Growing Up Aspen - A Joiners Table Chat

By Andy Collen & Chris Pomeroy

The idea of the joiners table came from the Wienerstube, one of Aspen’s last local morning hang outs. The “Stube,” as we called it, had a great big community table in the middle of its dining room.

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August 02, 2024 76 - Growing Up Aspen - Pete DeGregorio – Coaching & Life Lessons
Coach D talks about coaching & life lessons.
Pete DeGregorio (Aspen high school PE Coach /Original Aspen Gentlemen) (7 min) Image of Maroon Bells ©Mark Ronay Photography/ Music by Felix Plante. Produced by Twist and Turn Press.
Book: Twist and Turn Press
https://www.twistandturnpress.com/
T-Shirts: Threadless
https://happytrailsanimation.threadless.com/
Happy Trails Animation
https://www.happytrailsanimation.com/
Pete DeGregorio
Coach Pete DeGregorio, the patriarch of modern-era football in Aspen, directs the Skiers through the then-Northwestern League with the help of assistant coach Willard Clapper, a graduate of Western State College.
“Pete … was amazing,” Clapper reiterated. “And he was one of the first rugby players here.”
DeGregorio helped establish the original Gentlemen of Aspen rugby club.
A quotable favorite in the Denver and Grand Junction newspapers back then, DeGregorio revered his role as the coach of an underdog, undersized football team in an awakening resort town. He often underplayed his team’s chances by building up the opponent and falling back on an Aspen resort stereotype.
“We have too many cake-eaters,” DeGregoria said, more than once or twice.
Cake-eaters who created a legacy Aspen football history.
Aspen Skiers Football
https://www.maxpreps.com/co/aspen/aspen-skiers/football/schedule/
#Aspen #GrowingUpAspen #coaching #memoir #book #smalltown #community #goodtimes #community #changeyourlife #childhood #author #PeteDeGregorio #coach #journalism #football #Podcast #sports #gridiron
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8min
August 02, 2024 75 - Growing Up Aspen - Pete DeGregorio – The Aspen Gentlemen
Coach D talks about the beginning of Aspen's famous Rugby team... the Gentlemen of Aspen.
Pete DeGregorio (Aspen high school PE Coach /Original Aspen Gentlemen) (7 min) Image of Maroon Bells ©Mark Ronay Photography/ Music by Felix Plante. Produced by Twist and Turn Press.
Book: Twist and Turn Press
https://www.twistandturnpress.com/
T-Shirts: Threadless
https://happytrailsanimation.threadless.com/
Happy Trails Animation
https://www.happytrailsanimation.com/
Pete DeGregorio
Coach Pete DeGregorio, the patriarch of modern-era football in Aspen, directs the Skiers through the then-Northwestern League with the help of assistant coach Willard Clapper, a graduate of Western State College.
“Pete … was amazing,” Clapper reiterated. “And he was one of the first rugby players here.”
DeGregorio helped establish the original Gentlemen of Aspen rugby club.
A quotable favorite in the Denver and Grand Junction newspapers back then, DeGregorio revered his role as the coach of an underdog, undersized football team in an awakening resort town. He often underplayed his team’s chances by building up the opponent and falling back on an Aspen resort stereotype.
“We have too many cake-eaters,” DeGregoria said, more than once or twice.
Cake-eaters who created a legacy Aspen football history.
Aspen Skiers Football
https://www.maxpreps.com/co/aspen/aspen-skiers/football/schedule/
#Aspen #GrowingUpAspen #coaching #memoir #book #smalltown #community #goodtimes #community #changeyourlife #childhood #author #PeteDeGregorio #coach #journalism #football #Podcast #sports #gridiron
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7min
August 02, 2024 74 - Growing Up Aspen – Pete DeGregorio – Journey to Aspen & Community
Coach D's journey to Aspen and its crazy characters.
Pete DeGregorio (Aspen high school PE Coach /Original Aspen Gentlemen) (5 min) Images of Maroon Bells ©Mark Ronay Photography/ Music by Felix Plante. Produced by Twist and Turn Press.
