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The Community Library John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall is a polling location for precincts 3 and 4. Polls open at 8 a.m.
To find your precinct and polling location, or for any other information, contact the Blaine County Elections Office by calling (208) 788-5510 emailing election@blainecounty.org, or visiting https://www.co.blaine.id.us/196/Elections.
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Join The Community Library for the launch of local author Julie Weston’s newest book, Moon Bones.
The death of a Chinese man leads photographer Nellie Burns and Sheriff Asteguitoiri to Vienna, a ghost town in the Stanley Basin in 1920’s Idaho. Sammy Ah Kee, who taught Nellie to drive, found the man’s body and is accused of killing him.
With the help of Nellie’s dog Moonshine, Nellie and the sheriff discover a conspiracy dedicated to enslaving Chinese immigrants. Days later, Sammy and Nellie explore the mine entrance and unearth a secret. Mayhem and murder follow all of their explorations. The conspirators capture and torture the sheriff, leaving him for dead. Moonie, Rosy Kipling, Sammy, and Alphonso, a sheepherder from Nellie’s time in the Basin, help Nellie follow the complex trails and motives in this western landscape lurking with greed and evil.
Julie Weston is the award-winning author of five Nellie Burns and Moonshine novels: Moonshadows, Basque Moon, Moonscape, Miners’ Moon, and Moon Bones, and of the nonfiction book, The Good Times Are All Gone Now: Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town. She is also the coauthor of The Magical Universe of the Ancients: A Desert Journal, a collaboration of writing and photography with her husband Gerry Morrison. Julie’s short stories and essays have been published in Idaho Magazine, The Threepenny Review, Boston Literary Magazine, and The Saint Ann’s Review, among others.
A book signing with Iconoclast Books will follow. The program will also be livestreamed and available for later viewing.
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Written by Martyna Majok • Featuring Aly Wepplo
This performance will be at The Arygros, 120 Main St South in Ketchum.
At a bus stop in a run-down New Jersey town, Darja, a Polish immigrant cleaning lady, is done talking about feelings; it’s time to talk money. Over the course of 20 years, and three relationships, Darja negotiates for her future with men who can offer her love or security, but never both.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok’s Ironbound is a darkly funny, heartbreaking portrait of a woman for whom love is a luxury—and a liability—as she fights to survive in America.
Free Admission • Tickets Required. Reserve your ticket here.
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We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not believe it has anything to do with us. Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence around key stories that explode the common myths — that if things were bad enough victims would just leave; that a violent person cannot become nonviolent; that shelter is an adequate response; and more insidiously, that violence inside the home is disconnected from other forms of violence. Through the stories of victims, perpetrators, law enforcement, and reform movements, Snyder explores the real roots of private violence, its far-reaching consequences for society, and what it will take to truly address it.
Join The Community Library and The Advocates for this community event and conversation with Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction, winner of a Kirkus Award in Nonfiction, a New York Times Top 10 Books of the Year, and winner of the LA Times Book Award and the New York Public Library’s Bernstein Award. Snyder is also the author of Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade and the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing. Her print work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times magazine, Slate, Salon, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the New Republic, and others.
She holds a B.A. from North Central College and an M.F.A. from Emerson College, and is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. Currently, Snyder is an Associate Professor Creative Writing and Journalism at American University in Washington, DC.
Registration is recommended to save a seat. Snyder’s lecture will also be livestreamed on the Library’s Vimeo and will be available to watch through November 10, 2022. Click here to watch online. A book signing with Chapter One will follow.
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On Thursday, October 20, the Library welcomes Martyna Majok, the 2022 Sun Valley Playwrights’ Resident, for a conversation on her work. Majok will read the opening monologue from her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Cost of Living, which deftly challenges the typical perceptions of those living with disabilities and delves deep into the ways class, race, nationality, and wealth can create gulfs between people, even as they long for the ability to connect. The story follows Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, and his estranged ex-wife, Ani, who find themselves unexpectedly reunited after a terrible accident leaves her quadriplegic. John, a brilliant PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, a first-generation recent graduate who has fallen on desperate times, as his new aide.
Majok will be in conversation with Martha Williams, the Library’s director of programs and education, to discuss her writing process before taking questions from the audience. The program will be livestreamed, and a recording will not be available. Click here to watch live.
Martyna Majok was born in Bytom, Poland and raised in New Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Cost of Living, which debuts this fall on Broadway. Other plays include Sanctuary City, Queens, and Ironbound, which have been produced across American and international stages.
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Filmmakers Jessica and Sammy Matsaw will present their short documentary film, River of Return, and discuss their ongoing work with Shoshone-Bannock youth on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. Through guided river trips, the Matsaws have created a corridor of connection for their tribal youth and people through their project, River Newe. Throughout the film, the community forages, fishes, and navigates the landscape together. They dig into their personal histories and language while telling a broader story of indigenous power and resilience.
This program is presented in partnership with the Sun Valley Museum of Art. Registration is being run through SVMoA, so please click here to save your seat.
The film and conversation will be livestreamed, and a recording will be available through November 12. Click here to watch online.
Thursday, October 13, 2022, 6:00pm-7:00pm in the Lecture Hall.
