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WEEKLY HERITAGE TOURS & PROGRAMS
• Olympic Heritage Walking Tour: Every Monday from June 22-
Aug. 31, 9:00-10:30am, FREE. Starts at Olympian Hall/Howelsen Hill Lodge at Howelsen Hill, 845 Howelsen Pkwy. This tour explores Steamboat’s Olympic heritage; the multiple talents of Carl Howelsen; and the history of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, Winter Carnival, Howelsen Hill, and ski jumping.
• Mineral Springs Walking Tour: Every Tuesday from June 23-
Aug. 25, 9:00-11:00am, FREE. Starts at the Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts at the Depot on 13th St. Find out about the curative properties of the springs and why Steamboat was slated as a world-class spa destination. Join a Yampatika naturalist on this easy walking tour to find out which salty spring the animals loved, how the Steamboat Spring was named, and much more.
• Downtown Historical Walking Tour: Every Thursday from
June 25- Sept. 3, 9:00-11:00am, FREE. Starts at the Tread of Pioneers Museum, 800 Oak St. This easy walking tour highlights the historic buildings of downtown Steamboat Springs and unveils detailed stories of the town’s founding and early settlers. NO TOUR AUG. 13.
• Tread of Pioneers Museum’s Brown Bag Lecture Series:
awareness of Stewart’s influence and his recognition that Stewart is in some odd sense the Walter Cronkite of the past decade. But Stewart’s stature and the Obama-Stewart summits also show how tangled the threads of performance, journalism and governance have become. There’s a greater theatrical aspect to political (and even financial) commentary than ever before, whether it’s occurring on a channel supposedly reserved for news or one with a more frivolous bent, and whether its agent is Bill Maher or John Oliver or Rachel Maddow or Jim Cramer. On Maher’s set, the journalists and actors sit and opine side by side, as if in the same trade, which is celebrity, with the same goal, which is diversion. A news anchor must be beguiling, even captivating. That’s what led Brian Williams astray — he got so invested in the role that he overplayed it. It’s no accident that he told one of his fateful fibs on
the “Late Show With David Letterman.” He was trying to be as interesting a guest as Jennifer Lawrence, George Clooney or, well, Barack Obama. Obama did Letterman’s show eight times, Stewart’s seven and Jay Leno’s seven. He did Ellen DeGeneres’ show, dancing to a Beyoncé tune. And when he was encouraging young Americans to sign up for Obamacare, he did “Between Two Ferns,” a satirical program on the Funny or Die website that’s hosted by Zach Galifianakis, an actor who starred in “The Hangover.” Obama was in part just reading the cues that our country has given him. We ask our presidents to be not just commanders in chief but also enthrallers in chief and amusers in chief, and woe to the Oval Office aspirant who is deemed overly stiff, excessively serious or entirely unfunny. How will he or she ever rise to the challenge of the White House Correspondents Dinner? We expect zingers. We require zing. Trump is the king of zing.
His rivals are struggling to keep pace. We recently watched a video in which Rand Paul took a chain saw to a pile of papers meant to represent the federal tax code. We watched another video in which Lindsey Graham put his cellphone in a blender, dropped a concrete block on it and tried to light it on fire. We cackled at Scott Walker’s incompetence in the presence of cheesesteak. And we listened to Rick Perry challenge Trump to a duel of deltoids: Which man could do more pullups? This is the magnitude of dignity being brought to the 2016 presidential contest. And it’s the context in which Trump isn’t surprising but rather inevitable. We’ve summoned him as if one of those demons in a horror movie who appears if his name is spoken too many times in a row. Too many times, we’ve ignored or outright encouraged the perversion of politics by vacuous stagecraft. So the demon appeared. And he’s giving us the torment we deserve.
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Coates: We must continue to struggle Page continued from 8 own. We may have moments of progress, including the election of an African-American president, Coates said he told his son, but “we must continue to struggle,” he said.
“Much of what he’s writing sounds like what I told him,” said the elder Coates, “only less eloquently and with a lot more repetition. I don’t believe the arc of justice bends our way. I think we have to go out and bend it our way.”
With that, the elder Coates raises a good point. His son offers an eloquent diagnosis of what ails us about race and racism these days. But it mostly leaves prescriptions for the rest of us to find and to fill.
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Every Friday from June 26-Sept. 4, noon-1:00pm, FREE. Discover the history of Steamboat Springs through the locals who lived it. Each one hour program features a lecture topic that reveals the unique history of our area. Check out www.treadofpioneers.org for speakers and topics. Bring a friend and a lunch!