Chasing Ghosts: A Mountain Bike Ride with Butch Cassidy and the New Wild Bunch Join us for an extraordinary talk on the life and legacy of Butch Cassidy from professor of History, Dr. Andrew Gulliford (Fort Lewis College) and adventurer Brett Davis. This presentation is about a modern-day crew of adventurers who go back in […]
A series of free weekly lectures on Wednesdays this fall by scholars, writers, storytellers, and experts of Telluride's history. Hosted by the Telluride Historical Museum and located at the Madeline Hotel.
A series of free weekly lectures on Wednesdays this fall by scholars, writers, storytellers, and experts of Telluride's history. Hosted by the Telluride Historical Museum and located at the Madeline Hotel.
A series of free weekly lectures on Wednesdays this fall by scholars, writers, storytellers, and experts of Telluride's history. Hosted by the Telluride Historical Museum and located at the Madeline Hotel.
In 1994, Steve Gumble founded SBG Productions, a music-based special events company in Telluride. Under Gumble's leadership, SBG Productions created their flagship festival - the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, as well as producing the Telluride Jazz Festival and the Durango Blues Train. Hear Gumble’s behind-the-scenes stories and experiences from operating festivals in Telluride at […]
In celebration of thirty years of environmental advocacy, join Sheep Mountain Alliance staff and board members for this free chat at the Madeline Hotel in Mountain Village. Discover the origins of their grassroots organization and learn more about the challenging and crucial work that goes into protecting our local landscapes. Free & open to all!
Wednesday, Sept. 20 | 6:00 pm Madeline Hotel’s Great Room Free & open to all! Join us for a chat with museum board member, independent guide, and author, Fred Blackburn. A Telluride native, Fred’s research into new archival sources uncovered never before seen photographs and journals. These treasures showcase the impressive engineering involved in powering […]
Part of our Fireside Chat Series: Rudy Davison: Fact-Finding Tour to Zermatt Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | 6:00 pm | Madeline Hotel’s Living Room* FREE and open to all In 1979, 25 Telluride locals took a fact-finding trip to the Swiss mountain resort of Zermatt. Looking for inspiration and ideas to forge the community’s future […]
Part of our Fireside Chat Series: Robert Savath & Annie Varielle-Savath: Telluride Ski School & 1970s Telluride Wednesday, September 28, 2022 | 6:00 pm | Madeline Hotel’s Living Room* | FREE Join us for a chat with the Savaths, a dynamic husband and wife duo, and involved longtime Telluride locals. A native of France, Annie […]
Part of our Fireside Chat Series: Johnnie Stevens: Telluride Ski Area Expert Wednesday, September 21, 2022 | 6pm | Madeline Hotel’s Living Room | FREE Hired in 1972 as the first director of the Telluride Ski Patrol, Johnnie Stevens worked his way up to Chief Operating Officer of Telski and was inducted in the Colorado […]
October 3rd 5:30-6:30 Madeline Hotel and Residences: Living Room *Guests will be encouraged to visit M Lounge for a 15% discount during the event and can purchase food and beverage and bring to the Fireside Chat. Don Paulson “Abandoned Mining Sites, Stories from the Past” Join Don Paulson of the Ouray County Historical Society to […]
September 19th 5:30-6:30 Madeline Hotel and Residences: Living Room *Guests will be encouraged to visit M Lounge for a 15% discount during the event and can purchase food and beverage and bring to the Fireside Chat. Bob Mather, Historic Preservation Architect “Rehabilitation & Adaptive Use of the Calkins High School in Cortez Co.” Join Historic […]
Ridgway’s Pete Davis presents the history of climbing in the San Juans spanning over 150 years including tales of explorers, miners, cowboys and more recently, some of the greatest climbers the modern world has ever known. Telluride Historical Museum’s fall Fireside Chats are a series of weekly lectures held in the “Living Room” at the […]
The Fireside Chats are an annual series of free lectures in which artists, authors, performers, and intellectuals discuss local and regional history. “You Should be Dead but Somehow You Managed to Survive” Mining historian Rudy Davison presents a compendium of near mining tragedies in the Telluride area during the twilight of the high grade years […]
