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- Craig “Munch” Muhonen
- Here is an email from Craig Muhonen, dated 9/23/22: "I was born October 28th, , 1946, in Gardner Mass. and spent a lot of time at my Grandfathers general store in Barnard Vt. . I came to this little town (Telluride, Colorado) on a whim, after Vietnam, in May of 1971 with my dog Munch, and the first person I met was Everett Morrow who looked this Marine Veteran and California surfer up and down, but took my money for a camp site in town park, and then the next day gave me a ticket for Munch not being on a leash. When I brought my new motorcycle to town he thought it was stolen and wanted to see the papers. At 2 AM one night I pulled a U turn in front of the Sheridan and was taken in by his side kick Masteaus. Welcome to Telluride. I became a town plumber and for the next 30 years or so I saw the underbelly of Telluride, and Lexie saw one tired and dirty husband come home every night. I met so many of the towns people and their dogs, and the amount of new construction and remodeling that went on from there was mind boggling. Lexie and I were married in town on April 8th, 1975. We raised two boys in town, Zane and Evan. (sometimes when I got home, they asked, “Mom, whos that guy?) Right after High School the kids were gone and went on their adventures. After working for telluride outside as a river guide, Zane became a, “Hot Shots” fire fighter, and then went to work for Mesa Verde Helitracks, and at the same time he was a ski patroller. Evan became an Army Ranger and then a Black Hawk helicopter pilot, spending three tours over seas, and just retired after 21 years and 14 days. Like my boys couldn’t get high enough in town, so they both ended up in helicopters, Ha.. Both of them got married and gave us 5 beautiful grandchildren. It was getting pricy (Telluride), so we sold our house and moved down to Dolores on 9-11-2001. What a day that was, we saw the planes hit the towers in the morning, packed the moving truck up and watched the rest of that terrible day from down here. The new buyers called me and said that they couldn’t make the closing date because their bank was in the South Tower, but I was easy and gave them time to get it together. Looking back, I should have held on to it, It’s worth millions today. Oh well, we built a beautiful house down here on 20 acres. When Lexie and I met in Fall Creek in 1973 we built a tree house on Koosters land. We lived in it until I got my Plumbing job in town, but the tree house was lived in every day for many years after we left, and even two kids were raised there. I Plumbed until 2013 when a real bad construction accident ended my 40 year carrier, but I’m OK, not from the waist down though."
