By Doug Peacock
40 years ago, Edward Abbey channeled Doug Peacock when penning Hayduke in the Monkey Wrench Gang. After ranging from Sonora to Siberia, Belize to British Columbia, Peacock has now chosen to tell his own story.
100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting
By E. J. Dionne
Elections are beginning to matter more than ever, yet barriers to exercising the vote rise higher. Dionne takes close look at how the right to vote is fundamental to healthy governance in a truly democratic society, and how universal voting can be accomplished.
Book Review: The Breakdown
Diana Pringle, Retail Associate at the Gold Mine, recommends The Breakdown by B.A. Paris.
The Breakdown follows Cass, who decides to go against the wishes of her husband on a rainy night and take the dangerous shortcut home. She notices a car pulled over with a woman inside, just staring blankly out the window, why wasn’t she waving for help?
Feeling spooked, Cass decides to drive off. Days later she finds out the woman was brutally murdered, a woman she had newly befriended.
Cass is overwhelmed with guilt and cannot stop wondering what would have happened if she stopped and helped the woman. Starting that day, her life begins to fall apart.
She is consumed with guilt about the death of her new friend. Her mind now becomes her new worry as she forgets appointments, where she parked her car and items she ordered for a baby she is not expecting. Then the silent calls come everyday and Cass feels she is being watched. Cass doesn’t know who she can trust, including herself.
This is a fast moving, who-done-it, psychological thriller… something I do not normally read and I was pleasantly surprised. I randomly grabbed this book from the book room at the Gold Mine.
You can always be sure to find a great read on the bookshelves of the Gold Mine!
Sun Valley Writers’ Conference 2022
2022 Reading List at The Community Library
Poetry
- Rita Dove: Playlist for the Apocalypse available in print and Libby eAudiobook
- Ocean Vuong: Time Is a Mother available in print, Axis 360 ebook, and eAudiobook
Fiction
- Anthony Doerr: Cloud Cuckoo Land available in print, large print, Noon eReader, Axis360 ebook, and Libby eAudiobook
- Anthony Doerr: Ciudad de Las Nubes available in print/Spanish Collection
- Kali Fajardo-Anstine: Woman of Light available in eBook and eAudiobook; Print version is on order
- Judith Freeman: MacArthur Park available in print, Libby eAudiobook, Nook eBook, and NookGlowlight #6; Also on Vimeo with Judith in conversation with Jenny Emery Davidson
- Lauren Groff: Matrix available in print, Axis360 eBook & eAudio, and Libby eAudiobook
- Sanaë Lemoine: The Margot Affair available in print, Axis 360 eBook, and eAudiobook
- Alexander Maksik: The Long Corner available in print and Axis 360 eBook
- Imbolo Mbue: How Beautiful We Were available in print, large print, Axis360 eAudiobook, and Libby ebook
- Kalani Pickhart: I Will Die in a Foreign Land available in print, Axis360 Ebook, and eAudiobook
Memoir
- Barbara Ascher: Ghosting available in print
- Alan Pesky & Claudia Aulum: More to Life Than More available in print; Also on Vimeo: A Conversation with Alan Pesky and Claudia Aulum at The Community Library
- Kathryn Schulz: Lost & Found available in print, large print, and Libby eAudiobook
- Natasha Trethewey: Memorial Drive available in print and Libby eAudiobook
Nonfiction
- A. Scott Berg: Wilson available in print, Nook ebook, and CD
- Arthur C. Brooks: From Strength to Strength available in Axis 360 ebook; Print and digital versions are on order
- Rebecca Donner: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days available in print and Libby eAudiobook
- Geoff Dyer: The Last Days of Roger Federer available in print and Libby eAudiobook
- Elizabeth Kolbert: Under a White Sky: Nature of the Future available in print
- Sebastian Malla: The Power Law: Venture Capital & Making of a New Future available in print and Libby eAudiobook
- Heather McGee: The Sum of US: What Racism Costs Everyone available in print, Axis 360 ebook, and Libby eAudiobook
- Yascha Mounk: The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart available in print, Libby ebook, and Libby eAudiobook
- Evan Osnos: Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury available in print and Libby eAudiobook
- Ben Rhodes: After The Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made available in print and Libby eAudiobook
- Erich Schwartzel: Red Carpet: Hollywood, China & the Global Battle available in print and Libby eAudiobook
- James Stavridis: To Risk It All available in print
- Terry Tempest Williams: Erosion: Essays of Undoing available in print, Axis360 eAudiobook, and Libby eAudiobook
Ketchum’s Housing Action Plan: What are the Actions?
Ketchum Housing Strategist Carissa Connelly, City Administrator Jade Riley and implementing partners will present the City of Ketchum’s Annual Housing Action Plan, with a holistic set of goals and priority year-one actions. The Plan is informed by (1) a housing needs assessment that analyzed over 1,100 survey responses, interviews of over 30 community members, and other related data analyses, and (2) a Housing Toolkit that incorporates ideas proposed during community outreach, a scan of comparable communities, and housing policy best practices.
Other speakers will include: Susan Scoville, Ketchum Urban Renewal Agency Chair; Seana Doherty, Housing Manager for the Town of Truckee; Herbert Romero, community organizer; Brooke Pace McKenna, Co-Executive Director of the Hunger Coalition; Mary Fauth, Director/Co-Founder of the Blaine County Charitable Fund; Sally Gillespie, Executive Director of Spur Community Foundation; Carter Cox, Founder of Nested Strategies Inc.; Sarah Michael, Chair of the Blaine County Housing Authority; and Tim Carter, Ketchum Planning & Zoning Commissioner.
This presentation will be livestreamed and available to view live or later on Vimeo. Click here to watch. Seating is limited, and advance registration is recommended.
“Appalachian BRIDGE”
A New Pathway to Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” with J Dominic
Between 1942-44, composer Aaron Copland and choreographer Martha Graham collaborated on creating a ballet. To this day, the ballet’s modified, award-winning score lives as vibrantly as when it premièred. Nevertheless, because Graham changed the ballet’s title from Copland’s Ballet for Martha to the geographic imagery partially titling it today: Appalachian Spring, a popular myth persists.
Essentially, Graham claimed that she found the words “Appalachian Spring,” while reading a poem after Copland completed his commissioned score. On the other hand, Copland, says the opposite. In his autobiography Aaron Copland states that Hart Crane’s American epic, The Bridge, was “the basis for the script” before the music was written.
Join us as J Dominic explores this widely known, but generally-ignored, aspect of the Copland–Graham collaboration, and suggests possible answers to the stimulating question posed by distinguished scholar and noted author Annegret Fauser: “… what are we talking about when we speak of Appalachian Spring?” As a culmination, Dominic will also merge for us Copland’s music with its inspirational source: a portion of the lyric poem, The Bridge, by Hart Crane, reuniting a most beloved piece of Americana and its originating source.
This program is in-person only. It will not be livestreamed or available to view later. Please REGISTER HERE to save your seat!
J Dominic moved from Rhode Island to Sun Valley in 1982, and he currently lives in Boise. He is the author of the 2016 novel, Reaching Montaup, and he taught English and drama for 25 years. His thesis, “Appalachian BRIDGE: A New Pathway to Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring,” delves into what Dominic claims is the “incomplete” origin story of Aaron Copland’s 1945 award-winning orchestral suite Appalachian Spring and demonstrates that classical music lends itself to new and varied interpretations.
