Before he became Colorado's Silver King, Horace Tabor ran a Mom and Pop mercantile store in Leadville with his first wife Augusta. Actually Augusta ran the store while Horace schemed to make his fortune. When two down and out miners asked Horace to grubstake them (food and supplies in exchange for a percentage of whatever gold or silver was unearthed), to Augusta's loud protests, Tabor sent them off with enough food and whiskey to hold them for a week or so. During this time, these two miners discovered a huge vein of silver carbonate; this initial discovery was the foundation of the Tabor fortune. |
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Rag Rugs - This class is full, registration is closed.
Saturday, May 3, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Central Library, Level B2 Conference Center
Learn how to recycle your old T-shirts and pajama bottoms into a gorgeous braided rug. Polly Nordstrand, Associate Curator of Native Arts at the Denver Art Museum and Lecturer in Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Colorado at Denver, will be your guide to both the art and craft of this very green and very stylish project. All materials provided. This class is full, registration is closed. |
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Knit & Lit: Jim Lehrer's Eureka
Monday, May 5, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Central Library, Level 1 Fresh City Lounge
Fans of our Knit & Lit club can rejoice: it's back with a choice new title! Read Jim Lehrer's (PBS News Hour) new novel, Eureka, grab some knitting or handwork and come book talk with us. About the book: "Earnest, honest Otis Halstead is plodding toward his sixtieth birthday when he impulsively spends $12,000 for a cast-iron toy fire truck he didn't get for Christmas at age five. In short order, he loads the toy fire truck onto his Cushman, dons his helmet, and heads west. He tells people he meets on the road his name is "Buck." For regular readers of newsman Lehrer's surprisingly extensive oeuvre, a new book is a welcome event; his seemingly artless but actually sly, winsome, and crafty stories always celebrate the ordinary, and give us characters whose essential decency stays with the reader long after the book begins to gather dust on the shelf. Eureka does all of those things. In fact, it may be Lehrer's best novel yet." Thomas Gaughan for Booklist. |
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Indian Market and Powwow
Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
The Fort Restaurant, 19192 Hwy. 8, Morrison, CO
The Tesoro Foundation's Indian Market & Powwow is a yearly showcase of Native American art and dance, featuring the top award-winning Native American artists in the United States. The 8th Annual Indian Market & Powwow, to be held this year on Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18, on the grounds of The Fort Restaurant, will feature new programs supported by the Wells Fargo Foundation and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science to advance the event’s celebration of authentic Native American history and culture. The event will run from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. both days. For more information, visit www.tesorofoundation.org or call 303-839-1671. |
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Spinning Wool Workshop - This class is full, registration is closed.
Sunday, May 25, 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Fancy Tiger, 1 South Broadway, Denver 80209
Instructor Jaime Jennings of Denver's craft and style hot zone, Fancy Tiger, teaches the art of spinning wool roving into yarn using a drop spindle. Find out how these basic tools have been used for centuries to create yarns for knitting and crochet. Workshop includes information about different fiber types and hands-on training in spinning your own yarn. $10 materials fee due at the beginning of the class. This class is full, registration is closed. |
