Upcoming Featured Events

...with the Idaho Office for Refugees The Refugee Speakers Bureau is bringing the flavors of our stories and our foods to the Wood River Valley for two special events! Click here to learn about Friday's free program at The Community Library, and read on for information about Saturday's cooking class.  Join Chef Shadi Ismail on Saturday, April 30, for a taste of Syrian cooking! Shadi’s cooking demonstration will include instructions on making hummus, baba ganoush, and other … [Read more...] about Syrian Cross-Culinary Class

Join the Idaho State Historical Society (ISHS) and Idaho constitution expert and ISHS board of trustees member Ernie Hoidal, for the opening of Creating and Conserving the Constitution, an exhibit which explores the Idaho State Archives’ work in partnership with the Preservation Lab at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library. Panelists will discuss the multi-year conservation effort and the history of Idaho’s Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1889. Learn … [Read more...] about Creating and Conserving the Idaho Constitution 

Shoshone-Bannock Fish & Wildlife Perspectives on Salmon Studies In celebration of Earth Day, Kurt Tardy and Rob Trahant will join us to discuss their salmon recovery work with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. They’ll share the history of the Tribes’ fishing practices along Idaho’s rivers and current tribal resource management and inter-agency coordination, including specific projects at Pettit Lake and on the Middle Fork of the Salmon. They’ll also look ahead to the future of sockeye and … [Read more...] about Perspectives on Salmon Studies

The Community Library is thrilled to announce our 2022 Hemingway Distinguished Lecture with Roxane Gay. Thursday, July 7, 2022 Roxane is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, and the New York Times bestselling memoir Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel and host of the podcast The Roxane Gay Agenda. Register Here! … [Read more...] about 2022 Hemingway Distinguished Lecture: Roxane Gay

Paddling steadily towards our Summer Reading program, with the theme, "Oceans of Possibilities," the Children's Library recently launched a new exhibit. Come see the imaginative jellyfish and other underwater flora and fauna. … [Read more...] about Oceans of Possibilities Exhibit

Arvin Ramgoolam is an emerging writer and owner of Townie Books and Rumors Coffee and Tea House in Crested Butte, Colorado (Ute Territory). Arvin is the 2020 One Story Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow and a 2022 MacDowell Fellow. While in residence, he will be at work on his novel in progress titled, A New West, an unsettling of the West and recentering it around indigenous, brown, black and queer bodies of difference. When not writing, Arvin is an environmental steward with High Country … [Read more...] about “A New West” with Writer-In-Residence Arvin Ramgoolam