Telluride Dance Instructor and Choreographer Amanda Sturdevant
In the moments before her dance troupe took the stage at a competition, Amanda Sturdevant realized with a jolt that she’d forgotten the hair band that was a part of her costume.
Telluride Town Council Member Ann Brady
On Ann Brady’s desk was a backpack confiscated from a troubled fifth-grader, and in that backpack was a loaded gun he’d stolen from a neighbor’s truck.
Telluride Kayak School’s Matt Wilson
Telluride’s Matt Wilson has run all sorts of big rivers: the gnashing Stikine, the tight and technical Animas, the roaring gorge of the Uncompahgre and the gorgeous Huallaga, where waterfalls tumble from high above the canyon walls.
Telluride Librarian Oak Smith
If there were one location that could be considered the heart of Telluride, it’s the Wilkinson Public Library, the hub of the Telluride community and the nucleus of the dynamic circuitry that is local life here.
Telluride’s Ah Haa School for the Arts Director Rachel Loomis-Lee
Ah Haa’s wondrous palette of classes offered in every medium for every age is what excites Lee, season after colorful season in Telluride.

