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VIRTUAL – “Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph” with Jan Swafford

July 7, 2021 by kmerwin

In celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday and in partnership with the Sun Valley Music Festival, The Community Library presents a VIRTUAL evening with Jan Swafford, celebrated composer and Beethoven biographer.

Register Here to receive a reminder about this program, which will air on our Livestream page.

Jan Swafford is an American composer and author. His journalism appears regularly in Slate. He is a long-time program writer and preconcert lecturer for the Boston Symphony and has written program notes and essays for the orchestras of Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco, and Toronto. His music has been played around the country and abroad by ensembles including the symphonies of St. Louis, Indianapolis, and the Dutch Radio; Boston’s new-music groups Musica Viva, Collage, and Dinosaur Annex; and chamber ensembles including the Peabody Trio, the Chamber Orchestra of Tennessee, and the Scott Chamber Players of Indianapolis. Jan earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Harvard College and his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. He is the author of Charles Ives: A Life with Music, Johannes Brahms: A Biography, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph, and The Vintage Guide to Classical Music.

 

Presented in collaboration with the Sun Valley Music Festival
and supported by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council.

 

Winter Read Book Discussion: “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”

July 7, 2021 by kmerwin

Join us for a discussion on Minidoka and Jamie Ford’s of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, the Community Library’s 2020 Winter Read selection.

The discussion will be led by students from the Sun Valley Community School.


The Community Library’s 2020 WINTER READ explores the history and effects today of the incarceration of Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II. Throughout February and March we invite the community to read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford’s novel that focuses on two families, of Chinese and Japanese ancestry, who experience discrimination, incarceration, loss, and friendship during the early war years in Seattle. The novel features the Minidoka War Relocation Center, Idaho’s own site of war-time incarceration where more than 9,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned from 1942-45. The site is located just eighty miles south of Ketchum. Join us as we engage in conversation around this important regional and national civil liberties history.

The 2020 Winter Read has been generously sponsored by the Spur Community Foundation and Carlyn Ring.

Winter Read Panel Discussion: “The Bitter and Sweet”

July 7, 2021 by kmerwin

As part of our Winter Read and focus on the Minidoka National Historic Site in south central Idaho and Japanese American incarceration during World War II, The Community Library welcomes local families who will share their stories of immigration, incarceration, military service, and community.

This program will be recorded and can be viewed on The Community Library’s LIVESTREAM page after the event.

Marsha Takahashi Edwards is a Seattle native and Wood River Valley resident whose parents were both incarcerated at Minidoka and met at the camp during their teenage years. Her mother’s family was removed from the fishing community of Petersburg, Alaska, and her father’s family from their home in Seattle. Her father ultimately joined the famous 442nd Combat Division, Company L, and earned a Purple Heart and the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service during World War II. Marsha’s family story can currently be seen in the Library Foyer exhibit, The Bitter and Sweet: World War II Stories of Japanese Americans in the West.

Rod Tatsuno has been a Ketchum resident since 1970. He was born in the Tanforan Assembly Center in California in 1942, following his family’s removal from San Francisco, where they ran a dry goods and housewares store called Nichi Bei Bussan. After Rod’s birth, the family was sent to Topaz War Relocation Center in Delta, Utah, where Rod spent his formative years. His father was able to smuggle into the camp an 8mm film camera, and he documented the family’s life in Topaz. This film is currently on display at the Regional History Museum, accompanying the poster exhibit Righting A Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II. Rod’s family story and photos and artifacts on loan can also currently be seen in the Library Foyer exhibit, The Bitter and Sweet: World War II Stories of Japanese Americans in the West.

Joan Davies is an Idaho native and resident of Hailey. She grew up on and still manages a farm in Hazelton, near Camp Hunt (Minidoka), where her mother taught at the Greenwood School (the local two-room schoolhouse), and her father raised livestock, pigs, chickens, horses, carrots, alfalfa, hay, sugar beets, corn, barley and wheat. During World War II and the incarceration period, incarcerees from Minidoka traveled to Hazelton to work on the family farm. Joan will share memories of the relationships her family developed with the incarcerees, and about her time spent helping to rebuild a baseball field at the Camp Hunt site in honor of the ten baseball fields that existed between 1942 and 1945.

The panel will be moderated by Mia Russell, Executive Director of Friends of Minidoka, the Idaho-based nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the Minidoka Japanese American incarceration site. Russell is also the Manager of the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium, a nationwide coalition of preservation, education, and advocacy organizations working to elevate the history and social justice lessons of the WWII experience of Japanese Americans.

Presented in collaboration with Friends of Minidoka.

Photo 210-CMB-I2-1489 courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration.

