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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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A KOTO Radio show, in Telluride, Colorado, that aired September 10, 1982. The name of the show is Friday Live. Jerry Greene interviews Bob Campbell, a local business person. Bob describes his career and education up until 1982, including his general contracting company. Bob is a civil engineer and has a master's degree in business. Bob and his wife, Judy, moved to Telluride in around 1975. He speaks of that story and also his current business as the...
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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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A KOTO Radio show, called Friday Live, that aired December 21, 1979. Jerry Greene interviews long-time residents Jack and Davine Pera. They are the owners of the hardware store, Timberline Hardware. They have owned the business for 10-11 years. Jack tells the story of how he came about the idea of the hardware store—when Joe Zoline announced the ski area opening, Jack decided Telluride was going to grow and would be in need of a hardware business....
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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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In 1978, John Lifton-Zoline describes access to the ski area, the lifts, and plans for the ski area, in Telluride, Colorado. A new groomer and levels of difficulties have been added. The interviewer's name is unknown. Recording is about 9 minutes long.
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Photograph by Ingrid Lundahl of Brother Al, Cindy Obrand, and General Norman Schwartzkopf, dated 1996.
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This newspaper article is from 1982 and describes Telluride's ninth annual Bluegrass and Country Music Festival. While not noted, the Rocky Mountain News is believed to be the publisher, since John Ashton is the author of the article.
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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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Terry Tice interviews Mountain Manager, Johnnie Stevens, and Marketing Director, Mike Hess on October 6, 1988. Recording is approximately 33 minutes.
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Jerry Greene interviews Richard "Dick" Unruh in August of 1981 about the upcoming Telluride Jazz festival.
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A newspaper article, from the Boulder Daily Camera, dated January 3, 1982. Jerry Greene, Brother Al, Michael Saftler, Mary Cal Hollis, Rita Robinson, Robert Allen, and Mavis Forsberg are all mentioned.