Humans of Crested Butte: Glo

“When I first came here everybody was extremely open to everything but extremely careful about everyone’s privacy. We had a pretty big fugitive come through for a little while here, made a lot of big time news and America’s most wanted. And when I first met him he said to me, “Well, Glo, I’m not really who you think I am, I’m actually someone totally different,” And I looked at him and I said “Well, do I need to be worried?” and he said “No, not for a minute.” And I said “fine!” And that’s all I knew, and of course later he was this huge fugitive that was running from the law.

His name was Murdock and he was a guy who had done some pretty bad things. He had imported gourds, but they ended up having cocaine in them and he had got caught, somewhere back east. And then he came here and everything was fine, and then after 20 plus years he wanted to have a house, so he made up a social security number and it happened to be a real social security number. . .So the DEA ended up coming after Murdock, and they botched it so he basically rode out of town on his mountain bike.”

“I was a waitress for 29 years here. . .It was great, because I would have the same visitors, tourists, or second home owners come in and they’d almost always come back on so-and-so’s birthday. So I saw a kid go from 4 years old to 16 years old every summer, and they’d always request me.”

“There were only 500 people here when I moved here. . .you never asked anybody their last name because people cam ehere for many reasons. They came here to get away, protesting Vietnam, they came here because they were drug runners and trying to get away from the law. They came here because they were draft dodging. If people offered their last name, that was fine, but so many people had nicknames.”