Paul Andersen
“Crested Butte and the Sacred Bond of Community”
By popular demand, Paul Andersen returns to Crested Butte for another illuminating and spellbinding evening as the featured presenter at High Country Conservation Advocates’ Annual Meeting on Friday, August 26, 6:30 p.m. at the Center for the Arts. Paul’s presentation at the Public Policy Forum in 2021 left the audience deeply moved and inspired.
Paul has been a professional writer for 45 years, authoring fifteen books and hundreds of articles for the Gunnison Country Times, Crested Butte Chronicle, and Aspen Times. Living in Crested Butte from 1970 to the early ‘80s, his writing career began at the Gunnison Times in 1977, reporting on the AMAX Mt. Emmons Project. Paul’s latest book – one of great interest to our valley – is The Town That Said, ‘Hell No!’
The Town That Said, ‘Hell, No!’ is the story of Crested Butte vs. AMAX, a huge international mining corporation attempting to mine Red Lady. Our community came together to become a unique, undaunted and spirited adversary. HCCA formed in ’77 to take up the cause, and continues working to ‘Save Red Lady’ to this day. We are ever-closer to achieving success, 45 years in the making.
Paul’s love for this area, his self-proclaimed “spiritual home,” will transcend the decades, and bring us more in touch with our own connection to our surroundings and the need to protect them. Join HCCA for what will be a most memorable evening.
Parking:
We kindly request that guests refrain from parking on Seventh Street and the adjacent neighborhood for this event due to the volume of vehicles expected.
Please be courteous to our neighbors by parking a leisurely four-minute walk away from the Center, at 4-Way Stop at 6th Street and Elk Avenue. Note that due to construction on Academy Place, the parking lot at 6th Street and Whiterock is currently closed.
**Please do not park in the driveway parallel to Sixth Street on the west side of the Center; this is a fire lane and is for pick-up/drop-off and loading only.**
You are also welcome to park at the Crested Butte Community School , located at 818 Red Lady Avenue.
Handicp Parking:
For those who have a handicapped parking placard or require a short walking distance into the building, please enter the Center’s small parking lot via Sixth Street. The turn-in is immediately south of the concrete retaining wall and marquee sign.
***Please reserve the Center’s parking lot spaces for those with handicapped parking placards and those who may need to enter our building from a closer access point, as the lot has a very limited number of spaces.