This program is presented in partnership with Western Watersheds Project.

Feature Film: “The Profanity Peak Pack: Set Up & Sold Out”

“The Profanity Peak Pack” reveals the surprising players and policies that set up an unjust and unnecessary wolf slaughter on public forest land in Washington State in 2016. Washington resumed this slaughter on two additional packs in 2017. They are well on their way to becoming like their neighboring states, which have killed thousands of wolves since federal protections were removed in 2011. And so we must ask: Is there no place wolves can live in peace?

The presentation will also feature a film about wolf reintroduction in Colorado and a discussion. 

Although the nation changed substantially between the presidential terms of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, these two leaders shared common interests and held remarkably similar opinions on many important issues. In Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Unfinished Work of the Nation, Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler describes the views of two of our nation’s greatest presidents and explains how these views provide valuable insight into modern-day debates.

Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler is a professor emeritus of history at Idaho State University. Previously, he served as department chair and associate dean of the College of Arts and Letters. He is the author of I Tremble for My Country: Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry and a coauthor of Congress Declares War: Rhetoric, Leadership, and Partisanship in the Early Republic.

With her first cookbook now in print, this class will build on the principles that Chef Doughty has learned and practiced over the years. The chef will demonstrate and share cooking techniques and tips including how to cut an onion, unique ways of cooking waffles and crepe swirling, to name a few. Allowing for what is sure to be a spirited discussion, time will be allotted for Q and A and, as in any food class, there will be lots of things to sample. If you love food and cooking and are looking for ways to build on that knowledge, this will be the perfect class for you. Chef Doughty will be happy to sign any copies of her book and will have them available that evening.

Chef Doughty Biography

Chef Doughty is a successful food writer and restaurateur who hosted the nationally syndicated daily Public Radio food program Food for Thought which aired 17 years. Owner and chef of Doughty’s Bistro, in downtown Boise, Chef Doughty was trained at Le Cordon Bleu and received her executive chef certification from the American Culinary Federation.

More About the Book

While the market is flooded with cookbooks, this work stands alone as it teaches the fundamentals of cooking while encouraging cooks to think creatively and with less reliance on recipes. The Chef Within uses breakfast as the starting point for developing creative skills.  Basic recipes are given and then suggestions and techniques are highlighted to encourage further thinking and creativity on the part of the cook. Spaces for notes are made available throughout so that you can record your efforts, note what you like and what adaptations you will employ as your skills increase.

The Chef Within enables cooks to free themselves from the constraints of a recipe and, with an understanding of basic techniques and practical experience, truly begin to discover and empower the chef within.

www.thechefwithinbooks.com

Register HERE.

In the waning months of the centennial commemoration of World War I–and in a time when warfare’s scope and strategies, but not its devastation, have changed dramatically– A Farewell to Arms will serve as the centerpiece of The Community Library’s 2018 Ernest Hemingway Seminar, September 6-8, 2018. The novel drew upon Hemingway’s own experiences in the war, and it became his first bestseller, confirming the tone of his career. Over the course of the seminar, we will consider the historical context of World War I and Hemingway’s experience in it, and we also will look closely at this enduring novel.

2018 Ernest Hemingway Seminar: “A Farewell to Arms: Hemingway and WWI”

September 6-8, 2018, The Community Library

Thursday, September 6

5:00-6:00 p.m. Opening Reception, registration and light refreshments

6:00-7:30 p.m. “Hemingway’s Greatest Love Story: A Farewell to Arms”

by Suzanne del Gizzo, Associate Professor of English, Chestnut Hill College and Editor of the Hemingway Review.

A Farewell to Arms delivered on the promise of Ernest Hemingway’s early work and secured his place as a great American writer. Pulling from biographical context (Hemingway’s experience in love and war and its aftermath) as well as the publication and reception history of A Farewell to Arms, Suzanne del Gizzo explains the significance of the novel for Hemingway personally and professionally.

Friday, September 7

 10:00 a.m.-Noon Boise State University Panel Discussion on historical and literary aspects of World War I

Noon-2:00 p.m. Lunch on your own

2:00-3:30 p.m. A Farewell to Arms book discussion groups

3:45-5:15 p.m. “Teaching A Farewell to Arms in a War Literature Course” by Alex Vernon, Julia Mobley Odyssey

Professor of English, Hendrix College

7:00-9:30 p.m. A Screening of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.”

Popcorn and light refreshments will be served.

Saturday, September 8

10:00-11:00 a.m. Regional History presentation and archive tour

11:00 a.m.-Noon Ernest Hemingway and Sheridan, Wyoming. Come and learn about Hemingway’s 1928 trip to Sheridan, Wyoming, a place he escaped to in order to finish A Farewell to Arms.

Noon-2:00 p.m. Lunch on your own

2:00-4:00 p.m. “Sensing an Ending: Hemingway’s Difficult Farewell.” by David Wyatt, Professor of English, University of Maryland

“Farewell is about the best word I know in English,” Hemingway   wrote to Arnold Gingrich in 1932. Hemingway liked endings, and was good at farewells. But when it came to saying good-bye to his second novel, he struggled with how to end it. The 47 variant endings printed at the back of the Hemingway Library Edition of A Farewell to Arms (2012) testify to the difficulty of this struggle. Seminar members are encouraged to defend one of these alternative endings as providing a better “farewell.”

4:00-5:00 Closing reception with light refreshments

For more information call Timat 208-806-2621 or email him at tprice@comlib.org.