Dear Editor,

I knew and liked the young Nederland man with a soft Scandinavian accent who came to our Boulder nonprofit in the 1980’s to discuss a variety of farfetched ideas that he wanted to pursue.

We couldn’t fund him but always wished him well, especially with an idea about bringing people back to life at some point in the future. He insisted that it would surely be possible, even easy, if only we could preserve enough organ-DNA of a recently deceased person to recreate the entire body. And he really loved his granddad.

Thus the conceptual seed of Frozen Dead Guy Days—FDGD to the world at large—was born.

Succeeding too well is a rare problem to have in life.

Yet Nederland somehow managed to do this with the FDGD festival. This tiny town simply can’t handle 20,000 people at one time.

If only the massively-odd FDGD music and public events freak-out held in winter conditions at high altitude had stayed small and odd, things would be the same as they ever were.

But quirkiness is beautiful and precious and when it does grow too big to handle locally we should celebrate the next iteration.

Congrats to Estes Park, good luck, and remember the essential weirdness of FDGD.

Larry Tasaday

Nederland