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The Art of Cider Making

What is the difference between a winemaker and a cider maker? Answer: only the fruit they use. Both are licensed as winemakers, which gives them the right to ferment fruit. Jay Kenney and Karl Kister are passionate about cider. Jay emphasizes that plain apple juice or pressed apples should never be called cider, because cider  is fermented. He and Karl started Clear Fork Cider Company in Denver, Colorado in 2015.


Welcome to the Estes Valley Library!

Welcome to the Estes Valley Library!  This library resides in the heart of downtown Estes Park, gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park!


A Music Program Geared to the Stressed

Erick Ocampo Machado is the founder of Music With Vision, a program in Steamboat Springs, Colorado that helps any stressed school youngsters and young adults transfer their emotional anxieties to music. Erick’s idea that music can help the stressed all began in Nicaragua, where he was born during the famous contra war with the Sandinista-led government. 


Great Old Broads Are Really Great

From Colorado: Great Old Broads Are Really Great! GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS  is an organization that evolved serendipitously. In 1989 on the 25th anniversary of the Wilderness Act Utah Senator Orrin Hatch claimed that Grand Staircase-Escalante should not be declared a wilderness designation “if for no other reason, we need roads for the aged and infirm.”


STICKS AND STONES

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never break me.” This old English adage dating back to the 1800’s is naïve, very naïve.