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Co-founder of the Telluride Film Festival, that began in 1974. The 1974 Denver Post newspaper article noted: "At age 30, Bedford is typical of may of Telluride's new residents. A college graduate (history and political science), he had been a clothing salesman, free-lance artist, TV cameraman, carpet layer and office-supplies salesman, and had knocked around the country, dissatisfied with his life's mission, until he somehow ended up in Telluride...
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Cynthia (Cindy) Obrand's role at the KOTO Radio station, in Telluride, Colorado, was General Manager and she was also known as “Ida Mae” with the “Humpday Honeys” live on the air every Wednesday from 3 to 5, back in the 1990's. Cindy was also Executive Director of the San Miguel Conservation Foundation and one of the founders of Greenbucks. Greenbucks was an organization that gave free tickets for concerts to folks who cleaned up the river,...
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"MG senior contributor Jon Kovash was an early editor of the Aspen Daily News and KOTO/Telluride’s news director for fifteen years, during which time he developed and produced “Thin Air,” an award-winning regional radio news magazine. Currently he’s the Moab correspondent for Utah Public Radio. His blog, Mountain Architecture, can be found at mountaingazette.com."--taken from: http://mountaingazette.com/author/jon-kovash/ Above link accessed...
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KOTO news journalist from 1990-1996. Here is Lynn's LinkedIn profile summary: "Global communications strategist, storyteller, and leader, with a track record building and guiding teams that deliver measurable results for international organizations. Extensive international development experience, including four years based in Africa leading NGO programs, as well as assignments in dozens of countries in Africa and Asia. Expertise in global health...
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Roger Knapp was a Presbyterian minister in the 1980's and lived in Telluride/Placerville, Colorado from January 1978 until June 1998. He is married to Linda Knapp. Dr. Knapp currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. To discover more about Dr. Knapp, please listen to his KOTO Friday Live interview, with Terry Selby. Information taken 5/25/21 from the following websites: https://www.telluridenews.com/news/article_4ca4341b-50e4-5db8-bcae-7ae5db0f10d8.html https://www.smartbackgroundchecks.com/people/roger-knapp/santa-fe/nm/EmR0BQZmAmDkZwV3ZmN2AQx1AQx http://wcopresbytery.org/u/newsletter/216-janfeb16.pdf...
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As of 2021, Esther White lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand where she teaches gentle yoga for seniors and practices meditation. Here is part of her story: "It begins in (Warren) Ohio, where Esther grew up (in an Orthodox Jewish household) and segues to Michigan State, her alma mater. A detour to a hippy commune gets her to Colorado. She lands in town, her spiritual home, in 1972, just as Telluride opened for business as a ski resort, the protests of...
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"I moved back to Telluride in 2013. It had been 15 years since I lived in Telluride full-time. On Sunday, I’ll leave Telluride after six years and punctuate what for me has been Telluride 2.0. I have many highlights from my time in Telluride the last six years, the climax being the birth of my fourth child, Lollie, who was born on Oct. 25, 2016. Montrose does good birth, let’s put it that way. Coaching my son Benji in hockey, lots of powder...
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"Peters had a long history in the region and was known as an outstanding community activist. In the early part of this decade he served a term on the Ridgway Town Council and on the Ridgway Planning Commission. He has also served on numerous boards and committees locally, and was becoming known regionally and even statewide for his work on broader issues, including the Barack Obama campaign. “Brian was well read and extremely articulate, and...
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"Erdman is the owner and operator of the Last Dollar Community Solar Garden, just outside Telluride, behind the airport. He bought the property around 2010, with the hopes of creating a small solar garden. Now, after close to a decade, his dream has come to fruition. Erdman describes the solar garden as a passion project, or a labor of love. He spent his career as an architect, designing medical clinics across the country. But he says ever since...
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Robert V. Brickell December 17, 1927 - October 29, 2011 Robert Brickell, age 83, died October 29th, 2011 at Raleigh Health and Rehabilitation Center. Bob was born December 17, 1927 at St. Pauls Hospital in Dallas, Texas. He was son of the late Vreeland and Louise Brickell. Bob was preceded in death by his wife of 45 years, Corrine S. Brickell and grandson, Robert Turner Brickell. He is survived by his sister, Linda Knapp, SantŽ Fe New, Mexico; children,...
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"Lynn Rae has lived her life somewhere between the right and left brain with zeal and achievements across many creative disciplines. Beginning at 5 as a dancer, by nine she was acclaimed actress playing on opposite George C. Scott. She has continued as a stage actress as a performer and writer. She also self published a book and wrote newspaper articles as the “The Gardening Guru”. Starting as the Caterer for the Telluride Film Festival...
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Rasta Stevie has been surfing and living in Costa Rica for 5 years and returned to Durango, Colorado 3 years ago to raise his son in mountain ski culture as well as tropical paradise. Stevie, Stumpfilms and the Telluride Dirtbag Ski Posse is partly responsible for many firsts in mountain culture. Stevie made his own original red, gold and green ski gators in 1982 inspiring his nick name Rasta Stevie. The ski culture in the early eighties in Telluride...
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"Baked in Telluride’s owner is longtime local Jerry Greene. An engineering and psychology graduate from Cornell University, Greene spent much of his college career at student radio WVBR. His pursuit of a radio career led him to Telluride. After a stint in St. Louis with groundbreaking community radio KDNA, and in Denver starting the project that became KUVO, he came to the nascent resort in 1974 to consult with locals dreaming of a community radio...
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"Dick Unruh: Today, he is an unassuming gentleman in a white cowboy hat and matching beard, a lawyer in a small Western town who defends those who have gotten themselves into trouble. But back in the ’70s, when Telluride was an unpaved mountain hideaway inhabited by old miners and a clutch of ski bums, Dick Unruh was a cowboy hippie in the thick of it—the antics and lifestyle that have become the stuff of legend. Once or twice along the way,...
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"After growing up in the Midwest, I moved to Telluride in 1981, not just for the wonderful skiing, but for all the special qualities of this year-round, mountain community. Life here has afforded me the opportunity to get involved in Town Council, our music & film festivals, KOTO-FM, teaching skiing and in wetlands preservation. Since 1986, it’s been my true pleasure to help people find their own special place here in our area — guiding folks toward...
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"Mary Cal Hollis is a liberal political activist. A native of Arkansas who now lives in Colorado, she has run for national office on both the Socialist and Green Party tickets. Mary Cal Hollis was born on January 13, 1952, in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), one of four children of Cal Hollis and Ruth Bylander Hollis. She graduated in 1970 from Pine Bluff High School. After graduation, she went on to the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville...
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"Thomas Henry Hale, a pioneer in Colorado politics and local government, died on Jan. 23, 2018 in Georgetown at the age of 73 after a nine-month battle with brain cancer. Mr. Hale was born on July 15, 1944 in Boston to a distinguished family with deep roots in New England spanning back to the Mayflower. His relatives established the oldest law firm in the United States, today called WilmerHale. The Hales also had a deep tradition in public service:...