9 • Estes Park Heritage Festival – Bond Park (EP) August 9 • Coal Creek Canyon Saws and Slaws Event – Hilltop Neighborhood (CCC)

• Summer Celebration: Wine Tasting, Auction, Live Music & More – Nederland Community Center (NED) August 11 • Timberline Open House & Board Meeting – Golden Gate Estates Station No. 8 (GC)

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slash, “shoot” their dinner and chug a beer faster than the rest.

By Jeffrey V. Smith Everyone who enters gets a T-shirt and the winner earns “fabuCOAL CREEK CANYON ttention all mountain folks, this festival is for you. The an- lous prizes,” bragging rights and the use of ceremonial Viking nual Mountain Folk Festival in Coal Creek Canyon, Aug. horns and walking staff for the entire year. A kid’s version has 8, calls itself “the silly little sister to the Frozen Dead Guy been added this year.

Days” and features outlandish activities and contests, live music, There will be numerous contests including Best Flannel artisans, vendors and general fun for mountain folks. It also helps Shirt, Best Beard, Best Fake Beard and Best Home Brew along raise funds to insure the canyon’s turf field, at the elementary with competitions for watermelon eating, team popsicle eating and a putting on a frozen T-shirt. There will school and bring neighalso be photo contests with Prettiest Chicken, bors together.

Best Lawn Ornament and “There, I Fixit It!” The event—and concategories. Rules for photo submissions can be tests like the Mountain found on online.

Obstacle Course and what The Canyon Cookoff is was called the “Roadkill one of the more serious Cookoff”—were created competitions. Anyone can by canyon resident Carienter in three categories: ann Brown in 2011 with meat, vegetable or vegthe help of Christine Neff etarian and dessert. Orgaand Linda Martin. While nizers warn there is “steep Brown has since moved competition in these here out of the area, Neff and Mountain Folk Festival winners and an obstacle hills” so plan ahead.

Martin have continued course contestant enjoy the unique event The festival also feathe tradition and have tures live music by Jerry grown both the event and organizing team over the years. In Rasch, Sawmill Joe and Bourbon the Mountain Lion as well 2015, Miriam Lynah jumped on board with even more “crazy” as T-shirts for sale, blacksmith demonstration and an awards contest ideas. Mary Krayer and Tami Lawson are on food this year, and Heidi Osborne is a “worker bee” who also came up ceremony that begins at 3 p.m. featuring prizes for the winners of each category in every contest. with this year’s T shirt design.

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County’s fair returns for 23rd year

licopter landing at 10 a.m. before the fair GILPIN COUNTY The Gilpin County Fair returns to the opens at 11 a.m. featuring a free safety fair, county’s fairgrounds, Aug. 15-16, for its fire musters, bike safety and CPR classes.

23rd year. With kids rides, a petting zoo, At noon, the helicopter will take off and the beer tent, bull riding, pancake breakfast, Central City Wild Bunch will have a guncontests and more, the fair has something slinger show. If you miss the show, there is another one at 2 p.m. Send the little ones for the entire family.

Come out Saturday for a magic dog out for Mutton Bustin’ at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. while the show, dog agility, Little Eagles Fun mutton bustin’, and Run, to support the an open karaoke Eagle’s Nest Child show. Tae Kwon Care Center, starts at Do demonstrations 1 p.m. along with opportu Both days feanities to learn more ture popular contests about the Nederland including dog agility, Robotics team are wood splitting, and also available to enhorseshoe contests. joy for free.

Most of the rules New this year, have been updated The Mardi Gras for 2015, so parBulls and Beads ticipants are asked will be held in the to review the new arena on Saturday Mutton Bustin’ is always a fair favorite Photo by Jeffrey V. Smith guidelines posted on at 3 p.m. This event is sponsored by the Mardi Gras/Affin- the official website. A new contest this year ity Group Casinos and promises to bring asks participants to create a sign for the yard some exciting bull riding to the fair. A and the winner will not only get a blue ribfood row and beer garden will also be lo- bon, but it will also become the logo for next year’s fair. Sign up for a BMX course race cated in the Arena Area.

Experience a petting zoo, pony rides, or the hay bale race, too.

Timberline Fire Department display and Homemade cookies, cakes, pies, jelfire truck rides in the Exhibit Barn. Stop lies, jerky and other entries for the Gilpin by the bungee trampoline, ropes course, Gourmet Contest are accepted until 11 BMX Race course and EKG check ups, a.m. Saturday, with awards given around all for free in the Rides Area. The Black- 2 p.m. All entries are sold at an auctop parking area is where to find emergen- tion with proceeds donated to the Gilpin cy notification sign up booths along with County Food Bank, so be ready to bid local 911 information and other merchan- on the fair favorite. Jams and jellies have dise vendors. The Gilpin County Recre- their own set of rules and will be judged ation Center will be open with Merchan- on rules pertinent to canning and preservdise vendors, free face painting, public ing. Awards are given in three divisions: community information corner, general youth, teen and adult. Youth and teen entries may be a joint effort of no more than information and lost and found.

Also on Saturday, live music from the two people. Adult entries must be submitChris King Band begins at 5 p.m. in the ted by one individual.

Fair Tent, while a bonfire and free hotdog cookout starts at 6 p.m.

The Gilpin County Fairgrounds are Sunday kicks off with the annual High located at 230 Norton Dr. Visit www.

Country Auxiliary Pancake Breakfast funco.gilpin.co.us/Fair/FairHome.html draiser at 8 a.m. serving up a full breakfast for details, rules and information. with all the fixings. Be sure to see the he-

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Disc golf event supports NORML

RUSSELL GULCH Colorado NORML, the local brach of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, is holding its first annual Disc Golf Tournament Fundraiser “Throw Down at Ghost Town,” Aug. 22.

A day of activities at the Ghost Town Disc Golf Course in Russel Gulch is planned.

The event is an open invitational-style, fun tournament with 100 players. Additional tickets will be available to those want to support the cause, but would rather enjoy the beautiful vistas and company than throw a disc. There will be live acoustic music from Cloud City Fatties, Burnt Reynolds and Dab DeLuise and Pickin’ Kind as well.

Ghost Town is a complete 18-hole disc golf course, with a clubhouse, disc golf horseshoes and beautiful scenic views of mountain peaks. A block of rooms at The Reserve Casino (reservation code: NORML) are available for those that want to spend the evening in Central City. Shuttles will be provided to and from Central City as there is no parking at the event. You must be 21+ with valid ID to attended or play.

For information about participating in this event, check out the website at www.coloradonorml.org or contact the Colorado NORML at 303-6653200 or norml@coloradonorml.org.

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west to the town of Sunset, and in the W. Deardorff of the Columbia vein. Over 1890s the successor Colorado and North the next several decades the population Western completed the line to Ward. Until fluctuated, growing from several hundred the collapse of the local mining economy to several thousand before declining once after World War I, the railroad served the again. The mines in the area remained area’s mines and mining community. The profitable for many decades, with one line winds past several local historically mine eventually producing over 2 million prominent mines, ounces of silver. The city was incorporat- including the Blue ed in June 1896 and the railroad reached Bird Mine and a the area in 1898, arriving over the Swit- few miles from the zerland Trail. In 1901 over 50 buildings Caribou Mine in the were destroyed by a devastating fire, but then-bustling town the profitability of the mines led to the of Caribou. immediate rebuilding of the town. It was largely deserted by the 1920s, but con- Modoc Mill struction of the Peak-to-Peak Highway in The circa 1890 Modoc Mill is a the 1930s led to a revival.

While it was first visited by Native good example of Bunce School Americans and later by trappers, Allen’s industrial architecPark—now Allenspark—got its name ture associated with Boulder County’s from a miner who built the first cabin in mining history. This concentration mill of wood and metal the area. During the reaches four stories in Colorado Gold Rush height. The uppermost of 1859, Allenspark’s story of hewn logs renamesake, Alonzo Nelceived the ore. Here son Allen, left his family gravity bins held the ore in Wisconsin to seek his until it was fed into a fortune in the territory crusher and the stampthat became Colorado. ing apparatus below.

Allen prospected and The 18 foot high stampran cattle in Allenspark ing apparatus, manuand built a cabin there in factured by Griffen and 1864. The cabin burned Wedge of Zanesville, down in 1894, the year Ohio, consists of 30 he died. The village of stamps each weighing Allenspark is situated Ward Congregational Church 950 pounds that are aron part of the original ranged in three banks George Mack homeof ten.

Both the mill and nearby mine stead, site of Crystal Springs, an excellent closed for the last time in 1920. water source. After Mack’s homestead patent was granted on January 7, 1895, he Ward Congregational Church sold some of the land to the Allens Park Dating from 1894, the rectangular Land and Townsite Co. which filed a plat one-story, wood frame church is built for the village on May 23, 1896, and began into a hillside with its side walls bareselling small building lots. ly visible from the street. The steeply pitched front gabled roof is topped with WARD a bell tower. The walls are clapboard, and Switzerland Trail of America there are decorative bargeboards held in In 1881, the Greeley, Salt Lake and place with rosette-shaped fasteners. LanPacific Railroad laid rails from Boulder cet windows flank the entry door, and a

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round window is in the gable end. Georgia O’Keeffe came to Ward in 1917 and painted landscapes and an oil painting of the building, Ward, Church Bell.

Ward School (Ward Town Hall/Post Office) This 1898 wood frame rural school survived a fire that destroyed 53 local buildings when it was draped in wet blankets to serve as a fire line. It now serves as the town hall, post office and library for the town.

ALLENSPARK Bunce School

Constructed in 1888, the building is one of two log rural schoolhouses remaining in the county. Built in 1888 by V.H. (Dick) Rowley, the school is an excellent example of the early educational structures in the high mountain areas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was named after J.H. Bunce, an early settler in the area and served the local communities of Raymond, Heathermeade and Peaceful Valley. In spring 1996, the members of Hilltop Guild purchased it.

Thunder Lake Trail-Bluebird Lake Trail

The trail is associated with the early resort industry and tourism in the Estes Park region, and first appears on a tourist guide map in 1910. During the late 1930s the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) performed trail maintenance and improvements. The trail design reflects National Park Service Naturalistic Design of the 1920s through the 1940s.

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Historic Places Bunce School

Location: Colo. Hwy. 7, south of Allenspark Date Listed: National Register, May 22, 1986

Thunder Lake Trail-Bluebird Lake Trail Location: Allenspark vicinity, RMNP Date Listed: National Register, Jan. 29, 2008

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‘Laff Guru’ seeks laughter in Allenspark ALLENSPARK The Old Gallery in Allenspark hosts a special Comedy Night, Aug. 29, at 8 p.m. featuring Steven Kent McFarlin, also known as “Spanky – The Laff Guru.” The comedian has performed in all 50 States and 23 countries, resulting in him twice being voted “Comedian of the Year,” once “Campus Performer of the Year,” and the recipient of a “Cable Ace Award.” To date he has amassed over 50 TV appearances including on Showtime, Good Morning America and The Late Show.

Spanky has just invented a new way to

perform stand-up comedy that is described as “Photshop Live” presenting a hilarious cast of thousands, from super heroes to movies stars to famous works of art.

Free popcorn will be served and beer and wine will be available for purchase.

Adult tickets are $20, youth between ages 15-18 are $10. Children under age 15 are not allowed.

The Old Gallery is located at 14863 Hwy. 7 in Allenspark. Visit www.theoldgallery.org for more information.

Popular running event raises funds

EVOL and soft serve banana ice cream,” ALLENSPARK Scenic Allenspark plays host to the sev- she said. Willie Bean Bluegrass will provide enth Run Like the Wind 5K and 10K Fun entertainment while participants finish.

Run/Walk, Aug. 8 at 9 a.m. A post-race cel- “Medals are awarded to first, second and ebration incudes awards and live entertain- third place overall finishers as well as first ment. The event is a great way to gather as a and second place in each age group,” Oscommunity while supporting the health and ban explained. “Ribbons are given to third, wellbeing of community members. It is part fourth and fifth place age group finishers.”

What started as part of Boulder County of a local wellness fair Four-Race Series. seven years ago has According to race grown into an event Director Cat Osban, all it’s own. “The the event attracts wellness fair never runners and walkmaterialized, but the ers from all over the race has continued to region, and beyond, grow each year,” Osto experience Alban said. “It’s a way lenspark’s beautiful for the community race course. “Runto get together, get ners race on dirt Run Like the Wind takes place Aug. 8. in shape and support roads, lined with wildflowers and views of high mountain each others health and well being.” peaks,” she said. “The hilly course is chal- Race day registration and packet pick lenging, but participants return year after up opens at 7 a.m. at the gallery. Register year for the ‘small town’ feel and unique online or pick up a form at The Old Galadventure.” Runners and walkers of all ages lery, Distant Harbors Gift Shop and Sunshine Mountain Lodge in Allenspark. and abilities are encouraged to participate.

Runners start the race “with the rustic mountain melodies” of local AlpHorn Register online at TheOldGallery.org player, David Pinkow. “After the race, paror GetMeRegistered.com. The Old ticipants are treated to refreshments, actuGallery is located at 14863 Hwy. 7 in ally quite a spread, with watermelon and Allenspark. Visit www.theoldgallery. bananas provided by Estes Park Safeway, org for more information. food board by Raw Revolution, burritos by

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sic with Rodney James and the High Gear GEORGETOWN Hear the 1950’s hot rod motors roar up Daddies and the Chicken Pluckers. Free Guanella Pass’ twisty switchbacks, Aug. parking is at the lake with shuttle service.

14-15, during the third annual Hot Rod Guanella Pass Road will be closed Hill Climb. Bring the entire family to re- from Georgetown to the Silver Dale Parklive the 1950s fun with hot rods, steam ing area from 10 a.m. To 3 p.m. for the trains, excellent food, all to the sound of Hill Climb. The $15 general admission uncapped vintage motors set in beauti- fee allows spectators to watch the Hill ful mountain scenery in a historic town. Climb from the course—catch the bus Grab a folding chair and watch from the between 9-10 a.m. Bring a folding chair, water and a lunch. course or enjoy After the event, Georgetown. Folbuses will shuttle lowing the climb, people back to hot rods will be Georgetown between parked downtown 3-4 p.m. Tickets for viewing. also include admis Friday kicks sion to local museoff the weekend ums like the Alpine with a ReliabilHose Fire House, ity Run for 1964 Hamill House, Hovehicles and eartel De Paris and the lier at 9 a.m. The The Hot Rod Hill Climb returns to Energy Museum all Georgetown Loop Georgetown, Aug. 14-15 weekend. Enjoy gaRailroad offers train rides all day with mine tours and rage tours at the Georgetown Loop Rail a dinner train Friday night. The George- Road in Silver Plume, too. Participate in town Hot Rod Hill Climb Welcome Par- the family-friendly costume and pin-up contest, enjoy the beer garden as well as ty takes place from 4-9 p.m.

