12/24/06 - Story about Katie Fry,  Managing Director for the combined four Ski/Snowboard Schools of Aspen,  http://www.ski.com/community/Blog/tabid/78/EntryID/17/Default.aspx

12/9/06  - Story about Alan Fletcher, as President and Chief executive Officer of the Aspen Music Festival and School, in the  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

12/9/06 - Check out the book Aspen Ski Bum Stories From the Sixties by Stuart Kindale.

12/3/06 - An inspiring story about Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins, and their Rocky Mountain Institute at  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Institute  and  www.rmi.org/ .

12/3/06 - In 1957, Dr. Charles Houston, doctor and climber, treated a sick skier in Aspen and documented what is now known as high altitude pulmonary edema. In Aspen, Houston worked with Dr. Willem Kolff on one of the early models of an artificial heart. (More info www.pbs.org/now/science/houston.html)

11/30/06 - "Suburban teenager moves to Aspen in 1973, and discovers a much bigger world of choices and opportunity.  Torn between science, art, environmental issues, and entrepreneurship, he bounces in & out of universities, art projects, odd jobs & businesses, from Aspen to California. Frustrated with the financial struggles of freelancing it, he gets degrees in math, economics, and physics.  He writes software for atomic-force microscopes by day, and songs by night.  After many years,  he discovers the "agile" and "extreme-programming" approaches to software, and deeper design issues.  He starts to like software again enough that he does it night & day, for many years.  Now torn between software, science, art, music, environmental issues, and entrepreneurship, he fantasizes about spending more time in Aspen than California, and working on new innovative software projects.  He starts a series of web sites focused on specific jobs, hoping that people will share their stories, and find more fulfilling gigs. In honor of the original Aspen inspiration, he starts Aspengigs first." -- Kelley Harris kharris@focusedgigs.com