 


The Community Library’s 2020 Winter Read explores the history and effects today of the incarceration of Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II. Throughout February and March we invite the community to read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford’s novel that focuses on two families, of Chinese and Japanese ancestry, who experience discrimination, incarceration, loss, and friendship during the early war years in Seattle. The novel features the Minidoka War Relocation Center, Idaho’s own site of war-time incarceration where more than 9,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned from 1942-45. The site is located just eighty miles south of Ketchum. Join us as we engage in conversation around this important regional and national civil liberties history.

The 2020 Winter Read has been generously sponsored by the Spur Community Foundation and Carlyn Ring.

*CANCELLED* The Evolution of Stream Restoration with Warren Colyer

July 7, 2021 by kmerwin

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*THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED* We may attempt to reschedule it for later in 2020.

The practice of restoring rivers and streams has evolved much in recent decades.  Restoration strategies vary from volunteers spending weekends rolling rocks into their favorite streams to increase cover for trout, to professional staff developing, designing and implementing watershed-scale projects to restore hydrologic and fluvial processes in streams and rivers across the country.  This presentation will describe some of the tools used, from the passive restoration projects that change land use, to low-intensity “hand-tool” projects that encourage beaver activity and increase instream wood, to massive construction projects that rebuild valley bottoms. The common thread in all these approaches is a focus on restoring the natural processes that build and maintain habitat and water quality to support fisheries and aquatic habitat.

Warren Colyer is Trout Unlimited’s Western Water and Habitat Program Director. He has a background in political science and aquatic ecology and has worked to restore fisheries and rivers in Montana and throughout the West. His work has included various stream restoration techniques, as well as developing partnerships and communication strategies to ensure long-term success. Warren lives in Missoula, Montana. 

Trout Unlimited is a grassroots sportsmen’s 501c(3) conservation organization that has worked to improve trout and salmon habitat across the United States for more than half a century. Trout Unlimited partners with local governments, public lands management agencies, agricultural producers, landowners, and other non-profit organizations on pragmatic, voluntary, and market-driven solutions to benefit fish and wildlife habitat.

2020 Hemingway Distinguished Lecture: Richard Blanco

July 7, 2021 by kmerwin

July 16, 2020

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The Community Library welcomes award-winning poet Richard Blanco for its 2020 Hemingway Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, July 16th at 6:00 p.m. The event is free, but seating will be limited in alignment with current community protocols around COVID-19.

Hemingway Distinguished Lecture 2020

Richard Blanco is the fifth presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history—the youngest, first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role. Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami, the negotiation of cultural identity and place characterize his body of work. He is the author of the poetry collections Looking for the Gulf Motel, Directions to the Beach of the Dead, and City of a Hundred Fires; the poetry chapbooks Matters of the Sea, One Today, and Boston Strong; a children’s book of his inaugural poem, “One Today,” illustrated by Dav Pilkey; and Boundaries, a collaboration with photographer Jacob Hessler. His latest book of poems, How to Love a Country (Beacon Press, 2019), both interrogates the American narrative, past and present, and celebrates the still unkept promise of its ideals. He has also authored the memoirs The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood and For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey.

Blanco’s many honors include the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, the PEN/Beyond Margins Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and two Maine Literary Awards. He has been a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow and received honorary doctorates from Macalester College, Colby College, and the University of Rhode Island. He has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR’s Fresh Air. The Academy of American Poets named him its first Education Ambassador in 2015. Blanco has continued to write occasional poems for organizations and events such as the re-opening of the U.S. embassy in Havana. He lives with his partner in Bethel, Maine.

About the Hemingway Distinguished Lecture: The Hemingway Distinguished Lecture is presented each July by The Community Library, honoring the month of Ernest Hemingway’s birth and death. The Lecture celebrates the power of words and the creative spirit in a landscape that Hemingway loved. The previous Lectures have been presented by Sherman Alexie, Anthony Doerr, and Terry Tempest Williams.

*CANCELLED* ERC Spring Science Series: Idaho Museum of Natural History

July 7, 2021 by kmerwin

*THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED* We may attempt to reschedule it for later in 2020.

The Environmental Resource Center’s 5th annual Spring Science Series offers exciting and interactive presentations on scientific topics ranging from plant and animal adaptations and life histories, to unique conservation strategies. 

This week staff from the Idaho Museum of Natural History (IMNH) will present a Mammoth Murder Mystery! Virginia Jones of the IMNH will facilitate a crime scene investigation working to solve the murder mystery of a baby mammoth. Learn more about ice age animals and life on earth 10,000 years ago. IMNH is located on the Idaho State University Campus in Pocatello. 

The presentation will be in the Children’s Library Treehouse room.

This program is offered in conjunction with the ERC’s Spring Exploration Series which brings presenters from across the Northwest to all 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms in Blaine County during the school day. This program is FREE, family-friendly and open to the public! Don’t miss your opportunity to learn about the natural world from visiting experts!

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