Dan Glidden News Today

The Aspen community observed Memorial Day by gathering at Veterans Memorial Park on Monday, where themes of peace and honoring the fallen echoed on a clear spring day.

For Aspen native Dan Glidden, the Winter X Games in Aspen has always been more than just an event — it’s been a spectacle.

Dan Glidden — In 1985, I met with my friend Chuck Cole to discuss the possibility of our creating a memorial for U.S. veterans. After several meetings with Pitkin...

Dan Glidden — What a beautiful ceremony, complete with a Colorado bluebird day. A wonderful turnout of people who understand and appreciate Memorial Day.

Dozens gathered on Monday for the annual Memorial Day remembrance ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park in Aspen.

Turnout was stronger than expected for a pared-down Memorial Day service at the Pitkin County Veterans Memorial Park in Pitkin County Monday morning, organizer and Marine Veteran Lt. Col. Dick Merritt said.

A scaled down Memorial Day observation will be held Monday in Aspen against the backdrop of a pandemic that exacerbated challenges already faced by veterans.

Wicked Local Elaine Alpert always wears the gold locket she purchased two decades ago at the Mall at Echo Bridge. Inside is a photo of her son, Steve Glidden, as well as a small amount of his ashes, “So he’s always with me,” she said. Glidden was only 12 when he and three other Oak Hill Middle School students died when a bus carrying 42 children from the school to a music festival overturned on an exit ramp in Sussex, New Brunswick. Even as Alpert and others prepare to mark the 20th anniv...

We’ve all seen people on social media wishing 2020 away and hoping for a better year in 2021. However, I think there have been many bright spots. As a whole, we have learned that we are more resilient than we knew, more generous with our time and attention, and way luckier to be alive than we sometimes realized. I continued working even after the world shut down, photographing a different kind of daily life. I had the unique opportunity to watch firsthand what our little community looked like...