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Creating and Conserving the Idaho Constitution 

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Join the Idaho State Historical Society (ISHS) and Idaho constitution expert and ISHS board of trustees member Ernie Hoidal, for the opening of Creating and Conserving the Constitution, an exhibit which explores the Idaho State Archives’ work in partnership with the Preservation Lab at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library.

Panelists will discuss the multi-year conservation effort and the history of Idaho’s Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1889. Learn about the delegates from Alturas County (which includes present day Blaine County) who contributed and debated ideas to be drafted into the constitution and discover how you can access this vital piece of Idaho history and many others in your own home. 

After the presentation, join us for a reception in the Library’s Foyer to enjoy some cookies around the exhibit, Creating and Conserving the Idaho Constitution, on display in the Library’s Foyer from April 28 to June 25, 2022.

Register here to save your seat for this program, or watch live or later on Vimeo. Click here to watch.

Perspectives on Salmon Studies

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Shoshone-Bannock Fish & Wildlife Perspectives on Salmon Studies

In celebration of Earth Day, Kurt Tardy and Rob Trahant will join us to discuss their salmon recovery work with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. They’ll share the history of the Tribes’ fishing practices along Idaho’s rivers and current tribal resource management and inter-agency coordination, including specific projects at Pettit Lake and on the Middle Fork of the Salmon. They’ll also look ahead to the future of sockeye and chinook, rivers and dam management, and climate change before inviting your questions.

Kurt Tardy, Fisheries Manager, is an anadromous fish biologist who has worked with the Shoshone-Bannock tribes in central Idaho for nearly a decade. Kurt’s focus is on fish restoration, with the long-term goal of restoring salmon and steelhead populations to their historic abundance and the short-term goal of saving them from impending extinction. 

Rob Trahant (Shoshone-Bannock) is a fisheries technician for the Tribes and lead technician on the Pettit Lake Weir facility. He has worked since 1995 on sockeye recovery efforts in the Sawtooth Basin.

Space is limited, so advance registration is requested. This event will also be livestreamed and recorded for later viewing. Watch here on Vimeo.

Presented in partnership with the Idaho Conversation League and the Climate Action Coalition of the Wood River Valley.

Kids Meet Poetry

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By Helen Morgus, Children’s Librarian II

In the Children’s Library, before the pandemic, we invited groups of fourth graders to visit for poetry programs every April.  

One year, we had them read aloud. We handed out poems. They chose partners and worked on who would say which parts. They practiced. Then they bravely stood before their class, and performed. Poems in hand, they giggled, stumbled, and blushed. But they read. And we saw the lights go on in their minds.  

Poetry is sound, rhythm, music, movement on the page. How cool is that? Want to know what we gave them to work with?   

  • Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman, a collection of poems about insects, written to be shared.  
  • Mirror Mirror by Marilyn Singer, an extremely clever collection of poems about fairy tale characters that can be read top to bottom or in reverse, for a new meaning.   
  • If you’re browsing our poetry section, right next to Marilyn Singer’s books you’ll find the quirky, illustrated classics of the irreverent Shel Silverstein, including Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Giving Tree, and A Light in the Attic.   

These are mere scratches on the surface of a deep mine of treasures on the Children’s shelves. Come and see how children’s poetry fits into any adult’s world.  

2022 Hemingway Distinguished Lecture: Roxane Gay

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The Community Library is thrilled to announce our 2022 Hemingway Distinguished Lecture with Roxane Gay.

Thursday, July 7, 2022

Roxane is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, and the New York Times bestselling memoir Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel and host of the podcast The Roxane Gay Agenda.

Register Here!

Oceans of Possibilities Exhibit

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Paddling steadily towards our Summer Reading program, with the theme, “Oceans of Possibilities,” the Children’s Library recently launched a new exhibit. Come see the imaginative jellyfish and other underwater flora and fauna.

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