Slate Gray, more living room than art gallery

MONEY
WHY IS 1ST
U.S. TREASURY
CHIEF
LEAVING
$10 BILL?
By CARA ANNA
N
Associated Press
EW YORK (AP) — Immigrant. Founding Father. The architect of
the U.S. financial system, who envisioned
the way a struggling young democracy could survive. The star
of a new hit Broadway musical.
Why is Alexander Hamilton now
being removed from America’s
$10 bill?
ALL ABOUT THE HAMILTONS
The announcement in June
that a woman would appear on
U.S. paper money for the first
time in more than a century was
welcomed. But booting Hamilton drew widespread criticism,
including from former Federal
Reserve chair Ben Bernanke,
who wrote that he was “appalled.” Some, including Hillary
Rodham Clinton, have asked why
slave owner and central bankhater President Andrew Jackson
couldn’t be kicked off the $20
bill instead. The issue even came
up during this week’s Republican presidential debate. U.S. officials say the $10 bill is the most
counterfeited one — thus the
redesign. Officials plan to make
a decision on the bill’s new portrait in the coming months.
OBAMA IN THE HOUSE
The hip-hop musical “Hamilton” has been a huge hit on
Broadway, with its AfricanAmerican and Latino cast playing the roles of the white Founding Fathers and big names like
President Barack Obama in
the audience. The musical’s
young creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, says he was inspired by
a biography of Hamilton by Ron
Chernow. The book portrays
Hamilton as perhaps the most
intriguing of the cast of the characters who brought the United
States into existence. An orphan
from the Caribbean, he came to
New York as a teen, studied and
soon became a key military aide
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Birthdays
Sept. 20: Katherine Ahern, Susan
Altman, Joseph Bidwell, Leo Van Der
Bosch, Casey Conner, Norika Cope,
Ann Darnell, James Favier, Todd Fruen,
Paula Gonzales, Greg Kowalsky, Megan
Mahoney, Edward McCashion, Annette
Prack, Bea Reichel, Antoine Savelli, Joe
Schuler, Michael Volk; Sept. 21: Nancy
Anderson, Geoffrey Beck, Dan Curtin,
Michael Feldstein, Deb Gesmundo, Kelli
Grennell, Randy Kennan, Mark Kennefick, Pamela Lien, Christine McGinley,
Dana Miller, Dorleen Ohlson, Nichole
Ortiz, James Pendelton, George Rehm,
Pat Siger, Judith Smith, Lara Solomon,
Saunders Staley, Gary Strehl; Sept.
22: Doug Allee, Christopher Allen, Clint
Henderson, Christine McGinley Hooper,
Nancy Kelly, Moiz Kohari, Bill Mason,
Karen Oldmixon, Sandra Richardson,
Karen Wilson.
If you’d like any additions, deletions or
corrections to the birthday list, please
contact Bobbie at bobbies@telluridecolorado.net. Ages 18 and over please.
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Finish the weekend on a high note with a visit to Fais Do-do, the closing ceremony
for Blues & Brews, scheduled for 10 p.m. at the Sheridan Opera House. Big Easy
rockers The Revivalists will headline the show.
Looking for something with a little more local flavor? Take a stroll to Fly Me to the
Moon Saloon, where Colorado’s own Frogs Gone Fishin’ will play at 10 p.m.
Learn how to make posole — a hearty, meaty Mexican stew — Monday at 3:30 p.m.
at the Wilkinson Public Library Kids Cook event.
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
CARS
EPA SAYS VW
INTENTIONALLY VIOLATES
CLEAN AIR
STANDARDS
By MATTHEW DALY
W
Associated Press
so much art that we’re scrambling to fill the walls, which is
a great problem,” McLaughlin
said.
Slate Gray has jewelry, paintings, home furnishings and other
art. There is another location of
the gallery in Kerrville, Texas,
where McLaughlin is from, and
the two locations are constantly
sharing artwork with each other
to keep their selections fresh.
McLaughlin has owned the
building on main street for five
years, and for most of that time
the basement space now occupied by Slate Gray has served
as temporary office or storage
space for various festivals and
for Quentin Tarantino’s production of “The Hateful Eight” this
winter.
McLaughlin met Nelson in
ASHINGTON (AP)
— The Environmental Protection
Agency on Friday
ordered Volkswagen to fix nearly 500,000 VW and
Audi diesel cars that the agency
said are intentionally violating
clean air laws by using software
that evades EPA emissions standards.
VW, which owns Audi, faces
billions of dollars in fines, although exact amounts were not
determined.