The following morning beings with a discounts at the merchants around town. pancake breakfast at 8 a.m. The first 1000 plates are free with a paid admission to the For more information, visit hotrod Hill Climb, kids under 12 are free. Be sure hillclimb.com or call 303-815-5435. to stop by the gazebo in town for live mu-

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Mid-life group forms to meet mountain community

By Serene Karplus NEDERLAND As we settle into our mid-life years, we recognize that many of our contacts with mountain people in our age range are often business transactions or brief casual greetings. Busy folks tend to meet friends through work or volunteering and only see them there. Weekends fill up with other pursuits and we don’t get to see or visit with these friends much.

We think in our middle years we will have more time. The kids have grown and moved away. Our career is established or we have retired early, so we believe we will finally find time for friends.

Instead, it means the schools and our jobs no longer provide the hub that draws us together regularly.

A busy lifestyle does not easily offer opportunities to meet others with similar busy lives. We’d love to get to know more people in our community, but don’t need to take on another project trying to find them. Our schedules prevent us from stopping mid-day for social coffees or lunches.

Whether we are happily married or happily single, a common thread is that we seek a variety of friends with matching interests.

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we might enjoy together. How do we reach out to find these people and determine easily whether we share interests?

A collection of us got together and decided to take action. We figured the seniors take time out to enjoy lunches together twice a week while midl-ife folks are somewhere else. Why not invite mid-life people to meet once a month at dinners and breakfasts? We could relax for an hour over a catered meal with an after-work crowd on a Friday and stay for a movie at Backdoor Theater if we are so inclined. On Saturday mornings, we could stoke up on a nutritious breakfast together on our way to activities with like-minded folks heading out to hike, bike, ski, attend festivals or other fun.

We kicked off our first Mountain MIDlife dinner on Friday, July 17, at the Nederland Community Center with and enthusiastic crowd of over 70 people gathered for a fine dinner together. Our Chefs Kim Culver and Andrea Frazer served a delicious meal of salmon, vegan quinoa pilaf, broccoli, and vegan, glutenfree chocolate cake with strawberries.

Our August breakfast on the second Saturday, Aug. 8, offers a vegetable egg frittata and vegetable tofu scramble, along with oven fried potatoes, bran muffin and fruit.

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8:30 a.m. A group will head out for a hike after breakfast, weather permitting.

The third Fridays dinner on Aug.21, gathers at 5 p.m. for dinner served at 5:30 p.m. Our menu will be Jamaican jerk chicken or tofu (specify vegetarian when reserving), roasted vegetables, seasoned brown rice and a fruity dessert.

“Mid-life” is self-defined, more by lifestyle than chronological age or a demographic tier, so adults of any age are welcome. We also welcome various dietary preferences and need to know in advance how to accommodate our guests.

To encourage all to come, we negotiated some deals and offer this “prix fixe” meal at low prices. For those under age 60, dinner is $9 and breakfast $7. No tax or tip required (cash or check only). We found a sponsor so we could offer the meals to those over age 60 (and their spouses) for a requested contribution of only $5.

Space is limited and we need to know one week in advance how many we are serving so we can acquire the right amount of food. Find our group at meetup.com and search for Mountain MIDlife Social Group to make a reservation or leave a message a week before the event at 303-258-0799 with your name, phone number and how many will join us.

We look forward to meeting our fellow Mountain MidLife friends – see you there!

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Celebration funds center’s projects NEDERLAND Enjoy an evening in Nederland with the Nederland Community Center Foundation Summer Celebration, Aug. 9 from 3-6 p.m. A wine tasting and silent auction will be the highlight with music provided

by Defunkt Railroad and appetizers.

The event features around 40 different wines to taste sponsored by Dam Liquor and appetizers by Kim Culver and Lauran Knight. The silent and live auctions offer great gifts and surprises hosted by Campbell Dawson. “Everyone really seemed to love the live auction last year. We also invited the band back from last year because they were such a hit,” Community Center Foundation Board member Jilene Norman, said. “This is a fun event that offers music, wine, food, and fun for $20 per person.”

The Summer Celebration benefits the Nederland Community Center Foundation, a non profit group that helps with capital improvements to the community center and other programs.

Weather permitting, the event will be held outside in the parking lot.

For more information, visit www. nederlandcommunitycenter.org or call 303-258-9721.

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Mountain festival summer highlight

the insurance for the field is a lot,” she said.

Canyon Parks and Recreation Department Organizers hope everyone will “come on board, said. “This year we expect to see down for a hootin’, hollerin’ good time at people of every walk of life, age, gender, the Mountain Folk Festival,” Aug. 8, from you name it. Families are welcome and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Coal Creek Canyon this year we have added some new attrac- Improvement Association Hall and “get yer burly on.” Enter a dish in the cookoff or tions for the younger sect.”

According to Martin, the money raised enter yourself in the many contests “Come eat, drink, vote will help go tofor photo conward the $2,500 tests with your of liability inspare change surance the disor live contests trict has for the with your holturf field. “Conler, dance to the structed in 2011, music of three the turf field bands, browse gives our mounthe vendors, arttain community ists, and blacka safe and relismith and enjoy able surface to Music is always a popular part of the Mountain Folk the simple mounplay sports on,” Festival in Coal Creek Canyon. tain pleasures,” she said. “Before it, we had a soccer field of crusher fines Martin said. “You won’t be disappointed.” (tiny gravel) and the multiple trips to the Soft drinks will be available, but adult nurse for Band-Aids was enough to dis- beverages—including the one needed in courage even the bravest of coaches.” She the obstacle course—must be your own. explained that the Parks and Recreation T-Shirts can also be pre-ordered.

District allows lottery funds to come into the unincorporated area in the form of ConThe CCCIA Hall is located at 31528 servation Trust Fund money. This money is Hwy. 72. Visit www.cccparkandrec. earmarked for capital projects, not any adorg to find rules and enter contests as ministrative costs. “Our expenses are quite well as find additional festival details. low generally, as we are all volunteers, but Continued from page 10

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Conservancy offers Trail Ridge tours ESTES PARK The premier attraction of Rocky Mountain National Park is the scenic and breathtaking byway named Trail Ridge Road.

As the nation’s highest continuous paved highway, this road meanders through various life zones on its way through Rocky Mountain National Park and over one of the largest, most pristine stretches of alpine tundra in the lower 48 states. Join the Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute for its Journey to the Top! A Trail Ridge Road Bus Adventure class on Wednesdays and Thursdays in August.

Participants will receive an overview of the Park’s history, flora, fauna, and geology while viewing passed landscapes from the comfort of a 14-passenger bus or 12-passenger van with opportunities for taking pictures at the many pull-off stops along the way. Some of the more notable features guests will visit are the Rainbow Curve, Milner Pass (Continental Divide) and the Alpine Visitor Center.

Both lunch and admission into Rocky Mountain National Park are included in the registration fee of $65 per adult and $35 per child 12 and under. Discounts for members of the Conservancy are available.

The tour begins at the Rocky Mountain National Park Fall River Visitor Center located just before the north entrance to the park in Estes Park.

Would you like to experience the sunset from above 12,000 feet? Join the Conservancy on a sunset safari over Trail

Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park on Tuesdays in August for the Sunset Safari Educational Adventure by Bus. Enjoy the changing light, active wildlife, and calmness of dusk as you ascend in elevation from 7,522 feet in Estes Park to more than 12,090 feet along the Tundra Communities Trail at Rock Cut. Along the way, a professional education guide will lead interpretive walks and talks to discuss geology, flora, fauna, and the cultural history of Rocky Mountain National Park at a number of pullouts—including Sheep Lakes, Many Parks Curve and Forest Canyon Overlook before arriving at Rock Cut to view the sunset over the Never Summer Mountains. Participants will have plenty of opportunities to take photos at pull-outs.

The experiences costs $40 for adults, $36 for adult members of the Rocky Mountain Conservancy, $20 for children 12 and under and $19 for child members.

The Rocky Mountain Conservancy receives no public funds, nor is it supported by private endowments. All activities are financed by the sale of publications, memberships and through philanthropic contributions.

The Rocky Mountain National Park Fall River Visitor Center is located at 3450 Fall River Rd. Visit rmconservancy.org or call 970-586-0108 for more information and complete class list.

Rollinsville celebrates independence

To mark the occasion, a parade, starting

By Jennifer Pund at noon, will travel from the Rollinsville ROLLINSVILLE If there is a town that knows how to Post Office, past Underwoods’ Mineshaft throw a party, it’s Rollinsville, It wasn’t al- Mercantile to the Stage Stop Restaurant ways that way, however, and that’s why the and Stagestop Market & Cafe for a full businesses and residents will gather on Aug. day of family fun. “Last year, Rollins22 to celebrate the 131st Rollinsville Inde- ville Independence Day was my biggest pendence Day. A traditional parade, spe- day yet. Celebrating Rollinsville going cials at the Stagestop Market and Cafe and wet seems appropriate for this area,” said a free family-friendly party and pig roast at Stagestop Market and Cafe owner, Megan Riley. Open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., the the Stage Stop market and cafe will offer $1 off Restaurant, will cakes and coffee and a giveaway keep the celefor free pieces of cheesecake. bration going all The Stage Stop Restaurant will be day. open all day Rollinsville’s for its Rollyfounder, John fest celebraQuincy Adams tion featuring Rollins, owned live music, most of the properties in three bars and town including the mill, a family funand is credited for the style pig roast. construction of the 40“This will mile Rollins pass over the be my third Divide. These attributes August open, gave Rollins and his wife but my second Mary the ability to prodoing ‘Rolpose rules on everyone Rollinsville Independence Day, Aug. 22, fealyfest’ for the living in the town. tures a parade and party at the Stage Stop.

Rollinsville “It was Mary Rollins, teetotaler wife of the Town Founder, Independence Day,” said Heather Hatwan, who directed him to rule the town with owner of State Stop Restaurant. There is an iron fist,” said informal town mayor, plenty to do with all three bars open; upTim Underwood. “A teetotaler himself, stairs, downstairs, and an outside backyard he found no disagreement with direction. bar with a bouncy castle for kids.

Seven bands are lined up to play for Such rules included (but not limited to) no drinking, no swearing, no spitting, and no free and it’s not a Stage Stop party without a traditional pig roast, burlesque show jackasserie in general.”

When Mary passed away, these rules and ariel acts. “It’s a lot of fun and you were lifted. “With that, came the reversal can bring your kids,” Hatwan explains. “I of all these formerly forbidden freedoms, just want to create a fun, free, safe place and good cause for Town residents to cel- for people and their families to come out, ebrate their newfound independence from spend time together and the rest of the tyranny. And that’s how, I am told, the tra- community.” Visit stagestoprollinsville. com for additional detials. dition started,” said Underwood.

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Tour, concert explores 1907 building’s history, current use as music center ESTES PARK Join the Estes Park Museum for a history tour and faculty concert at the Rocky Ridge Music Center, Sept. 6, to explore the history of its historic building. Take a personal tour of the campus with Madison Casey, former student, trustee and president of Rocky Ridge Music Center. After the tour, enjoy light refreshments and then a faculty concert.

The music center was founded in 1942 and is one of the oldest summer music camps in the country. Located at the foot of Longs Peak, the music center is the site of the historic Hewes-Kirkwood Inn encompassing 17 acres that provide a

Mountain Events Calendar August 14 • Hot Rod Hill Climb Historic 60th Anniversary Event – Guanella Pass Road/Georgetown (GT)

August 14-15 • Hot Rod Hill Climb Beer & Brat Train – Georgetown Loop Railroad (GT)

August 15 • Recognition Day – Golden Gate Grange (GCC) • Let’s Pull Together Community Noxious Weed Pulls & Reseeding – Barker Meadow (NED) August 16-17 • Gilpin County Fair – Gilpin Fairgrounds (GC) August 21 • Longs Peak Reunion 2015 w/Dixie Ramblers – Performance Park (EP)

August 22 • Longs Peak Reunion 2015 – YMCA of Rockies Reusch Auditorium (EP)

August 22 • 27th Annual Cemetery Crawl – Bald Mountain Cemetery (CC) August 25 • Free Entrance Day – Rocky Mountain National Park (EP) August 28 • Past Moving Forward Benefit, Auction, Wine Pull and Picnic – Hamill House Museum (GT) • Estes Park Car Club Cool Nights Cruz-in – Bond Park (EP) August 29 • Central States Shrine Association Parade – Miner Street (IS) • Comedy Night w/Spanky The Laff Guru – Old Gallery (AP) August 30 • Nederland Saws and Slaws Event – Nederland TBD (NED) Game Nights August 5 • Euchre Night – Very Nice Brewery (NED) August 8 • Building Family: LEGOS and More – Lyons Library (LY) August 14 • Game Night – Idaho Springs Library (IS) August 19 • Euchre Night – Very Nice Brewery (NED) August 28 • Game Night – John Tomay Memorial Library (GT) Health/Wellness August 2 • Passage to the Divine – StarHouse (GH) August 4 • Lyons Buddhist Meditation Group – Lyons Yoga & Wellness (LY) August 6 • Lyons Buddhist Meditation Group – Lyons Yoga & Wellness (LY)

August 10 • Exercise as Medicine – Estes Valley Library (EP) August 12 • Super Foods Workshop – Estes Valley Library (EP) August 15 • Fast Trackers to Self-Empowerment Workshop – Sol Center for Radiant Living (GT)

• Meditating for Your Life – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) August 16 • New Moon Ceremony for Women – StarHouse (GH)

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aboard a bus departing by 1 p.m., Sept.

6. The concert takes place following the tour at 3 p.m.

The cost of the tour is $36 for museum members or $42 for non-members which covers transportation, a guided tour, refreshments and concert admission. Space is limited to 12 participants. Registration opens on Aug. 12 for the Sept. 6 tour.

Registration is necessary to participate.

