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Polly Ross
Polly has been a West End Walking Tour Guide for the Aspen Historical Society for several summers, having started in 1998. She also occasionally leads the Downtown Tour and was a House Docent in the Wheeler/Stallard Museum during the winter of 1997-8. She really enjoys sharing Aspen's colorful history with visitors and locals. An Aspen resident since 1977, Polly was raised in Illinois and was a Theatre Arts Major at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Her passions include skiing and flying (airplanes and hang gliders). She works at the historic Wheeler Opera House and flies for LightHawk, the Environmental Airforce.
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| Polly, thanks for your great energy and commitment to the Aspen Historical Society. | |||||
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"I joined a group of 20 or so one morning for one of the excellent walking tours conducted three times a week by the historical society. It is the best ten dollars you can spend in Aspen (especially considering that elsewhere in Aspen ten dollars would get you little more than coffee and a bagel)." We convened at the Society's headquarters, the Wheeler/Stallard Museum, a stately brick manse on West Bleeker Street. "Wheeler built the house for his wife, but in fact she was happily settled near Denver and never even came to see it," Susan Dial, our volunteer guide, told us with a big happy smile such a story deserves. Quoted from an article by Bill Bryson in National Geographic Traveler, 1999 |
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