Healing Our Politics Speaker Series: In Search of Community

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February 4: 5:00-7:00pm

World-renowned historian, author, journalist, and scriptwriter Paul Andersen, author of In Search of Community: Finding Common Ground from Aspen to Parachute in conversation with former Aspen City councilman and host of the Healing Our Politics podcast Skippy Mesirow on 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 of the Confederacy and union came together to consecrate Aspen as good. The statue still stands. 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?

Free to attend; registration requested.