Call 970-577-3762 to sign-up.

stunning backdrop for performances and founded by pianist Beth Miller Harrod reflection. Charles Hewes, son of Mary and it operates today as one of the naKirkwood, embraced the ethic of build- tion’s premier music camps. The entire historic coming in harmony plex has been with nature; maintained he used local and rehabilistone and firetated over the killed timber years since it to construct a was listed on lodge, dining the National hall and guest Register of cabins beginHistoric Placning in 1907.

The historic Hewes-Kirkwood Inn es in 1994.

In 1951, the Hewes-Kirkwood Inn became the Tour participants will meet at the Eshome of the Rocky Ridge Music Center, tes Park Museum at 12:45 p.m. to hop

The Estes Park Museum is located at 200 4th St. in Estes Park. Visit www. estes.org to learn more.

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August 17-21 • Yoga Arts Camp for Adults – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) August 18 • Lyons Buddhist Meditation Group – Lyons Yoga & Wellness (LY)

August 20 • Lyons Buddhist Meditation Group – Lyons Yoga & Wellness (LY)

August 22 • High Altitude Herb Walk w/Brigitte Mars – Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center (NED)

August 22-23 • Tai Chi Qigong Part I and Part II Certification Workshop – Dao House (EP) August 23 • Sound Healing Celebration – StarHouse (GH) August 29 • ConnectHer: A Women’s Retreat to Connect with Self, Tribe, and Nature – StarHouse (GH) September 1 • Lyons Buddhist Meditation Group – Lyons Yoga & Wellness (LY)

Meetings/Clubs/Groups August 3 • Ward Town Meeting – Town Hall (WD) • Jamestown Board Meeting – Town Hall (JT) • Lyons Board of Trustees Meeting – Town Hall (LY) • Estes Park Car Club – US Bank (EP) August 4 • Nederland Board of Trustees – Nederland Community Center (NED)

August 5 • Estes Valley Model Railroaders – Estes Valley Library (EP) August 6 • Clear Creek Veterans Coalition – Idaho Springs Elks Lodge (IS) • TEG-Environmental Group – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Rotary Club of Estes Park: Boys in the Boat w/Ben Van der Werf – National Park Village Theater (EP) August 8 • Genealogy Group – Idaho Springs Library (IS) • Socrates Discussion Group – Old Gallery (AP) August 10 • Silver Plume Town Board – Town Hall (SP) • Estes Park Garden Club – Estes Valley Library (EP) August 11 • Georgetown Board of Selectmen – Town Hall (GT) • Community Meeting – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Estes Park Town Board Meeting – Town Hall (EP) August 13 • Estes Park Equestrian Club – Estes Valley Library (EP) • Rotary Club of Estes Park: Navigating Club Runner w/ Brad Rosenbaum – National Park Village Theater (EP) • Estes Park Genealogical Society – Estes Valley Library (EP) August 15 • Bird Walk – Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center (NED) August 17 • Jamestown Board Meeting – Town Hall (JT) • Lyons Board of Trustees Meeting – Town Hall (LY) August 18 • Nederland Board of Trustees – Nederland Community Center (NED)

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August 19 • Estes Park Cycling Coalition, Estes Valley Watershed Coalition – Estes Valley Library (EP) August 20 • Rotary Club of Estes Park: Larimer County Bugdet w/Tom Donnelly and Steve Johnson – National Park Village Theater (EP) August 22 • Genealogy Group – John Tomay Memorial Library (GT) • Socrates Discussion Group – Old Gallery (AP) August 24 • Silver Plume Town Board – Town Hall (SP) August 25 • Georgetown Board of Selectmen – Town Hall (GT) • Spanish Group – John Tomay Memorial Library (GT) • Estes Park Town Board Meeting – Town Hall (EP) August 27 • Coal Creek Canyon Watershed Partnership – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Rotary Club of Estes Park : E.P. School District Update w/Supt. Rosenkrance – National Park Village Theater (EP) August 29 • Sky Watchers – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Potluck Potluck – ClubNed August 31 • Forest Service Sport Shooting Open House – Clear Creek

• Hollowell Park Nature Hunt: A Virtual Geocache Adventure – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP) August 12 • Night Hike – Mud Lake Open Space (NED) August 14 • Sunset Hike – Walker Ranch Open Space (BC) August 14-16 • Dressage Horse Show – Estes Park Events Complex (EP) August 15 • Mardi Gras Bullriding Extravaganza – Gilpin Fairgrounds (GC) August 17 • Sunset Hike – Caribou Ranch Open Space (NED) August 18 • USA Pro Challenge – Arapahoe Basin (SC) • Grand Opening – Clear Creek Recreation Center (IS) • CCMRD Hiking Club – Waterline Trail (IS) August 20 • Pinball Tournament – Lyons Classic Pinball (LY) • CCMRD Bike Ride: Idaho Springs to The Tributary –

• Estes Park Woman’s Club – Estes Valley Library (EP) September 1 • Forest Service Sport Shooting Open House – Nederland

• Little Eagles Fun Run – Gilpin Recreation Center (GC) August 25 • CCMRD Hiking Club – Mayflower Clinton Gulch Loop (IS) • Sunset Hike – Heil Valley Ranch (BC) August 27 • Nature Hike for Seniors – Bald Mountain Scenic Area (BC) August 28 • Hike with a Naturalist: Lawn Lake – Rocky Mountain

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Community Center (NED)

• Nederland Board of Trustees – Nederland Community Center (NED)

Sports/Recreation August 1 • Nature & History of Caribou Ranch Hike – Caribou Ranch Open Space (NED)

• Rocky Mountain Half Marathon – Stanley Hotel (EP) August 2 • Closing Day – CCMRD Temp. Fitness Center (IS) • Colorado Cane Conclave Gathering – Planet Bluegrass (LY) August 4 • Upper Beaver Meadows Nature Hunt: A Virtual Geocache Adventure – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP) August 5 • Rocky Mountain Trailblazers: Kids’ Hiking Series (Emerald Lake) – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP) August 5-9 • Hunter Jumper Horse Shows – Estes Park Event Complex (EP) August 6 • Sunset Hike – Bald Mountain Scenic Area (BC) August 7 • Kids’ Fly-Fishing & Stream Ecology – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 8 • Georgetown to Idaho Springs Half Marathon – Georgetown Lake (GT)

• Green Ranch Hike – Golden Gate Canyon State Park (GC) • Backcountry Hike – Caribou Ranch Open Space (NED) • Run Like the Wind 5K/10K – Old Gallery (AP) August 11 • CCMRD Hiking Club: Flower Hike w/Deborah Darnell – Straight Creek (IS)

Clear Creek Recreation Center (IS)

August 21 • BIGfoot Memorial Hike – Nederland Community Center (NED) August 22 • Living in Lion & Bear Country – Heil Valley Ranch Open Space (BC)

Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 28-30 • Colorado Senior Pro Charity Rodeo – Estes Park Event Complex (EP)

August 30 • Good Sam Bike Jam – Sandstone Park (LY) Talks/Tours/Workshops/Classes August 1 • Master Gardener – Nederland Community Library (NED) • Weekend Genealogist: Delving Into Family History – Estes Valley Library (EP)

• The Weekend Genealogist: Delving into Family History – Estes Valley Library (EP) August 2 • Ken Jessen’s RMNP Historic Tour – Estes Park Museum (EP) August 3 • “Our Wonderful World” Library Adventure Series: Adventures in Southeast Asia – National Park Village Theater (EP)

• Excel Basics – Estes Valley Library (EP) • Raptors in the Rockies – YMCA of Rockies (EP) August 3-7 • Lyons History Summer Day Camp – Redstone Museum (LY) August 4 • Basic Floral Design – Lyons Farmette (LY) August 5 • Living with Wildlife: Bears and Moose – Gilpin

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• Live Reptile Program – Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center (NED)

• Summer Enchanted Evenings: Matthew Porter – Baldpate Inn (EP)

• Journey to the Top! A Trail Ridge Road Bus Adventure – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 6 • Centennial Science Behind the Scenery: Seasonal Snow w/Glen Patterson – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium (EP)

• Journey to the Top! A Trail Ridge Road Bus Adventure; Bugs, Beetles & Butterflies: Tiny but Amazing Creatures of Rocky – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 7 • Story Behind the Moon & the Stars – Estes Park Memorial Observatory (EP)

• Sunset Safari: An Educational Adventure by Bus – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 8 • Bob Flame: Rocky Mountain Ranger – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium (EP)

• Open House – Estes Park Memorial Observatory (EP) • Geology of the Western Slope – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 10 • “Our Wonderful World” Library Adventure Series: Shoes for Sherpas w/Anne Hines – National Park Village Theater (EP) August 11 • Ken Jessen’s Rocky Mountain National Park Historic Tour – Estes Park Museum (EP) • Grand Lake Safari: An Educational Adventure by Bus – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 12 • Summer Enchanted Evenings: Hummingbirds w/Scott Rashid – Baldpate Inn (EP) • Journey to the Top! A Trail Ridge Road Bus Adventure; Connections: Real Stories of Life Interacting with Life – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 13 • Pet Fostering/Adoption Information – Idaho Springs Library (IS)

• Centennial Science Behind the Scenery: Elk Population w/Dr. Tom Hobbs – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium (EP)

• Flower Families! Plant & Wildflower Identification with a Naturalist; Journey to the Top! A Trail Ridge Road Bus Adventure – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 14 • Astronomy in the Park – Estes Park Memorial Observatory (EP) • Locations! Secret Places in Rocky Mountain National Park, Sunset Safari: An Educational Adventure by Bus – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 15 • Job Hunting Class – Idaho Springs Library (IS) • Rocky Mountain National Park Butterflies: West of the Divide – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP) August 17 • “Our Wonderful World” Library Adventure Series: River Bears of Alaska w/Mike Fallon – National Park Village Theater (EP)

• Roadmap to Longevity – Estes Valley Library (EP) • East Side Location! Mushrooms & Other Fungi, There’s More to This Place than Meets the Eye: 100 Years of Environmental Change in RMNP – Rocky Mountain

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• Centennial Science Behind the Scenery: Beaver Dams w/Ellen Wohl – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium (EP) • Journey to the Top! A Trail Ridge Road Bus Adventure – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP) • Retirement & Legacy Life Planning – Estes Valley Library (EP)

August 21 • Astronomy in the Park – Estes Park Memorial Observatory (EP) • Floods: Going to Extremes, Sunset Safari: An Educational Adventure by Bus – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 22 • When Ice Ruled the Park, Mountain Lion: RMNP’s Top Predator – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP) August 24 • “Our Wonderful World” Library Adventure Series: The Jewel of China – National Park Village Theater (EP) • Computer Basics II – Estes Valley Library (EP) August 25 • From Model Ts to Tomorrow: Car Camping Through the Ages – Moraine Park Campground (EP) • Grand Lake Safari: An Educational Adventure by Bus – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 26 • Summer Enchanted Evenings: Stories of Grand Lake w/Mary Beth Lagerborg – Baldpate Inn (EP) August 27 • Kristin Dennis – Golden Gate Grange (GCC) • Centennial Science Behind the Scenery: Native Planet After Construction w/Lindsay Ringer – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium (EP)

August 26-27 • Journey to the Top! A Trail Ridge Road Bus Adventure – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 28 • The Life & Times of Moose, Sunset Safari: An Educational Adventure by Bus – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 29 • Sisters of Courage – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium (EP)

• On the Wing Again: Autumn Bird Migration – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 31 • “Our Wonderful World” Library Adventure Series: Africa in Wildlife Long Necks & Zebra Stripes w/ Robert Brunson – National Park Village Theater (EP) • History of Stewardship in Rocky Mountain National Park – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP) WEEKLY EVENTS Festivals/Special Events Friday • Downtown Estes Park Walking History Tour – Bond Park (EP)

• Sunset Safari: An Educational Adventure by Bus – Fall River Visitor Center (EP)

• Date Night – Carousel of Happiness (NED) Sunday • Magician Bradley Mayhew – Barlow Plaza (EP) Game Nights Monday • Monday Night Trivia – Pizza Bar 66 (LY) • Texas Hold ‘Em – Spirit Hound Distillery (LY) • Poker Tournament – West Winds Tavern (IS) • Mah-Jongg, Rocky Rollers Wii Bowling – Estes Park Senior Center (EP)

• Customizing Your Resume & Cover Letter, Word Basics

Tuesday • Pool Tournament – Mother’s Saloon (GT) • Lego Day – Club Ned (NED) • Bingo – American Legion Post 119 (EP) • Texas Hold’em Poker Series Showdown – Wheel Bar (EP) Wednesday • Board Game Night – Club Ned (NED) • Youth Chess – Nederland Community Library (NED) • Pool League – Lonigans Bar & Grill (EP) Thursday • Game Night – Blue Owl Books (NED) • Free Pool – Lonigans Bar & Grill (EP) • Bingo – American Legion Post 119 (EP) • Bridge: Drop-In Lessons & Games – Estes Park Senior Center (EP)

August 20 • Rocky Mountain 101: Mountain Lions w/Ranger Kathy Brazleton – Old Gallery (AP)

Health/Wellbeing Sunday • Sunday Community Yoga – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV)

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August 18 • The Civilian Conservation Corps: Legend and Legacy in Rocky Mountain National Park – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium (EP)

• Grand Lake Safari: An Educational Adventure by Bus – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 19 • Summer Enchanted Evenings: Estes Park Museum w/ Derek Fortini – Baldpate Inn (EP) • Journey to the Top! A Trail Ridge Road Bus Adventure – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP) – Estes Valley Library (EP)

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• Maya Vinyasa Flow, Gentle Yoga – Tadasana Mountain Yoga (NED)

• Mat Pilates w/Nicole – Yoga Room Idaho Springs (IS) • Guided Meditation Class – Lyons Yoga and Wellness (LY) • Master Chen Sermon on Daoism, Community Tai Chi, Qigong Instruction – Aspen Lodge (EP) Monday • Gentle Yoga w/Joelle, Yoga w/Abby – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Hatha Yoga, Yoga Dance – Gilpin Community Center (GC) • Yoga w/Peggy – Old Gallery (AP) • Yoga – Golden Gate Grange (GGC) • Vinyasa Yoga w/Melissa Alamo – The Yoga Room (IS) • Gentle Yoga w/Rebecca – Lyons Yoga and Wellness (LY) • Yoga with Justine – Salida Schoolhouse (SA) Tuesday • Tai Chi Class – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Yoga – Old Gallery (AP) • Hot Jammin’ Yoga – The Yoga Room (IS) • Movers & Shakers – Georgetown Community Center (GT) • Vinyasa Flow, Restorative Yoga – Tadasana Mountain Yoga (NED)

