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Weekly Program Bulletin

June 26, 2023

In the Spotlight

7:00 p.m. Friday, June 30

Donaldson Robb Family Lawn

More/register here.

Hemingway Distinguished Lecture

Luis Alberto Urrea

Hailed by NPR as a “literary badass” and a “master storyteller with a rock and roll heart,” Luis Alberto Urrea

is a prolific and acclaimed writer

who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater

themes of love, loss and triumph.

The annual Hemingway Distinguished Lecture celebrates the power of words and the creative spirit in a landscape

that Hemingway loved.

The New Wood River Museum of History and Culture Opens

All of the exhibits at the Wood River Museum include interactive elements where visitors are encouraged to write, type, talk, and remember – because we all are part of history! The new Museum opens on July 6 with a Grand Opening celebration on July 26.

More here.

Photo right: Union Pacific railroad train arrives at Ketchum/Sun Valley Station, 1939. Jeanne Lane Moritz Collection, Jeanne Rodger Lane Center for Regional History.

This Week at The Library

Story Time: Insects

Monday, June 26

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Treehouse

Let's Build! for Kids

Monday, June 26

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Children's Library

Sewing Club:

Tic Tac Toe Mats

Tuesday, June 27

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Children's Library

Sun Valley Jewish Film Festival: Greener Pastures

Nominated for 12 Israeli Academy Awards:

A newly widowed Israeli, low on money and friends hatches an unexpected plan to change things.

Filled with endearing performances, this is

a surefire crowd pleaser. Don’t miss. Presented by the Wood River Jewish Community.

Tuesday, June 27

6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Lecture Hall

No registration required.

Wood River Valley Writers' Roost

Wednesday, June 28

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Idaho Room

Lunch & Lit

Thursday, June 29

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Cimino Plaza

Sun Valley Jewish Film Festival:

Tiger Within

Emmy Award-winning actor Ed Asner, in his final role, gives a remarkable performance in this very special film. Tiger Within is a tender hearted story about the growing friendship between a lonely and homeless teenage girl and a holocaust survivor. This wonderful film is filled with universal messages of forgiveness, fortitude, and healing. Presented by the Wood River Jewish Community.

Thursday, June 29

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Lecture Hall

No registration required.

In Case You Missed It

"People of the Moon"

Ted Stout, former park ranger and author of the new book, Craters of the Moon National Monument, celebrates more than one hundred years of Craters of the Moon’s history with this engaging presentation.

Watch it here.

Upcoming Library Highlights

July 4: The Library will be CLOSED for the July 4th holiday

July 6: Wood River Museum of History and Culture Opens: Amazing new, interactive exhibits at a new location!

July 6: Space and You with Dr. Lindsay DeMarchi

July 13: Hiking the Idaho Centennial Trail Panel

July 19: Solito: A Memoir with Javier Zamora in partnership with the Sun Valley Writers' Conference

July 25: Romantic Comedy with Curtis Sittenfeld in partnership with the Sun Valley Writers' Conference

July 26: Grand Opening Celebration for the Wood River Museum of History and Culture

Aug. 8: Together We Read! Book Club: The Graveyard Book

Aug. 15: Book Around the Block! Annual end-of-summer open house at the Library, new Wood River Museum, and Gold Mine stores.

Sept. 7-9: Ernest Hemingway Seminar: Fathers & Sons

Book Review: Library Staff

"...these computers are smoking-hot gaming machines...

Everything you need to bring the heat."

Will Duke, Information Systems Manager, recommends gaming resources at the Library.

We have games. If you bring your laptop to our Wi-Fi, you can play our games, for free. We are, in fact, a Steam PC Café.

As a PC Café, we license specific Steam games, and anyone connected to our Wi-Fi can play them. Oh, you’ll need your own Steam account, but those are free! On the positive side, your Steam games will follow you here, and you can use our Wi-Fi to play with your friends or with people you meet here.

For those over 18, you’ll need to bring your own gaming laptop. You can sit outside under an umbrella, or inside by the fireplace—with headphones please. Nobody needs to hear you stomping aliens or blowing up WWII Destroyers.

You can even sit in your car and play, because our Wi-Fi has you covered outside the building...

Read Will's entire review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Book Beat: Student Book Review

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 Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

Aristotle “Ari” Mendoza is fifteen and he begins his summer like any other, alone and sort-of-maybe-lonely, not quite knowing how to read the world. He meets Dante at the pool, learns to swim, and makes a steadfast friend. Dante is alone but not lonely, a dreamer and a thinker. And with Dante, Ari starts to ask questions, look further, than he has before.

Because the two know this: life is hard and complicated and people are difficult to figure out. Sometimes it’s impossible to battle the loneliness inside. Sometimes, who knows what your purpose is on this planet...

Read Sarah's Book Beat Review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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