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Roundtable Conversation about Wallace Stegner

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Join The Community Library and guest Charles Wilkinson for a casual, hour-long afternoon conversation about Wallace Stegner, the man. Professor Wilkinson will share some personal stories from his friendship with Stegner, and we’ll have a broader conversation will all who join. W look forward to hearing your thoughts and questions.

 

Charles Wilkinson is the Moses Lasky Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Colorado. A graduate of Stanford Law School and an associate with Phoenix and San Francisco law firms, Wilkinson joined the Native American Rights Fund in 1971 as a staff attorney. Since 1975 he has taught at the Oregon and Colorado law schools, receiving many awards for teaching and research. He is the author of 14 books, including Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West (1992); The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West (1992); Fire on the Plateau: Conquest and Endurance in the American Southwest (1999); Messages from Frank’s Landing: a Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way (2000); and Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations (2005.) 

He has served on the boards of The Center of the American West; the Western Environmental Law Center, the Wilderness Society; and the Grand Canyon Trust. Over the years, Wilkinson has taken on many special assignments for the Departments of Interior, Agriculture, and Justice. He served as special counsel to the Interior Department for the drafting of the 1996 Presidential Proclamation establishing the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. Wilkinson was also Special Advisor to the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition for the creation of the Bears Ears National Monument in 2016.

The Only Girl at “That Girl”: Writing TV Comedy in the 60s and 70s with Peggy Goldwyn

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June 25, 2020

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Some of the best known television shows of the 1960s and 1970s featured a young woman by the name of Peggy Elliott in their writing credits. Writing for television situation comedy for 20 years, her work included season and episode scripts for That Girl; Love, American Style; Happy Days; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; and The Odd Couple. She was the only young woman in the boys’ club at the age of 23, but learned from experts in the industry. That Girl was the first sitcom about a young, single woman, and Peggy’s work on The Odd Couple earned her a place on the Writers Guild of America list of the 100 best comedy scripts for television.

Join us for a virtual evening with Peggy as she share clips from these shows and stories about her time in the television industry.

Peggy Elliott Goldwyn is an author, writer for television and film, and documentary producer.  She moved to Idaho in 2004 and has been active in the community ever since. For three years she produced Our Movable Feast for The Community Library, and she has served on the Boards of The Advocates for Survivors of Domestic Abuse, The Wood River Women’s Foundation, and, currently, the Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University. She is a founding member of The International Women’s Forum-Idaho, and received IWF’s national “Women Who Make a Difference” award.  She has presented The Family of Woman Film Festival for the past 12 years in Sun Valley and Boise in support of the United Nations Population Fund, on whose board she serves. In this capacity, she has led several delegations to Sub-Saharan African countries, and also serves on the Advisory Boards of non-profits in Rwanda and South Africa. A Small Part of History, her first novel, was originally published in Great Britain, where she resides part-time.

Wallace Stegner and “A Society To Match The Scenery” with Charles Wilkinson

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Wallace Stegner And The Effort—The Dream—To Create “A Society To Match The Scenery”

How Well Have We Done?

Starting roughly in the early 1970s, citizens of the American West began an earnest search to understand the history and peoples of the region and its possibilities, and, ultimately, to find ways to protect the magnificence of the landscape and preserve the slow-moving, community-oriented culture of the real West.

From the beginning, Ketchum was a significant locale for that kind of thinking. Many Westerners still aim for that.

In his first of two evening presentations, Professor Wilkinson will offer some thoughts on the progress of that effort and engage the audience in a discussion of how well the West of the 2020s fits with Stegner’s formulation.

This program will be LIVESTREAMED for virtual viewing.

Charles Wilkinson is the Moses Lasky Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Colorado. A graduate of Stanford Law School and an associate with Phoenix and San Francisco law firms, Wilkinson joined the Native American Rights Fund in 1971 as a staff attorney. Since 1975 he has taught at the Oregon and Colorado law schools, receiving many awards for teaching and research. He is the author of 14 books, including Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West (1992); The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West (1992); Fire on the Plateau: Conquest and Endurance in the American Southwest (1999); Messages from Frank’s Landing: a Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way (2000); and Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations (2005.) 

He has served on the boards of The Center of the American West; the Western Environmental Law Center, the Wilderness Society; and the Grand Canyon Trust. Over the years, Wilkinson has taken on many special assignments for the Departments of Interior, Agriculture, and Justice. He served as special counsel to the Interior Department for the drafting of the 1996 Presidential Proclamation establishing the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. Wilkinson was also Special Advisor to the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition for the creation of the Bears Ears National Monument in 2016.