• Sit and Fit – Idaho Springs Senior Center (IS) • Tai Chi Class – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Quick & Tone, Aquacize, Pickleball, Tae Kwon Do – Gilpin Recreation Center (GC)

• Adult Co-Rec Volleyball League – Estes Park Middle School Gym (EP)

• Discovery Days at RMNP – Moraine Park Discovery Center (EP) • Free 5K Group Run – Stanley Hotel (EP) Wednesday • Broomball – Werlin Park (GT) • Adult Fitness w/Joelle – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Wednesday Road Ride – Tin Shed Sports (NED) • Indian Peaks Summer Running – Mud Lake Open Space (NED) • Pickleball – Nederland Tennis Park (NED) • NedNight Disc at the Park – Chipeta Park (NED) • Pickleball, Planet Motion/Zumba – Nederland Community Center (NED)

• Aquacize, Adult Strengthen Stretch & Balance, Guts & Glutes – Gilpin Recreation Center (GC) • Open Gym Adult Basketball – Estes Park Middle School Gym (EP)

Yoga & Wellness (LY)

• Discovery Days at RMNP – Moraine Park Discovery Center (EP) • Wednesday Velo Group Bike Ride – Kind Coffee (EP) Thursday • Women’s Movers & Shakers, Men’s Moaners & Groaners – Georgetown Community Center (GT) • CCMRD Adult Ski Group: Ski Lunch – Loveland Ski Area (GT) • Adult Fitness – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Basketball – Nederland Community Center (NED) • Senior Exercise Class – Allenspark Fire Department (AP) • Basketball – Nederland Community Center (NED) • Bootcamp, Aquacize, Pickleball, Tae Kwon Do – Gilpin

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• Local’s Night – Chipper’s Lanes Estes Park (EP) Friday • Cardio Sculpt – Nederland Community Center (NED) • Indian Peaks Summer Running – Chipeta Park (NED) • Aquacize, Adult Strengthen Stretch & Balance – Gilpin

• Mom & Tot Yoga – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) • Gentle Yoga – Lyons Yoga & Wellness (LY) Wednesday • Mindful Meditation – Location: 303-642-0428 (CCC) • Vinyasa Yoga – Gilpin Community Center (GC) • Yoga – Golden Gate Grange (GGC) • Vinyasa Yoga w/Cherie Ebert – The Yoga Room (IS) • Moms & Babies Yoga, Vinyasa Flow – Tadasana Mountain Yoga (NED)

• Restorative Yoga, Summertime Flow w/Jackie – Lyons Thursday • Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga – Gilpin Community Center (GC) • Thursday Locals Night – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) • Movers & Shakers – Georgetown Community Center (GT) • Gentle Yoga, Yoga/Pilates Fusion – Tadasana Mountain • Summer Yoga in the Park w/Rebecca – Sandstone Park (LY) • Gentle Yoga – Lyons Yoga & Wellness (LY) Friday • Vinyasa Yoga w/Cherie Ebert – The Yoga Room (IS) • Hatha Yoga, Happy Hour Yoga – Tadasana Mountain Yoga (NED) • Gentle Yoga – Lyons Yoga & Wellness (LY) • Parent & Tot Yoga – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) • Yoga w/Cariann – CCCIA Hall (CCC) Saturday • Vinyasa Yoga – The Yoga Room (IS) • Community Clothing Closet – Nederland Community Center (NED)

• Fitness & Clean Eating Class – Nederland Community Center (NED)

Meetings/Clubs/Groups Monday • Institute of Noetic Sciences – Estes Valley Library (EP) • Rotary of Estes Park – National Park Village Theater (EP) Tuesday • Tech Tuesday – Nederland Community Library (NED) • Clear Creek County Board of Commissioners – County Courthouse (GT)

• 4-H Meeting – Gilpin Fairgrounds Exhibit Barn (BH) Wednesday • Chess Club – Nederland Community Library (NED) • Singles Mingle in Estes Park – Various Locations (EP) Thursday • Rotary Club of Estes Park Meeting – National Park Village

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Recreation Center (BH)

Saturday • Bootcamp – Gilpin Recreation Center (GC) • Pickleball – Nederland Tennis Park (NED) • Tennis Clinic – Nederland Ice & Tennis Park (NED) • Saturday Morning Show-n-Go Bike Ride – Kind Coffee (EP) Talks/Workshops/Classes Monday • Downtown Estes Park Walking History Tour – Bond Park (EP) Tuesday • Downtown Estes Park Walking History Tour – Bond Park (EP) Thursday • Campfire Ghost Stories: Living History Tales of the West – Moraine Park Discovery Center Amphitheater (EP) Friday • Downtown Estes Park Walking History Tour – Bond Park (EP) AP = Allenspark BC = Boulder County BH = Black Hawk CC = Central City CCC= Coal Creek Canyon DEN = Denver EM = Empire EP = Estes Park GC = Gilpin County GRC = Grand County GGC = Golden Gate Canyon GH = Gold Hill GT = Georgetown

IS = Idaho Springs JT = Jamestown LC = Larimer County LV = Loveland LY = Lyons NED = Nederland RV = Rollinsville SA = Salina SMG = St. Mary’s Glacier SP = Silver Plume SC = Summit County WD = Ward WP = Winter Park

Theater (EP)

• Veterans Group – Gilpin County Library (GC) Friday • Institute of Noetic Science – Estes Valley Library (EP) Sports/Recreation Sunday • Hunter Jumper Show – Εstes Park Events Complex (EP) Monday • Pickleball – Nederland Tennis Park (NED) • Indian Peaks Summer Running – Los Lagos (GC) • Clear Creek Recreation Adult Kickball League – Shelly/ Quinn Baseball Fields (IS)

• Aquacize, Bootcamp – Gilpin Community Center (GC) • Adult Pickleball – Estes Park Middle School Gym (EP) Tuesday • Women’s Movers & Shakers, Men’s Moaners & Groaners – Georgetown Community Center (GT)

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Classical Music August 2 • Junior Music Camp Faculty Concert – Rocky Ridge

Original play brings area history to life on stage

August 3 • Estes Park Music Festival Chamber Orchestra: Nature’s Tableaux – Stanley Hotel Concert Hall (EP) August 6 • Junior Music Camp Honors Student Concert –

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August 7-8 • Junior Music Camp Solo & Chamber Music Recitals – Stanley Hotel Concert Hall (EP)

August 9 • Junior Music Camp Final Concert – Stanley Hotel Concert Hall (EP)

August 13 • Thursday Night Live: Estes Park Village Band – Performance Park (EP)

August 21 • Chamber Music Workshop Faculty Concert – Rocky Ridge Music Center (EP)

August 23 • Early Music Academy Faculty Concert – Rocky Ridge Music Center (EP)

August 31 • RMNP Centennial Concert w/Denver Brass – Stanley Hotel Concert Hall (EP)

Crafts/Sewing/Quilting August 1 • 3D Print Class – Idaho Springs Library (IS) • Saturday Morning Clay – Gilpin Recreation Center (GC) • Artist-In-Residence Kids Create: Leather Belt Pouch or Necklace Pouch & Cuff Bracelet – Gilpin County Library (GC)

• 68th Annual Hilltop Guild Festival and Bazaar – Kelley House (AP)

• Quilting Class: Celebration Tree Skirt – Lyons Quilting (LY)

August 2 • Christmas in August – Stitchin’ Den (EP) August 3 • Children’s Neckdown Cardigan Class – Stitchin’Den (EP) August 4 • Quilting Group – Coal Creek Coffee (CCC) • Quirky Quilters – Nederland Community Library (NED) • Basic Floral Design – Lyons Farmette (LY) August 5 • Canvas and Cocktails – Stage Stop (RV) August 6 • Adult Craft Group: Ceramics – John Tomay Memorial Library (GT)

• Stitchers Get-Together, Thursday Evening Clay: Basic Throwing and Hand Building – Gilpin Recreation Center (GC) • Pints & Painting – Very Nice Brewery (NED)

August 8 • Saturday Morning Clay – Gilpin Recreation Center (GC) • Artist-In-Residence: Multi-Metal Spiral Charm Bracelet and Earrings – Gilpin County Library (GC) • Quilting Class: Beginning Log Cabin – Lyons Quilting (LY)

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of how and where she would have homesteaded 150 years ago.

By Jeffrey V. Smith ESTES PARK “Putting yourself in the position of early pioneers—picking arb Boyer Buck used to hate history. The subject went unap- where you would have homesteaded, for example—suddenly preciated and seemed irrelevant until she began reviving Es- opens your eyes to a whole new way of thinking,” she explained. tes Park’s past with features in the local paper. The experience “You start to look at your own life and how it was shaped by the taught her how the lessons of history can help folks today, because, resources, education, and technology that was available to you. she says, “people really haven’t changed all that much.” Lately, You start to understand why people did what they did. Suddenly, the writer has brought her new-found appreciation of the past, life- you realize these people were not ignorant, or misguided; that long love of plays and writing talent there were real, and often romantic, ideals betogether to bring the area’s history to hind their actions.” These thoughts led her to life on the stage. Her latest producthe revelation of how history can be relevant tion, Paradise Protected: The Story to—and even help— people today. of Rocky Mountain National Park, The playwright and CU Boulder alum has will be performed, Aug. 14-16 and lived in Colorado since 1979 and finds Estes Aug. 21-23, at the Baldpate Inn’s Park’s history to be particularly rich. “In my Key-Thedral Theatre. opinion, the ‘ghosts’ that inhabit the area are “It took me a long time to apreally the tangible energy left behind by the preciate history,” Buck said. “I extraordinary people who made Estes Park hated it in school—it was all dates, what it is today,” she explained. “They were names and strange places that the most strong, resilient, self-motivated, indidn’t seem to have any relevance The Impossible Paradise was first staged last novative, intelligent and passionate people to me or anyone I knew.” When year at the Baldpate Inn. you will ever learn about. They were people she took a job as the features/spefrom all walks of life and origins, and came cial sections editor at the local paper in the mid-1990s, she of- to the area with varying motives. But they all had something in ten wrote about Estes Park earliest days. “Writing about the common: they didn’t follow what society told them they should area’s history for a newspaper audience, in feature stories, gave do and followed their hearts.” me a new appreciation for the way life was actually like for the Buck believes plays are the best way for a writer speak to the people who came before me,” she said. audience in this way, since they are driven by characters and di The writer still lives in Estes Park where she works as a free- alog. “I write plays about Estes Park history because more than lance writer, newspaper stringer and graphic designer through her anything else, I want to compel the audience to put themselves in company B3 Creative Services. On walks, she often daydreams Continued on page 22

Denver Brass concert celebrates park’s centennial ESTES PARK The Estes Park Music Festival presents a free public concert, Aug. 31 at 7:30 p.m., in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Rocky Mountain National Park at the Stanley Hotel Concert Hall. It will be performed by the Denver Brass, an elite ensemble recognized throughout the U.S. and the world as one of the premier ensembles of its kind—setting itself apart through its sound, original repertoire, and concert performances. Steven Taylor will be the featured vocalist.

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ern U.S. presenting a sound experience that makes an impression long past the final chord of the concert; much like RMNP leaves indelible memories in the minds of its many visitors. With 14 world-class musicians, the Denver Brass performs its own original compositions and arrangements

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and reaches more than 60,000 persons annually through more than 150 concerts and outreach services.

The trademark sound of The Denver Brass features a dazzling array of more than 13 distinct brass instruments plus percussion, utilizing mutes, technique and sound expertise to produce a rainbow of sound phenomena.

The Stanley Hotel Concert Hall is located at 333 E Wonderview Ave. in Estes Park. Visit estesparkmusicfestival.org or call 970-586-9519 for more information.

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Film festival features silent comedies

Chase’s finest silent film and is routinely ESTES PARK Experience film as it was shown over listed among the greatest of all silent coma century ago at the Silent Comedy Film edy short subjects.

Festival, Aug. 13-16, on the 102-year- Films continue Friday, Aug. 14, at 2 old Historic Park Theater’s big screen. p.m. with Big Business, The Garage, and The comedies featuring the Hardy Broth- Fluttering Hearts. Starring Stan Lauers, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton rel and Oliver Hardy, Big Business from among others, will be accompanied by 1929 has James Finlayson as the furious Home owner, Tiny Sandford as the PoliceScott Wilseck on piano.

The shows are “great fun for the whole man, Lyle Tayo as the first Customer and family” and include a special offer of one Charlie Hall as the Neighbor. The Garage free kid ticket with each adult ticket pur- from 1920 stars Buster Keaton and Roschase—limited to the first 50 kid tickets coe “Fatty” Arbuckle with Molly Malone, per showing. Purchase tickets for $10 per Harry McCoy and Luke the Dog. Flutterday for adults online or in person at the ing Hearts from 1927 has Charles Parrott, starring under the name of Charlie Chase Historic Park Theatre.

Wilseck began playing piano at the age with Oliver Hardy and Eugene Pallette. of 9. Growing up in Chicago he played Films on Saturday, Aug. 15 begin at 2 p.m. with Get with various bands Out and Get Unin the area for 20 der, One Week and years. He plays The Immigrant. ragtime, county, Get Out and Get blues, gospel, Under from 1920 Dixieland, ethnic, stars Harold Lloyd elevator, Western and Mildred Daand can improvise vis. The two-reel in many genres. comedy is about He is a member a young man’s efof the Riverside forts to get to his Ramblers, the Esown stage show tes Park Dixieland on time, or a riband and has also val will play his played in Estes part and put the Park area with varmoves on his girlious singers and friend. One Week groups. He accomfrom 1920 was the panies silent mov- One Week was the first film made by Buster first film made by ies with music of Keaton on his own and featured Sybil Seely.

Buster Keaton on all different eras, but he plays songs in the style of the early his own. Starring Buster Keaton and Sybil 1900s which make them excellent back- Seely. The Immigrant from 1917 stars Charlie Chaplin as the Tramp coming to ground for the action on the screen.

The festival begins Thursday, Aug. 13, the United States who is accused of theft at 7 p.m. with The Adventurer, Laugh- on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, toons and Mighty Like a Moose. The Ad- and falls in love with a beautiful young venturer from 1917 is the last of Charlie woman along the way. It also stars Edna Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies and starring Purviance and Eric Campbell.

