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January 16, 2023

Nutrient Cycles in Macroinvertebrates with Pat Edwards

One way to determine the health of an ecosystem is to look at the living creatures that live within it! Patrick's presentation will be followed by a short review of the Wood River Land Trust’s brand new macroinvertebrate sampling program. This is the perfect opportunity for science loving kids and adults to dive into some of discipline behind better understanding our home river.  

Thursday, January 19 | 6:00 p.m.

Register here.

Watch on Vimeo here.

• Story Time: Rabbits
• Spanish Lunchtime Language
• English Language Learning
• Learning from Peer Communities: Housing Lessons and Opportunities with Jackson, Wyoming’s Housing Director 
• Hora del cuento en español (Spanish Story Time)
• Brown Bag Poetry
• Nature Journaling with Leslie Rego
• "The World is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War" with Dr. Allison Prasch
• Writing Workshop: Preserving Family Recipes with Cynthia Nims

See our full calendar of events here.

Winter Read Kickoff!

Join us on February 2 as we kick off the 2023 Winter Read with the opening of the exhibit “Las Catrinas: A Celebration

of Mexican Culture.”

Read more here.

Eleutheria with Allegra Hyde

Writer-In-Residence at the Hemingway House, Allegra Hyde, discussed

her 2022 novel Eleutheria, a story of idealism, activism, and systemic corruption, centered on a naïve young woman's quest for agency in a

world ravaged by climate change. The novel was named one of

the best books of the year by The New Yorker.



Watch the replay here.

"Pull Quote"

Information Systems Manager, Will Duke, recommends Call us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman.

When I began to read Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman, one poem after another, the words accumulated. Energy built until I realized, all of a sudden, that in these poems the Covid lockdown is happening, and a person is struggling.

“It is easy to harp / harder to hope. … The glorious was not made to be piecemeal,” rises from the page and demands my attention.

Fifteen seconds is not enough to understand what’s happening on all three sides of that quote. I have to go back and read the whole poem again. Then I have to read it aloud. It is at this moment I realize the secret truth of poetry. . .



Read Will's book review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

And...Check out Will's Brown Bag Poetry Thursdays at 11:30 a.m.

Hello! My name is Thijs. I enjoy reading (maybe a little too much) and being outdoors. I have a younger brother and my favorite dessert is root beer floats. For my Book Beat review, I read Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein.

Money, a seemingly simple concept that I have always taken for granted. But what really is it and how have we all agreed that it has value? This book explores the early origins of money through more complicated concepts like FIAT, Commercial paper, Bitcoin, and many other forms of money that has always confused me.

This book will help you understand better how our economy works, banks were originated, the first stocks ever made, and other financial concepts. I believe that every reader could learn at least a thing or two about money from this book...

Read Thijs's Book Beat Review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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