Book: Twist and Turn Press
https://www.twistandturnpress.com/
T-Shirts: Threadless
https://happytrailsanimation.threadless.com/
Happy Trails Animation
https://www.happytrailsanimation.com/
Pete DeGregorio
Coach Pete DeGregorio, the patriarch of modern-era football in Aspen, directs the Skiers through the then-Northwestern League with the help of assistant coach Willard Clapper, a graduate of Western State College.
“Pete … was amazing,” Clapper reiterated. “And he was one of the first rugby players here.”
DeGregorio helped establish the original Gentlemen of Aspen rugby club.
A quotable favorite in the Denver and Grand Junction newspapers back then, DeGregorio revered his role as the coach of an underdog, undersized football team in an awakening resort town. He often underplayed his team’s chances by building up the opponent and falling back on an Aspen resort stereotype.
“We have too many cake-eaters,” DeGregoria said, more than once or twice.
Cake-eaters who created a legacy Aspen football history.
Aspen Skiers Football
https://www.maxpreps.com/co/aspen/aspen-skiers/football/schedule/
#Aspen #GrowingUpAspen #coaching #memoir #book #smalltown #community #goodtimes #community #changeyourlife #childhood #author #PeteDeGregorio #coach #journalism #football #Podcast #sports #gridiron
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5min
July 13, 2024 73 - Growing Up Aspen - Ted Conover – Ted’s Writing Approach
Ted Conover walks us through his writing process and some of his inspirations.
Ted Conover (Journalist/ Author/White Out in Aspen /Cheap Land Colorado) (12 min) Image of Maroon Bells ©Mark Ronay Photography) Music by Felix Plante. Produced by Twist and Turn Press.
Book: Twist and Turn Press
https://www.twistandturnpress.com/
T-Shirts: Threadless
https://happytrailsanimation.threadless.com/
Happy Trails Animation
https://www.happytrailsanimation.com/
Ted Conover:
My first book (Rolling Nowhere), began as research for a senior anthropology thesis. A transcendent moment occurred in a freight yard in Bakersfield, California, where, as I spoke with a guy my age named Enrique Jarra, it dawned on me that Mexican migrants were the true, modern-day incarnation of the classic American hobo. Coyotes, my second book, recounts a year of work and travel with these migrants.
A smart guy I met in New York introduced me at a party as a writer who “made a living sleeping on the ground,” which got me worried and led me to Aspen and Whiteout, a very different sort of first-person ethnography. Then I moved to New York and wrote Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, an account of immersion in a world that is tough and dangerous and–if a person’s not careful–soul-shrinking. That research was my hardest ever, but also paid an enduring dividend.
In The Routes of Man, I link a series of challenging first-person passages down roads with reflections on how this most extensive man-made artifact changes us all, both intentionally and not. It’s a book about roads but I’m in it as well. Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep is an attempt to share what I’ve learned about this sort of writing. My most recent book, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge, recounts a passage into a landscape and community that in truth I haven’t left yet. It may be the closest I’ve come in any of my books to “going native.”
I admire writing where writers have something at stake; where they don’t just depend on experts but rather take time to think and research and participate, thereby transforming themselves into experts; where caring and the urgency of the subject transform the writing into something that matters.
Whiteout - Lost in Aspen
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/30788/whiteout-by-ted-conover/
Cheap Land Colorado
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/573452/cheap-land-colorado-by-ted-conover/
#Aspen #GrowingUpAspen #coaching #memoir #book #smalltown #community #goodtimes #community #changeyourlife #childhood #author #TedConover #Journalist #journalism #offgrid #Podcast #survival #politics #TheAspenTimes
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13min
July 13, 2024 72 - Growing Up Aspen - Ted Conover – Jobs in Aspen while writing Whiteout
Ted Conover talks about some of the jobs he had in Aspen while researching Whiteout.
Ted Conover (Journalist/ Author/White Out in Aspen /Cheap Land Colorado) (4 min) Image of Maroon Bells ©Mark Ronay Photography/ Music by Felix Plante. Produced by Twist and Turn Press.
