Category: Biography
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GEORGE WOERNDLE: SKIING WAY OF LIFE A FAMILY TRADITION
George Woerndle was living in Aspen, his birthplace, in 1955 when he began skiing at the age of two. His teacher was his father, Toni, an instructor at the Colorado resort and a member of the pre-war German Olympic ski team. To say that George learned the lessons of the day would be an understatement.…
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SARA NORA: SUNDANCE RESTAURANT A HOAG FAMILY TRADITION
For Sara Nora, the Sundance Mexican Restaurant, located just east of the corner of High Street and Copper King Trail, has been a part of her life as long as she can remember. Born in the high country that has been her home for the past 42 years, she is the daughter of restaurant founders…
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ALBERT FULLER: AT A&B AUTOMOTIVE
For Albert Fuller, his 50th year of earning a living as an automotive mechanic is cause for low key celebration. To commemorate the occasion, Al is looking at retirement and has considered putting a For Sale sign on the building that he’s occupied since 1988. “I like it here so I don’t think I’ll leave,”…
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ALYCE LINDBERG DENSOW: ALL I EVER WANTED TO DO WAS WRITE
Alyce Lindberg Densow finds it amusing that she lived the first 46 years of her life in Wisconsin. “As of August, I will have lived 46 years in Red River!” She also enjoys the fact that, in Sweden, the Lindberg name is pronounced Lindberry which means “A Tree On A Mountain.” “I’m Red River’s professional…
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MICHAEL CALHOUN: RED RIVER NEVER STOPPED BEING HOME
He was born at the original Holy Cross Hospital in Taos in 1967, and moved to Red River when he was two days old with his parents Ted and Beth Calhoun. “Does that still count,” Michael Calhoun asks, “as being born in Red River?” It does. The Calhoun name, as Michael likes to tell it,…
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RICK FOWLER: ARTIST, MUSICIAN & STORYTELLER
“I started writing kind of a memoir about a year and a half ago, just therapeutic.” Rick Fowler is an accomplished artist, know for his paintings of the high country around River Red and for his musical association with Three Faces West and The Great American Honky Tonk Band. “I had a poster of the…