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Wheeler/Stallard Museum. This elegant Queen Anne style Victorian house was originally built by Jerome B. Wheeler in 1888. It has served as the headquarters and house-museum for the Aspen Historical Society since 1968. In March of 2001, following a year of renovation, the house has re-opened as a state-of-the-art exhibit space. Please visit us to see the our new exhibits and learn about Aspen's fascinating history. The First Floor has been recently refurbished to represent how it would have looked in the early 1890s and will be available to rent in the near future. The Second Floor Gallery is currently showing Thomas W. Benton: Politics, Prose and Poetry, an exhibit on the life and art of one of Aspen’s most accomplished and acclaimed artists, the late Tom Benton. This exhibit features over 45 of the artist’s works as well as artifacts from Benton’s life including his Sheriff Deputy’s badge, an actual silkscreen from his iconic Hunter Thompson for Sheriff poster, and a video clip of the artist at work. A guide will lead you through the Wheeler/Stallard House and talk about aspects of Victorian Life in Aspen from 1880s to the early 1900s. Victorian House Tours: by special arrangement. A guide will lead you through the Wheeler/Stallard House and talk about aspects of Victorian Life in Aspen from 1880s to the early 1900s. Location: 620 West Bleeker Street, Aspen Wheeler/Stallard Museum house history | pre-renovation e-tour > —on line only |
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July 10-13—AHS Summer Camp—“Roots of Old Aspen: Planting and Tending Heritage Fruit Trees” Working with Basalt-based Jerome Osentowski, founder of the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute and the Heritage Fruit Tree Awareness Project and Heather Henry of Design Workshop, participants will learn the history of fruit trees in the Roaring Fork Valley and then will help design and construct of a permanent heritage fruit tree garden at the Wheeler/Stallard Museum in Aspen. For all you blossoming gardeners out there, this is “hands-on” permaculture at its best. The garden will be completed by week’s end. July 17 – 20—AHS Summer Camp “Telling History: Stories of Aspen Past” Bring history to life through the magic of storytelling. Uncover for yourself, from rumor to reality and from miners to mountaineers, what makes Aspen so special. Create your own story about it! Aspen historians and Historical Society staff will help you research, interview and organize your material, while Spellbinders storytellers will help you fashion your story into a “living history” performance. Process and performance will be recorded on DVD for Historical Society archives and as your own keepsake. For children ages 9 – 13 July 24 – 27—AHS Summer Camp “From Ore to Lore: Aspen’s Rich Mining History” The mining era had a short but powerful impact on the Roaring Fork Valley in the late 1800s. We will map the mine sites, tunnels, smelters and processing facilities that brought vitality to the city of Aspen during the mining days. Aspen's mining heritage reaches back to a time where settling this Valley required courage, perseverance and lots of soap. We'll be on the move, discovering the special places and colorful characters who made Aspen a mining boom town. For children ages 9 – 13 July 31 - August 3—AHS Summer Camp “Capturing Today for Tomorrow: Archiving Aspen in Photos” We will spend the week with professional photographers learning the principles of photography and then delving into the Historical Society's archives to find photographs representative of Aspen's past. Based on these photos, we will select locations to shoot our own photos of an evolving Aspen, and then will compare our results in a presentation gallery at the Wheeler/Stallard Museum at week’s end. For children ages 9 – 13 For more information contact Kip Hubbard, Director of Education at 925-3721, ext. 105 or education@aspenhistory.org. |
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Spirit of Aspen on-line exhibit > Explore the unique and compelling spirit of Aspen. The exhibit incorporates artifacts and photographs from Aspen’s silver mining roots, ranching in the Roaring Fork Valley, the birth of a ski town and the renaissance that has established this special town as a cultural center. |
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Historic Ghost Towns
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Ashcroft Ghost Town Tours Location: 10 miles south of Aspen on the Castle Creek Road. Learn about Ashcroft Ghost Town > |
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Independence Ghost Town Tours Location: Just below Independence Pass on the western side Learn about Independence Ghost Town > |
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Holden/Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum Tours
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The Holden/Marolt Mining & Ranching Museum Location: 40180 Highway 82, Aspen, CO < 3rd graders visited and received an informative, lively and fun lecture from Larry Fredrick and Carl Bergman. |
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Playing with the Past Time: tba Contact education@aspenhistory.org |
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A Day in Old Ashcroft Time: tba |
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Colorful Creatures Camp Summers only |
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Other Activities Historic Ghost Towns: Ashcroft | Independence Wheeler/Stallard Museum Exhibits | 620 W. Bleeker | Aspen: |
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Hands-on History Trunks
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(Ages 8 and up): Filled with reproduction artifacts to touch, hold and use Fee: $50/day | For schools and non profits, $25/week Each trunk can be used as a "show and tell," as a self-contained unit, or as a jumping off point for more extensive avenues of study. Although the kit is devised to be self-contained and is meant for children from 9 – 13 years of age in a classroom setting, it can also be used for adult groups with an accompanying speaker and for younger children with extra supervision. • Mining Trunk: focuses on mining in Colorado and more specifically, silver mining in the Aspen area. A variety of related topics are introduced so that the student is exposed to mining from different perspectives, and projects are included that allow students to use other skills, such as science and mathematics. • Prehistoric Peoples Discovery Kit (Anasazi): The Aspen Historical Society's first traveling educational history trunk. The kit explores the prehistoric peoples of Colorado with a major emphasis on the Anasazi people from the southwestern part of the state. Users of the kit are able to touch the reproduced artifacts in the kit for a "hands-on" learning experience. The kit also offers a glimpse at the life ways of prehistoric people, including their means of survival, their home life and social structure, their religious practices and beliefs, and their interaction with other peoples. • Ranching Trunk: focuses on ranching in the Roaring Fork Valley and Colorado and the "Quiet Years" period of Aspen's history. Ranching is an important part of our history as Americans, Coloradoans and inhabitants of the Roaring Fork Valley. Our identity and character have been shaped by the greater westward movement and the men and women who ranched in this particular valley. Our belief is that it is important to explore this aspect of our background in order to better understand ourselves and our place in the world. Along with mining and skiing, ranching and farming shaped our valley, its character and its people. During the "Quiet Years" between 1900 and 1945, farming and ranching was the economic backbone of the Roaring Fork Valley. Without it, Aspen might well have become another Colorado ghost town. Call 925-3721, ext. 105 to arrange, or contact education@aspenhistory.org |
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Additional Programming
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William Henry Jackson and John Fielder Photographs: Then & Now —on-line exhibit |
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