BBQ at the Summit hits Dillon, Colorado on August 6th and 7th.

As an employee of the Town of Dillon’s event department, I’ll be speaking barbeque for the entire week. I’ll just be thankful that speaking doesn’t equal the same calories as eating.

There’s plenty happening this week in the county in addition to BBQ at the Summit. Here goes: [Read more →]

Gatherhouse: Glassblowing in Frisco, Colorado

It’s called Gatherhouse, after the glassblowing term of gathering, or collecting molten glass from the furnace. Here at this Frisco, Colorado studio and gallery, the name seems to have a second meaning.

Minutes ago I was helping stretch an orange and yellow gob of hot glass into 15-foot rod, no thicker than my little finger. Now that it’s been cooled and broken into four-inch pieces, Brendan Price uses a hand torch to re-heat them. His wife Jana Carrington heats another piece of glass in the furnace.

We’re at Gatherhouse, John and Kate Hudnut’s Frisco, Colorado studio and gallery, because we saw an advertisement for glassblowing demos in the local paper. We show up thinking we’ll watch the action, but before long several of us are heating, holding, fanning, blowing and participating in the making of a new piece. He remains amazingly calm as he instructs strangers to work with expensive tools, sensitive materials and a 2,200-degree furnace. [Read more →]