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CAL member Dianne Blomberg and Joe Carabello’s TV pilot script, “Happy Landing,” has advanced to the semi-finals at the Rewind International Film Festival in the UK.

The legacy and philosophy of collecting established by Eric Douglas is the subject of the Denver Art Museum’s exhibit, “Weaving a Foundation: Cornerstones of the Textile Arts Collection.” Douglas, the first curator of the museum’s Native Arts Department, is the focus of his grandson Jack Maher's book, “Poppy: A Novel About A Colorful Colorado Life.” Maher said he is proud to say his grandfather's influence continues to inform Denver Art Museum practices today. Two thirds of the objects now on view in the exhibit have never been shown. The show is on view through January 5, 2025.
For more information: https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/weaving-foundation.

Thanks to the CAL award he received last year, Matt Vincent recently was invited to speak to the Windsor Garden Book Club, blocks from the historic Fairmount Cemetery in Denver. He focused his talk on the chapter, "Love and Lust in Wild Places," a short story about Cort Thomson and Mattie Silks, buried in an unmarked grave in the cemetery, from his first book, Wild Times & True Tales from the High Plains. One of the members of the group, who is also a member of the Fairmount Heritage Foundation, asked Matt why Cort's grave had never been marked. Matt approached the president of the Fairmount board of directors and an initiative to recognize one of Colorado's early outlaws began. Later this year, 124 years after Cort’s burial, his grave will receive recognition and a headstone. On his headstone will appear the following epitaph, “Rambler, Gambler & Cattle Rustler.”