The 2025 Community Speaker Series presented by The Community Library and the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference invites you to join us for two free lectures at The Community Library. Advance registration is required to attend. Registration opens on May 5 at 9:00 a.m. Mountain. Seating is limited. Click here for the 2024 Summer Speaker Series featuring: Click here for the 2023 Summer Speaker Series featuring: Click here for the 2022 Summer Speaker Series in … [Read more...] about 2025 Community Speaker Series
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Book Review: The God of the Woods
Director of Library Operations Pam Parker recommends The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. In the 1970s, summer was synonymous with camp for some of us. My fondest memories of summer camp are full of firsts, like sleeping away from home on iron cots and learning traditional campfire songs from teen counselors. Yet, when the flames faded to coals, the bedside stories between campers often turned to dark tales that kept us awake late into the night! Could there be a more perfect setting for a … [Read more...] about Book Review: The God of the Woods
The Swiss Alps to Sun Valley
A Community Library Field Trip Monday, September 8 – Wednesday, September 17Trip begins and ends in Zurich What is This Trip About? This is a curated trip for The Community Library and Wood River Museum of History + Culture created by Caroline Hostettler of Quality Cheese, a cheese importing company specializing in artisanal and alp cheeses from Switzerland. Caroline is a native of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, has owned Quality Cheese for over 25 years and has been … [Read more...] about The Swiss Alps to Sun Valley
Book Review: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Systems Librarian Susie Bille recommends The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Picture books are not just for children. Filled with seemingly simple and random bits of advice... ...this little book invites you to slow down and think a little more deeply. The illustrations add to a sense of wonder, as swift pen and ink sketches give way to gorgeous watercolors. I found myself enjoying different meanings of the written words as I spent some time studying the … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Flowers Sawmill
Liam Guthrie, Regional History Librarian Adams Gulch is well known today for its popular hiking and biking trails, but the gulch’s history is deeply intertwined with the lumber industry and the Flowers Sawmill, which inhabited it for decades. This 1911 photo shows the sawmill that once stood at the mouth of Adams Gulch, along with wagons and sleds used to haul lumber. The gulch’s first sawmill was built much further up the gulch, near the confluence with Eve Gulch, by Abijah Adams, for … [Read more...] about The Flowers Sawmill
Review: Leaf by Niggle
Communications Manager Kyla Merwin recommends the short story, “Leaf by Niggle,” in Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien. Tomorrow, March 25, those of a certain Fellowship celebrate a seminal event: The downfall of Sauron, lord of Mordor, the One Ring, the Orc and the Uruk-hai, and all things evil. In the modern vernacular, we call March 25 Tolkien Reading Day. So, let’s take a journey together—an inescapable journey between desire and responsibility, hope and despair … [Read more...] about Review: Leaf by Niggle
