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Weekly Program eNews

October 21, 2024

In this Issue

• Spotlight: Kenneth Lewis Lecture on

Democracy: Echoes of Integrity

• Spotlight: Museum Open House

• Spotlight: Library Lab: Clay Circuit Monsters

• This Week at the Library

• Upcoming Program Highlights

• Book Review: Habits of a Peacemaker

• Teen Book Beat: Alex Rider: Stormbreaker

• Ask a Librarian

See our full calendar here.

RIGHT: Tech wiz Paul Zimmerman answers questions regarding your computer, tablet, phone or smart watch at the Tech Help Desk. Drop in Wednesday between 5pm and 7pm. More here.

In the Spotlight

Come to an Open House at the Museum and celebrate with us! New things are happening. The Museum won an award for the exhibit, How in the World Did You Get to Sun Valley? and we have a new Museum community engagement manager: Kristine Bretall! If you haven't visited the Museum in a while, this is a great opportunity to come back. If you have never been, this will be a

celebratory time for your first visit! More here.

5:00 - 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 22

Wood River Museum | 4th and Walnut in Ketchum

We will be building Clay Circuit Monsters this month! Kids will use clay and LED lights to create monsters that light up. Library Lab is for school age children who are age 7 and up. This project requires dexterity and patience. All supplies will be provided. Space is limited, so registration is required. More/register here.

3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 23

Children's Library

Join us for the Kenneth Lewis Lecture on Democracy: Echoes of Integrity -

A Compass for Today's Decision-Makers. Speaker Monica Carol Church is

the granddaughter of Frank and Bethine Church and Cecil and Carol Andrus.

She is a lifelong Idaho educator and advocate for youth voices in places

where decisions are made. More/register here.

5:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 23

Lecture Hall + Livestream

This Week at the Library

Story Time: Music

Monday, October 21

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Treehouse

Spanish Lunchtime Language

Tuesday, October 22

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

KRC Workspace

Ketchum Remote Collective returns to help bridge the gap between the Valley’s physical community and the remote workplace.

Tuesday, October 22

Drop in 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall

English Language Language

Tuesday, October 22

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Virtual Creative Writing Workshop

Wednesday, October 23

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Zoom

Tech Help Desk

Wednesday, October 23

5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

Brown Bag Poetry

Thursday, October 24

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Learning Commons

Nature Journaling

Thursday, October 24

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

6-week class series. Registration required.

Horoscope :

A Reading of a New Play-In-Process

Pulitzer Prize finalist and two-time Obie Award winner, Rajiv Joseph, returns to read the play he developed as a Writer-in-Residence at the Hemingway House last year. FREE at The Argyros.

Reserve seats here.

Friday, October 25

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

The Argyros

Wood River Writers'

October Writing Challenge

Saturday, October 26

10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Idaho Room + Zoom

Upcoming Program Highlights

October 28: Without Exception with Pam Houston

November 1: Tiny Art Submissions Due for kids and teens*

November 4: Tiny Art Show: Opening Reception

November 7: Fraud and Senior Financial Exploitation Prevention

November 7: An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Adam Johnson

November 7-9: Gold Mine Thrift and Consign Ski Opening

November 12: Hidden Crisis: Early Childhood Learning and Local Childcare

November 13: An Evening of PBS Arts "SARA" and "Leonardo da Vinci" with Idaho Public Television

November 21: Ernest Hemingway’s Best Friend: Introducing General Buck Lanham

November 26: How and Why AI Matter Now and in the Future with Paul Zimmerman

November 27: Early close (3pm) at the Library, Wood River Museum, and Gold Mine stores

November 28: Closed for the Thanksgiving Holiday: The Library, Wood River Museum, and Gold Mine stores

*Advance Planning Required:

Tiny Art Submissions are due on November 1 for kids and teens. Contact the Children's Library for more information.

Book Review

"The simplicity of this book is appealing; it outlines an easy way

to interact in a positive way with others."

Systems Librarian Susie Bille Lichtenberg recommends Habits of a Peacemaker by Steven T. Collis.

I make the effort to get outside every day. This fall has been glorious, and spending time in the forest helps me relax and find peace.

Sometimes (if I’m lucky), that peace stays with me throughout the day.

Habits of a Peacemaker: 10 Habits to Change our Potentially Toxic Conversations caught my eye as I was thinking about how crazy and rattled people seemed to me this summer.

The idea of peacemaking is enticing. Almost like hostage negotiation—a difficult and perhaps unattainable goal. The simplicity of this book is appealing; it outlines an easy way to interact in a positive way with others.

How do the experts talk about tough topics when people are dug into opposite opinions? The idea of the book is to learn a few simple strategies to help foster understanding and navigate conflict. Each chapter focuses on one specific habit such as intellectual humility or reframing a question...

Read Susie's entire book review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Book Beat: Student Book Review

Hi! My name is Zane. I am 12 years old. I enjoy playing soccer, video games, and fishing. For my Book Beat review, I read Alex Rider: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz.

Alex Rider: Stormbreaker was an exciting and action-packed book, where you’re always wondering what is going to happen next.

This book is about 14-year-old Alex Rider who lives with his uncle. Alex always thought his uncle Ian was a banker, until supposedly Ian Rider dies in a car crash. But Alex knows this isn’t true, and the bullet holes in the car prove it.

Now, Alex is recruited by a spy agency and only has a short amount of time to find his uncle’s killers. The agency also suspects that there is something fishy going on, as a wealthy man is gifting every school in England with a high-tech computer, although there is something in the computer that could cause catastrophe...

Read Zane's entire book review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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