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Reading can spark imagination, open up perception and stimulate conversation especially within book clubs.
Books clubs help build a sense of community while expanding a participant’s worldview. Since the pandemic, book clubs have been meeting on Zoom, allowing second-home owners and other friends and family who don’t live in Eagle County year-round to join from out of state. For example, Vail Public Library’s Books ‘n’ Bites club has about 23 members about 10 regulars from as far as Kentucky, California and North Dakota.
“It gives people a sense of community,” said Lori Barnes of the Vail Public Library.
Mar 3, 2021 / 10:03 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Libraries across central Indiana are speaking up after concerns were raised about racist and insensitive imagery in six Dr. Seuss books that will no longer be published.
Those books include “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo.”
Cheryl Dobbs, executive director of the Greenwood Public Library, said, “It’s very concerning, and we want to make sure that we are sensitive to every view point.”
Dobbs says the library is considering removing these books. It’ll need to evaluate them and make sure they’re in line with their collection development policy, which includes making sure books reflect the diversity of the community.
Opening ceremonies for Beaver Creek were held on Dec. 15, 1980. From left to right: Brain Rapp, president of Beaver Creek Resort Company; Harry Bass, chairman of Vail Associates; unidentified Forest Service representative; Jack Marshall, president of Vail Associates; then-governor Dick Lamm; former U.S. president Gerald Ford. (Vail Resorts
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Editor’s Note: The Vail Daily’s Tricia Swenson has compiled this information from talks with longtime locals, her own experience as a Beaver Creek Children’s Ski and Snowboard School instructor and from books from the Avon Public Library.
The first known inhabitants of the Beaver Creek Valley were primarily the Utes as well as hunting parties from the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes. The Utes were called “Blue Sky People” by other tribes. They called the peaks that surrounded them “The Shining Mountains.”