Marc Piscotty
In part two of the series
On Edge, we meet Dick Carleton of Breckenridge. He's watched the pandemic tear away at the social fabric of the town. On Edge is an ongoing online series on the growing mental health challenges in Colorado, featuring the work of more than 100 news organizations statewide.
Dick Carleton came to Breckenridge from Virginia when he was 24. He had a business degree from Virginia Tech, a ‘69 Volkwagen bug, $100 and three friends willing to share a crappy two-bedroom condo with no insulation. It was awful. It was glorious.
He was “full of rebel spirit” in a town of kindreds and so he never left. He grew up with Breckenridge, jumped into the restaurant business in ‘81, married Cathy, his wife of 27 years, had three kids, became a city councilman.