Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan

Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com

and on our YouTube channels, Blister Review and Blister Studios. Last week, I sat down in Blister headquarters

with writer and essayer, George Sibley, who is the author of Dragons in Paradise and a

longtime contributor to the Mountain Gazette. Dragons in Paradise is our latest entry to our Blister book club,

because we view it as a must-read collection of essays on

Mountain Town Communities and Culture,

and today you are going to hear George and me discuss those topics and many others.

Okay, now I want to welcome a few of our newest Blister Plus members, including Jeffrey

in Snowflake, Arizona, Colin in Snowmass, Colorado just renewed his membership.

We've got new members, Lindsay in Belgrade, Montana, Stephanie and Jensen in Everett,

Washington, Rebecca in Anchorage, Alaska, Jason in Murray, Utah also just renewed, as did

Rosemary in Jackson, Wyoming. So, yeah, lots of cool places represented in this batch of Blister

Plus members, and we are psyched to see more and more people literally every single day

getting themselves covered and protected with Blister Plus. So we've got a link to Blister Plus

in the show notes. And if you keep wondering why all of these people keep signing up for Blister Plus,

well then just click the link and see how Blister Plus probably is going to be a great thing for you to have too.

And with that, let's now get to my conversation with George Sibley. Here we go.

Well, it is a real honor to have here in Blister headquarters for the first time, George Sibley, George, thank you for being here today.

Thank you for the invitation.

George, I've been reflecting a lot on the fact that you are very quickly approaching

60 years in the Gunnison Valley.

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