Gunnison County Library

At its heart, Jane Parnell’s mountaineering memoir, Off Trail: Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies published by University of Oklahoma Press, is a love story—the tale of a woman’s passion for the mountains of Colorado. Readers may know Jane Parnell as Jane Koerner, who has written for High County News, Mountain Gazette and Outdoor Adventure, among other publications. What most readers don’t know is that Parnell was the first woman to summit the hundred highest peaks in Colorado.

Parnell’s fierce, tender memoir explores the Continental Divide of her childhood with its troubled family dynamics, and a marriage that comes together and comes apart. Anchored by windswept mountains, Parnell comes to terms with her own summits and valleys, such as the loss of her only sibling to schizophrenia and a rape shortly after Parnell graduated from college.

English travel writer Isabella Bird, who in 1873 climbed Longs Peak with the fur trapper Rocky Mountain Jim, figures prominently in Parnell’s book. Through Isabella’s story, the author shows how despite the conveniences enjoyed by modern-day mountaineers, some things never change when it comes to matters of the heart.

In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Tracy Ross’s The Source of All Things, Parnell’s memoir shows us how, by pushing ourselves to the limits of our physical endurance and by confronting our deepest fears, we can become whole again.

If you would like to listen to a podcast featuring Jane please indulge here:

Join the Gunnison public library in celebration of two new books by Richard Guerrieri and Phyllis Charlene Spann Guerrieri. The Spaghetti Gang: Memories of a Crested Butte Coal Miner’s Son and Pure Joy: Art and Anecdotes From 85 Years as a Colorado Rancher, both bring our local heritage to life. This event will be one for the ages.

From Dr. Duane Vandenbusche’s (Professor of History, Western State Colorado University) introduction to THE SPAGHETTI GANG: “Guerrieri’s account of his boyhood is wildly entertaining. . . Readers are treated to vignettes about “strap-on ski’s,” “no bathing suits,” “a horse named SOB,” “the dreaded Catechism,” and many other hilarious stories. . . The Spaghetti Gang tells a unique and heart-warming story of an ethnic coal town in American history. Crested Butte was, and still is, a great mountain town with a rich history. The Spaghetti Gang brings it to life.”

The Virtual Pro Se Clinic (VPC), a FREE legal clinic, is offered at the Crested Butte Library, on the second Wednesday of each month by appointment from 2-5 PM.

This free legal clinic is for parties who have no attorney. This clinic will be available from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM on the second Wednesday of each month at both the Gunnison and Crested Butte Libraries. Via computer link, volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help you fill out forms, and explain the process and procedure for all areas of civil litigation, including family law, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law, small claims, veterans issues, and civil protection orders.

For flow-charts, forms and FAQs about common Colorado legal conundrums visit the Virtual Pro Se Clinic’s website: http://checkerboard.co/.

To schedule an appointment, call the Ann Zugelder Library at (970) 641-3485 in Gunnison, or the Old Rock Community Library at (970) 349-6535 in Crested Butte.

The Virtual Pro Se Clinic (VPC), a FREE legal clinic, is offered at the Crested Butte Library, on the second Wednesday of each month by appointment from 2-5 PM.

This free legal clinic is for parties who have no attorney. This clinic will be available from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM on the second Wednesday of each month at both the Gunnison and Crested Butte Libraries. Via computer link, volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help you fill out forms, and explain the process and procedure for all areas of civil litigation, including family law, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law, small claims, veterans issues, and civil protection orders.

For flow-charts, forms and FAQs about common Colorado legal conundrums visit the Virtual Pro Se Clinic’s website: http://checkerboard.co/.

To schedule an appointment, call the Ann Zugelder Library at (970) 641-3485 in Gunnison, or the Old Rock Community Library at (970) 349-6535 in Crested Butte.

The Virtual Pro Se Clinic (VPC), a FREE legal clinic, is offered at the Crested Butte Library, on the second Wednesday of each month by appointment from 2-5 PM.

This free legal clinic is for parties who have no attorney. This clinic will be available from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM on the second Wednesday of each month at both the Gunnison and Crested Butte Libraries. Via computer link, volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help you fill out forms, and explain the process and procedure for all areas of civil litigation, including family law, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law, small claims, veterans issues, and civil protection orders.

For flow-charts, forms and FAQs about common Colorado legal conundrums visit the Virtual Pro Se Clinic’s website: http://checkerboard.co/.

To schedule an appointment, call the Ann Zugelder Library at (970) 641-3485 in Gunnison, or the Old Rock Community Library at (970) 349-6535 in Crested Butte.

The Virtual Pro Se Clinic (VPC), a FREE legal clinic, is offered at the Crested Butte Library, on the second Wednesday of each month by appointment from 2-5 PM.

This free legal clinic is for parties who have no attorney. This clinic will be available from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM on the second Wednesday of each month at both the Gunnison and Crested Butte Libraries. Via computer link, volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help you fill out forms, and explain the process and procedure for all areas of civil litigation, including family law, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law, small claims, veterans issues, and civil protection orders.

For flow-charts, forms and FAQs about common Colorado legal conundrums visit the Virtual Pro Se Clinic’s website: http://checkerboard.co/.

To schedule an appointment, call the Ann Zugelder Library at (970) 641-3485 in Gunnison, or the Old Rock Community Library at (970) 349-6535 in Crested Butte.