The cars, all built in the last
seven years, are the VW Jetta,
Beetle, Golf and Passat models,
as well as the Audi A3. The vehicles all contain a device programmed to detect when they
are undergoing official emissions testing, the EPA said, adding that the cars only turn on full
emissions control systems during that testing. The controls are
turned off during normal driving
situations, the EPA said.
The EPA called the company’s
use of the so-called “defeat device” illegal and a threat to public health.
“EPA is committed to making sure that all automakers play
by the same rules,” said Cynthia
Giles, assistant EPA administrator for enforcement and compliance assurance.
The EPA called on VW to fix
the cars’ emissions systems, but
said car owners do not need to
take any immediate action. The
violations do not present a safety
hazard and the cars remain legal
to drive and sell, the EPA said.
The German automaker said
in a statement it is cooperating
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Beth McLaughlin, left, the owner of Slate Gray Gallery sits with gallery manager Denee Nelson atop Gray the Great Dane.
[Photo by Stephen Elliott]
BUSINESS
Slate Gray, more living
room than art gallery
Downstairs space offers fine art, jewelry and good company
By STEPHEN ELLIOTT
W
Staff Reporter
alking down Colorado Avenue in the
summer,
you’re
bound to see some
Bernese Mountain
Dogs in front of a café, or a lab
tied up outside Brown Dog, or unleashed dogs of unknown breeds
chasing after balls in a pocket
park. This summer, there’s been
a larger, less mobile addition to
the Telluride dog pack.
You’ve probably already met
Gray the Great Dane, or at least
sat on him or wondered why a
large dog sculpture is sitting on
the sidewalk. He serves as a sort
of mascot for Slate Gray Gallery,
an art gallery that opened at 209
E. Colorado Ave. in July.
“We were worried that we’re
in this basement space, and how
were we going to draw people
in,” Beth McLaughlin, the owner
of the new gallery, said. “Telluride is such a dog-friendly town,
so we thought, let’s put something really attention-getting up
there and hopefully it will draw
people down.”
“It really has turned into a
kind of iconic photo op in town,”
McLaughlin added, a few minutes before herself mounting
Gray, alongside the gallery’s
manager Denee Nelson, to pose
for a photo to accompany this
story.
According to McLaughlin and
Nelson, the dog has done his
duty, and the gallery has seen
a successful first few months.
It has flown through inventory,
which they say is priced so that
anyone could afford an item.
“We really have been selling
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Slate Gray Gallery
GALLERY, from page 36
Texas; one thing led to another
and the two decided to open the
gallery in Telluride.
“When the right people come
together you start thinking what
are your strengths, what are your
weaknesses, how do we balance
all that out,” McLaughlin said.
“The benefit has been meeting
so many wonderful visitors and
members of the community.”
The gallery staff has strived to
make the space comfortable, and
the plush couch and other home
furnishings there are evidence
of that. They say this helps them
meet two goals: to create a space
where customers can realistically imagine how the artwork
would look in their own homes,
and to create a place where
people can gather or just sit and
chat.
“We want this to be a comfortable, beautiful space that
people can come in and enjoy,”
McLaughlin said, and, as if on
cue, a regular customer walked
down the stairs and started talking with the two women, trading
info on local hairdressers and
laughing while sharing friendly
banter.
$10 bill
BILL, from page 36
to George Washington in the
American Revolution. Later with
James Madison and John Jay,
Hamilton argued passionately in
a famous series of essays known
as the Federalist Papers that the
young United States would need
a strong central government and
banking system and a constitution to bind the new nation to-
gether.
FOLLOWING, AND
MINTING, THE MONEY
Hamilton became the young
country’s first treasury secretary, and the story of the modern U.S. economy begins with
him. He essentially crafted the
U.S. monetary system — a feat
that perhaps has not received
enough credit because Hamilton
never became president. Before
the Constitution passed, many
feared the U.S. was too feeble to
last, with a weak national government and individual states
burdened by war debts. Hamilton’s solution: a stronger economic union, which would lead
to a stronger political union. A
federal tax system, a national
debt, a central bank, a mint with
the dollar as currency: Hamilton
was behind them all.
Clean air violation
VW, from page 36
with the investigation, but declined further comment.
The EPA said VW faces fines
of up to $37,500 per vehicle for
the violations — a total of more
than $18 billion. No final total
was announced. California is-
sued a separate compliance
order to VW, and officials announced an investigation by the
California Air Resources Board.
Despite the seriousness of the
violation, the EPA said VW will
be given “a reasonable amount
of time to develop a plan to com-
plete the repairs,” including both
the repair procedure and manufacture of any needed parts.
It could take up to a year to
identify corrective actions, develop a recall plan and issue recall notices, the EPA said.
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