Book: Twist and Turn Press
https://www.twistandturnpress.com/
T-Shirts: Threadless
https://happytrailsanimation.threadless.com/
Happy Trails Animation
https://www.happytrailsanimation.com/
Ted Conover:
My first book (Rolling Nowhere), began as research for a senior anthropology thesis. A transcendent moment occurred in a freight yard in Bakersfield, California, where, as I spoke with a guy my age named Enrique Jarra, it dawned on me that Mexican migrants were the true, modern-day incarnation of the classic American hobo. Coyotes, my second book, recounts a year of work and travel with these migrants.
A smart guy I met in New York introduced me at a party as a writer who “made a living sleeping on the ground,” which got me worried and led me to Aspen and Whiteout, a very different sort of first-person ethnography. Then I moved to New York and wrote Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, an account of immersion in a world that is tough and dangerous and–if a person’s not careful–soul-shrinking. That research was my hardest ever, but also paid an enduring dividend.
In The Routes of Man, I link a series of challenging first-person passages down roads with reflections on how this most extensive man-made artifact changes us all, both intentionally and not. It’s a book about roads but I’m in it as well. Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep is an attempt to share what I’ve learned about this sort of writing. My most recent book, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge, recounts a passage into a landscape and community that in truth I haven’t left yet. It may be the closest I’ve come in any of my books to “going native.”
I admire writing where writers have something at stake; where they don’t just depend on experts but rather take time to think and research and participate, thereby transforming themselves into experts; where caring and the urgency of the subject transform the writing into something that matters.
Whiteout - Lost in Aspen
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/30788/whiteout-by-ted-conover/
Cheap Land Colorado
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/573452/cheap-land-colorado-by-ted-conover/
#Aspen #GrowingUpAspen #coaching #memoir #book #smalltown #community #goodtimes #community #changeyourlife #childhood #author #TedConover #Journalist #journalism #offgrid #Podcast #survival #politics #TheAspenTimes
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5min
July 13, 2024 71 - Growing Up Aspen - Ted Conover – Culture differences between Whiteout & Cheap Land Colorado
Ted Conover talks about the cultural character differences between his two Colorado book.
Ted Conover (Journalist/ Author/White Out in Aspen /Cheap Land Colorado) (11 min) Image of Maroon Bells ©Mark Ronay Photography/ Music by Felix Plante. Produced by Twist and Turn Press.
Book: Twist and Turn Press
https://www.twistandturnpress.com/
T-Shirts: Threadless
https://happytrailsanimation.threadless.com/
Happy Trails Animation
https://www.happytrailsanimation.com/
Ted Conover:
My first book (Rolling Nowhere), began as research for a senior anthropology thesis. A transcendant moment occurred in a freight yard in Bakersfield, California, where, as I spoke with a guy my age named Enrique Jarra, it dawned on me that Mexican migrants were the true, modern-day incarnation of the classic American hobo. Coyotes, my second book, recounts a year of work and travel with these migrants.
A smart guy I met in New York introduced me at a party as a writer who “made a living sleeping on the ground,” which got me worried and led me to Aspen and Whiteout, a very different sort of first-person ethnography. Then I moved to New York and wrote Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, an account of immersion in a world that is tough and dangerous and–if a person’s not careful–soul-shrinking. That research was my hardest ever, but also paid an enduring dividend.
In The Routes of Man, I link a series of challenging first-person passages down roads with reflections on how this most extensive man-made artifact changes us all, both intentionally and not. It’s a book about roads but I’m in it as well. Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep is an attempt to share what I’ve learned about this sort of writing. My most recent book, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge, recounts a passage into a landscape and community that in truth I haven’t left yet. It may be the closest I’ve come in any of my books to “going native.”
I admire writing where writers have something at stake; where they don’t just depend on experts but rather take time to think and research and participate, thereby transforming themselves into experts; where caring and the urgency of the subject transform the writing into something that matters.