“Bears Ears: Creation of the First Native National Monument” with Charles Wilkinson

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“At Bears Ears We Can Hear The Voices Of Our Ancestors In Every Canyon And On Every Mesa Top”

The Creation Of The First Native National Monument

On December 8, 2016, President Barack Obama announced the designation of Bears Ears National Monument. At 1.35 million acres of public land in Utah, it was the second-largest national monument in the contiguous states. Bears Ears is glory country, a Southwest terrain of canyons, mesas, mountains, red rock formations, and long vistas. Wallace Stegner wrote that the Bears Ears landscape “fills up the eye and overflows the soul.” The area holds, and has always held, profound cultural significance for the Native peoples who live in the area

This is the first national monument ever brought forth by Indian people. They organized a grassroots coalition of five tribes—the Hopi, Navajo, Ute Mountain Ute, Northern Ute, and Zuni—that took the lead in advocating for the monument with the Obama administration. The tribes were backed up by conservation groups, the outdoors industry, scientific organizations, and countless citizens. Importantly, the proclamation provides, for the first time ever, that a major federal landholding will be collaboratively managed, by the five tribes and the Forest Service, BLM, and Park Service.

In 2017, President Trump attempted, by proclamation, to eviscerate the monument by eliminating 85% of the Obama monument. The matter is in litigation, where the tribes seem to have the better position. A ruling by the Federal District Court of Washington, DC on the legality of the Trump order is expected soon.

This program will be LIVESTREAMED for virtual viewing.

Join us for this second evening of presentations with Professor Charles Wilkinson, Moses Lasky Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Colorado. A graduate of Stanford Law School and an associate with Phoenix and San Francisco law firms, Wilkinson joined the Native American Rights Fund in 1971 as a staff attorney. Since 1975 he has taught at the Oregon and Colorado law schools, receiving many awards for teaching and research. He is the author of 14 books, including Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West (1992); The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West (1992); Fire on the Plateau: Conquest and Endurance in the American Southwest (1999); Messages from Frank’s Landing: a Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way (2000); and Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations (2005.) 

He has served on the boards of The Center of the American West; the Western Environmental Law Center, the Wilderness Society; and the Grand Canyon Trust. Over the years, Wilkinson has taken on many special assignments for the Departments of Interior, Agriculture, and Justice. He served as special counsel to the Interior Department for the drafting of the 1996 Presidential Proclamation establishing the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. Wilkinson was also Special Advisor to the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition for the creation of the Bears Ears National Monument in 2016.

Photo Credit: Bob Wick, BLM

Visit Sun Valley Virtual Community Webinar

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The Community Library is honored to host the Visit Sun Valley team – along with a handful of invited guests – for its biannual community meeting. The webinar will be recorded and posted for those who can’t attend in real time.

Questions can be sent in advance to aly@visitsunvalley.com, and there will be ample time for Q&A after the presentation. 

Register for the webinar online: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5963603041986145294

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

VIRTUAL – Special Screening: “Back to the Titanic”

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Rescheduled! We apologize to those who tried to tune in for the screening on June 18. We had technical difficulties that could not be resolved. We hope you can join us on August 6.

Join The Community Library for a special live screening of Atlantic Production’s Back to the Titanic.

CLICK HERE to view the film and live Q&A beginning at 2:00 p.m. (Mountain).

This acclaimed National Geographic documentary follows the first manned expedition to RMS Titanic in nearly 15 years and captures the wreck for the first time in stunning 4K. The film reveals the answers to some previously unsolved mysteries about the Titanic, such as finding the state rooms of one of the richest passengers on board the ship, Benjamin Guggenheim, and revealing the state of the captain’s cabin. Using the submersible camera systems, the team performed dedicated photogrammetry on the wreck, allowing highly accurate, photo-real 3D models of RMS Titanic to be produced. The expedition revealed that the Titanic is being slowly destroyed by metal-eating bacteria and received world-wide news coverage when it was announced. 

This special screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the producer of the film, multi-BAFTA and Emmy award-winning filmmaker Anthony Geffen, who will take questions from the audience about the film.

Questions? Email mwilliams@comlib.org.

Atlantic Productions is a multi award winning independent factual production company. Founded in 1992 Atlantic is respected for its unparalleled access and world-class story-telling.  Their diverse output includes history, science, natural history, current affairs, observational, music, arts and drama. They have won over 50 international awards, including multiple British Academy Awards and multiple Emmy Awards.

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