Zane Grey convention in Durango for four-day gathering next week
Fans of old West literature and film will converge in Durango next week to celebrate the eminent Western author Zane Grey.
The Zane Grey’s West Society 32nd annual convention will take place Monday through Thursday at the Strater Hotel and other locations in Durango. Participants will hear experts like Joe Wheeler and Harvey Leake speak about the novelist, watch a 1925 silent movie based on Grey’s work and ride the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge train.
Grey was a prolific novelist whose books, including the best-belling Riders of the Purple Sage, spawned scores of films and television programs and idealized life in the frontier West.
The opening session Tuesday morning will be free and open to the public. Visit www.zgws.org for more information.
Photographer Debra Parmenter exhibit on display at Sorrel Sky Gallery
“In Full Bloom,” an exhibit by Durango photographer Debra Parmenter, is on display at Sorrel Sky Gallery.
The exhibit celebrates the colors of the natural world with vivid and artistic photographs of flowers. It will be up through June 20.
Sorrel Sky Gallery is at 828 Main Ave. For more information, call 247-3555 or visit www.sorrelsky.com.
Jim Henson’s Dinosaur Train rolls out Saturday and Sunday
Jim Henson’s Dinosaur Train is back for a third year this weekend at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
The event, based on the hit PBS Kids Television series, will be led by Buddy the T. Rex and will feature fossil dig sites, dinosaur tracking, songs, face painting, prizes and more on the train and in the railroad yard.
Departure times are at 10 a.m., 11:15 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. Sunday.
Tickets start at $27 for children, visit www.durangotrain.com for more information.
There’s No Place Like Home to host reception with jewelry artist Karash
The public is invited to meet jewelry artist Deb Karash during a reception from 5-7 p.m. today at There’s No Place Like Home, 822 Main Ave.
Karash, who hails from Marshall, North Carolina, will teach a master jewelry design workshop called “Stack It, Smack It, Squish It, Screw It,” Saturday and Sunday at the Durango Arts Center.
Herald Staff
