Festivals an essential part of Vail summer

By scott miller

VAIL — When George Gillett and his family arrived in Vail 30-ish years ago, they quickly fell in love with the town. But that town was very different, especially in the summers.“It was delightful to be here then, but Vail was a small mountain community in the summer,” Gillett said.The decades have changed Vail significantly from that “small mountain community,” and one of the big drivers of that change has been the proliferation of summer festivals.As a longtime board member of the Vail Valley Foundation, Harry Frampton has seen, and helped drive, some of those festivals. Now, he said, festivals …

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