This community is contiguous but divided, homogenous but diverse, connected yet fractured. This community is complex and often at odds with itself over its past, its present and especially its future. It contains microcommunities delineated by overlaps and separations, yet strongly influenced socioeconomically by Aspen and Snowmass.
Tag: In search of community
A thorough examination of the evolution of the Aspen community requires the division of five historic epochs: the Utes, silver mining, the Quiet Years, culture and skiing, and the age of affluence. As a subset of the “In search of community” series from Aspen Journalism and Paul Andersen, we examine this progression in a four-part story “Aspen’s embattled community.”
Aspen Journalism’s “In search of community series” covers the importance of regionalism in the increasingly connected space between Aspen and Parachute where the population has swelled to some 90,000 people.
Andersen has lived in the valley for 40 years and has authored 15 books about the Aspen and Roaring Fork Valley region.