Stories from the Stacks

The Monthly Liaison: January 2023

Sewing club is a mosaic of colors, textures, and story-sharing in the Children's Library.

Pony tails and braids flop over shoulders, and strands of hair fall over eyes. Ten heads bend intently over needlework around the tables in the Children’s Library. Ten colors of thread are pulled up and down, and ten unique patterns of stitches take shape in multi-colored cloths. Between the stitches are giggles and sighs and questions.

“What happens when I get to the top?” one child asks. A woman who has sewn for decades leans over and shows her how to tie a knot.

“This will be the top of your hat,” the woman says.

“Oh!” exclaims the child. “So that’s what we are making!”

Not far away in the Idaho Room, fifteen board members of a local nonprofit sit around the long meeting table. They all have sheets of paper and laptop screens in front of them; they are charting plans and assessing the civic programs they are shaping.

Later, in the same room, nineteen people from four different countries will sit in a circle practicing English. Word by word and sentence by sentence, they will stitch - between smiles and questions - the conversations they are seeking.

Circle upon circle – so many threads – so many hands stitching the one sweeping hem of the community that we all, together, are making.

So next time you’re looking to “recycle” clothes, gear, housewares, etc. at the Gold Mine, remember that you are doing so much more than “recycling.” You are recognizing that your items possess more value in their present form than they could ever have being recycled or landfilled.

A new era in thinking has emerged in how we should better address consumption ... Enter the circular economy.

Just as our donors help stock our store, our customers help complete that circle with their purchases. They not only provide much needed funds to support worthy causes, but they are also helping to shift our economy in more sustainable and circular directions. 

Enter the circular economy.

This shift seeks to meld the world of finite material resources with the world of renewables such as energy and biodegradable items including compost and food waste. 

So what might all this have to do with our community?

Thrifts, such as the Gold Mine, the Attic, Barkin, and the Building Thrift, are all squarely aimed at preserving products at their highest value. It’s much more than “keeping items out of the landfill.” It’s about acknowledging that these items possess intrinsic value that are worth much more than they would have been if they were disassembled and recycled or landfilled.

It’s much more than “keeping items out of the landfill.” It’s about acknowledging that these items possess intrinsic value that are worth much more than they would have been if they were disassembled and recycled or landfilled.

Living in the Hemingway House in November as the Writer-in-Residence

was a great gift to me and I didn't want to waste any moment while I

was there. I saw many of my old friends, worked with an editor on my

next book, wrote daily observations, and compared them—foolishly—to

what Hemingway had written. After all that was why I was there:

to write and to learn. The following is one short bit of my writing

that captured my feelings of that stay in November:  

A skiff of snow fell last night in the Big Wood River drainage, casting a frosty layer over the Hemingway House and on the Boulder Mountains beyond. Footprints aimed toward the far away mountains: were they left by the ghost of Hemingway or just a solitary soul walking out and away? 

~Mike Medberry

Writer-in-Residence at the Hemingway House

Each winter, we read a story together. The 2023 Winter Read is Sabrina & Corina, a collection of short stories that explore the contemporary American West and Mexican and indigenous ancestries.

Over the next 5 weeks, we'll have speakers, discussions,

films, and activities related to the book.

Read more here.

Our Librarians have scoured the stacks to curate a list of the best reads

of 2022 to help you find your next great read.

Check out/download the list here.

From repairing, repurposing, and other "revolutions," to new winter titles for teens, tweens, and kids, we have curated some terrific titles for you ... in print, ebook, eaudiobook, and film. All free at The Community Library.

Find these and more recommendations, across genres, here.

by Alexandra Stratkotter

In print, New Nonfiction

746.44 STR

by Lily Fulop

In print, Nonfiction

646.4 FUL

by Nick Harper

In print, Nonfiction

643.7 HAR

by Darlene Olivia McElroy

In print, Nonfiction

745.5 MCE

by Nick Haynes

In print, Graphic Novel

FIC 861.62 HAY

by Qiufan Chen

In print, SF/Fantasy

SCIFIC CHE

Directed by Anna Fitch

Streaming on Kanopy

from Green Planet Films

Streaming on Kanopy

by Katrina Rodabaugh

eBook on Libby/Overdrive

eMagazine

Available on Libby

by Emily Inouye Huey

Young Adult New

YA FIC HUE

by Christopher Hart

Young Adult New

YA 741.5 HAR

by Neal Schusterman

YA Display

YA FIC SHU 3.5

by Candace Fleming

in Children's New

J EASY FLE

by Chitra Soundar

in Children's New

J 394.26 OWL

by Stuart Gibbs

in Children's New

J FIC GIB 2

THANK YOU to Our December Donors

The Sugar Plum Fairy and Nutcracker Prince from the San Francisco Ballet danced

through the hearts of children (and adults) at The Community Library in December.

Presented in partnership with Ballet Sun Valley.

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