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Patty Limerick
What Colorado History Teaches Us for the Future

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Date: August 6, 7:00 pm-8:30pm
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Location: Crested Butte Center for the Arts
Details: Patty Limerick is the Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, where she is also a Professor of History. Limerick has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between academics and the general public and to demonstrating the benefits of applying historical perspective to contemporary dilemmas and conflicts. In recognition of her life’s work Professor Limerick was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1995 and in 2001, the Hazel Barnes Prize, the University of Colorado’s highest award for teaching. In January 2016 she was appointed the Colorado State Historian and served until August 2018. Also in January 2016, she was appointed to the National Endowment for the Humanities advisory board, the National Council on the Humanities. Professor Limerick was nominated by President Obama in Spring 2015 and was confirmed by the United States Senate in November 2015.
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Upcoming Events
  TIME   EVENT   LOCATION
Tuesday, Aug 6
  7:00pm-8:30pm Patty Limerick Crested Butte Center for the Arts
  7:30pm-9:00pm Tuesday Science Talk Series Gothic, CO. At the billy barr Community Center
Wednesday, Aug 7
  8:30am-4:00pm HCCA Hike - Scarp Ridge Crested Butte Visitors Center Parking Lot
  5:00pm-8:00pm Pull Up A Chair GAC Courtyard
  5:30pm-10:00pm Reverend Horton Heat in concert at the I Bar I Bar Ranch
  7:00pm-8:00pm Meal Planning Workshop & Recipe Swap Gunnison Library
  7:30pm-10:00pm Subject to Change Improv Troupe Crested Butte Mountain Theatre
Thursday, Aug 8
  9:00am-12:00pm Summer Science Tours Gothic, CO, Gothic Visitors Center
  9:00am-12:00pm Summer Science Tours Gothic, CO, Gothic Visitors Center
  7:00pm-10:00pm APOLLO 11 Center for the Arts
  7:30pm-10:00pm Charlie Daniels Band I Bar Ranch
Friday, Aug 9
  8:00am-5:00pm Gunnison Valley Literary Festival Various
  1:30pm-4:30pm Rachel VanSlyke Crested butte Center for the Arts
  2:00pm-5:00pm Paint Your Own Pottery GAC Clay Studio
  4:30pm-7:00pm Ladies Bike Night at CBMR CBMR
  4:30pm-7:00pm Ladies Bike Night Crested Butte Mountain Bike Park
  5:30pm-6:30pm Rachel VanSlyke Center of the Arts
  6:30pm-8:30pm Apollo 11 Screening Crested Butte Library
Saturday, Aug 10
  9:00am-10:30am Themed Historic Tour 331 Elk Ave., Crested Butte, CO 81224
  5:00pm-8:00pm ArtWalk Downtown Crested Butte
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