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: Art Goodtimes; "Longtime local, Art Goodtimes, has been a staple in the Telluride community not only as a former County Commissioner for San Miguel County but as a poet and writer. Art serves as the Master of Ceremonies and poet laureate of the Telluride Mushroom Festival. Additionally, Art is the Founder and Director of Talking Gourds. In 2010, he was named the first Western Slope Poet Laureate at the first annual Karen Chamberlain Poetry Festival in Carbondale. Art's multitude of literary accomplishments also includes longtime journalist and editor for Telluride Watch and Cortez’s Four Corners Free Press, as well as poetry editor of several publications, including Fungi magazine, Mountain Gazette, Wild Earth, and more."--from https://www.telluridearts.org/featuredartists/2017/9/15/featured-artist-art-goodtimes

: Art Young; He was born in Barberton, Ohio to John and Emily Young and grew up in Hotchkiss, Colorado. In his youth, he was often tackled by school-mates due to the Eastern fashions in which he was dressed. He did well enough in school to make up a lost grade and then skip another one. The family switched between the Methodist and the Baptist churches on different Sundays but they did attend every Sunday. He graduated South Denver High School in 1921. He lived with paternal grandparents on South Columbine Street, Denver during high school years. He worked in a bank in Denver for a time and then went to work with the Denver Tramway Company and started simultaneously attending Denver University. He then returned to bank work with the First National. He became head of the accounting department and a bank vice president by World War II.

: Arthur "A.G." Taylor; He was born in Missouri. US Census records show him living with his uncle James Taylor and aunt Taylor in 1880, at the age of eight. According to Patricia LeMaster, he attended the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University in St. Louis and obtained his medical degree. The 1900 census record shows him living in Grand Junction, Colorado. He became an early Mesa County, Colorado doctor and a physician for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He was also a founding member of the Mesa County Medical Society and its first secretary. He lived on North Eight Street in Grand Junction. US Census records show him married to Hannah E. (Trice) Taylor. He once assisted Dr. Everett Munro in removing the tonsils of Keith McFall, using the McFall dining room table as an operating surface.

: Arthur "Art" Gormley; He ran the Gormley Investment Company in Grand Junction, Colorado and was the manager of the Mesa Federal Savings and Loan. He was also a member of the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce's board of directors in the 1920's. He was appointed to be the second custodian of the Colorado National Monument, when the government stripped John Otto of the position. Gormley took the job, but let Otto run the Monument anyhow. He was the father of James Sherlock Gormley and the grandfather of Patrick Arthur "Pat" Gormley.

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