Karen Griffiths
Listed in the Western Reflections author directory.
Karen Griffiths wrote Reflections on Lake Lenore, a book about the Lake Lenore area just outside Ouray, Colorado, which a retailer lists under the publisher Western Reflections Publishing Company. Our author directory carries her name, but the book is not yet on our catalogue, so this page draws on that listing.
About Karen Griffiths
The book's author note says Griffiths is a fourth-generation Coloradoan who took an early retirement in 1999 after twenty-five years of teaching in public school classrooms. She has been an active poet and freelance writer for nearly forty years. The note says she likes to bring personal histories out to air, as on a clothesline, while attaching well-researched dates and factual details.
The listing gives a June 5, 2008 publication date for Reflections on Lake Lenore, a first edition. We read it on a single retailer page and could not match it against a second source, so we treat the date and the page count as unconfirmed.
Karen Griffiths is listed in the Western Reflections author directory and the books under this name are not yet on the site. If this is your page, send us the details and we will add them. In the meantime, the library carries the rest of the catalogue, from regional history to memoir and fiction.
What the books share
Reflections on Lake Lenore treats one small place as a way into a bigger story. Per the description, the prose covers the past, present and possible future of the Lake Lenore community, which lies just outside the city limits of Ouray. It calls the area much photographed but privately owned, and says it faces the negatives of encroaching development, the price of progress that many mountain communities share.
Next steps for readers of this author
Respecting private land
The book's description says the lake area is privately owned, so plan from public viewpoints and town sites rather than assuming access. Ask the visitor center where the public can legally stand.
Following a small community's story
If you care about how mountain towns handle growth, read the museum page for local history, then compare it with the development concerns the description raises. Notes from both can guide a letter to county officials.
Go deeper
Reflections on Lake Lenore concerns a community just outside Ouray. The places below explain the town and county around it, so a reader can see what surrounds the lake before reading about its past and future.
Ouray County Museum
The society's museum page says the building began as St. Joseph's Miners' Hospital in 1886 and now holds thousands of artifacts on mining, ranching and railroading in Ouray County.
Visit Ouray
The town's official visitor site, describing Ouray as a base set at 7,800 feet among peaks of 12,000 to 13,000 feet.
Colorado Encyclopedia: Ouray
A reference article on the town and on Chief Ouray, the Ute leader for whom it is named, with period photographs.
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