Interested learning more about how you can utilize Google Drive and Google Photos? Join our tech expert, Paul Zimmerman, for his February class, which will focus on tips and tricks for using these platforms to organize and share your files and photos.
The Community Library Lecture Room
Winter Read Book Discussion: “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”
Join us for a discussion on Minidoka and Jamie Ford’s of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, the Community Library’s 2020 Winter Read selection.
The discussion will be led by students from the Sun Valley Community School.
The Community Library’s 2020 WINTER READ explores the history and effects today of the incarceration of Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II. Throughout February and March we invite the community to read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford’s novel that focuses on two families, of Chinese and Japanese ancestry, who experience discrimination, incarceration, loss, and friendship during the early war years in Seattle. The novel features the Minidoka War Relocation Center, Idaho’s own site of war-time incarceration where more than 9,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned from 1942-45. The site is located just eighty miles south of Ketchum. Join us as we engage in conversation around this important regional and national civil liberties history.
The 2020 Winter Read has been generously sponsored by the Spur Community Foundation and Carlyn Ring.
Winter Read Panel Discussion: “The Bitter and Sweet”
As part of our Winter Read and focus on the Minidoka National Historic Site in south central Idaho and Japanese American incarceration during World War II, The Community Library welcomes local families who will share their stories of immigration, incarceration, military service, and community.
This program will be recorded and can be viewed on The Community Library’s LIVESTREAM page after the event.
Marsha Takahashi Edwards is a Seattle native and Wood River Valley resident whose parents were both incarcerated at Minidoka and met at the camp during their teenage years. Her mother’s family was removed from the fishing community of Petersburg, Alaska, and her father’s family from their home in Seattle. Her father ultimately joined the famous 442nd Combat Division, Company L, and earned a Purple Heart and the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service during World War II. Marsha’s family story can currently be seen in the Library Foyer exhibit, The Bitter and Sweet: World War II Stories of Japanese Americans in the West.
Rod Tatsuno has been a Ketchum resident since 1970. He was born in the Tanforan Assembly Center in California in 1942, following his family’s removal from San Francisco, where they ran a dry goods and housewares store called Nichi Bei Bussan. After Rod’s birth, the family was sent to Topaz War Relocation Center in Delta, Utah, where Rod spent his formative years. His father was able to smuggle into the camp an 8mm film camera, and he documented the family’s life in Topaz. This film is currently on display at the Regional History Museum, accompanying the poster exhibit Righting A Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II. Rod’s family story and photos and artifacts on loan can also currently be seen in the Library Foyer exhibit, The Bitter and Sweet: World War II Stories of Japanese Americans in the West.
Joan Davies is an Idaho native and resident of Hailey. She grew up on and still manages a farm in Hazelton, near Camp Hunt (Minidoka), where her mother taught at the Greenwood School (the local two-room schoolhouse), and her father raised livestock, pigs, chickens, horses, carrots, alfalfa, hay, sugar beets, corn, barley and wheat. During World War II and the incarceration period, incarcerees from Minidoka traveled to Hazelton to work on the family farm. Joan will share memories of the relationships her family developed with the incarcerees, and about her time spent helping to rebuild a baseball field at the Camp Hunt site in honor of the ten baseball fields that existed between 1942 and 1945.
The panel will be moderated by Mia Russell, Executive Director of Friends of Minidoka, the Idaho-based nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the Minidoka Japanese American incarceration site. Russell is also the Manager of the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium, a nationwide coalition of preservation, education, and advocacy organizations working to elevate the history and social justice lessons of the WWII experience of Japanese Americans.
Presented in collaboration with Friends of Minidoka.
Photo 210-CMB-I2-1489 courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration.
The Community Library’s 2020 Winter Read explores the history and effects today of the incarceration of Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II. Throughout February and March we invite the community to read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford’s novel that focuses on two families, of Chinese and Japanese ancestry, who experience discrimination, incarceration, loss, and friendship during the early war years in Seattle. The novel features the Minidoka War Relocation Center, Idaho’s own site of war-time incarceration where more than 9,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned from 1942-45. The site is located just eighty miles south of Ketchum. Join us as we engage in conversation around this important regional and national civil liberties history.
