Travel Talk
good stewardship of such rich land yields a cultural harvest. That phrase got me thinking about how those of us who live in Colorado can contrib- ute to a cultural harvest. In the chapter called “Places,”
Huber notes that the Hotchkiss Chamber of Commerce describes March and April as “winter dances
with spring.” How well we all know the rapid changes of weather in Colorado and what a poetic way to look at it. The people of Coulon Valley know this dance well, too. They see it when the fi erce Mistral winds bear down during their generally mild winters. I love the chapter called “Villages,” taking the reader
through small towns and shedding light on their changing character and idiosyncrasies. The North Fork Valley, for example, is “becoming home to all the millionaires who are being pushed out of Aspen by the billionaires,” one old-timer told Huber. Agriculture is changing as well. Many farmers tend small, carefully tended plots of vines and vegetables similar to the small farms and vineyards in the Coulon Valley. In France, there is an offi cial, and hard-to-earn des-
ignation for beautiful towns: L’un des plus beaux villages de France! Here in Colorado, with no offi cial designa-
tion, one can decide for oneself and will fi nd each town and village the most beautiful in its own right.
The next gem of a read takes us back again almost 100 years to a tiny settlement near Steamboat Springs. In Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, author Dorothy Wickenden chronicles the story of her grandmoth- er and another young woman from Albany, N.Y.
Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood
graduated from Smith College, traveled throughout Europe and, choosing not to marry, responded in 1916 to an ad for teaching positions in Elkhead, Colo. They were hired, in part due to their evident attrac-
tiveness, gleaned from the requisite photographs accompanying the application. The two set out with the grudging approval of their families, made a long, arduous journey west, and spent nine months living and teaching in the beautiful, remote and challeng- ing land in Northwest Colorado. This relatively short interlude in the wilderness
profoundly affected the rest of their lives. Ferry Carpenter, the young lawyer and cattle rancher who
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