Upcoming Featured Events

with Karima Walker  Hemingway Writer-In-Residence Karima Walker leads a workshop in Deep Listening, a helpful tool for those who want to broaden their sensory and cognitive range. In this workshop we will be collectively sounding and listening, communicating and moving alongside each other and the environment around us. Come ready for gentle movement and with a yoga mat or blanket. Deep Listening is a meditative and musical compositional practice developed by the late contemporary composer … [Read more...] about Deep Listening Workshop

with Francisco Cantú  For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity … [Read more...] about “The Line Becomes a River”

with John Maclean  Hemingway Writer-In-Residence John Maclean will share and discuss a new piece he's writing for a book of essays celebrating the centennial of Ernest Hemingway's short story, “Big Two-Hearted River.” The collection will be published in 2023—the centennial of the first notes for the short story-—by the University Press of Kentucky.  Maclean's personal essay traces the importance of the Hemingway short story in the lives and writing of John and his late father … [Read more...] about The Boy, the War, and the Big Two-Hearted River

Our premier clearance sale of the season...coming mid-September 2024!  All you can stuff into a bag at the Gold Mine Thrift store for only $5! Clean up on apparel and gear, household and kitchen items, boots and shoes for kids and adults, sporting goods, electronics, and whatever else you find "mining for gold." Doors open at 10:00 a.m. Gold Mine Thrift is located at 331 Walnut Avenue in Ketchum. Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, literacy, and … [Read more...] about Gold Mine Bag Sale!

A Wellness Speaking Event with Erica Spiegelman  In partnership with Men's Second Chance Living, The Community Library welcomes Erica Spiegelman, author and addiction and wellness specialist. During this presentation, Erica Spiegelman will provide an overview of the four cornerstones of self care: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, and will explore how they are intricately connected to recovery from addiction. Centered around the principles of Rewired, Erica's … [Read more...] about “Rewired”