Aly Wepplo recommends Shakespeare: A Day at the Globe on Kanopy streaming video. Recently, I performed in a production of As You Like It with Sun Valley Shakespeare in the Park. To prepare, I watched Shakespeare: A Day at the Globe on Kanopy streaming video. This documentary gives a brief historical look at public theatre in England in Shakespeare’s time and presents an imagined viewing of Julius Caesar performed at the Globe Theatre. Just 29 minutes in length, Shakespeare: A Day at the … [Read more...] about Film Review: Shakespeare: A Day at the Globe
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70 Years, 70 Books
Reflecting on 70 Years of Publishing By Pam ParkerDirector of Library Operations Happy Anniversary to The Community Library, which celebrates 70 years as an institution in 2025. Our librarians thought it would be fun to look back on those years and identify stand-out books that were published for each year. We did this for four categories: fiction, nonfiction, young adult and children’s. Then we created a mash-up list that picks the most significant title for each … [Read more...] about 70 Years, 70 Books
Book Review: The Book Thief
Communications Manager Kyla Merwin recommends The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. “When Death has a story to tell, you listen.” This is the publisher's first note in their description of The Book Thief. And well said. Every now and then, a book lands in my lap that knocks me right off the couch. A tome that might take me two weeks to read (at 550 pages), The Book Thief instead launched me on a much longer journey—a two-month immersion of exquisite wording and finely wrought … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Book Thief
Book Review: A Moveable Feast
Hemingway in Idaho Research Fellow Riley Bradshaw recommends A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. A Moveable Feast offers more than a look at Hemingway’s time in 1920s Paris. The book becomes a reflection on remembering, shaped by time and distance. Hemingway began writing after rediscovering old notebooks left behind in the Paris Ritz. Published posthumously in 1964, the book was assembled from these fragments and drafts, which adds another layer to its exploration of memory and time. … [Read more...] about Book Review: A Moveable Feast
In the Mines
Vance Cunningham, Trailing of the Sheep Festival Archives Intern Long before Sun Valley opened, even before the rise of sheepherding, the largest industry in the Wood River Valley was mining. The Triumph Mine, located five miles northeast of Gimlet, was the largest. From 1884 to 1959, it produced over $39 million in metals, primarily zinc, lead, and silver ore. This photo was taken in 1938, and depicts three miners (Glen Freeman, Lyle Triple, and Paul Olson) working in the Triumph Mine. … [Read more...] about In the Mines
Book Review: The Living Mountain
Director of Programs and Education Martha Williams recommends The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd. Nan Shepherd (1893-1981) lived for most of her life in the same house in Cults, Scotland, near Aberdeen. She attended and then taught at her local university her entire career, and in her spare time she traversed the nearby Cairngorm Mountains on foot—seemingly every inch of them. A Modernist writer, she depicted her beloved Scottish landscape in novels and poetry, but it was in … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Living Mountain
