Speaker Series: In Search of Community
Panel Discussions
Healing Our Politics Podcast Speaker Series: In Search of Community
History is bound to repeat itself (we hope…)
World-renowned historian, author, journalist, and scriptwriter Paul Andersen, author of In Search of Community: Finding Common Ground from Aspen to Parachute, will be in conversation with former Aspen City councilman and host of the Healing Our Politics podcast, Skippy Mesirow. They will discuss Aspen’s history as a leader in bringing Americans together during divisive times, and how these lessons can inspire us to collective action in local leadership today.
In the 1880s, former Civil War veterans from both sides came together to consecrate Aspen as good. The statue still stands as a testament to this unity. In the 1940s, management and labor came together to mint the “Aspen Idea;” we still feel and practice it today.
Today, our nation is more divided than at any time in the modern age – can Aspen once again serve as not just neutral but collaborative soil, sky, and snow to revive our American experiment?
Book signing with Paul Anderson and refreshments provided. Books available for $20 as a non-profit contribution to Aspen Journalism (cash or venmo).
Free to attend; registration required.