Editor’s note: This story is the first of a four-part Aspen Journalism series detailing Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s 1949 visit to Aspen to keynote the Goethe Bicentennial convocation, and examining the ...

The legacy of Dr. Albert Schweitzer will be honored in the Roaring Fork Valley with two days of public events in Basalt and Aspen on June 30 and July 1, commemorating the 150th anniversary of his ...

Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a four-part Aspen Journalism series on Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s visit to Aspen, where he gave the keynote address at the Goethe Bicentennial of 1949 and ...

If you are an aging senior, you are likely having experiences similar to mine. When I bring up a name of someone famous from my youth, my children and grandchildren have never heard of them. That same ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Albert Schweitzer — the Alsatian doctor, theologian, philosopher, and musician who spent 52 years mending bodies in the African jungle — was among the most able men of this century.

A famous figure of the 20th century, Albert Schweitzer was a tireless humanist and polymath who opened a hospital in the Gabonese jungle to bring healthcare to remote areas. But today the legacy of ...

In late 1947, William Larimer Mellon Jr., scion of the Pittsburgh Mellons, was rich and 37, with a pretty wife and children and a new house on a smooth-running Arizona ranch. He was looking through ...