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The Sun Valley Jewish Film Festival presents a screening of the award winning thriller, “On the Map,” about the 1977 Israeli underdog basketball team that captured the hearts of a nation against all odds.
“On the Map” and its Sun Valley connection features one of its heroes, former Wood River High School basketball coach, Jim Boatwright.
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Come meet the staff and see the local history secret treasures that sit waiting to be discovered in the Library’s Regional History Room! Get familiar with our current projects including new Hemingway House collections discoveries, Hemingway House, Sun Valley Museum of History’s new exhibit “Firelines,” educational outreach, and oral history. Refreshments provided.
July 27, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Regional History Room
Hemingway House Collection talk on research and discovery in Ernest and Mary’s home library
by Emma Sarconi, Regional History’s 2017 Hemingway House Summer Research Fellow.
Emma Sarconi grew up outside of San Francisco before getting her Bachelor of Arts from University of Toronto in Book and Media Studies, with minors in English and Literary Studies. After completing her undergraduate degree, she lived in Providence Rhode Island for three years, working in book publishing. In the fall of 2015, Sarconi began pursuing a dual masters in Library Science with a concentration in rare books and special collections from Long Island University and English Literature from New York University. Her scholarship focuses on the history of the book after 1800, reception and readership studies; in 2016 Sarconi was awarded a scholarship to Rare Book School. She has worked in archives and libraries across New York City, most recently the library at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
July 27, 6:00 p.m.
Lecture Hall
by kmerwin
August 10, 2017
In November 1895, a 20-year old English aristocrat, visiting the United States for the first time, wrote to share his impressions of the New World. “A great, crude, strong, young people are the Americans,” he reported to his family, “like a boisterous healthy boy among well-bred ladies and gentlemen.”
The writer was Winston Churchill and his arrival in New York was no accident, as he was half-American: his mother, Jennie Jerome, was born in Brooklyn and married the son of a British aristocrat, the Duke of Marlborough.
Churchill’s visit was the beginning of a lifelong relationship with America and its people. He came to the United States regularly and here found some of his closest mentors, friends, and collaborators. Speaking to a joint session of Congress in December 1941 he famously quipped: “I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British, instead of the other way around, I might have got here on my own.” Later, asked in which country he would like to be a citizen if he were born again, he replied “There is one country where a man knows he has an unbounded future – the USA.”
Join Lee Pollock as he explores the fascinating American side of Sir Winston Churchill.
Lee Pollock is a Trustee and Advisor to the Board of The International Churchill Society, a non-profit research and educational organization with offices in Washington and London, and served as its full-time Executive Director for six years.
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This program coincides with the “Firelines” exhibit at the Sun Valley Museum of History.
George Wuerthner is an ecologist who has published 38 books, including two on wildfire. He previously worked on the Challis National Forest so is familiar with the landscape around Ketchum. His most recent title dealing with the issue is Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. He will be discussing the ecological role of wildfire in our ecosystems, as well as strategies for protecting communities.
by kmerwin
Sarah Sentilles joins the library’s executive director, Jenny Emery Davidson, in conversation about her latest book Draw Your Weapons.
Sarah Sentilles is the author of Breaking Up with God, A Church of Her Own, and Taught by America. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Divinity School, she lives in the Wood River Valley.
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A total solar eclipse, when the Moon fully covers the bright disk of the Sun and reveals its breathtaking corona, is one of nature’s most magnificent spectacles — truly an awe-inspiring experience! On August 21, 2017, for the first time in 38 years, the very narrow path of a total solar eclipse falls across the continental United States, passing right through Ketchum. Come learn about total solar eclipses and how to view this one!
