LARRY FREDRICK
Volunteer Official Historian

Larry Fredrick is the Aspen Historical Society’s Star Volunteer and official Historian and provides history training for Historical Society volunteers and interns as well as conducting tours of the Holden Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum, the Hotel Jerome, the Smuggler Mine and other historically-significant sites for elementary school children.  He is a former Aspen Historical Society board member and established historic walking tour programs for the Society in 1985. During his tenure with the Society, Larry has created various slide show presentations for visitor and local groups, several of which have since been converted to digital format at aspenhistory.org.

He helped establish the Winter Lecture Series in 1994.  Larry provides research help for authors, printed media and graduate students. On occasion, Larry performs as David M. Hyman along side Dick Osur as Jerome B. Wheeler, in the ‘Antagonist of Aspen’; a theatrical historic debate.  He is a member in good standing of the ‘Dead Prospector’s Society’ and the Order of the Silver Nugget.  He has provided voice over parts in various video programming including HGTV, A&E Television, Fine Living Channel, Denver Channels NBC, PBS and Aspen television and radio programming.  He is a member of Spellbinders, a national storytelling organization based in Woody Creek, creating and telling Aspen history stories to young people in the Aspen Elementary Schools.  He is a former member and Chair of the Wheeler Opera House Board of Directors.  Awards include the 2007 Pitkin County Board of Commissioners Exemplary Volunteer Award, the 1994 City of Aspen Historical Preservation Commission’s Elisabeth Paepcke Award, and Aspen Philanthropist Magazine’s recognition of volunteer activities for community benefit 2006.