Main Library

Do you feel overwhelmed by your email?  Maybe you are swimming in a SPAM sea of messages?  This lecture will talk about some tips to getting your email life under control so you go outside and not feel like your email is filling up.  We’ll look at some inboxes, some tips to manage email, and some apps that change how we view email.

Join Hailey residents, Colleen Crain and Jim Liesenfeld, for a photographic journey of their ‘overlanding’ experience in Africa.  Stowing their possessions and booking one-way tickets to Cape Town, Colleen and Jim drove into the heart of Africa, finding so much more than just parks and animals.

 

 

Join us for The Judith and Marshall Meyer Lecture on China at The Community Library with Dr. Gordon H. Chang.

This year marks the 150^th anniversary of the joining of the Transcontinental Railroad with a golden spike at Promontory Summit in northern Utah. It was a feat that changed the nation, and it was accomplished in large part by thousands of Chinese migrants whose stories have been neglected. Dr. Gordon H. Chang will discuss the history of Chinese railroad workers in the U.S., how they contributed to the social and cultural landscapes of the American West, and, more broadly, how China has influenced, and continues to influence, America. Dr. Chang is Professor of American History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University, where he recently was named senior associate vice provost for undergraduate education. He researches China in American thought, politics, and culture, from Jamestown to the present. His newest book, released just this spring, is The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad. His many other books include Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China and Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970. 

This program will be Livestreamed.

Books will be available, and a book signing will follow.

Click here https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/books/review/gordon-h-chang-ghosts-of-gold-mountain.html?searchResultPosition=2 for a New York Times article about Dr. Chang’s research.

Glenn and Caryl Elzinga are the owners of Alderspring Ranch, a family owned grass finished organic cattle ranch in the heart of central Idaho. Over the past 5 years The Nature Conservancy has partnered with the Elzingas to establish a new approach to managing livestock on public lands on the 45,000-acre Hat Creek allotment. In general, livestock management on public lands have employed modern cowboys to keep cattle “out” of areas of concern. In contrast, this effort is intentionally keeping livestock “in” a herd to control grazing activities to improve livestock health, meet conservation goals, and avoid predation. The shift from “out” to “in” management in Hat Creek is timely due to the convergence of multiple issues from both an ecological and cattle welfare standpoint. Sage grouse, bull trout and sensitive plant species all have important habitat on Hat Creek. Wolf predation is common. Much of the upper Hat Creek allotment was once vegetated by aspen stands, however, natural forest succession has been altered to favor conversion to Douglas fir, with implications for watershed dynamics as well as wildlife habitat. Large areas of forest landscape are unhealthy, with little hope for recovery unless management strategies are developed to allow for prescribed fire and restoration.  

 

This talk will present how this effort strives to create a paradigm shift from the current practice of livestock management on public rangelands to a different mindset and approach while reinventing and implementing the concept of the traditional range rider to shepherd livestock across the allotment. 

April 16, 2019

Watch the Presentation

Local reporter and author Tony Tekaroniake Evans will present a talk and read from his book published last year.  The book details our local native history dating back thousands of years.  Q and A and book signing will follow.