Whiteout - Lost in Aspen
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/30788/whiteout-by-ted-conover/
Cheap Land Colorado
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/573452/cheap-land-colorado-by-ted-conover/
#Aspen #GrowingUpAspen #coaching #memoir #book #smalltown #community #goodtimes #community #changeyourlife #childhood #author #TedConover #Journalist #journalism #offgrid #Podcast #survival #politics #TheAspenTimes #Whiteout #CheapLandColorado
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11min
July 13, 2024 70 - Growing Up Aspen – Ted Conover – Journey to Aspen
Ted Conover talks about the first time he met the Aspen community.
Ted Conover (Journalist/ Author/White Out in Aspen /Cheap Land Colorado) (5 min) Image of Maroon Bells ©Mark Ronay Photography/ Music by Felix Plante. Produced by Twist and Turn Press.
Book: Twist and Turn Press
https://www.twistandturnpress.com/
T-Shirts: Threadless
https://happytrailsanimation.threadless.com/
Happy Trails Animation
https://www.happytrailsanimation.com/
Ted Conover:
My first book (Rolling Nowhere), began as research for a senior anthropology thesis. A transcendent moment occurred in a freight yard in Bakersfield, California, where, as I spoke with a guy my age named Enrique Jarra, it dawned on me that Mexican migrants were the true, modern-day incarnation of the classic American hobo. Coyotes, my second book, recounts a year of work and travel with these migrants.
A smart guy I met in New York introduced me at a party as a writer who “made a living sleeping on the ground,” which got me worried and led me to Aspen and Whiteout, a very different sort of first-person ethnography. Then I moved to New York and wrote Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, an account of immersion in a world that is tough and dangerous and–if a person’s not careful–soul-shrinking. That research was my hardest ever, but also paid an enduring dividend.
In The Routes of Man, I link a series of challenging first-person passages down roads with reflections on how this most extensive man-made artifact changes us all, both intentionally and not. It’s a book about roads but I’m in it as well. Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep is an attempt to share what I’ve learned about this sort of writing. My most recent book, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge, recounts a passage into a landscape and community that in truth I haven’t left yet. It may be the closest I’ve come in any of my books to “going native.”
I admire writing where writers have something at stake; where they don’t just depend on experts but rather take time to think and research and participate, thereby transforming themselves into experts; where caring and the urgency of the subject transform the writing into something that matters.
Whiteout - Lost in Aspen
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/30788/whiteout-by-ted-conover/
Cheap Land Colorado
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/573452/cheap-land-colorado-by-ted-conover/
#Aspen #GrowingUpAspen #coaching #memoir #book #smalltown #community #goodtimes #community #changeyourlife #childhood #author #TedConover #Journalist #journalism #offgrid #Podcast #survival #politics #Whiteout #TheAspenTimes #CheapLandColorado
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6min
July 10, 2024 69 - Growing Up Aspen - Carolyne Heldman – Journalism Today
Carolyne Heldman speaks to the issues face Journalism today.
Carolyne Heldman (Journalist/ KSPN/MTV /Aspen high Grad 80. (14 min) Image of Maroon Bells ©Mark Ronay Photography/ Music by Felix Plante. Produced by Twist and Turn Press.
Book: Twist and Turn Press
https://www.twistandturnpress.com/
T-Shirts: Threadless
https://happytrailsanimation.threadless.com/
Happy Trails Animation
https://www.happytrailsanimation.com/
Under Heldman’s leadership, Aspen Public Radio was named one of the top-10 public radio stations in the country and its news team won six Colorado Broadcasters Association awards in 2017 as well as an Edward P. Murrow award this year. The station’s membership also rose 45 percent during Heldman’s tenure.
Heldman launched several new programs, including CrossCurrents, Curated, Non-Profit in the Spotlight, Audio Canvas and Spotlight Health. She also initiated Aspen Public Radio’s Town Hall Series.
“I am extremely proud to have been part of this wonderful community asset,” Heldman said in a statement. “APR’s growth and success is the result of the enormously talented staff and the commitment of dedicated leaders on the board.”
Bektesh, who started working under Heldman in June 2015, said she was drawn to Aspen Public Radio “because of (her) vision.”
“I feel so lucky to have worked with her,” Bektesh said, “and I think everyone in the building feels the same.”
