Founded in 1971, the Vail Symposium is the brainchild of former Vail Town Manager, Terry Minger, in concert with the Vail mayor at the time, John Dobson. Described as a “grass-roots … think tank,” the Vail Symposium focus is to share “ideas, education, art, politics, science, business and the environment” between the community of Vail and the world-at-large. Its mission is “to provide educational programs that are thought-provoking,...