“A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.” -IMDB
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Movie Night at the Library! A Screening of “The Princess Bride”
“While home sick in bed, a young boy’s grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride.” -IMDB
Movie Night at the Library! A Screening of “The American President”
“Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It’s all above-board, but ‘politics is perception’ and sparks fly anyway.” -IMDB
Movie Night at the Library! A Screening of “When Harry Met Sally”
“Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.” -IMDB
A Reading by Pete Fromm
Pete Fromm is a five time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award for his novels IF NOT FOR THIS, AS COOL AS I AM and HOW ALL THIS STARTED, a story collection, DRY RAIN, and the memoir, INDIAN CREEK CHRONICLES. Pete is the author of four other short story collections and has published over two hundred stories in magazines.
His new memoir, THE NAMES OF THE STARS, is not only a story of wilderness and bears, but is also a trek through a life lived at its edges, showing how an impulsive kid leaping into the wilds transformed into a father without losing his love for the wild places, or much of his inability to think before leaping. From loon calls echoing across Northwood lakes, to the grim realities of lifeguarding in the Nevada desert, through the isolation of Indian Creek and years spent running the Snake and Rio Grande as a ranger for the National Park Service, Pete seeks out the source of this passion for wildness, as well as exploring fatherhood and mortality and all the costs and risks and rewards of a life lived on its own terms.
A Screening of “Wild Ways: Corridors of Life”
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) will be showing the Emmy-nominated documentary Wild Ways: Corridors of Life, a film exploring the cutting edge of conservation biology to discover how the world’s parks and preserves can be connected and better function as the last enclaves of wild nature. Wild Ways is a ground breaking film on the challenges of preserving biodiversity on a crowded planet. The film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Ketchum conservation leader Scott Boettger (Wood River Land Trust) and others. Wild Ways first appeared on the PBS program NOVA in April and received national acclaim.
