Original article can be found at http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_13398640
Originally published on September 22, 2009
By Scott Franz
Boulder’s 150-year anniversary continues as representatives of the city’s “kindred cities” meet at the University of Colorado on Wednesday night to discuss mutual challenges they share and how they plan to face them.
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Original article can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-lewis/four-officials-from-kindr_b_293599.html
Originally published on September 21, 2009
By Jerry Lewis
BOULDER — Four prominent leaders from Aspen, Colo., Madison, Wis., Portland, Ore. and Sante Fe, N.M. will share their experiences and thoughts in an evening forum, Wednesday, Sept. 23, titled “Separated at Birth: Insights from Kindred Communities.” (Read on …)
Original article can be found at http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/the_president_packs_harufs_plainsong_and_elmer_kelton_dies_at_83/C39/L39/
Originally published on August 26, 2009
By Jenny Shank
White House Press Secretary Bill Burton announced a list of five books that President Obama is bringing on his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. Among them is Kent Haruf‘s Plainsong. Now, during last year’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, Jeff Lee of the Rocky Mountain Land Library asked a bunch of notable Western writers and…me to contribute a “reading list for the President-Elect: A Western States Primer for the Next Administration.” The Tattered Cover featured many of these suggestions in a display. One of the books on my list was Plainsong. (Rick Bass and Laura Pritchett also assigned Plainsong for presidential reading.) (Read on …)