People
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- M.N. Jordan
- Jordan was a pioneer resident of Saguache, Colorado.
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- M.W. Cooley
- He was born in New York. He was the general manager of the Uintah Railway in the 1920’s and perhaps earlier. He lived in Mack, Colorado, where 1920 US Census records show him rooming in a boarding house at the age of fifty-nine. According to Elizabeth (Dow) Angus, he lived in the Mack Hotel with his wife. He was also an amateur ornithologist whose bird collection was gifted to the Museums of Western Colorado. He was known colloquially as Captain Cooley, and was succeeded by Major Hood.
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- MIchael Kinsley
- Michael Kinsley wandered into Aspen in 1970, after graduating from the University of Houston with a bachelor’s degree in political science, having skied only once. Though he never decided to stay—he worked as a prep cook, a lodge-room cleaner for the Willie family, a dishwasher at Toro’s, and a biological researcher with Bob Lewis, and laundromat manager in Snowmass mall—he never left but he did learn to ski. In ’71, Kinsley started as the director of the local Environmental Task Force —among other issues, helping oppose ski areas at Haystack and Marble, and water diversion from Hunter Creek. Part of the group of people seeking new local leadership, he worked on county commissioner campaigns of Joe Edwards and Dwight Shellman, and the mayoral campaign of Stacey Standley. In ’74, upstart Kinsley ran for county commissioner and lost to Max Marolt. After Max’s heart attack, Michael was appointed in his place and joined the board with Joe and Dwight, where ensued a bit of controversy for several years. Among many issues, Michael’s primary focus was the creation of the housing authority. In ’83, Kinsley started with Rocky Mountain Institute, where he continues to work part time and where he spent nearly 20 years helping local communities in 40 states and four other countries move toward more sustainable economic development. In his many years at RMI, Kinsley designed and conducted scores of workshops for communities, campuses, and corporations on a wide range of topics, some quite technical and complex. He worked with scores of rural communities, in the course of which he developed, tested, refined, taught, lectured about, and wrote a book about a collaborative problem-solving process he developed. In ’86, Kinsley worked with Aspen Police Chief Rianosek to create a free local mediation service and he learned to mediate. Around ’89, Michael got serious about art. His landscape paintings portray the simple, pastoral beauty, primarily found in the Roaring Fork Valley and Southeast Utah. Recently, he’s also painting abstracts. He shows at several venues including Toklat Gallery, Aspen Chapel Gallery, Carbondale Council’s Gallery, and the Red Brick. In 2007, he shifted his RMI work to reducing energy use on college campuses — writing another book, Accelerating Campus Climate Initiatives, and playing a small role in the development of “Factor Ten Engineering,” RMI’s effort to bring integrative design into engineering practice. Among many papers, he wrote “Introduction to Whole-System Problem-Solving,” “Critical Thinking for Sustainable Community Decision-Making” and “Collaborating for Sustainable Communities.” Independent of RMI, Michael now works locally as a “community diplomat,” a term he coined to describe the impartial mediation, consultation, and facilitation required to resolve tough community issues with minimal rancor, optimal collaboration, and maximum creativity.
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- Mabel (Brandon) Donaldson
- She was born to William and Mary Brandon in Tennessee. US Census records from 1900 to 1920 show that her father was a farmer, a clergyman in a Baptist Church, and then a lusterer. Her mother was a homemaker. The family had moved from Tennessee to Oklahoma by the time Mabel was 11, and was shown living in Missouri by the census in 1920, when Mabel was 21. She apparently went to college, where oral history interviewee Helen (Young) Johnson contends Mabel was a physical education major. She married William Dean Donaldson in Telluride, Colorado in 1924. By 1930, they were living in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County. During the Depression, when Dean lost his job as a steam shovel operator, Mabel began teaching a dance class in affiliation with the WPA. Formerly, she had been a school teacher. She played the piano.
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- Mabel (Harp) Cowden
- She was born in Meeker, Colorado to Thaddeus S. Harp, owner of a stagecoach line, and to Nettie Florence (Ross) Harp, a teacher and homemaker. She grew up in Meeker and Rifle. After high school in Rifle, Mabel attended the Teacher's Institute for three summers before beginning teaching at the Rifle Creek School. She was married to Louis Merlin Cowden on June 17, 1919 in Rifle, Colorado. Together they owned and operated a general store in Silt, where they also raised a family.
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- Mabel A. (Colburn) Hargis
- She was born in Illinois. She lived with her husband in Ovid, Colorado and California before they settled in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, Colorado. She was a homemaker on a fruit farm and had two daughters.
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- Mabel C. Kieffer
- She worked as the Fruita correspondent for the Daily Sentinel. She was the aunt of oral history interviewee Jeanette LeBeau.