Chaplin and Edna Purviance with Eric The festival concludes on Sunday, Aug. Campbell, Henry Bergman and Albert 16 at 4 p.m. with repeat screenings of The Austin. Laughtoons—starring Stan Lau- Adventurer, One Week, Fluttering Hearts. rel and Oliver Hardy—features excerpts from Angora Love, 1929; Liberty, 1929; To purchase tickets online or find You’re Darn Tootin’, 1928; and Battle of out more information, visit www.

The Century, 1927. Mighty Like a Moose historicparktheatre.com or call 970from 1926 is a two-reel short comedy 586-8904. considered by some scholars to be Charlie

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Unique art classes offered at gallery ALLENSPARK New classes are starting at the recently renovated Old Gallery. On August 15, join Vicki Dyas for a Combined Pine Needle Gourd Class and on Aug. 29 make a Dutch Spiral Necklace with Wendy Ellsworth.

The Combined Pine Needle Gourd Class will teach students the basics of gourd preparation and how to use gourd dyes and a variety of other techniques.

Each participant will receive written instructions as well as personal, oneon-one class instruction. There will be a supply list for each student and most will leave with a finished gourd. All supplies provided, just wear old clothes and bring a lunch. There is a $10 discount for two people attending together.

Wendy Ellsworth is offering her Dutch Spiral Necklace Workshop on Aug. 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This

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class will focus on learning the Dutch Spiral beading technique that is easy and fun. Participants will make a necklace in a length of their choice using colorful glass seed beads in four sizes. Kits will be provided in several color choices for a cost of $20. A supply list is provided on the website if students would like to bring their own supplies. Pre-registration, $55, is required.

The Old Gallery is located at 14863 Hwy. 7 in Allenspark. To register, for the gourd class, contact Dyas at 303-747-6272 or e-mail rivermtgourds@gmail.com. To register for the necklace class, contact Wendy Ellsworth at 303-747-2612 or email: wendy.ellsworth3@gmail. com Visit www.theoldgallery.org for additional details.

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Continued from page 20 periences shaped his philosophy and led the position of the characters depicted and him to campaign for a national park in the say, ‘that makes sense, I would do that too.’ Colorado Rockies. It also is the story of the I want them to understand the situations fight between two distinct land-managethat shaped the philosophies of the time,” ment policies: the sun-setting age of Manishe said. “I want every single character to fest Destiny and burgeoning conservation exhibit some kind of quirk or emotion that movement. “Luckily, in this case, conservation won the day and RMNP was estabpeople watching him or her can relate to.” lished,” Buck said.

Last year, Buck “Both plays produced The Imseek to dramatize possible Paradise, real life in the seta play about the tings and time peearliest Estes Park riods represented; pioneers and what to show how real they faced while people who carried trying to settle and the attitudes of the thrive in the area time would interbetween 1866act with each other 1874. It is based and what motivaton the true story The Impossible Paradise is about the earliest ed them to do what of Estes Park’s first pioneers of the Estes Park area. they did,” Buck settlers and tells the story of the Griff Evans family, Rocky said. “The Impossible Paradise depicted Mountain Jim, Isabella Bird and Lord the personalities of the pioneers during the Dunraven. Abner Sprague and Alexander Wild West time period of American history who believed the ‘undiscovered’ land of MacGregor also appear.

This year, her Paradise Protected pro- the west was given to them by God to do duction explores the period of time roughly with what they will. Wilderness was somefrom the time Mills first arrived in Estes thing to be conquered, wild animals were Park in 1884 to the day of the park’s dedi- there to be tamed (read, killed), and anyone cation on Sept. 4, 1915. It details the ear- who didn’t agree with them was there to ly life of Enos Mills, the father of Rocky be silenced. They were not necessarily bad Mountain National Park, and how his ex- people—only extremely spiritual; they tru-

ly felt called by God to do what they did.”

Paradise Protected says “goodbye to this era and introduces a new way of thinking: that perhaps natural resources are not inexhaustible, that maybe nature plays a more vital role in the lives of man than just providing food, supplies, and wealth,” according to Buck. “This is the first time that the inter-connectedness of living systems—a true understanding of ecology— was widely publicized through writings by naturalists such as John Muir and later, Enos Mills,” she said. “It didn’t go down easy with the people who were asked to change the way they lived.”

Enos Mills, the “father” of Rocky Mountain National Park, is the main character of Paradise Protected. According to Buck, “his was a personal journey of transformation when he arrived in 1884 and made a piece of the Rocky Mountains just south of Estes Park his home. He was a sickly boy turned hearty mountaineer, a homesteader turned conservationist, a self-educated man turned writer, a peace-loving man turned activist. He fought against his neighbors, all fellow homesteaders and inn-keepers, locally to push the national park idea.

He was a visionary like none other for this area, and affected more change than any other single person could do. Due to Enos, the paradise that is RMNP is protected, even if it looks much different now than even he envisioned.”

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Local designer celebrates Grateful Dead COAL CREEK CANYON Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead with a special one-of-akind work of art by Coal Creek Canyon artist Andrew Nutini. The lenticular poster flips from one image featuring band members in their younger years to the next image of them in their older years when tilted from left to right.

The artist was born in Tampa and grew up near Cincinnati where he took to art at a young age. “I was always interested in art growing up excelling in art classes,” he said.

After eight years traveling extensively, Nutini returned to Cincinnati where he studied video production and graphic design while running a small screen-print shop called Found Image Design. He moved to Colorado in 2007 and soon began doing freelance work and working from home.

In 2012 he designed the first of his lenticular series of prints of Jerry Garcia. “I was looking for a way for the prints to look really psychedelic and not be just another print,” he said. Since then, the series has grown to five prints with the most recent being the celebration in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. These posters have been selling all across the country in concert parking lots and festivals, as well as in head shops and online. They are also available at Kind Mountain Collective in Idaho Springs.

Nutini designs jewelry and is currently taking metalsmithing classes at Red Rocks Community College.

Visit foundimagedesign.blogspot.com, www.facebook.com/thrdminddesign, and Mkt.com/KindMountain for more information or to purchase online.

Kind Mountain Collective is located at 1535 Miner St. in Idaho Springs.

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Locals create guide to fly fishing in the Indian Peaks Wilderness

By George Watson INDIAN PEAKS WILDERNESS AREA Over 100 fishing destinations in Indian Peaks Wilderness Area have been detailed with topographic maps, trail profiles, fishing tips, destination notes and photographs in A Fly Fishing Guide to Colorado’s Indian Peaks Wilderness Area by Mike Kruise and Steve Schweitzer, with contributing author Benjamin Swigle.

The 160-page book contains over 100 vivid full-color photographs of the fly fishing destinations in the wilderness area. The book contains 14 pages of charts and tables containing detailed river and lake data, hatch charts and hiking trail information.

It also contains over 50 local expert and guide favorite fly patterns not found in other books. It is packed with information about every water in IPWA containing fish. It is the most complete

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and thorough book ever written about fishing one of America’s most popular wilderness areas.

The book is designed to answer an angler’s most important question: “Where do I want to fish today?” by providing essential fly fishing trip planning tools for fishing Indian Peaks.

Kruise and Schweitzer collaborated together, hiking every trail and fishing all locations mentioned in the book.

The project took over three years with nearly 1,000 miles hiked, combined. Contributing author Benjamin Swigle, is a Fish Biologist with Colorado Parks & Wildlife provided technical oversight and historical fish management data. Kruise is co-owner of the Laughing Grizzly Fly Shop near Lyons. Schweitzer is the author of the best-selling book A Fly Fishing Guide to Rocky Mountain National Park.

ESTES PARK Mark your calendars for the Centennial Celebration Fine Art Show & Sale, Aug. 13-16, at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park.

The exhibition and sale is a companion show to last fall’s Centennial Celebration Plein Air event.

Participating artists have had the opportunity to paint “en plein-air” in Rocky Mountain National Park during the entire 2014-2015 Centennial year, and will display a selection of these works, along with larger studio compositions based on those field studies, at the Stanley Hotel Concert Hall beginning Aug. 13.

As an added value to show patrons, each painting purchased at this show is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity, signed by RMNP Superintendent Vaughn Baker, attesting to its significance as part of the Park’s historic Centennial Celebration.

A special private preview reception for purchase patrons takes place from 5-6 p.m. Aug. 13. This ticketed event is an exclusive first look at the show and an opportunity to purchase works before they are available to the public. Tickets are $100 in advance, with $80 of that going toward the purchase of an artwork at the show. A Gala Opening Reception, open to the public, is from 6-8 p.m. Artists will be in attendance.

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On Friday, a Youth Mentoring Paint-Out is scheduled from 9-11 a.m. Limited to 15 children ages 12-16, the special program, hosted by the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters, will provide one on one painting instruction and mentoring for young artists ages 12-16. Participants must register in person at the Fall River Visitor Center, Aug.10-13, from 9 a.m. -5 p.m. Painting supplies for participants are provided.

There will be an activity based ranger program for families at Sprague Lake while the participants are out painting.

Saturday features Artist Demonstrations from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 4-6 p.m.

Come get a glimpse of the creative process at work and chat with event artists as they demonstrate their painting techniques. The morning demo will be at Fall River Visitor Center in RMNP, and the evening one will be at the Stanley Hotel.

The event concludes at 3 p. m. Sunday.

As much as 39% of the proceeds from the show will benefit the Rocky Mountain Conservancy and support their ongoing educational, interpretive, and scientific programs in Rocky Mountain National Park.

The Stanley Hotel is located at 333 E Wonderview Ave. in Estes Park. For more information, visit rmpap.org and pleinairforthepark.org.

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previous plays at the Baldpate Inn, including one adapted from a longer play into a 1940s-era radio play. Buck even wrote radio jingles and skits about local businesses to include with the production. “Acting is wonderfully expressive, but it’s not as creative as directing, so I prefer that,” she explained.

Bringing history to life isn’t easy, or cheap, but Buck pulls it off. She is the writer, director, tech director, costumer, props person, set designer and more for all of the productions. “Eventually, I hope to be able to… start being able to pay people to do some of those jobs,” she said. “Right now, though, I can honestly say that [the plays] have been a labor of love, made possible by some very hard-working, dedicated people at my side. I could have never put on any play at all without the invaluable assistance of the Fine Arts Guild of the Rockies, Lois Smith and her staff at the Baldpate Inn, and my fabulous cast and crew.”

Although not much, the cast and crew, other than Buck herself, get paid first.

“It’s… generally a percentage of whatever the production receives from ticket sales, but it’s something,” she explained. “It is extremely important to me that my actors

and stage manager (the only crew I can afford to pay) realize that their involvement is the most important thing to these productions. These are not ‘my’ plays, they are ‘our’ plays in every sense of the word.”

Doing all of the jobs necessary to bring the plays to the stage can be challenging.

“Live theater is unpredictable. Sometimes people forget their lines, or fudge their lines, or say them out of order. As a writer, I am very dedicated to every word I put in the script,” Buck said. “As a director, I have to think of the production as a whole and try to overlook it when the actors don’t say the words exactly as written. But, I keep reminding myself that this is a joint effort, and it has always worked out very well.”

Some of the hard work is made easier by “the goodwill of the Estes Park community” according to Buck. “I am extremely blessed to be able to pick the brain of Dr. James Pickering, Estes Park’s historian laureate. He has endured hours of interviews with me for various projects, including my plays. For Paradise Protected, Enos Mills’ great-grand daughter, Eryn Mills who runs her famous ancestor’s homestead cabin as a museum, has been very helpful and has contributed much to the effort. Also, Kurtis Kelly, a local character portrayal artist who specializes in researching history for each of his roles, has uncovered some very useful information for me. These people—and many, many others—are not just knowledgeable, intelligent, and extremely helpful, they are wonderful human beings and I’m proud to call them friends.”

Attendance at all the performances of The Impossible Paradise has been high and have frequently sold out. “All kinds of people come to my plays, it has appeal to both locals and visitors, of all ages,” Buck said. “I hope Paradise Protected will drum up the same interest.”

Buck’s plays, while also produced in other locations, have no better home than the historic Baldpate Inn, built in 1917 near Mills’ homestead. “Lois Smith first approached me in late 2013 and asked that I write a play to tie in with the upcoming 100-year anniversary of Rocky Mountain National Park and this year, that I write another original one,” she said. “The Key-Thedral Theatre, the inn’s outdoor performance venue, is probably the most beautiful spot in the whole world to see a play. When it rains, the productions are moved indoors to the Key Room, also a very amazing setting.”

The playwright reminds theatergoers to be prepared at the productions. It always cools off and sometimes there are brief rain showers. “We don’t move our show

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August 9 • Cannabis and Canvas – Club Ned (NED) • Quilting Class: Bindings – Lyons Quilting (LY) • Block of the Month Class – Stitchin’ Den (EP) August 10 • Adult Craft Group: Ceramics – Idaho Springs Library (GT) • Fabric & Thread Arts Group – Coal Creek Coffee (CCC) August 11 • Technique Tuesdays Class: Knitting Picot & Latvian Braid Edges – Stitchin’ Den (EP) August 12 • Wednesday Art Group – Old Gallery (AP) • Quilting Class: Improvisational Piecing – Lyons Quilting (LY)

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• Quilting Class: Raindrops – Lyons Quilting (LY) • Arts & Crafts Sale – Corner Collective Art Gallery (LY) • Art-4-Art Art Cards – Lyons Library (LY) August 16 • Christmas in August – Stitchin’ Den (EP) August 18 • Quilting Group – Coal Creek Coffee (CCC) • Quilting Class: Yellow Brick Road – Lyons Quilting (LY) August 19 • Canvas and Cocktails – Stage Stop (RV) August 20 • Stitchers Get-Together – Gilpin Recreation Center (GC) August 22 • Artist-In-Residence: Leather Wrap Bracelet – Gilpin County Library (GC)

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• Dutch Spiral Necklaces Class w/Wendy Ellsworth – Old Gallery (AP)

• Quilting Class: Quilt of Valor – Lyons Quilting (LY) August 30 • Quilting Class: Quilt As You Go Braided Beauty – Lyons Quilting (LY)

Film/Photography August 1 • Four Mile Film Society – Salina Schoolhouse (SA) • Movie Night: Star Wars – Lyons Photography Art Center (LY) • “Wild Light” w/Erik Stensland – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium (EP)

August 1-September 6 • “Abode of Snow: Triumph & Tragedy in the Himalayas” Exhibit – Gilpin Arts Showcase Gallery (CC) August 2 • Photo Jam – Lyons Photography Art Center (LY) August 5 • Lyons Film Festival Wrap Party – Lyons Film Festival Offices (LY)

• Tory Power’s Lyons Film Festival Documentary screening – Tiny (LY) • Artist-in-Residence Programs w/Photographer Ben Panter – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center (EP) • Culinary Movie Matinee: “Babette’s Feast” – Estes Valley Library (EP)

August 6 • Photographing the “Small Wonders” of RMNP – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 7 • Images of RMNP Gallery presents Happy 100th! – Im-

August 23 • Cannabis and Canvas – Club Ned (NED) • Quilting Class: Quilt As You Go Braided Beauty –

August 12 • Culinary Movie Matinee: “The 100 Foot Journey” –

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August 26 • Sit ‘n’ Stitch – Idaho Springs Library • Wednesday Art Group – Old Gallery (AP) • Quilting Class: Quilt of Valor – Lyons Quilting (LY) • Neck Down V-neck Cardigan Class – Stitchin’ Den (EP) August 28-30 • Handmade in Colorado Expo – Estes Park Event Center (EP) August 29 • Artist-In-Residence: Geometric Wire Charm Choker –

• Brushes and Booze – Coal Creek Coffee (CCC) • Quilting Class: Beginning Machine Quilting – Lyons Quilting (LY)

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indoors unless it’s impossible to be outside. Bring layers, an umbrella and prepare yourself for a new kind of outdoor adventure,” she said. Blankets and umbrellas are provided to those in need. The Baldpate staff also provides a cash bar with beer, wine and coffee. After the show, the innkeeper passes out fresh-baked cookies.

