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A snowboarder descends Aspen Mountain. The recreational activity was first developed in the 1960s, when a Michigan engineer named Sherman Poppen fastened two skis together with a rope so his children could glide more steadily down a hill. The contraptions were first called "snurfers," combining "snow" and "surf." Snowboarding developed as a sort of populist answer to snobbish skiing. It didn't become an Olympic sport until 1998. Now, some people only use the popular snowboard and do not use skis. I enjoyed all that Aspen had to offer.

Carol M. Highsmith Influenced by Frances Benjamin Johnston and Dorothea Lange Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. [1] Photography Career “Is Carol Highsmith the most...