Put pen to paper and reflect on your relationship with adventure and the outdoors, past-present-future in a pens-on workshop with journalist and writer, Heather Hansman. Space is limited. Pre-sign up required. Sign-up online at https://www.telluridelibrary.org/event/. This event is offered by the Wilkinson Public Library, Between the Covers, and the Sheep Mountain Alliance.

Heather Hansman writes for places like Outside, The Guardian, California Sunday, and Sunset. She is the former online editor at both Powder and Skiingmagazines. She has been recognized for both her writing and her social (media) skills. Her essay "Lighthouse for Sale" was a notable in the "2015 Best American Essays" book, she won the 2010 Thompson Award for Western Writing for her story about declining livestock prices, "The Cost of Sheep," and the "Ski Town Throwdown," a Facebook campaign she ran at Powder, won a 2013 Maggie for best use of social media. She lives on a lake in Seattle but she still has East Coast reflexes. Find out more about Heather here.

Also on Mon. June 3rd at 6 pm Heather will be presenting on her newest book, info below:

Come get excited about boating season and join us for an intimate evening with author Heather Hansman who will be reading from and presenting on her book, Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West. An energizing mix of travelogue and investigative journalism, Downriver chronicles Heather's solo journey down the entire Green River against the backdrop of water issues in the West. Sheep Mountain Alliance will also provide useful updates about the San Miguel. This event is offered by the Wilkinson Public Library, Between the Covers, and the Sheep Mountain Alliance.

Book Description:
“The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country, as it provides water for 33 million people. Stopped up by dams, slaked off by irrigation, and dried up by cities, the Green is crucial, overused, and at risk, now more than ever.
Fights over the river’s water, and what’s going to happen to it in the future, are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year.
As a former raft guide and an environmental reporter, Heather Hansman knew these fights were happening, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective—from the river itself. So she set out on a journey, in a one-person inflatable pack raft, to paddle the river from source to confluence and see what the experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo and lively discussions with farmers, city officials, and other people met along the way, Downriver is the story of that journey, a foray into the present—and future—of water in the West.” Find out more about Downriver here.