Telluride Historical Museum - Telluride Blanket reception

The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society is sponsoring a private reception in the Weatherford Gallery of the Telluride Historical Museum for a special presentation of the Telluride Blanket exhibit. Historian and writer, Bill Sagstetter, will summarize the historical significance of the rare 800-year-old Ancestral Puebloan textile blanket and explain its unlikely path from its discovery 100 years ago in a remote cave in Southeastern Utah to the new exhibit at the Telluride Historical Museum. According to Jeanne Brako, interim director of the Center of Southwest Studies and curator of collections at Fort Lewis College, the Telluride Blanket is "the only known dyed blanket that is intact. Everything else are fragments from different sites."

Please note: The reception is open to members of the San Juan Basin Archaeological Society, members of the Chipeta and Hisatsinom Chapters of CAS, and other sponsored guests. Early registration recommended.

Contact Trip Leaders: Barb and Lyle Hancock at 970-764-4531 or lylehancock@bresnan.net for additional trip information or to signup.

Date	Thursday, January 24th
Trip Status	Open for registration
Location	Telluride Historical Museum, in the Weatherford Gallery 201 W. Gregory at the top of Fir Street in Downtown Telluride
Trip Leaders	Barb & Lyle Hancock 970.764.4531 or lylehancock@bresnan.net
Trip limit	none
Trip fees	$5 per person museum entry fee
Schedule
v 7:00 a.m.	Participants interested in carpooling meet at Santa Rita Park.
v 7:15 a.m.	Depart Santa Rita Park for Telluride
v 9:25 a.m.	Arrive Telluride and assemble at the museum
v 9:30 a.m.	Program begins Speaker: Historian and writer Bill Sagstetter Viewing of the blanket & other museum exhibits
v 11:30 a.m.	Lunch in town – on your own
v 1:30 p.m.	Carpools return to Durango
v 3:45 p.m.	Arrive Santa Rita Park