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Our “Oceans of Possibilities” summer reading program kicks off! Come in to the library to register (can also be done online). A jellyfish craft will be available for kids. Snacks served.
Summer reading begins May 23 and runs through July 29th.
Great prizes are available to kids and teen who READ and REPORT their summer reading.
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Visit Sun Valley invites the community to our first semi-annual meeting of 2022. The meeting is open to everyone, especially all business owners and those interested in the well-being of our tourism economy.
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Author Craig Johnson, a Hemingway Writer-In-Residence with The Community Library, joins us to discuss his popular Longmire book series, including his most recent book, Daughter of the Morning Star (September 2021) and his upcoming Hell and Back (September 2022).
A book signing with Iconoclast Books will follow.
Registration is required to join us in person, as space is limited. Craig’s talk will also be livestreamed on Vimeo. Watch here.
Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, and his novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five.
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Ketchum Housing Strategist Carissa Connelly, City Administrator Jade Riley and implementing partners will present the City of Ketchum’s Annual Housing Action Plan, with a holistic set of goals and priority year-one actions. The Plan is informed by (1) a housing needs assessment that analyzed over 1,100 survey responses, interviews of over 30 community members, and other related data analyses, and (2) a Housing Toolkit that incorporates ideas proposed during community outreach, a scan of comparable communities, and housing policy best practices.
Other speakers will include: Susan Scoville, Ketchum Urban Renewal Agency Chair; Seana Doherty, Housing Manager for the Town of Truckee; Herbert Romero, community organizer; Brooke Pace McKenna, Co-Executive Director of the Hunger Coalition; Mary Fauth, Director/Co-Founder of the Blaine County Charitable Fund; Sally Gillespie, Executive Director of Spur Community Foundation; Carter Cox, Founder of Nested Strategies Inc.; Sarah Michael, Chair of the Blaine County Housing Authority; and Tim Carter, Ketchum Planning & Zoning Commissioner.
This presentation will be livestreamed and available to view live or later on Vimeo. Click here to watch. Seating is limited, and advance registration is recommended.
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Between 1942-44, composer Aaron Copland and choreographer Martha Graham collaborated on creating a ballet. To this day, the ballet’s modified, award-winning score lives as vibrantly as when it premièred. Nevertheless, because Graham changed the ballet’s title from Copland’s Ballet for Martha to the geographic imagery partially titling it today: Appalachian Spring, a popular myth persists.
Essentially, Graham claimed that she found the words “Appalachian Spring,” while reading a poem after Copland completed his commissioned score. On the other hand, Copland, says the opposite. In his autobiography Aaron Copland states that Hart Crane’s American epic, The Bridge, was “the basis for the script” before the music was written.
Join us as J Dominic explores this widely known, but generally-ignored, aspect of the Copland–Graham collaboration, and suggests possible answers to the stimulating question posed by distinguished scholar and noted author Annegret Fauser: “… what are we talking about when we speak of Appalachian Spring?” As a culmination, Dominic will also merge for us Copland’s music with its inspirational source: a portion of the lyric poem, The Bridge, by Hart Crane, reuniting a most beloved piece of Americana and its originating source.
This program is in-person only. It will not be livestreamed or available to view later. Please REGISTER HERE to save your seat!
J Dominic moved from Rhode Island to Sun Valley in 1982, and he currently lives in Boise. He is the author of the 2016 novel, Reaching Montaup, and he taught English and drama for 25 years. His thesis, “Appalachian BRIDGE: A New Pathway to Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring,” delves into what Dominic claims is the “incomplete” origin story of Aaron Copland’s 1945 award-winning orchestral suite Appalachian Spring and demonstrates that classical music lends itself to new and varied interpretations.
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The new Foyer exhibit explores the Idaho State Archives’ work in partnership with the Preservation Lab at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library.
Discover the multi-year conservation effort and the history of Idaho’s Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1889. Learn about the delegates from Alturas County (which includes present day Blaine County) who contributed and debated ideas to be drafted into the constitution and discover how you can access this vital piece of Idaho history and many others in your own home.
On display in the Library’s Foyer from until June 25, 2022.
