Salida is known for its mountain hiking, where it draws hikers and climbers from all over the world. Located in the Upper Arkansas River Valley, Salida boasts more than a dozen fourteeners, and has been called an “outdoor paradise” ripe with year-round activities.
From there, it is about two hours from Colorado Springs and three hours from Denver. With a reputation for being a welcoming western town that is fun for people of all ages, Salida is a great place to play and stay in the Rockies. The Colorado mountain town of Salida sits in the middle of our state, deep in the heart of the Rockies. And it is here, Salida, that we will base our Elevated Reading for the month. While the town of Holt is disappointingly fictional, the town is based on Salida, an eastern Colorado town where Haruf lived. His collected works speak to the grace that lies in each of us. He is also known his other books set in Holt, CO: Benediction, Eventide and Our Souls at Night, which was recently made into a Netflix movie starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. It represents the best of rural Colorado, capturing the unique beauty and struggle of that kind of life.
The New York Times described it as: "A novel so foursquare, so delicate and lovely, that it has power to exalt the reader." Plainsong, a powerful tale of seven lonely lives and the windswept, high plains country that possesses them, connected with readers all over the country. The book, based in the small town of Holt, tells the story of Tom Guthrie, a high school teacher struggling to keep his life together a pregnant teenage girl, abandoned by those who should protect her and two elderly bachelor brothers who work the family farm, isolated from life beyond their own community. Utterly true to the sad, exhilarating and brutal rhythms of life, Plainsong is the story of a town and a people. His book, Plainsong, is simply put, his Colorado masterpiece – a classic for all time. There are few Colorado authors as beloved as the late Kent Haruf.
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