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Frank Church in a Senate hearing on the Sawtooth Wilderness, 1975. From the archives of the Regional History Museum.

Senator Frank Church sits in the middle of this image taken during a Senate Subcommittee meeting on Parks and Recreation open hearings regarding the Sawtooth Range at Sun Valley. Seated with him are Senator Frank E. Moss, and Senator B. Everett Jordan. This meeting and others would eventually lead to the creation of the River of No Return Wilderness in 1980, which would eventually be renamed the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness. Pedro Salom Photograph Collection

From the Special Collection, photographs and commentary by Diane Ketcham and Michael Kenna on sites Thomas Jefferson visited in Paris that still beguile travelers today. 

The book divides Paris into six sections, with their own coded maps, each of which shows a two- to three-hour walk. A biographical appendix identifies the historical figures featured in the texts and maps. Illustrated with 46 Photos by Michael Kenna and period maps of Jefferson’s Paris, and published by the Arion Press in 2012.

A journey through the year with a collection of short poems by great poets, such as Emily Dickenson, Carl Sandburg, and William Carlos Williams. Find it in the Children’s Library.

Celebrated poet and anthologist Paul B. Janeczko pairs with Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet for a collection of short poems to sample and savor.

It only takes a few words, if they’re the right words, to create a strong image. Whether listened to in the comfort of a cozy lap or read independently, the thirty-six very short poems in this collection remind readers young and old that a few perfect words and pictures can make the world glow. Selected by acclaimed poet Paul B. Janeczko and gorgeously illustrated by Melissa Sweet, Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems invites children to sample poems throughout the four seasons.

Find it in print here: Juvenile Non-Fiction, J 811 JAN

Charles Dickens heralds the winter solstice season with his five Christmas Novels. Find them in the main floor non-fiction collection. And what are the five Christmas Novels?

• A Christmas Carol
• The Chimes
• The Cricket on the Hearth
• The Battle of Life
• The Haunted Man

After the success attained with A Christmas Carol in 1843 Charles Dickens continued the series throughout the 1840s, maintaining what he called “the Carol philosophy” to “strike a sledgehammer blow” for the poor, uneducated, and repressed.

In typical Dickens fashion he drove his message home with a mixture of humor and good cheer. Margaret Lane points out in her introduction to the Oxford Illustrated Dickens-Christmas Stories “when he had a pill to offer, he confected it expertly with spice and sugar.” Source: The Charles Dickens Page/David A. Perdue

Find it in print, here: DISPLAY Main Coll, 823 DIC

Circa 1885, this image features a traditional Chinese ceremony taking place up Warm Springs Canyon. This was taken by assayer and photographer Eugene Antz. The Wood River Valley’s Chinese community in the late 1800s worked in the local mines, on railroads, and also managed gardens and restaurants in the area. Jayne A. Smith Photograph Collection, F 07664.

This spectacular Suit of Lights was worn by legendary Spanish Bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez. It was purchased by Ernest Hemingway—who was a close friend of Ordóñez—during Hemingway’s “Dangerous Summer” of 1959, when he was following the bullfighting circuits.

Matadors were superstitious about wearing costumes with blood stains on them, such as this one. David Meeker Collection.