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Curated - February 29

Aspen Public Radio | By Patrick Fort

Published February 29, 2016 at 2:21 PM MST

On today's episode of Curated, we speak with Aspen author, Mark Tompkins, about his book "The Last Days of Magic". We hear about how people remember Ralph Melville of the Mountain Chalet. Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis meet in Carbondale, and we celebrate what feels like Spring, with the song of the week!

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