Back in Time | Aspen
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“Back in Time” is contributed by Aspen Historical Society and features excerpted articles and images from past Snowmass Sun/Aspen Times issues. We can’t rewrite history, but we can learn from it! Visit archiveaspen.org to view the vast Aspen Times photographic collection in the AHS Archives.
“The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities is once again sponsoring the Sixth Annual Carbondale Mountain Fair this weekend, July 29-31,” The Aspen Times announced on July 18, 1977.
“Local individuals, civic, and social organizations, as well as artists and crafts persons from eight states will display more than 100 booths of fine arts, crafts, and foods at the fair in the town’s park. A wide variety of continuous live entertainment, games, and races will also be a part of the scheduled events. (On Saturday,) the fair begins at 10 a.m. when booths will be set up displaying their arts and crafts and foods. Among other events planned for Saturday, include a wood splitting contest at 3 p.m., an egg toss contest, and a tug-of-war for everyone. The day’s events will conclude at 8 p.m. with the Rosewood Canyon band, from Denver, playing for a concert-dance until midnight. The final day’s events will begin at 8 a.m. with a pancake breakfast sponsored by the Carbondale Lions Club. Foxfire, a Carbondale western-bluegrass band, will start playing in the park at 12:30 pm. Beginning at 2 p.m., Tumbleweed, an Aspen country-rock band will play, and at 3 p.m. the Dan Silva Mariachi Band will take over. Among other events planned for Sunday are the Carbondale Volunteer Fire Department’s raffle drawing, a presentation of the ‘Unsinkable Molly Brown,’ by the Crystal Theater, and at 9:30 pm a slide show, ‘The Sixth Annual Carbondale Mountain Fair in Retrospect,’ by Jim Ryan.”
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