Carolyne Heldman
Behind the Lens
https://thelensnola.org/category/behind-the-lens/
#Aspen #GrowingUpAspen #coaching #memoir #book #smalltown #community #goodtimes #community #changeyourlife #childhood #MTV #CarolyneHeldman #Journalist #journalism #DJ #Podcast
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15min
July 10, 2024 68 - Growing Up Aspen - Carolyne Heldman – The MTV Culture
Carolyne Heldman speaks to the affect MTV had on the music industry.
Carolyne Heldman (Journalist/ KSPN/MTV /Aspen high Grad 80.) (14 min) Image of Maroon Bells ©Mark Ronay Photography) Music by Felix Plante. Produced by Twist and Turn Press.
Book: Twist and Turn Press
https://www.twistandturnpress.com/
T-Shirts: Threadless
https://happytrailsanimation.threadless.com/
Happy Trails Animation
https://www.happytrailsanimation.com/
Under Heldman’s leadership, Aspen Public Radio was named one of the top-10 public radio stations in the country and its news team won six Colorado Broadcasters Association awards in 2017 as well as an Edward P. Murrow award this year. The station’s membership also rose 45 percent during Heldman’s tenure.
Heldman launched several new programs, including CrossCurrents, Curated, Non-Profit in the Spotlight, Audio Canvas and Spotlight Health. She also initiated Aspen Public Radio’s Town Hall Series.
“I am extremely proud to have been part of this wonderful community asset,” Heldman said in a statement. “APR’s growth and success is the result of the enormously talented staff and the commitment of dedicated leaders on the board.”
Bektesh, who started working under Heldman in June 2015, said she was drawn to Aspen Public Radio “because of (her) vision.”
“I feel so lucky to have worked with her,” Bektesh said, “and I think everyone in the building feels the same.”
Carolyne Heldman
Behind the Lens
https://thelensnola.org/category/behind-the-lens/
#Aspen #GrowingUpAspen #coaching #memoir #book #smalltown #community #goodtimes #community #changeyourlife #childhood #MTV #CarolyneHeldman #Journalist #journalism #DJ #Podcast
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15min
July 10, 2024 67 - Growing Up Aspen - Carolyne Heldman – KSPN vs MTV
Carolyne Heldman talks about the differences between the local radio station and MTV.
Carolyne Heldman (Journalist/ KSPN/MTV /Aspen high Grad 80.) (5 min) Image of Maroon Bells ©Mark Ronay Photography/ Music by Felix Plante. Produced by Twist and Turn Press.
Book: Twist and Turn Press
https://www.twistandturnpress.com/
T-Shirts: Threadless
https://happytrailsanimation.threadless.com/
Happy Trails Animation
https://www.happytrailsanimation.com/
Under Heldman’s leadership, Aspen Public Radio was named one of the top-10 public radio stations in the country and its news team won six Colorado Broadcasters Association awards in 2017 as well as an Edward P. Murrow award this year. The station’s membership also rose 45 percent during Heldman’s tenure.
Heldman launched several new programs, including CrossCurrents, Curated, Non-Profit in the Spotlight, Audio Canvas and Spotlight Health. She also initiated Aspen Public Radio’s Town Hall Series.
“I am extremely proud to have been part of this wonderful community asset,” Heldman said in a statement. “APR’s growth and success is the result of the enormously talented staff and the commitment of dedicated leaders on the board.”
Bektesh, who started working under Heldman in June 2015, said she was drawn to Aspen Public Radio “because of (her) vision.”
“I feel so lucky to have worked with her,” Bektesh said, “and I think everyone in the building feels the same.”
Carolyne Heldman
Behind the Lens
https://thelensnola.org/category/behind-the-lens/
#Aspen #GrowingUpAspen #coaching #memoir #book #smalltown #community #goodtimes #community #changeyourlife #childhood #MTV #CarolyneHeldman #Journalist #journalism #DJ #Podcast
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6min

FAQs about Growing Up Aspen - A Joiners Table Chat:

How many episodes does Growing Up Aspen - A Joiners Table Chat have?

The podcast currently has 166 episodes available.