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 … [Read more...] about Perspectives on Salmon Studies
Kids Meet Poetry
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 … [Read more...] about Kids Meet Poetry
History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains
Four-volume collection edited by James H. Hawley in the Center for Regional History archives. Published in 1920 by the S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago. … [Read more...] about History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains
2022 Hemingway Distinguished Lecture: Roxane Gay
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! … [Read more...] about 2022 Hemingway Distinguished Lecture: Roxane Gay
Oceans of Possibilities Exhibit
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. … [Read more...] about Oceans of Possibilities Exhibit
“A New West” with Writer-In-Residence Arvin Ramgoolam
Arvin Ramgoolam is an emerging writer and owner of Townie Books and Rumors Coffee and Tea House in Crested Butte, Colorado (Ute Territory). Arvin is the 2020 One Story Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow and a 2022 MacDowell Fellow. While in residence, he will be at work on his novel in progress titled, A New West, an unsettling of the West and recentering it around indigenous, brown, black and queer bodies of difference. When not writing, Arvin is an environmental steward with High Country … [Read more...] about “A New West” with Writer-In-Residence Arvin Ramgoolam
