As the slow-boiling frog of unaffordability in Aspen approached lukewarm in the 1970s, the ski patrol again challenged Brown to increase wages and compensate seniority skills. Standing out in the recollections of a local few was the failed affiliation with the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters and the resulting strike between 1971-1972.
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Aspen’s renaissance and the birth of the Aspen Institute
The history of Aspen is not complete without an understanding of how the Goethe Bicentennial of 1949 transformed this mountain town almost overnight and led to the founding of an organization of global repute and influence.
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The Goethe Bicentennial and reverence for life
“I have great confidence in the incalculable forces of the spirit. The future depends on it. If these spiritual forces are brought into play, the world’s future will be improved. Behind materialism it is often possible to discover great spiritual forces at work. And behind spirituality an element of materialism also exists.”
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Aspenites call for restoring humanistic values
A new and growing movement launched in September by a handful of community thought leaders is seeking to revive the foundational values of Aspen. They are reaching back 75 years to the lofty moral tone that Albert Schweitzer brought here when he honored another moralistic avatar: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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The heritage running through Toklat
Cardamone saw Toklat as key in the role that ACES aimed to fill — not just to educate students about environmental stewardship but to allow nature to infuse all parts of daily life in the community. “Hallam Lake is the school, Rock Bottom Ranch is the grocery store, and Toklat is the church.”