Paradise Protected premieres at the Baldpate Inn in August. In early 2016, both The Impossible Paradise and Paradise Protected will be performed at the American Legion Post 119 in Estes Park, as a fund-raiser for that organization.

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August 14-16 • Mastering the Art & Craft of Landscape Photography

August 15 • Nature Painting Workshop Series w/Andre Nobrega – Wild Bear Mountain Ecology center (NED)

– Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 15-16 • Plein-air in the Park: Oil Painting – Rocky Mountain

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August 17 • “Better Paintings-More Confident Painters” Workshop w/Coni Grant – Art Center of Estes Park (EP) August 19 • Centennial Artist in Residence Program Presents: Through an Artist’s Eyes – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center

August 15 • Movie Night: Raiders of the Lost Arc – Lyons Photography • Historic Footage from “The Living Dream” Film – Estes Park Museum (EP)

August 19 • Culinary Movie Matinee: “Waitress” – Estes Valley Library (EP)

August 22 • Ghosts of The West: The End of the Bonanza Trail – Historic Park Theater (EP)

August 23 • Day-tripping Photography: A Day in the Field Photographing Wildlife – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 25 • Movies in the Mountains: “Original Batman” w/Bayou Folk – Performance Park (EP) August 26 • Culinary Movie Matinee: “Julie & Julia” – Estes Valley Library (EP)

August 30-September 5 • 100 Images for 100 Years Instagram Photography Exhibit – Fall River Visitor Center (EP) Fine Art August 1 • Nature Painting Workshop Series w/Andre Nobrega – Wild Bear Mountain Ecology center (NED)

August 1-2 • “Connections” Pastel Exhibit by Carole Haslock – Art Center of Estes Park (EP)

August 1-9 • 69th Annual Juried Exhibition – Gilpin Arts Washington Hall Gallery (CC)

August 1-16 • Colorado Oil Painters Exhibit – Glass Tipi Gallery (WD) August 1-20 • Plein Air Rockies 2015 Prelude Show – Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park (EP)

August 5 • Centennial Artist in Residence Program Presents: Through an Artist’s Eyes – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium (EP)

August 6 • Artist Reception: Andre Nobrega – Nederland Community Library (NED)

August 7 • Central City First Friday Art Walk – Main Street (CC) • Wild Inspirations w/Tracy Lytle (wood) and Cynthia Guajardo (Pottery) – Aspen & Evergreen Gallery (EP) • Taste & Create – Snowy Peak Winery (EP) • “Mixed Media” Exhibit Opening Reception – Art Center of Estes Park (EP)

August 8 • 2nd Saturday’s Art Walk – Miner Street (IS) • Nature Painting Workshop Series w/Andre Nobrega – Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center (NED)

August 8-20 • Plein Air Rockies 2015 National Paint Out – Estes Park (EP) August 9 • Gilpin Arts Annual Members Meeting – Washington Hall (CC) • “Fibonacci Drawing” Workshop w/Patricia Greenberg – Art Center of Estes Park (EP)

August 10 • Sketchbook Journaling: Wilderness, Wildlife & Wonder in Watercolor – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

August 12 • Centennial Artist in Residence Program Presents: Through an Artist’s Eyes – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium (EP)

August 12-September 27 • Gilpin Arts Members Show – Washington Hall Gallery (CC) August 13 • Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Reception – Stanley Hotel (EP)

August 14-16 • Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Show and Sale – Stanley Hotel (EP)

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August 21 • Sixth Annual “Western Light” Fine Art Competition, Exhibition and Sale Opening Recption – Earthwood Collections (EP)

August 21-22 • “Studio Plein Air Painting” Workshop w/Jeanne Mackenzie – Art Center of Estes Park (EP) August 22-October 25 • Plein Air Rockies 2015: A Festival of Outdoor Painting, Exhibition & Sale – Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park (EP) August 22 • Plein Air Rockies Quick Draw & Auction – Riverside Plaza (EP) • Plein Air Rockies Gala Reception & Awards Ceremony – Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park (EP)

August 23 • Arts on the River – River Bend (LY) August 25 • “Holiday Dioramas” Workshop w/Shannon Kaye – Art Center of Estes Park (EP)

August 26 • Centennial Artist in Residence Program Presents: Through an Artist’s Eyes – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium (EP) August 29 • “Fall Treasures” Exhibit Opening Reception – Glass Tipi Gallery (WD)

August 29-October 31 • “Fall Treasures” Exhibit – Glass Tipi Gallery (WD) Literary Events/Book Clubs August 2 • Geno Kennedy Book Signing – Stage Stop (RV) August 4 • Great Decisions Discussion Group; Book Discussion: The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman – Estes Valley Library (EP)

August 15 • Visit the Assay Office – James F. Bailey Assay Office Museum (BC) Poetry/Spoken Word/Comedy August 5 • Wine & Words Poetry Night – Happy Trails Café (NED) August 30 • Blue Owl Blue Now Poetry Night – Blue Owl Books (NED) Theater/Opera/Dance/Fashion August 1 • Central City Opera Festival: Don Quixote and The Duchess – Opera House (CC) • Opera Notes – Williams Stables Theatre (CC) • Red Rocks Ramblers Square Dancing – Lyons Elementary Gym (LY)

August 1-2 • Allenspark Performing Arts Company presenting “Side by Side” by Stephen Sondheim – Old Gallery (AP) • Fine Arts Guild of the Rockies: “Peter Pan, Jr.” – Park Village Theater (EP)

August 1-5 • Central City Opera Festival: The Prodigal Son – Opera House (CC)

August 1-8 • Central City Opera Festival: La Traviata – Opera House (CC) August 1-9 • Central City Opera Festival: Man of La Mancha – Opera House (CC)

August 2 • Opera Notes, Short Works – Williams Stables Theatre (CC) • Taste of Shakespeare: “Measure for Measure” – Performance Park (EP)

August 4 • Opera Notes, Take a Child to the Opera – Williams Stables Theatre (CC)

August 5 • Opera Notes – Williams Stables Theatre (CC) • Greek Glendi Dance – Salina Schoolhouse (SA) August 6 • A Hero of American History: Theodore Roosevelt Reenactment – Estes Park High School (EP) August 7 • Opera Notes, Short Works – Williams Stables Theatre (CC) August 8 • Opera Notes, Short Works – Williams Stables Theatre (CC) • Dances of Universal Peace – StarHouse (GH) • Red Rocks Ramblers Square Dancing – Lyons Elementary Gym (LY)

August 5 • Katniss Everdeen vs. Bilbo Baggins Hero Book Club –

August 9 • Opera Notes – Williams Stables Theatre (CC) • “F.O. Stanley: A Life Well-Lived” Reenactment – Historic

August 6 • Book Club – Coal Creek Coffee (CCC) August 7-9 • Annual Summer Book Sale – Estes Ark Conference Center (EP) August 13 • Book Discussion: The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

August 13 • Ecstatic Dance – StarHouse (GH) August 14-16 • “Paradise Protected” – Baldpate Key-thedral Theater (EP) August 15 • Red Rocks Ramblers Square Dancing – Lyons Elementary

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August 14 • Women’s Book Group – Old Gallery (AP) August 16 • Estes Valley Library Friends & Foundation Annual Benefit Dinner w/Diane Mott Davidson – Estes Valley Library (EP) August 17 • Book Group – Idaho Springs Library (IS) August 18 • Jane Austen, etc. Book Club – Estes Valley Library (EP) August 21 • Free Library Magazines on Zinio – Estes Valley Library (EP) August 25 • Reading is Doctor Recommended: A Year with No Sugar – Estes Valley Library (EP) Museums August 1-September 7 • Special Exhibit: History of Colorado License Plates – Gilpin History Museum (CC)

August 1-October 4 • Climb On! An Exhibit – Estes Park Museum (EP) August 6-September 6 • “Abode of Snow: Triumph and Tragedy in the Himalayas” Exhibit – Gilpin Arts Showcase Gallery (CC)

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August 21-23 • “Paradise Protected” – Baldpate Key-thedral Theater (EP) August 22 • Red Rocks Ramblers Square Dancing – Lyons Elementary Gym (LY)

August 26 • “F.O. Stanley: A Life Well-Lived” Reenactment – Historic Fall River Hydroplant (EP)

August 29 • Murder Mystery Night – Bluebird Lodge (GH) • Red Rocks Ramblers Square Dancing – Lyons Elementary Gym (LY)

Writing August 3 • Joy of Writing Skills – Nederland Community Center (NED) August 4 • Fall River Writers of Estes Park – Inkwell and Brew (EP) August 11 • Writer’s Circle – Nederland Community Library (NED) • Writer’s Open Mic – Estes Valley Library (EP) • Fall River Writers Guild – Estes Valley Library (EP) August 12 • Life Stories Writing Group – Nederland Community Library (NED)

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August 17 • Joy of Writing Skills – Nederland Community Center (NED) August 26 • Life Stories Writing Group – Nederland Community Library (NED) WEEKLY ARTS Classical Music Friday • James Davis Classical Guitar – Twin Owls Steak House (EP) Crafts/Sewing/Quilting Monday • Stitch ‘n Rippers Quilters – New Covenant Church (EP) Tuesday • Warped Weavers – Kelley House (AP) • Trail Ridge Quilters – Long’s Peak Room, EP Medical Center (EP) • Sit & Knit – Stitchin’ Den (EP) Thursday • Beginning Kitting – Stitchin’ Den (EP) Film/Photography Monday • NAS Movie Matinee – Backdoor Theater (NED) Friday • Movie – Backdoor Theater (NED) Saturday • Movie – Backdoor Theater (NED) Fine Arts Monday • Palette Pals Open Art Studio – Estes Park Senior Center (EP) • Sip & Paint – Murphy’s Resort (EP) • Friday Fireplace Flames – Estes Park Senior Center (EP) Wednesday • Art Group – Old Gallery • Nederland Seniors Art & Painting – Location: 303-2589392 (NED)

• Drop In Artists – Eco-Arts Lounge @ Wild Bear (NED) • NAS Watercolor Painting – Nederland Community Presbyterian Church (NED)

• Sip & Paint – Murphy’s Resort (EP) Friday • Sip & Paint – Murphy’s Resort (EP) Saturday • Sip & Paint – Murphy’s Resort (EP) Museums Friday-Sunday • Museum Open – Nederland Mining Museum (NED) • Museum Open – Gillaspie House Museum (NED) Theater/Opera/Dance/Fashion Monday • International Folk Dancing – Nederland Community Center (NED) Tuesday • Mountain Players Theater Workshop – Nederland Community Center (NED)

Friday • Youth Dance – Gilpin Community Center (GC) Saturday • Youth Dance – Gilpin Community Center (GC) • Central City Wild Bunch – Main Street (CC) AP = Allenspark BC = Boulder County BH = Black Hawk CC = Central City CCC= Coal Creek Canyon EM = Empire EP = Estes Park GC = Gilpin County GRC = Grand County GGC = Golden Gate Canyon GH = Gold Hill GT = Georgetown IS = Idaho Springs

JT = Jamestown LC = Larimer County LV = Loveland LY = Lyons NED = Nederland RV = Rollinsville SA = Salina SMG = St. Mary’s Glacier SP = Silver Plume SC = Summit County WD = Ward WP = Winter Park

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August 1 • Fid & Friends – Alpine Restaurant & Bar (GT) • Jim Stahlhut – Troia’s Café and Marketplace (GT) • Lorrie Morgan – Reserve Casino (CC) • Atomic Pablo – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Monocle Band – Wild Bear Eco-Arts Lounge (NED) • North Boulder Underground – Millsite Inn (WD) • Live Music – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Somebody’s Darling – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Music in the Mornings: David Coile – Stone Cup (LY) • Gary Hall – Rock Inn (EP) • Branden Sipes – Barlow Plaza (EP) • Steel Pennies – YMCA of Rockies Hempel Auditorium (EP) • “Night in Paris” w/David Williams & Davellie Gypsy Jazz Swing Band – Baldpate Key-thedral Theater (EP) August 2 • Sweet Lillies – Very Nice Brewery (NED) • Hotfoot – Millsite Inn (WD) • Appleseed Collective, Todd Adelman – Gold Hill Inn (GH)

• Music in the Mornings: Jay Stott – Stone Cup (LY) • Christopher Cook & Emmy Rose – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY)

• Just Jill – Rock Inn (EP) August 3 • Jon Pickett – Rock Inn (EP) August 5 • Wednesday Night Live: Denver MountainAires and Boulder Timberlines – Performance Park (EP) • Branden Sipes – Barlow Plaza (EP) August 6 • The Better Halves – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Samba Dende – Raul Vasquez Community Stage at Sandstone Park (LY)

• Eric Wiggs & Mike Canney Duo – Rock Inn (EP) • Thursday Night Live: Elk Hollow – Performance Park (EP)

• Gary Hall – Barlow Plaza (EP) • RJ Cowdery – YMCA of Rockies Hempel Auditorium (EP)

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By Jeffrey V. Smith NEDERLAND uane Trucks feels “lucky” to play music for a living. The fortunate ones, however, are audiences that get to experience the gifted drummer on stage. Despite his well-known legacy, the 26-year-old musician has prepared his entire life for the rewards he’s reaping now, and is doing his part to take whatever music he’s involved with to the next level. Catch Trucks with Hard Working Americans, Aug. 29, at NedFest Music and Arts Festival.