The 2020 Winter Read has been generously sponsored by the Spur Community Foundation and Carlyn Ring.
*CANCELLED* The Evolution of Stream Restoration with Warren Colyer
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*THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED* We may attempt to reschedule it for later in 2020.
The practice of restoring rivers and streams has evolved much in recent decades. Restoration strategies vary from volunteers spending weekends rolling rocks into their favorite streams to increase cover for trout, to professional staff developing, designing and implementing watershed-scale projects to restore hydrologic and fluvial processes in streams and rivers across the country. This presentation will describe some of the tools used, from the passive restoration projects that change land use, to low-intensity “hand-tool” projects that encourage beaver activity and increase instream wood, to massive construction projects that rebuild valley bottoms. The common thread in all these approaches is a focus on restoring the natural processes that build and maintain habitat and water quality to support fisheries and aquatic habitat.
Warren Colyer is Trout Unlimited’s Western Water and Habitat Program Director. He has a background in political science and aquatic ecology and has worked to restore fisheries and rivers in Montana and throughout the West. His work has included various stream restoration techniques, as well as developing partnerships and communication strategies to ensure long-term success. Warren lives in Missoula, Montana.
Trout Unlimited is a grassroots sportsmen’s 501c(3) conservation organization that has worked to improve trout and salmon habitat across the United States for more than half a century. Trout Unlimited partners with local governments, public lands management agencies, agricultural producers, landowners, and other non-profit organizations on pragmatic, voluntary, and market-driven solutions to benefit fish and wildlife habitat.
*CANCELLED* ERC Spring Science Series: Idaho Museum of Natural History
*THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED* We may attempt to reschedule it for later in 2020.
The Environmental Resource Center’s 5th annual Spring Science Series offers exciting and interactive presentations on scientific topics ranging from plant and animal adaptations and life histories, to unique conservation strategies.
This week staff from the Idaho Museum of Natural History (IMNH) will present a Mammoth Murder Mystery! Virginia Jones of the IMNH will facilitate a crime scene investigation working to solve the murder mystery of a baby mammoth. Learn more about ice age animals and life on earth 10,000 years ago. IMNH is located on the Idaho State University Campus in Pocatello.
The presentation will be in the Children’s Library Treehouse room.
This program is offered in conjunction with the ERC’s Spring Exploration Series which brings presenters from across the Northwest to all 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms in Blaine County during the school day. This program is FREE, family-friendly and open to the public! Don’t miss your opportunity to learn about the natural world from visiting experts!
“Giving Done Right” with Phil Buchanan
In collaboration with the Spur Community Foundation, The Community Library welcomes Phil Buchanan for a special presentation on philanthropy. The presentation will be followed by a book signing, and copies of Buchanan’s book, Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count, will be available for free to all attendees courtesy of the Spur Community Foundation.
Phil Buchanan, president of Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), is a passionate advocate for the importance of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector and deeply committed to the cause of helping foundations and individual donors to maximize their impact. Hired in 2001 as the organization’s first chief executive, Buchanan has led the growth of CEP into the leading provider of data and insight on philanthropic effectiveness. CEP has been widely credited with bringing the voices of stakeholders to funders and with contributing to an increased emphasis on key elements of effectiveness.
In addition to Giving Done Right, released in 2019, Buchanan is co-author of many CEP research reports, a columnist for The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and a frequent blogger for the CEP Blog. Phil is also co-founder of YouthTruth, an initiative of CEP’s designed to harness student perceptions to help educators and funders accelerate improvements in K–12 schools and classrooms. In 2016, he was named the Nonprofit Times “influencer of the year.” Phil serves on the boards of directors of Philanthropy Massachusetts and the National Council on Aging.
