...with the Idaho Office for Refugees The Refugee Speakers Bureau is bringing the flavors of our stories and our foods to the Wood River Valley for two special events! Click here to learn about Friday's free program at The Community Library, and read on for information about Saturday's cooking class. Join Chef Shadi Ismail on Saturday, April 30, for a taste of Syrian cooking! Shadi’s cooking demonstration will include instructions on making hummus, baba ganoush, and other … [Read more...] about Syrian Cross-Culinary Class
Creating and Conserving the Idaho Constitution
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 … [Read more...] about Creating and Conserving the Idaho Constitution
Perspectives on Salmon Studies
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
