{"id":557,"date":"2013-08-03T18:46:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T00:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2013-08-03T18:49:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T00:49:32","slug":"my-book-signing-event-in-crested-butte-august-1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"My Book Signing Event in Crested Butte, August 1, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ever get a chance, go to\u00a0 Crested Butte, Colorado.\u00a0 Boosters call their town the Wildflower Capital of the World, with good reason.\u00a0 Our visit, on August 1, was two weeks later than the peak blooming season, but the valley was still spangled with yellow coneflowers, blue asters, red firecracker flowers and scores more.\u00a0 The Slate River meanders through the flat valley floor,\u00a0 meeting itself coming and going like a gray snake coiling for sheer pleasure through the green meadows.<\/p>\n

My reason for visiting was to give a presentation and book signing at the town’s Old Rock Library.\u00a0 Book club members had read Mariano’s Crossing<\/i> and wanted to meet the author.\u00a0 I was only too happy to oblige.\u00a0 “Readers in the Rockies,” they call their author series.\u00a0 Not only are they enthusiastic, gracious hosts, they happily promoted my book to the local “Townie” book store, which bought several copies.\u00a0 Icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

Like many mountain resort towns, Crested Butte’s shops, restaurants, and art galleries draw crowds of tourists.\u00a0 But celebrity wealth is less on display than in Aspen or Telluride.\u00a0 It feels more accessible somehow.\u00a0 The Old Rock Library’s historic, two-story stone walls embrace a thoroughly modern, well-lighted interior, the kind of classy, comfortable place that makes you want to curl up with a good book when those summer rains fall.<\/p>\n

David J<\/p>\n

Photos:\u00a0 Old Rock Library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you ever get a chance, go to\u00a0 Crested Butte, Colorado.\u00a0 Boosters call their town the Wildflower Capital of the World, with good reason.\u00a0 Our visit, on August 1, was two weeks later than the peak blooming season, but the valley was still spangled with yellow coneflowers, blue asters, red firecracker flowers and scores more.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","category-events","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}