Karen and daughter Nike VanArsdale. Photo by Pam Thayer, 2012
Karen in late 2005, when she retired as Cultural Program Director of the Boulder Public Library. Photo by Cliff Grassmick for the Daily Camera
Karen featured in a Focus Magazine article in the Daily Camera, November 1976
Karen, 1965, with children Rafael, Derek and Nike VanArsdale
Karen with her children Derek, Nike and (seated) Rafael VanArsdale, 1981, at the Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, with painting by George Woodman. Photo by Cheri Belz.
Karen Ripley-Dugan, 2012
Clockwise from Karen: Melissa Burlingham, Adamah VanArsdale, Leilani VanArsdale and Tom Dugan, 2012, Princeville, Hawaii.
Karen Ripley-Dugan, mid-1960s
Karen at home on Pleasant Street, 1981. Photo by Cheri Belz
The Boulder Public Library expanded to this block of Arapahoe, where Heritage Antiques and the SunSign Gallery, owned by Karen and Jerry Hodge, were located. Courtesy of the Boulder Public Library