Aspen Special Events is gearing up to revive the time-honored tradition by presenting the first annual Art Cart Alpine Rally from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Feb. 10 at the Aspen Recreation Center sledding hill.
My maternal grandfather was a man I never knew – he died a month after I was born. There was an idea about him through stories my mother told; others in the family never seemed.
My father was the last assayer in Aspen. At one time there were many, but it dwindled to one and when that one died in 1944 the Midnight Mine discovered it was too expensive and took too long to send out its assays.