Sherb Literary Evening: Betsy Gaines Quammen presents American Zion
Join author besty Gaines Quammen as she presents her newly published book, "American Zion", which Terry Tempest Williams calls "brilliant and electrifying". What happens when members of an American religion, one built in the nineteenth century on personal prophecy and land proprietorship, assert possession over public land with guns and a certainty that God wants them to go to war? ...
Sherb Literary Evening: Beth Paulson presents “Luminous”
Beth will be reading selected poems from my newest collection of poems titled Luminous (Kelsay Books, 2021). She will have copies of the book available that night for sale and signing. Beth Paulson lives in Ouray County, Colorado where she co-founded the Open Bard Literary Series and currently leads the Poetica Workshop in Ridgway. She taught English at California State ...
Bright Night: An Evening of Magical Storytelling
After a year of keeping it in, the height of summer is time to let stories fly. Local author and storyteller Craig Childs comes to Ridgway with one of his signature performances, calling in the Summer Solstice with a two-night show, June 17 & 18. “Bright Night” will be a mix of spoken word, imagery, and live music, including blues ...
Sherb Literary Evening: David Gessner presents Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Leave It As It Is and All the Wild that Remains comes a timely meditation on the modern-day lessons of Henry David Thoreau. When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessons—of learning our own backyard, rewilding, loving nature, ...
Book Every Saturday for a Funeral: A Sherb Storyteller Evening with Andy Offut Irwin
This character-filled one-man show surrounds Andy’s eighty-five-year-old aunt, Marguerite Van Camp, a newly-minted physician from Georgia who is keeping her finger on the pulse of the changing world around her as she seeks to grow – even at her advanced age – in these United States and the New South. A funny (hilarious, actually) and poignant piece about kinship, grief, ...
