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Star Lab Planetarium

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A Children’s Library event, presented by Hemingway Engineering Technology Teacher, Scott Slonim. Spend an afternoon in the Star Lab, a portable planetarium.

Have you ever looked at the stars and been amazed that ancient people made constellations from them? Have you ever wondered not only how to find the constellations but what the stories are behind them? Join Hemingway Elementary Engineering Technology teacher Scott Slonim as he takes you on a tour of the stars.  You will see the Native American constellations and learn how they used the stars.  You’ll view the Greek constellations. You’ll learn about the phases of the moon and get to touch a real shooting star. The show will end with an amazing laser show!

Shows at: 3:00 p.m. & 4:00 p.m.

Space is limited. Sign-up is required. Call the Children’s Library (208) 726-3493, option 2, to reserve a spot.

Elizabeth Kelly Stephenson Reading: The Trouble with Truth

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The Trouble with Truth, Elizabeth Kelly Stephenson’s memoir, recounts a tale of feeling trapped in a continuous cycle of destructive relationships.

Beth was born in Santa Monica, California, but escaped the smog of Southern California at age twenty-eight to marry her ski instructor after a whirlwind courtship. The marriage didn’t last, but the blue skies of Idaho’s Wood River Valley had a hold on her. She worked there for fifteen years as Executive Director of the Crisis Hotline, a twenty-four hour crisis line, where she dealt daily with issues of domestic violence, child abuse and mental illness, themes that drive her memoir, The Trouble with Truth.

Local Author Ryan Blacketter Reading: Down in the River

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Ryan BlacketterDown in the River synopsis: After the death of his sixteen-year-old twin sister, Lyle Rettew moves from the mountains of Idaho to Eugene, Oregon. His religious, well-intentioned older brother has forbidden any mention of her name. but Lyle, fighting to keep his memory of her alive, has quit taking the lithium that numbs his mind and openly rebels against his mother and brother for the first time. Taking his mourning out of the house, he embarks upon a fraught pilgrimage that is at once heartbreaking and macabre. Dark though it may be, Lyle’s fevered journey along the margins of youth culture is ultimately driven by fierce love and a deep, instinctive need to find a liturgy for loss and grief.

Ryan Blacketter is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a recipient of a literary grant from Oregon Regional Arts and a prison teaching grant from Idaho Humanities Council. He attended Sewanee as a Tennessee Williams Scholar. His stories are published in Antioch Review, Image, Crab Orchard Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

Film Screening: Connecting with Owls

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Filmed entirely in Idaho by filmmaker and avid birder Kathleen Cameron, this film documents the beauty of owls in their natural habitats.
Owl species featured in this film are: Barn, Long-eared, Short-eared, Great Horned, Great Gray, Boreal, Northern Saw-whet, Burrowing, Flammulated, Western Screech, Northern Pygmy, and Northern Hawk Owl,  with cameo appearances by: Snowy and Barred Owl.

Viewers of all ages and levels of interest in bird watching will enjoy this film and will be energized to learn more about owls and to utilize the clues provided to find and observe them. 

A Q&A session with Kathleen will follow the film.

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