Trucks’ love affair with rhythm began before he could walk and pots and pans were his instrument of choice. His third birthday wish was to get drums, and being from a musical family, it was happily granted. By first grade, the young drummer’s dedication to the instrument and his willingness to practice inspired a call to his uncle, Butch—renowned rock drummer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band—who delivered a brand new, in-the-box professional drum set to the budding prodigy. That was all it took. Duane Trucks Trucks began to take drumming seriously in hopes of making his kindergarten aspirations of being a drummer when he grew up, come true.

Throughout his school-age years, Trucks’ older brother Derek—the world-famous, Grammy award-winning guitarist—would encourage him to pursue his love of playing and listening to music by introducing him to the greats of jazz and providing a musical

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blueprint from which to build. “When I was really young, like 17 or 18, I was just focused on playing straight ahead jazz, avantgarde jazz fusion and stuff like that,” Trucks said. “That’s definitely a big part of what I consider fun to play and something that meant a lot to me coming up and was very influential.”

Within months of graduating from his Jacksonville, FL high school, Trucks moved to Atlanta to pursue a music career, mainly because Col. Bruce Hampton—a longtime family friend— was there. Hampton was, and continues to be, well-known for training up-and-coming musical talent at his weekly jam sessions and producing influential, improvisational-based touring acts like Aquarium Rescue Unit.

After arriving in Atlanta, Trucks formed Highly Kind and began touring the south.

It wasn’t long, however, before Hampton called on him to fill a spot in his band Pharaoh Gummit for some shows. When the three-night run was over, Hampton revealed he had been observing Trucks for months and then asked him to be a fulltime member. Forget college, Trucks was Photo by Tobin Voggesser officially enrolled in the school of Col. Bruce—a much higher education.

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John Denver tribute benefits Lions

ESTES PARK Brad Fitch and The TropiCowboy Band present their 12th annual John Denver Tribute Concert in Estes Park on Sept.

5 at the YMCA of the Rockies’ Reusch Auditorium. This concert, featuring classic songs from the legendary Denver, will benefit the Estes Park Lions Club charities. Funds raised will go to organizations for the sight and hearing impaired, community social services and local scholarships.

“Part of the fun of this concert for me is hearing people in the audience sing along Cowboy Brad with us. John Denver’s music means so much to so many,” Fitch said. “We will be performing his bestknown hits along with some of his loved but lesser-known songs for the true John Denver aficionados.”

“I am blessed to perform with an incredible band that interprets John Denver’s songs with both reverence and a whole lot of fun.”

Fitch said. “I will be joined by renowned fiddler Johnny Neill, who’s been part of the band since 2006. Our drummer is well-

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known percussionist Ward Durrett. My sister, Melinda Morris, will be singing with me and her son Eamonn Morris, will be performing on bass and cello. Also with us this year will be Chris Kennison, playing pedal steel, dobro, banjo and lead guitar. Chris was my band-mate at the Arizona and Rocky Mountain Oprys.”

Advance tickets are available at MacDonald Bookstore, Hobert Office Services, the Estes Park Visitor Center or on line at www.estesparklionsclub.org. Doors will open and tickets will also be available at the Reusch Auditorium beginning at 4 p.m. the day of the show.

The opening act will be Reintarnation, a popular bluegrass band from Estes Park.

They will begin at 5 p.m.

YMCA of the Rockies’ Reusch Auditorium is located at 2515 Tunnel Road in Estes Park. For more information, visit www.EstesParkLionsClub.org or www.cowboybrad.com.

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Top Celtic act plays mountain shows PEAK TO PEAK Potcheen, formed in Evergreen in December 2003, has played thousands of shows from New York to Alaska. Named Colorado’s Top Celtic band, they continue to play alongside hundreds of the worlds best musical acts from Celtic to bluegrass, jam and rock bands energizing crowds with their high energy foot stomping stage shows. Catch the band at the Great Central City Beer Fest, Aug. 22, late-night at the Pioneer Inn during NedFest Music & Arts Festival, Aug. 28, and the Millsite Inn, Aug. 29, in the afternoon at 2 p.m.

The Potcheen crew is made up of a collection of talents from all over the U.S. fusing musical backgrounds and cultures into one full throttle rhythmic stew.

The Celtic pirates of Potcheen sees frequently changes as folks come and go.

Potcheen has boasted some of the most talented musicians the past 11 years. Every show audiences will be “amazed by the fastest fiddlers in Colorado as well as the funkiest bassists and the shredding-est guitars.”

According to the Director of Sherwood Celtic Festival, “The band was amazing, they hit the ground running and didn’t stop til after the sun went down and everyone was panting and sweating.”

The Great Central City Beer Fest takes place on Main Street in Central City, the Pioneer Inn is located at 15 E. First Street in Nederland and the Millsite Inn in located at 44365 Hwy. 72 in Ward. Visit thepotcheenfolkband.com for more information and additional tour dates.

Trailer-park troubadour’s songs ‘real’ IDAHO SPRINGS Tony Rosario is a true son of the soil and a Colorado favorite. The self-appointed trailer-park troubadour and regular folks representative has had his songs recorded

by Randy Travis, Wynonna Judd and Suzy Boguss among others.

The singer-songwriterguitarist performs a free show at Da Rivuh Fish & BBQ Company in Idaho Springs, Aug. 15 from 6-9 p.m.

Rosario is a rugged, oaken-voiced guitarslinger “deftly running the rails from blues to Tony Rosario country to rock to folk to R&B and soul, with all the purpose of a steam locomotive and an anything but common one-man groove that runs a country mile wide and all day long.” His career of over 25 years in the music industry includes stints working and or recording with platinum-selling group Firefall, new age cowboy artist Chuck Pyle, Polygram Records, MCA/Crosswind Publish-

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ing, Reel One Publishing and recording artist Michael Johnson. He is highly acclaimed as a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, recording artist, performer, producer, and teacher.

The artist’s songs are “real and gritty, upbeat and driving, painful and hopeful, playful and sincere, and everything in between. Stories built to move the mind and bodies—and hopefully a heart or two along the way.”

American Songwriter Magazine described him as a “performer not to miss.” Find out for yourself what audiences all over are “soakin’ up like sweet rain on parched soil.”

Da Rivuh Fish & BBQ Company is located at 1446 Miner Street in Idaho Springs. Visit www.darivuh.com or www.reverbnation.com/tonyrosario for additional information.

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that worked under him. It is one of the most important things that a musician can decide.

What is your intension? Why are you even doing this… are you doing it for fame, for money? I think it’s something that’s good and healthy for musicians to decide early in their career. It’s like musical morals.”

Trucks figured out quickly it wasn’t about being famous or rich, it was simply about getting to do what he loves. “It’s really just about the art of making music. As Col. Bruce would always say, ‘it’s a ritualistic healing process.’ [He] is dead on. Realistically, that’s all music has ever been—from the tribe sitting around the fire to people waiting all year for their favorite band to announce tour dates so they can go see them in their favorite venues. It’s something you’re giving people to uplift them in their daily lives… that, for me, is the intention behind it.”

While working under Hampton, Trucks was also taught how to find himself musically.

“I think it’s a constant goal [to be yourself in music]. It’s one of those things you’re always trying to work towards. Bruce would always be like, ‘I don’t want to hear what you Duane Trucks practice in your bedroom.’ You let your influences help you learn how to speak, but then you speak for yourself.”

“That’s definitely something Bruce helped clarify for me, and for 100s of young musicians he’s constantly working with. I think, ultimately, all you can do is be yourself. Even if you’re trying as hard as you can to imitate somebody, ultimately, you’re never going to be able to sound like that person. Just take what you can from your influences and let those become your lexicon to speak. Bruce would say, ‘search, search and keep on searching;’ keep on looking for new things that musically turn you on so it won’t become stagnant and you won’t end up sounding like a John Bonham rip-off or a wanna be Ginger Baker—you’re going to end up sounding like yourself.”

As his time with Hampton was ending, Trucks formed a “New Orleans mojo revival” act he called Flannel Church, which included bassist Kevin Scott and guitarist Gregory “Wolf” Hodges who both played with Hampton. The trio worked with pedal steel player Roosevelt Collier and guitarist Shane Pruitt until pedal steel player A.J. Ghent, another Hampton alum, joined in.

Trucks also helped form King Lincoln with an Atlanta singer-songwriter duo.

Those projects either ran their course or fell to the side once Trucks landed a gig in Hard Working Americans, a band assembled by Todd Snider featuring Widespread Panic’s Dave Schools on bass, Neal Casal of Ryan Adams & the Cardinals and Phil Lesh &

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Friends on guitar and vocals, Jesse Aycock on lap steel and Great American Taxi’s Chad Staehly on keyboards. The band went into Bob Weir’s Tri Studios studio together not knowing each other, or what to expect, and emerged with a self-titled debut featuring re-arranged renditions of 11 songs by a variety of songwriters like Randy Newman, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, Lucinda Williams, Kevin Forson and more as well as a desire to keep the act together.

“That band was kind of one of those experimental things that just happened,” Trucks said. “It just kind of came together in a strange organic way. We got lucky enough to where everyone got along so well.”

The band went in to it thinking it would be one and done, until they performed together. “At our first few shows, everyone was kind of like, ‘wow, this is weirdly easy and weirdly fun to play with everyone.’” Band members were encouraged to take on a second tour, and by its end realized they had found some “serious musical chemistry” on stage. “Everyone felt really good playing with each other, and everyone hit it off on a friendship level really quick, and we all kind of walked away wanting to play with each other all the time,” he said.

Following the second tour, the band went back into the studio to record its first collection of originals. “It was once again an experiment,” Trucks explained. “We wanted to see what we could write together as a group. It was really kind of an eye-opener when we had about six or seven days in Chicago and we, as a group, wrote six to seven songs. I think everyone walked away thinking this is something we need to keep doing and wanting to try to make it happen as much as possible.”

The unfortunate reality for the groups fans, however, is each member is a successful, working musician so scheduling gets in the way. “We all knew that stepping in, so it’s not something that’s a vibe killer or anything,” Trucks said. “When you do a band like this, everyone is in a different band and to try to thread that needle as far as scheduling goes, a lot of things get in the way. We all have to be patient with it.”

According to the drummer, creating the new, original album—due out later this year—felt like it was their first because everyone was writing and “involved from top to bottom” for the first time.

“I think [the band] has come together in a really cool way,” he said, “and I feel like everyone gels nicely and can really get behind the whole concept; the whole idea of standing up and claiming patriotism for the subculture… and being like, Deadheads are just as much patriots as Continued on page 30

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the nine-to-five, tax-paying person. That’s something that really turns everyone on and gives us a musical outlet to dump all our ideas into.”

In the midst of the success of Hard Working Americans, Trucks was approached

by Schools about joining his main gig, Widespread Panic, which needed a drummer to fill in for its founding member who was taking an extended break. Despite a week and half notice, Trucks jumped at the chance to join one of the country’s most enduring and successful touring acts.

Although he had the experience of sitting in for his uncle in the Allman Brothers Band and joining his brother’s Tedeschi Trucks Band, fitting into those roles came naturally. Suddenly, becoming part of an established, beloved band of musicians with a massive repertoire and fanatical fan base intimate with the music he wasn’t, was a different story. He says he had to study hard and went in wanting to know the music well enough to do his own thing while Duane Trucks respecting a foundation that had been set for 27 years. By all accounts, Trucks has been more than successful in the challenge.

Joining Widespread Panic—which remains a stable position for Trucks for the foreseeable future—brings everything full-circle back to Hampton and having an uncorrupted musical intention. “I feel like that is something from the Col. Bruce school you can see in a lot of the guys that have been affected by him through the years. That was one thing with Widespread, stepping into that chair, where we were all lucky enough to have been affected by Bruce at an early age.”

Even though Trucks knew guitarist Jimmy Herring—who is his father-in-law and another Col. Bruce alum—and Schools from Hard Working Americans, stepping in and playing with the other band members wasn’t as hard as it sounds. “They were all kind of slanted in the same way from being around Col. Bruce to where that was something we all luckily had in common and could see eye-to-eye on,” he said. “If you’ve got those kind of things in common, it makes the whole process of making music and being creative together easier.”

While Trucks began his career exploring jazz, he has no issue being in the position he finds himself today. “As I’ve gotten older, playing rock ‘n’ roll in rock ‘n’ roll bands is really where my heart lies,” he said. “There is just something about the feeling of playing songs with a group of five or six dudes and being able to stretch out and improvise.

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best of both worlds for someone coming up as a wannabe jazz drummer.”

These days, Trucks is very much in tune with his prerequisites for participating in a project and how to make sure it “feels good.” According to the drummer, it’s all about good songwriting, band chemistry and room to improvise. “The songs are a heavy part of what feels good or bad about playing with a group of people. As important as the songs is the chemistry between the musicians. Those are… the deciding factors of how much you enjoy playing with a group: the personal and musical chemistry between everyone and the songs that are the vehicles,” Trucks said.

He explained how he also needs to have room to spread his wings. “For me, it’s how free and open the parameters are in the band as far as being able to improvise and being able to stretch out and do something from night to night that’s going to be an organic thing and not going to be the same every night. I feel lucky enough with the two bands that are taking up the majority of my time right now—Widespread Panic and Hard Working Americans—I get to do that. There are great songs, great personal energy between everyone and there is an opportunity to improvise and stretch out and be able to, from night to night, see what happens, what’s different with a certain song or certain combination of songs or the musical conversation that takes place on stage.”

Trucks also gets turned on by a great audience, and Colorado, he says, has some of the best. “I think everyone looks forward to playing Colorado because the audiences are so attentive. If it’s time to get rowdy, they are there to get rowdy with you, but if it’s time to mellow out and play a quiet, chill song, they will quiet down and they will listen and they’ll be hanging on every word,” he said. “I feel like the culture that has migrated to Colorado is pretty amazing... I just played my first shows at Red Rocks with Panic a few weeks ago, just being there and doing that, it’s unbelievable.”

