For an author who lives in one of Colorado’s most picturesque valleys, Suzanne Silverthorn is surprisingly smitten with faded postcards. And yet, Silverthorn isn’t quite drawn to airbrushed snapshots — say, far-off locales like the Himalayas and Serengeti, or even the broad ski trails of her adopted hometown of Vail. Her most prized postcards are a bit more humble, at least on first glance. Take the collection she found in her late grandmother’s home. There were dozens of dog-eared postcards from Silverthorn’s youthful playground of Grand Lake, where the Missouri native would spend long, cool summers in the ’60s. Those …
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