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August 1, 2022

A Jewish History of the

Wood River Valley

Ari Goldstein shares the more-than-140-year history of Jews in our community. In partnership with the Wood River Jewish Community.

Wednesday, August 3

6:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall

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Advance registration is required

Seating is limited

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Writing Workshop:

Writing the American Sonnet

How can we envision a better world? There is perhaps no better way than through the form of the American sonnet. Former Idaho Writer-In-Resident and Boise Poet Laureate Diane Raptosh will lead us in writing several poems where you can explore the American sonnet’s loose, musical and inventive form.

Friday, August 19

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

SNRA Outfitter & Guide Management Plan

Representatives from the Sawtooth National Recreation Area will discuss their Outfitter and Guide Management Plan. 

Tuesday, August 2

5:30 p.m. | Lecture Hall

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Above: Composers Kevin Puts

and Gabriela Lena Frank

• Story Time: Friends
• Tech Help Desk
• Exploring Hemingway's Sun Valley, Part 2
• TV Discussion Group: The Bear
• Lunch & Lit
• Community Conversation: Roe v. Wade
• Upbeat with Alasdair: Composers Kevin Puts and Gabriela Lena Frank

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"What can smell like bubble gum, glow neon green at night, be poisonous. . . and even help create rain?"

Children’s and Young Adult Library Director, DeAnn Campbell, recommends Mushroom Rain by Laura Zimmerman. 

Mushrooms, to me, have always been enchanting.

Maybe it is the prominence of red roofed mushroom houses for tiny mice that were the backdrop in children’s stories, or the magical appearance of a mushroom fairy ring in my middle school reading of Where the Red Fern Grows, but mushrooms have always sparked my curiosity.

Yet, I don’t know an awful lot about them, and when I don’t know a lot about something, I often find that a children’s nonfiction book is a good start...

Read DeAnn's entire Book Review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Hello! My name is Sarah. I am fourteen years old and an avid reader; it is one of my favorite things to do. Inspired by authors’ creations of magnificent places and surprising havens built by simple letters, I aspire to be an author and, meanwhile, nurture the love to write. For my Book Beat review, I read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is an ecologist, trained in the ways of science.

But she’s also a poet and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. There she has learned that the natural world is our oldest teacher; that it nurtures us like a mother; that its treasures are given in love and it only asks for gratitude and love in return...

Read Sarah's entire Book Beat Review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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