Food & Wine Classic at Aspen s Wagner Park in June 2017.
In this space, exactly one year ago this week, I was optimistically reporting on the many upcoming wine events that were to be held in the spring.
There was to be a Champagne Feté at Toro in the Viceroy Snowmass hotel featuring bubbly from Möet & Chandon. The following night, Allesia Antinori was scheduled to pour ten Italian wines in celebration of the thirty-year anniversary of the Little Nell hotel. And over in Vail, Leonora at the Sebastian Hotel was preparing to welcome David Duncan of the Silver Oak Winery for a dinner.
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Amen Wardy
Amen Wardy, whose career in fashion and décor started in 1957 in west Texas and captured Beverly Hills before he settled into Aspen for nearly 30 years, died last week in his sleep at his Carbondale home, his family announced Monday. He was 81.
Wardy started in women’s fashion at a store his grandmother ran in El Paso, Texas, where he was born, and became well-known in the 1970s and ’80s for his southern California boutiques that drew celebrity A-list clientele. Many of those customers followed him when he launched a home décor store on Aspen’s Cooper Avenue in 1992 with his longtime spouse, Bob Hightower.
Aspen Historical Society
“FIS officially opened Sunday with parade,” observed the Aspen Times on February 16, 1950. “Governor Lee Knous was the guest of honor at the opening parade of contestants and officials Sunday when the official Federation International de Ski flag was run up to formally open the World Champion meet. The parade formed on Main Street in front of the Hotel Jerome and shortly after 2 o’clock the procession got underway to Wagner Park. The contestants were attired in bright colored sweaters; each country’s team preceded by their national flag. At Wagner Park the teams were standing in formation before the speakers stand flanked by three flags- the United States flag, the United Nations flag, and the unofficial Aspen flag, the Aspen leaf. The address of welcome was given by Mayor A.E. Robison, who extended officially the greetings of Aspen to the participants. On behalf of the State of Colorado, Governor Knous spoke to the group and extended a hearty welc
The newest restaurant in Lonsdale, Smoke, opened in September. Owner In May, Andrew Rasmussen said he was âhumbled and overwhelmed and shocked by the support the community has already given.â Heâs pictured outside the restaurant with his son, Rohen, wife, Lisa, and daughter, Valkyrie. (News file photo)