by Curtis Wackerle, for the Aspen Daily News (12/29/11) The Aspen Historical Society is expanding opportunities to learn about area history while skiing local mountains. For three seasons, the society has offered ski history tours on Aspen Mountain, but this year, the tours are being offered at Snowmass and Aspen Highlands as well. Aspen Highlands tours [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Aspen History’
Aspen Historical Society Offers Ski Tours on 3 Mountains
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Arts & Culture, Skiing, Snowboarding, tagged Aspen Daily News, Aspen Highlands, Aspen Historical Society, Aspen History, Aspen Mountain, Snowmass on December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Class is in Session: Aspen History 101
Posted in Arts & Culture, Guest Blog, tagged Aspen Historical Society, Aspen History, Hotel Jerome on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
by Christine Benedetti, from the Aspen Historical Society Do you know how the Silver Queen gondola got its name? Or how to become a student in the Aspen State Teachers College? These questions and more will be answered at Aspen History 101. Presented by the Aspen Historical Society, the free event is a crash course in [...]
Aspen Will Always Be Closely Connected To Our Country’s Veterans
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Arts & Culture, Beautiful Aspen, tagged 10th Mountain Division, Aspen History, Fire on the Mountain, The Fall Line, Tyler Stableford, Veterans' Day on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a timely, poignant and unplanned happenstance, I finished Peter Shelton’s great book Climb to Conquer: The Untold Story of World War II’s 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops on Veterans Day. With all of the talk about the unique numerical date on the calendar of this year’s Veterans Day, it seemed important to slow down a bit to [...]
Favorite Aspen Activity for Free (or nearly free): Walking Tours!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Historical Society, Aspen History, Aspen Meadows Resort, Aspen Walking Tours on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are so many reasons to love Aspen in the fall, and there are so many FREE or really inexpensive things to do that it’s hard to pick a favorite activity! But we love walking tours, especially in autumn, so we’ve hand-picked a few for you to choose from: * Aspen Meadows Resort Art Walking [...]
