The Complete Half-Aspenite chronicles the decades after skiing and culture invaded the splintering mining town that was Aspen, a period that might be called the Bohemian Years. In witty and evocative prose, Bruce Berger recounts the Aspen missed by the glitz-mongering media, a sublime stew of intense garage sales and flammable recycling, of hilarious architecture and tragic lunches, of grand eccentrics, bears and magpies, of physicists and musicians who made permanent contributions to world culture—the alchemy of human invention and natural splendor that make Aspen a place like no other.