Bookseller Extraordinaire Katherine Thalberg Dies

January 9, 2006

Aspen will give up threads like this one: a former mayor, a fight against fur, an independent bookseller, a vegan restaurant, a Hollywood mogul, and a computer genius.Bill Joy is the genius, the resident technical guru at Sun Microsytems and now an Aspen homeowner. When asked a couple years back why he moved to Aspen, Joy said he wanted to move to a place with a great independent bookstore—a store like Explore Booksellers on Main Street. Katherine Thalberg owned and ran the book store and the vegan Explore Bistro on the top floor of the building. The wife of former Aspen Mayor Bill Stirling and the daughter of the Hollywood actress Irving Thalberg and actress Norma Shearer, she succumbed to cancer Friday at Aspen Valley Hospital.Thalberg, 70, had been one of the locals behind

the fur fight that made it to front pages across the country. The fate of the Explore book store is as yet unknown, but the power of her independent bookstore in downtown Aspen is beyond debate. She graduated from West Lake School for Girls in Beverly Hills, Calif., and went on to attend Vassar College in New York and Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., before earning her bachelor's degree in English literature at the University of California-Los Angeles, according to published reports. In 1973, Thalberg and her daughters -- Ashley, Brooke and Deva (39) -- moved to Aspen, where she had visited in 1959-60. She opened Explore Booksellers in 1975. Through the years the Main Street store, located in Victorian era house, became one of the town's best-loved and well-known businesses.A memorial service for Katharine Thalberg will be held at Paepcke Auditorium at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 21. "Everyone is welcome," said Thalberg's

daughter, Ashley Anderson. Peter H

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January 9, 2006

Aspen will give up threads like this one: a former mayor, a fight against fur, an independent bookseller, a vegan restaurant, a Hollywood mogul, and a computer genius.Bill Joy is the genius, the resident technical guru at Sun Microsytems and now an Aspen homeowner. When asked a couple years back why he moved to Aspen, Joy said he wanted to move to a place with a great independent bookstore—a store like Explore Booksellers on Main Street. Katherine Thalberg owned and ran the book store and the vegan Explore Bistro on the top floor of the building. The wife of former Aspen Mayor Bill Stirling and the daughter of the Hollywood actress Irving Thalberg and actress Norma Shearer, she succumbed to cancer Friday at Aspen Valley Hospital.Thalberg, 70, had been one of the locals behind the fur fight that made

it to front pages across the country. The fate of the Explore book store is as yet unknown, but the power of her independent bookstore in downtown Aspen is beyond debate. She graduated from West Lake School for Girls in Beverly Hills, Calif., and went on to attend Vassar College in New York and Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., before earning her bachelor's degree in English literature at the University of California-Los Angeles, according to published reports. In 1973, Thalberg and her daughters -- Ashley, Brooke and Deva (39) -- moved to Aspen, where she had visited in 1959-60. She opened Explore Booksellers in 1975. Through the years the Main Street store, located in Victorian era house, became one of the town's best-loved and well-known businesses.A memorial service for Katharine Thalberg will be held at Paepcke Auditorium at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 21. "Everyone is welcome," said Thalberg's daughter, Ashley Anderson.

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