Colorado was also where Hard Working Americans got its start. Its first gig—documented on CD and DVD as The First Waltz by filmmaker Justin Kreutzmann—was at Boulder’s Fox Theater. “Every tour we’ve played, we’ve done one or two shows in Colorado, and every time it always ends up being one of the highlights,” Trucks said.

The drummer explained audiences like those found in Colorado can have a profound affect on the music. “When you’re out there and you’re letting it happen on stage from night to night, everyone’s feeling is based on the feeling in the room.

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Went Down With the Sun Caribou Mountain Collective

Aug. 7: ARISE Music Festival, Loveland Aug. 7: Arapaho Valley Ranch Bluegrass Weekend, Granby Aug. 13: YarmonyGrass Music Festival, Rancho Del Rio Aug. 28: NedFest Music & Art Festival, Nederland

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aribou Mountain Collective is a Nederland-based quartet with an extensive original repertoire that channels the rich traditions of both Appalachia and Colorado bluegrass.

Their original lyrics and instrumental compositions present unique facets into Americana. The band, which won the RockyGrass Band Competition last year and opened the festival in 2015, represents the next step in an ongoing revolution of roots music.

While only together a short time, the band has established a strong presence on the local scene. Dobro player Allen Cooke was awarded first place at the 2013 Rockygrass dobro competition, bassist Curly Collins brings his stage presence and industry expertise from his five years with Mountain Standard Time, Etienne Cremieux studied at Berklee College of Music and brings a decade of bluegrass fiddle experience and guitarist Miles Perry embodies the mountain heritage in his original works.

The band recently released its debut album, Went Down With the Sun, recorded at Coupe Studios, produced and engineered by John McVey—except for a couple of tracks produced by Nick Forster of Hot Rize—and dedicated to Dr. Robert F. Cooke. The music was mastered

by Dominick Maita at Airshow Mastering.

All songs are written by lead singer and guitarist Miles Perry and arranged by Caribou Mountain Collective.

The members of the band want their music to be heard, so they are giving it away as free digital download at www.cariboumountaincollective.com.

Physical copies can also be purchased.

TRACKS 1) Pickin And Sippin 6) To Caribou & Back To You 2) Yellow Mountain Home 7) Old Mule 3) If You Would’ve 8) Beanstalk Blues Heard Me Calling 9) The Ballad Of 4) Lady Jane Percy Flowers 5) Fire Of ‘53 10) Sand Creek Massacre

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Mountain MUSIC In demand drummer takes recent ‘whirlwind’ of change in stride nerable and that’s what happens when you feel like you got the support of the people that are listening.” Trucks’ connection with Colorado goes deeper with associations to local acts like Great American Taxi and The Drunken Hearts as well as performing in one-off super jams throughout the year.

Despite the recent accomplishments in his career, and a recent move to Los Angeles, Trucks seems to be rolling with the changes and remains open to whatever comes his way. “These past couple of years have been kind of a whirlwind,” he said. “Whenever new experiences or new things like this happen, you really just try to take it all in, take in the experience. I feel like the goals are always changing after you experience something new like

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cans, I remember from night to night just how much more involved and exciting the improvisational areas are when there is an audience… letting you know they are there and involved in whatever journey you are going on musically. It’s encouraging to the musicians on stage.”

The music really does get to a “different level,” Trucks says, when playing in a beautiful place and the “audience is really there for you and really has your back no mater where you’re going to take them. I think it makes everyone on stage just feel looser and feel more willing to take risks and ultimately that’s what people want to hear, they want to hear something organic they want to hear something real and vul-

Mountain MUSIC Calendar August 7 • Keith Synnestvedt – Alpine Restaurant & Bar (GT) • Live Music – Troia’s Café and Marketplace (GT) • Steve Thomas Band – Ameristar Casino (BH) • Dr. Phil Good, The Angle – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Eric Stone – Very Nice Brewery (NED) • Thunder & Rain – Gold Hill Rain (GH) • Cory Morin – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Johnny O Band – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Summerfest 2015: Strangebyrds – YMCA of Rockies Hempel Auditorium (EP)

• Wild Inspirations w/David Potter – Aspen & Evergreen Gallery (EP)

• Richard Geppinger – Barlow Plaza (EP) • Cadillac Grip – Rock Inn (EP) August 8 • Gary & Claudia – Troia’s Café and Marketplace (GT) • The Sisters Sweet – Stage Stop (RV) • DJ Rockstar Aaron – Ameristar Casino (BH) • Mountain Folk Festival: Sawmill Joe, Jerry Rasch & the Flatlanders, Bourbon the Mountain Lion – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • North Boulder Underground – Millsite Inn (WD) • The Sweet Lillies – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Music in the Mornings: James Faulk – Stone Cup (LY) • Sam Pace & the Gilded Grit – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Jay Roemer – Rock Inn (EP) • Amplified Souls – Elk Meadow Lodge (EP) • Branden Sipes – Barlow Plaza (EP) • Falcon Flight – YMCA of Rockies Ruesch Auditorium (EP) August 9 • Customer Appreciation Party – Mid County Liquors (RV) • New Family Dog – Very Nice Brewery (NED) • Summer Celebration: Defunkt Railroad – Nederland Community Center (NED)

• Burns Twice – Millsite Inn (WD) • Jim Gilmore – Gold Hill Rain (GH) • Marcus James – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Music in the Mornings: Bella Musser – Stone Cup (LY) • Billy Shaddox – Rock Inn (EP) August 10 • Swing Dance Night – Stage Stop (RV) • Erik the Viking – Rock Inn (EP) • Estes Park Jazz Bog Band Concert – Performance Park (EP) August 12 • Danny Shafer & Friends – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Alex Thoele – Rock Inn (EP) • Richard Geppinger – Barlow Plaza (EP) • Wednesday Night Live: Clearwings – Performance Park (EP) August 13 • Karaoke – Stage Stop (RV) • Open Mic Night – Very Nice Brewing (NED) • Psychodillo – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Monocle Band – Raul Vasquez Stage at Sandstone Park (LY) • Laurie Dameron – Barlow Plaza (EP) August 14 • Steve Thomas Band – Ameristar Casino (BH) • Jack Yoder & the Two Piece Suits – Stage Stop (RV) • Torbin Hadlock – Very Nice Brewery (NED) • Beauty Of My Land – Pioneer Inn (NED)

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this. I feel lucky just to be able to play music for a living and that’s honestly, that’s the main thing, being able to put all of your energy into something like this and see it somewhat start to pay off.”

As much as things change, however, the more they stay the same. Recently, Trucks has been exploring more recent music.

“Growing up in a very old school musical mind set of listening to music only from the 50s, 60s and 70s, it’s a newer thing for me to really be into modern music,” he said. It’s expanded his musical horizons and prompts him to want to get involved in some “super psychedelic” L.A. rock band.

The more he discovers the musicians of Hard Working Americans, the more he’s finding out he may have already achieved

that goal. “Hard Working Americans is starting to become the kind of outlet where when I listen back to some of the new stuff we’re recording I’m like, ‘holy shit! That’s super psychedelic and super weird.’” Honestly, if I can just keep playing music and do things that make me happy musically, that’s my goal, that’s what I’m going to keep striving for.”

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Tuesday • Open Mic – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Taco Tuesday: NoGo Gilbillies – Salto Coffee Works (NED) • “A Night at the Goat” Open Mic – KYGT Radio (IS) • Bluegrass Pick – Oskar Blues (LY) • James Davis – Twin Owls Steakhouse (EP) • Cowboy Brad Sing-along – Bond Park (EP) Wednesday • Blues Jam – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Vinyl Night – Very Nice Brewing (NED) • Karaoke – West Winds Tavern (IS) • Open Bluegrass Pick – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Brown Bag Lunch Jam – Highland Music (EP) • Open Mic w/Justin Faye – Lonigans Bar & Grill (EP) • James Davis – Twin Owls Steakhouse (EP) • Cowboy Brad Campfire Sing-along – YMCA of Rockies (EP) Thursday • Boogie Nights Jam – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Bluegrass Pick – First Street Pub (NED) • Open Mic: Taylor Radio + Potluck – Spirit Hound Distillery (LY) • Ladies Night w/Mountain Town Rockers – Estes Park

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• Ky Burt – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Grant Farm – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Branden Sipes – Barlow Plaza (EP) • Music in the Mornings: Aural Elixir – Stone Cup (LY) • Hog MaGundy – Rock Inn (EP) • Peggy Mann Band – YMCA of Rockies Hempel Auditorium (EP) August 14-16 • Rocky Mountain Folks Festival – Planet Bluegrass (LY) August 15 • Jack Yoder – Troia’s Café and Marketplace (GT) • DJ Rockstar Aaron – Ameristar Casino (BH) • Live Music – Millsite Inn (WD) • Josh Turnquist – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Music in the Mornings: Ran Off the Rooster – Stone Cup (LY) • The Sisters Sweet – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Jack & Gary – Barlow Plaza (EP) • Mountain Town Rockers – Elk Meadow Lodge (EP) • Estes Park Wine Festival: Fireweed Bluegrass, Partially Stable, Primary People – Bond Park (EP) August 16 • Flash Mountain Flood – Very Nice Brewery (NED) • ONDA – Millsite Inn (WD) • Music in the Mornings: Dan Eilers – Stone Cup (LY) • Willie Bean Bluegrass – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Sixth “Spirituality of John Denver” Concert w/Cowboy Brad – YMCA of Rockies Hyde Chapel (EP) • Estes Park Wine Festival: Equally Challenged, Ponder the Albatross, Caleb Crain – Bond Park (EP) August 17 • Music in the Mornings: Sarah Caton Tibbetts – Stone Cup (LY) August 19 • Just Jill – Rock Inn (EP) • Wednesday Night Live: Adam Green – Performance Park (EP) August 20 • Celtic Session w/The Gael – Very Nice Brewery (NED) • Shady Rest – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Sean Flynn – Rock Inn (EP) • Matthew Gurnsey – Performance Park (EP) August 21 • Gary & Claudia – Troia’s Café and Marketplace (GT) • Delta Sonics – Ameristar Casino (BH) • Nom de Guerres – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Ragged Union – Gold Hill Rain (GH) • Tim Ostdiek – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Augustus – Rock Inn (EP) • Longs Peak Reunion 2015 w/Dixie Ramblers – Performance Park (EP)

August 22 • Jack Yoder – Troia’s Café and Marketplace (GT) • DJ Bedz – Ameristar Casino (BH) • Sounds of Summer - Colorado Country Block Party – Mardi Gras Casino (BH)

• Rollifest w/7 Bands, Pig Roast, more – Stage Stop (RV) • 44th Anniversary Party: Riff Raff – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Mbanza – Very Nice Brewery (NED) • Dixie Leadfoot & the Chrome Struts – Millsite Inn (WD) • Live Music – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Cadillac Grip – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Music in the Mornings: James Faulk – Stone Cup (LY)

Spirit Hound Distillery (LY) • Amplified Souls – Elk Meadow Lodge (EP) • Jay Stott – Rock Inn (EP)

August 23 • New Family Dog – Very Nice Brewery (NED) • Jeff Brinkman – Millsite Inn (WD) • Ostevetto – Gold Hill Rain (GH) • Music in the Mornings: Antonio Lopez – Stone Cup (LY) • Arts on the River – River Bend (LY) • Charlie Parr – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) August 24 • Swing Dance Night – Stage Stop (RV) • Acoustic Open Mic – Gold Hill Rain (GH) August 26 • Har-di-Har – Stage Stop (RV) • Bryan Bowers – Gold Hill Rain (GH) August 27 • Karaoke – Stage Stop (RV) • Todd Adelman & Country Mile – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) August 28 • Gary & Claudia – Troia’s Café and Marketplace (GT) • Delta Sonics – Ameristar Casino (BH) • Potcheen – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Banshee Tree – Gold Hill Rain (GH) • Live Music – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Interstate Stash Express – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Ran Off the Rooster – Rock Inn (EP) August 28-30 • NedFest Music and Art Festival: Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Hard Working Americans, MarchFourth!, Vince Herman & Friends, more – Jeff Guercio Memorial Ball Field (NED) August 29 • Jim Stahlhut – Troia’s Market & Cafe (GT) • DJ Guerito – Ameristar Casino (BH) • Live Music – Stage Stop (RV) • Global Soul Experience – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Potcheen – Millsite Inn (WD) • The Alcapones – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Cosmic Mesa Bluegrass – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Music in the Mornings: Billy Shaddox – Stone Cup (LY) • Terry & Ash Duo – Rock Inn (EP) • Mountain Town Rockers – Elk Meadow Lodge (EP) August 30 • Live Music – Stage Stop (RV) • Andrew Duhon Trio – Gold Hill Rain (GH) • Music in the Mornings: Live Music – Stone Cup (LY) • The Prairie Scholars – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Neal Whitlock – Rock Inn (EP) WEEKLY MUSIC Sunday • Open Bluegrass Pick – Salto Coffee Works (NED) • Grumpy Jam – Alpine Restaurant & Bar (GT) • Brunch w/Amanda Valley – Estes Park Resort (EP) • Cowboy Brad Sing-along Program – Bond Park (EP) Monday • Open Jovan – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Cowboy Brad Sing-along – Bond Park (EP)

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• Bob Smallwood – View Restaurant @ Crags Lodge (EP) Friday • Steve Smersh – Mountain Strong Restaurant (EP) • Ray Young – Nicky’s Restaurant (EP) • James Davis – Twin Owls Steakhouse (EP) • Karaoke (Theme Night) – Lonigans Bar & Grill (EP) • Open Mic – Elk Meadow Lodge (EP) • Bob Smallwood – View Restaurant @ Crags Lodge (EP) Saturday • Open Mic – Old Gallery (AP) • Karaoke (Prize Night) – Lonigans Bar & Grill (EP) • Ray Young – Nicky’s Restaurant (EP) • Bob Smallwood – View Restaurant @ Crags Lodge (EP) • Live Music – Kind Coffee (EP) • Mountain Town Trio – Tavern & Brewery at Mary’s Lake Lodge (EP)

AP = Allenspark BC = Boulder County BH = Black Hawk CC = Central City CCC= Coal Creek Canyon EM = Empire EP = Estes Park GC = Gilpin County GRC = Grand County GGC = Golden Gate Canyon GH = Gold Hill GT = Georgetown

IS = Idaho Springs JT = Jamestown LV = Loveland LY = Lyons NED = Nederland RV = Rollinsville SA = Salina SMG = St. Mary’s Glacier SP = Silver Plume SC = Summit County WD = Ward WP = Winter Park

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