with Mary Pat Gunderson 

Each new Supreme Court nomination prompts discussion of how the newly appointed justice will impact the Court. Much is made off the candidate’s political persuasions, but what about the gender of a judge? Does the gender of the judge impact the opinions rendered?  

Retired District Court Judge Mary Pat Gunderson will present her recently published research examining the real possibility of implicit gender bias in judicial opinion writing. In this one-hour presentation she will deconstruct recent Iowa Supreme Court ethics opinions written by an all-male Court wherein the victims were female clients and/or an intimate partner of the male attorney/abuser. Not only do the case results themselves raise questions, but the language those results are wrapped in may be even more revealing. The subject matter of this presentation will contain brief descriptions of physical and sexual abuse.

Register to save your seat. This program will be livestreamed on the Library’s Vimeo, but it will not be recorded for later viewing. Click here to join us live.

How Seafloor Sediments Became Mountainous Land – with Paul Link

There was a time in the geologic past when Washington and Oregon didn’t exist and an ocean flooded inland across Idaho. Many of the rocks that make up the Boulder, Pioneer, Smoky, and White Cloud Mountains were formed in this oceanic setting.

Join Dr. Paul Link of Idaho State University for a morning lecture and afternoon roadside field trip where you’ll learn the remarkable story of how this ocean formed and how rock that amassed below sea level became the highly elevated land that surrounds us today. The field trip will follow Trail Creek Road to Trail Creek Summit and continue 7 miles beyond the summit to the North Fork of the Big Lost River.

This full-day class is limited to 20 students. Pre-registration is required. The one-hour lecture begins at 10:30 a.m. in the Library’s Lecture Hall, then the group will eat lunch before heading into the field. Bring your own lunch, snacks, water, and a car (carpooling for the afternoon is encouraged!), and lots of curiosity. The group will return to Ketchum no later than 6:00 p.m.

All attendees are responsible for their own safety during the field portion of this class. The field portion involves riding in a car with yourself or others, stopping at points of interest, and some light walking. 

Paul’s presentation will also be recorded for later viewing through the Library’s Program Archive.

Paul K. Link is Professor Emeritus in the Idaho State University Geology Department. He started in 1980 and retired in 2020. He has a B.S. from Yale, and graduate degrees from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was ISU Geolology Department Chair from 1986 to 1992. Before coming to ISU he was a Mountaineering Instructor at the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) in Lander, Wyoming. In the 1980s he and about 15 Masters Students worked U.S. Geological Survey field geology projects in the Ketchum area. For 15 years he directed the ISU Geology Field Camp at the Lost River Field Station north of Mackay, Idaho. He supervised over 100 M.S. students. He is co-author of the 2012 Idaho State Geologic Map, the book Rocks, Rails, and Trails, and the 2021 2nd edition of the Roadside Geology of Idaho

Space is limited. Registration is required.

Register here.

Como ayudar a los niños bilingües a convertirse en lectores fuertes

La lectura es uno de los indicadores más sólidos del futuro éxito escolar y profesional de un niño, y la lectura es fundamental para poder participar plenamente en todo tipo de asuntos comunitarios. El experto en alfabetización Antonio Fierro hablará específicamente sobre cómo desarrollar sólidas habilidades de lectura en niños que crecen en hogares bilingües español-inglés. Hablará sobre las formas en que los padres, abuelos, niñeras y cuidadores pueden apoyar el desarrollo de las lectura y como es importante. Antonio es un maestro cálido y talentoso que creció siendo bilingüe y comenzó su vida profesional trabajando en el sistema penitenciario. Es un ex Maestro del Año del Estado de Texas y tiene más de 25 años de experiencia en el campo de la educación. Se proporcionarán refrescos.

Regístrese aquí.

5 Literary Experts Discuss How We Grow Readers

Being able to read is fundamental to early school success, lifelong learning, civic participation, and personal growth. It is one of the strongest indicators of a child’s future school and career success, and, in contrast, 70% of incarcerated adults cannot read beyond a 4th grade reading level.

In many communities across southern Idaho, fewer than half of students demonstrate reading proficiency, and that problem has been exacerbated by two years of school disruption during the pandemic. How can reading be a whole community effort? What is the best research on how children learn to read, and what can we all do, as parents, grandparents, babysitters, neighbors, and caregivers, to support it? How do we support reading across learning differences, socioeconomic differences, and racial differences?

We’ll discuss these questions, and how we can work together to cultivate a culture of reading, with five of the nation’s leading literacy scholars: Judi Dodson, Antonio Fierro, Louisa Moats, Carol Tolman, and Anne Whitney, who are all here to lead an Early Literacy Summit with teachers from around southern Idaho.

Literature, lectures, art, discussions, food, and fellowship

Each year, the Ernest Hemingway Seminar focuses on a particular text or theme and its literary and historical context.

The 2022 Seminar is scheduled for September 8-10. This year we’ll focus on the posthumously published Islands in the Stream and on Hemingway’s time on the Gulf Stream. A full schedule of events will be posted soon.

Featured speakers will include Paul Hendrickson, author of Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost; Mark P. Ott, author of A Sea of Change: Ernest Hemingway and the Gulf Stream, a Contextual Biography; and Karen Osborn, Research Zoologist with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History STREAMCODE project; as well as presentations by Dr. Clyde Moneyhun and Stacey Guill of Boise State University; and a screening of the 1977 film adaptation of Islands in the Stream.

Registration opens on Friday, June 3. Click here to register to join us in person in the Library’s Lecture Hall, or click here to join us virtually.

Email Martha Williams, Programs and Education Director, for more information. 

Lunch & Lit continues with a new day and time! Enjoy take-out lunches from the Senior Connection plus a short reading selection presented by The Community Library, Fridays at noon on the Cimino Plaza. Pick up your lunch or stay awhile at the Library’s Cimino Plaza, outside the Children’s Library Entrance at 4th and Walnut. Come enjoy a nutritious and convenient lunch while engaging with other community members over interesting literature.

Lunches are $5 for adults 60 and better, $8 for those under 60 years of age, or $4 for children 12 and under. Scholarships are available. Reservations are required and need to be made by the day of at 9:00 a.m. Call the Senior Connection at 208-788-3468 to reserve your lunch! The monthly menu is available in the Senior Connection newsletter, or online at www.seniorconnectionidaho.org/menu