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Weekly Program Bulletin

August 7, 2023

In the Spotlight

Photo Credit: Eric Sucar, Penn

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Musical Landscapes

of the Intermountain West

with Jared Farmer

Jared Farmer is the Walter H. Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His temporal expertise is the long nineteenth century; his regional expertise

is the North American West. His recent

work has turned to global environmental history across the modern period. Note:

This program will be livestreamed but

not available to review later.

Wednesday, August 9

4:00-5:00 p.m. | Lecture Hall

Join us for an open house at The Community Library, Gold Mine Thrift, Gold Mine Consign, and the recently unveiled Wood River Museum of History and Culture. We're "booking around the block" for literacy, history, shopping, community, and fun! Our theme this year: We all make history!

Activities, food, and beverages for all ages, all free, no registration required.

Tuesday, August 15 • 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

More here.

This Week at The Library

Story Time: Castles & Royalty

Monday, August 7

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Lecture Hall

Spanish Lunchtime Language

Monday, August 7

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Monday, August 7

5:00 - 6:00 p.m. | Lecture Hall

Book signing with Iconoclast

Books to follow.

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A Force for Nature:

Nancy Russell's Fight to

Save the Columbia Gorge

with Bowen Blair

Bowen Blair brings an insider’s perspective to the tumultuous and inspiring story of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act in his new book, A Force for Nature.

Blair tells the story of the unlikely activist who fought one of the most fiercely contested conservation battles of the 1980s, interweaving

it with the natural and political history of the legendary

landscape that inspired her.

Hemingway’s Sun Valley

and "In Our Time"

(Sorry! This program is FULL)

Tuesdays

August 8 & 15

Monthly Spreadsheet Nerds User Group

Tuesday, August 8

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

Find upcoming book club dates

and titles here.

Together We Read:

The Graveyard Book

August's pick for The Community Library Book Club is The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. The discussion will be led by Information Systems manager Will Duke. Registration is recommended to join us.

Tuesday, August 8

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Idaho Room

More/register here.

Lunch & Lit

Thursday, August 10

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

Cimino Plaza

In Case You Missed It

Watch the Replay here.

Rivers Revealed:

Uncovering the Hidden Pathways of Flowing Water

When you enter the Wood River Museum of History and Culture,

you will be greeted with a liDAR-derived representation of the Big

Wood River, created by Daniel Coe.

During this program, Coe discussed

the making of this image and his

love of rivers around the world.

Upcoming Library Highlights

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

August 16: Ike and Winston: Friends and Leaders in War and Peace

with Lee Pollock

August 22: Cruising to Idaho via the Columbia and Snake Rivers

with Marc Onetto

August 28: Short Form Hemingway: A Generative Study & Writing Workshop with Writer-in-Residence Christian Winn

August 30: National Recovery Month Kickoff with Men's Second Chance Living & guest speaker Ben Seymour

September 4: Library CLOSED in observance of Labor Day

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

Sun Valley

Winter Sports Hall of Fame

The Sun Valley Winter Sports Hall of Fame welcomes nominations for the Class of 2023

An individual/family/group qualifies for nomination if he/she/they have made a significant contribution over the years to a winter sport and have also given back to the local sports community. Deadline for nominations is August 31!

More here.

Photo: Sigi Engl, Class of 2014 inductee, Jeanne Rodger Lane

Center for Regional History.

Book Review: Library Staff

"Demon’s humor and point-blank storytelling are hard to put down."

Circulation Manager Pam Parker recommends Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

Best known for the parallels to Charles Dicken’s 1850 semi-autobiographic novel, David Copperfield (1850), Barbara Kingsolver’s latest novel, Demon Copperhead (2022), recounts a boy’s coming-of-age in Appalachia during the height of the opioid epidemic, which ran at its worst from 2007-2016.

Kingsolver’s work takes us to Lee County, Virginia, where Demon “got himself born” on the bathroom floor of a backwoods trailer. His mother is an opiate addict who soon overdoses, leaving Demon stranded between a dumb, abusive stepfather and a highly dysfunctional foster-care system.

Demon’s first-person narrative follows his life experiences during a time when his rural community faces the brutal fallout of widespread drug use as he’s approaching adulthood...

Read Pam's entire review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Book Beat: Student Book Review

Hello! My name is Tess. I love to ski, bike, fish, and get lost in my books. For my Book Beat review, I read We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han.

Just as this trilogy is ending a new world opens up right before your eyes.

This book will have your mind wondering where the characters are going next. Over the past few summers, Belly has spent her time deciding whether to fall into the hands of her first love, Conrad, or her first boyfriend, Jeremiah.

Belly and Jeremiah were lovebirds chasing dreams of young love, when trust is broken in their relationship causing their bond to break and the lives they had built around each other begin to crumble...

Read Tess's Book Beat Review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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