February 2011: Columbine Ink is delighted to announce publication of Tapping Colorado Craft Beer: A Guide to Centennial State Brewpubs. This new book by Colorado authors Kathy and Lee Hayward is the sequel to the popular Drinking and Driving in Colorado. The guidebook is the perfect concise guide to good food and great brews in every region of Colorado. With more than 109 craft breweries and more than 600 unique brews, Colorado is the center of the U.S. craft brewery movement.
"Kathy and Lee Hayward are former school teachers who share a love a finely crafted beer and a desire to travel and explore Colorado, so we believed that their book fit perfectly with our mission of providing guidebooks to Colorado attractions," says publisher Peg Williams.
The new 104-page paperback book is $19.95, and includes 80 brewpubs, listings of 20 Colorado craft breweries with tasting rooms, and reviews of more than 500 unique beers. Six maps detailing the locations of the brewpubs are included, as are photographs of each brewpub, locations, hours and contact information.
December 2010: Columbine Ink exhibited at Cider Days in Lakewood this fall, and finished out the year with shows at the Fairplay Holiday Bazaar and Gilpin Christmas Mart. We will be releasing our show schedule for 2011 in the spring.
September 2010: We are delighted to announced publication of our latest book in our Waterfalls of Colorado series! We have just received our boxes from the printer of this stunning new volume. Waterfalls of the Colorado River Basin, by Marc Conly, features waterfalls accessed from the I-70 corridor, including those reached from Granby, Dillon, Vail, Eagle, Glenwood Springs, Rifle, Aspen and Marble. The book also includes waterfalls of the southern Flat Tops and Holy Cross Wilderness areas.
The book is the perfect hiking guide, including access information, trail miles, altitude and a ranking system. The 50 waterfalls featured in our new book are detailed on 20 maps and 23 wonderful photographs, taken by Nancy Conly Miscia. The book is 84 pages and retails for $12.95. You can purchase it on our site at www.columbineink.com.
August
2010: Columbine Ink has had a busy summer,
exhibiting at shows including Donkey Days in Cripple Creek, Burro Days in
Fairplay and Boom Days in Leadville.
April 2010: Columbine Ink announced its new Waterfalls of Colorado 2011 calendar was delivered from the printer!
January
2009: Columbine Ink was featured in The Flume!
Reprinted with permission from The Flume, January 23, 2009
Park County ghost towns book revived
New publishing company gets it back in print
By Debra Orecchio
Correspondent
John Aldrich’s book “Ghosts of Park County” has been reprinted by Columbine Ink,
a
publishing company in Denver.
Peg Williams, publisher, said that she thought Aldrich’s books were wonderful
and
she was excited by the chance to pick it up and get it back into print.
“Ghosts of Park County” is one of a series of 15 books written by Aldrich, all
of
which are guides to Colorado’s ghost towns and mining camps.
Of the 15 books, five have been out of print, according to Williams. The Park
County book is the first one to be reprinted. Williams said for this first
reprinting, they have had 100 books reprinted and she has been encouraged with
how
many have sold so far. She declined to give a specific number.
Aldrich said the book on Park County was probably the third book he wrote in the
series, and it was first printed in 1984. Overall, he sold more than 43,000
copies
of his books during the time they were all in print.
On average, it took Aldrich three to four months to research and write each
book. He
was a geologist by training, he said, and writing the books started out as a
hobby.
He was in the oil business for 20 years; when they wanted to transfer him to
Texas,
he decided to write full-time instead and stay in Colorado.
The book is full of historical information on the many mining towns throughout
Park
County. Aldrich includes fascinating stories of the people who settled in the
area.
Aldrich, 63, lives in Centennial and had a cabin in Park County until he sold it
a
couple of months ago. His health issues, including going blind in one eye, made
it
difficult to make the drive up to Fairplay, so he made the difficult decision to
sell the property that he had owned for almost 10 years.
It was up at that property that Williams first met Aldrich. Williams and her
husband, Ron, own property near Aldrich’s in Horseshoe Gulch near Fairplay.
Aldrich
would have parties at his cabin during the summer months. She was also a
geologist
and spoke to Aldrich about the books he had written.
“One thing led to another,” she said.
She wanted to start a business as a regional publisher of western books and felt
Aldrich’s series was a great foundation. Columbine Ink acquired all of the books
from Aldrich. The Williams, along with Anne Justen, are checking the facts in
each
of the books and updating some of the information. They are also adding updated
photographs, especially of buildings that may have been restored, like the Como
Roundhouse.
Peg Williams said that the revisions are fairly minor and the information is
what
Aldrich originally researched.
She is hoping to expand the business with other publications in the future.
One of the challenges with the books, Williams said, is that they are done in
the
old style of printing. That format needs to be converted to digital printing,
including scanning all the original photographs. She also has an artist restore
the
color to the photos as much as possible to the original.
It took about two months to complete the process for the Park County book, she
said,
but with each book the process gets faster. They have already completed the
updated
version of the book on Gilpin County and will soon be starting on Boulder
County.
Aldrich’s books can be purchased on the Columbine Ink Web site
(www.columbineink.com) or by calling Williams at 303-756-1106.