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OUTDOORS: Lunch & Lit

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The Senior Connection and The Community Library are teaming up this summer to provide nutritious meals, social connection, and cerebral stimulation to elders in the north valley. 

On Thursdays beginning May 6, takeout meals will be available in the Cimino Plaza on the corner of 4th and Walnut Street, at the Children’s Library entrance. 

Lunch will be distributed between 11:30 am – 12:00 pm. 

The Senior Connection will be providing meals at a cost of $5 for adults 60 and better and $8 for those under 60 years of age.  Kids are $4.  Scholarships are available. 

Reservations are required and need to be made by Mondays at noon by calling the Senior Connection at 208-788-3468 or emailing stephanie@seniorconnectionidaho.org.  The menu is available by calling the Senior Connection to be put on their newsletter mailing list or online at www.seniorconnectionidaho.org/menu.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own reusable bag for their lunch.

The Community Library will be providing a reading each week, and beginning in June, as the COVID situation permits, take out diners are encouraged to linger and enjoy lunch in their wonderful outdoor space.  Wi-Fi is available and people can engage with each other while following social distancing protocols.   

OUTDOORS: Lunch & Lit

by

The Senior Connection and The Community Library are teaming up this summer to provide nutritious meals, social connection, and cerebral stimulation to elders in the north valley. 

On Thursdays beginning May 6, takeout meals will be available in the Cimino Plaza on the corner of 4th and Walnut Street, at the Children’s Library entrance. 

Lunch will be distributed between 11:30 am – 12:00 pm. 

The Senior Connection will be providing meals at a cost of $5 for adults 60 and better and $8 for those under 60 years of age.  Kids are $4.  Scholarships are available. 

Reservations are required and need to be made by Mondays at noon by calling the Senior Connection at 208-788-3468 or emailing stephanie@seniorconnectionidaho.org.  The menu is available by calling the Senior Connection to be put on their newsletter mailing list or online at www.seniorconnectionidaho.org/menu.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own reusable bag for their lunch.

The Community Library will be providing a reading each week, and beginning in June, as the COVID situation permits, take out diners are encouraged to linger and enjoy lunch in their wonderful outdoor space.  Wi-Fi is available and people can engage with each other while following social distancing protocols.   

OUTDOORS: Lunch & Lit

by

The Senior Connection and The Community Library are teaming up this summer to provide nutritious meals, social connection, and cerebral stimulation to elders in the north valley. 

On Thursdays beginning May 6, takeout meals will be available in the Cimino Plaza on the corner of 4th and Walnut Street, at the Children’s Library entrance. 

Lunch will be distributed between 11:30 am – 12:00 pm. 

The Senior Connection will be providing meals at a cost of $5 for adults 60 and better and $8 for those under 60 years of age.  Kids are $4.  Scholarships are available. 

Reservations are required and need to be made by Mondays at noon by calling the Senior Connection at 208-788-3468 or emailing stephanie@seniorconnectionidaho.org.  The menu is available by calling the Senior Connection to be put on their newsletter mailing list or online at www.seniorconnectionidaho.org/menu.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own reusable bag for their lunch.

The Community Library will be providing a reading each week, and beginning in June, as the COVID situation permits, take out diners are encouraged to linger and enjoy lunch in their wonderful outdoor space.  Wi-Fi is available and people can engage with each other while following social distancing protocols.   

“Beyond: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven” with Catherine Wolff

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July 20, 2021

Watch the Recording

A free outdoor lecture presented in collaboration with the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference.

This free lecture will be outdoors on the Library’s Donaldson Robb Family Green on 4th Street. Attendees are invited to bring their own low-back chairs or blankets, spread out on the lawn, and enjoy the evening. 

What do we think of when we think about heaven? What might it look like? Who or what might be there? Since humans began to huddle together for protection thousands of years ago, these questions have been part of how civilizations and cultures define heaven, the good place beyond this one. From Christianity to Islam to Hinduism and beyond, from the brush of Michelangelo to the pen of Dante, people across millennia have tried to explain and describe heaven in ways that are distinctive and analogous, unique and universal.

In this engrossing cultural history of heaven, Catherine Wolff delves into how people and cultures have defined heaven over the centuries. She describes how different faiths and religions have framed it, how the sense of heaven has evolved, and how nonreligious influences have affected it, from the Enlightenment to the increasingly nonreligious views of heaven today. Wolff looks deep into the accounts of heaven to discover what’s common among them and what makes each conception distinct and memorable. The result is Beyond, an engaging, thoughtful exploration of an idea that is central to our humanity and our desire to define an existence beyond death.

Catherine Wolff is a therapist, writer and the former director of the Arrupe Center for Community-Based Learning at Santa Clara University. She edited the collection Not Less Than Everything: Catholic Writers on Heroes of Conscience. She is married to author Tobias Wolff. They have three grown children and three grandchildren and live in Stanford, California.

A book signing will follow, and Chapter One Bookstore will be selling books on site following the presentation.

LIVESTREAM – “The Inferno Lessons” Poetry Reading with Andy Kerstetter

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WATCH THE PROGRAM

Join The Community Library for a reading and conversation with local poet Andy Kerstetter about his new collection, The Inferno Lessons, published in 2020 by Kattywompus Press. The collection explores aging, illness, and our relationship with nature and our own bodies, among other themes.

Due to impending weather, this program will now be broadcast live on the Library’s Livestream. A recording will be available for later viewing.

Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Andy Kerstetter moved to the Mountain West shortly after earning a degree in writing from Geneva College in 2010. He spent nearly a decade working as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, while always pursuing his love of poetry. His poems have appeared in several journals, and The Inferno Lessons is his first published collection. He has lived in Ketchum since 2015.

OUTDOORS: Lunch & Lit

by

The Senior Connection and The Community Library are teaming up this summer to provide nutritious meals, social connection, and cerebral stimulation to elders in the north valley. 

On Thursdays beginning May 6, takeout meals will be available in the Cimino Plaza on the corner of 4th and Walnut Street, at the Children’s Library entrance. 

Lunch will be distributed between 11:30 am – 12:00 pm. 

The Senior Connection will be providing meals at a cost of $5 for adults 60 and better and $8 for those under 60 years of age.  Kids are $4.  Scholarships are available. 

Reservations are required and need to be made by Mondays at noon by calling the Senior Connection at 208-788-3468 or emailing stephanie@seniorconnectionidaho.org.  The menu is available by calling the Senior Connection to be put on their newsletter mailing list or online at www.seniorconnectionidaho.org/menu.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own reusable bag for their lunch.

The Community Library will be providing a reading each week, and beginning in June, as the COVID situation permits, take out diners are encouraged to linger and enjoy lunch in their wonderful outdoor space.  Wi-Fi is available and people can engage with each other while following social distancing protocols.   

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