Historic Lecture Series | Charles "Minnie" Dole: The Peak of Masculinity & Frontier of Western Snow

Name: Historic Lecture Series | Charles "Minnie" Dole: The Peak of Masculinity & Frontier of Western Snow
Start: 2026-04-12T11:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-04-12T13:30:00-06:00
Location: 19192 Hwy 8, Morrison, CO, United States, Colorado 80465

Schedule

Sun Apr 12 2026 at 11:00 am to 01:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

19192 Hwy 8, Morrison, CO, United States, Colorado 80465 | Morrison, CO

We look forward to welcoming you to the next historic lecture of the 2025/2026 season!
Sunday lunch lectures are continuing in 2026! Tickets are $35 a person and include pork ribs, coleslaw, campfire beans, and dessert. Lunch lectures run from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. with lunch to follow.
Sunday dinner lectures will be $70 per person and include a prix fixe menu of BBQ beef brisket sliders, jicama coleslaw, sweet potato fries with Chipotle honey aioli, Caesar salad and a lemon no-bake cheesecake for dessert. Dinner lectures run from 6-7 p.m. with dinner to follow.
Charles ‘Minnie’ Dole, a New Englander born in 1900, founded both the National Ski Patrol System — America’s first national ski safety organization — and Colorado’s famed Tenth Mountain Division, a military division during WWII. This lecture explores the roots of Minnie’s ideas, beginning in the East with his upbringing and time at Yale, where athletics and extracurricular life helped shape his perspective on manhood, service, and leadership. It traces how those values crystallized into his vision for the Tenth Mountain Division and how his recruitment efforts transformed Camp Hale — and later Aspen — into a western outpost of sociability and athleticism modeled on eastern collegiate life. Minnie Dole’s life story, set against twentieth-century socio-cultural dynamics, will offer a fresh perspective on the rise of recreational skiing in America’s interwar and postwar eras.
Julia Hornstein reports on venture capital, defense technology, and artificial intelligence for Business Insider, where she breaks news on major fundraises and covers cultural movements shaping Silicon Valley. Previously, she wrote about AI and its backers for The Information. Julia holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University, where she focused her studies on the American West.