“Hemingway’s Sun Valley: Local Stories Behind His Code, Characters, and Crisis” with Phil Huss

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Join The Community Library on Thursday, July 21 to celebrate the release of the new book, Hemingway’s Sun Valley: Local Stories Behind His Code, Characters, and Crisis by local author Phil Huss. Huss will share unpublished stories about Hemingway’s adventures in Idaho, and discuss principles of the author’s “Heroic Code.”

This event will be held outdoors on the Library lawn. **FACE MASKS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING ARE REQUIRED.** No reservations are needed, and space around the site will be available on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 5:30. Books will be available for sale following the presentation. All books will be pre-signed to limit handling.

We are hoping to record this program if you are interested in watching from home at a later date. Thank you in advance to all attendees for following our requests to make this event possible!

In this new book, Huss delves into previously unpublished stories about Hemingway’s adventures in Idaho, with each chapter focusing on one principle of the author’s “Heroic Code.” Huss interweaves how both local Idaho stories and passages from the luminary’s works embody each principle. Readers will appreciate Hemingway’s affinity for Idaho and his passion for principles that all would do well to follow.

Huss writes, “It was a cold, ‘windless, blue sky day’ in the fall of 1939 near Silver Creek—a blue-ribbon trout stream south of Sun Valley. Ernest Hemingway flushed three mallards and got each duck with three pulls. He spent the morning working on his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Local hunting guide Bud Burdy attested, ‘You could have given him a million dollars and he wouldn’t have been any happier.'” Some of Hemingway’s finest days were spent writing, hunting, and enjoying “the family” of locals of the Wood River Valley. Some of his most challenging days were spent here as well. In his talk, Phil Huss will take us back to the halcyon and harrowing days Hemingway spent in this valley.

Philip Huss is an independent school English teacher and writer from Hailey, Idaho. A teacher for 25 years, he has taught for twenty years at Sun Valley Community School. Phil teaches a course on Hemingway at SVCS and has published articles related to his research on Hemingway in Sun Valley Magazine and BigLife Magazine. He is a frequent speaker and discussion leader at the Ernest Hemingway Seminar held each September at The Community Library. At the Tugboat Institute in Ketchum, Phil has also presented to business leaders on how the Hemingway heroic code can serve as a platform for codifying core principles of a company. Phil graduated with a BA in English from Amherst College and a MA in English from Boston College.

Roundtable Conversation about Wallace Stegner

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Join The Community Library and guest Charles Wilkinson for a casual, hour-long afternoon conversation about Wallace Stegner, the man. Professor Wilkinson will share some personal stories from his friendship with Stegner, and we’ll have a broader conversation will all who join. W look forward to hearing your thoughts and questions.

 

Charles Wilkinson is the Moses Lasky Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Colorado. A graduate of Stanford Law School and an associate with Phoenix and San Francisco law firms, Wilkinson joined the Native American Rights Fund in 1971 as a staff attorney. Since 1975 he has taught at the Oregon and Colorado law schools, receiving many awards for teaching and research. He is the author of 14 books, including Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West (1992); The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West (1992); Fire on the Plateau: Conquest and Endurance in the American Southwest (1999); Messages from Frank’s Landing: a Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way (2000); and Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations (2005.) 

He has served on the boards of The Center of the American West; the Western Environmental Law Center, the Wilderness Society; and the Grand Canyon Trust. Over the years, Wilkinson has taken on many special assignments for the Departments of Interior, Agriculture, and Justice. He served as special counsel to the Interior Department for the drafting of the 1996 Presidential Proclamation establishing the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. Wilkinson was also Special Advisor to the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition for the creation of the Bears Ears National Monument in 2016.

VIRTUAL Creative Writing Workshop

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A weekly group for memoir and autobiography writing, led by Tony Tekaroniake Evans.

Each Wednesday from 6:00-8:00 p.m. (MST) on Zoom.

Registration is required. REGISTER HERE.

The Creative Writing Workshop provides a supportive atmosphere where local writers can share their work. Please bring your favorite books, stories and poems, and samples of your works-in-progress. Writing topics, styles and techniques will be explored weekly.

Tony Tekaroniake Evans is an award-winning journalist and columnist at the Idaho Mountain Express newspaper in Ketchum who has led writing workshops in the Wood River Valley since 2004. He is also a memoir editor and the author of two books of nonfiction: Teaching Native Pride: Upward Bound and the Legacy of Isabel Bond (WSU Press 2020) and A History of Indians in the Sun Valley Area (Blaine County Historical Museum 2016).

VIRTUAL – Drop-In Writing Workshop

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Beginning June 23, join us every other Tuesday for a drop-in virtual writing workshop. 

For one hour we’ll share writing prompts, encourage a writing practice, and share details of a writerly life together.

Register on Zoom for the series and attend as many meetings as you’re interested in.

Talking About Race: A Weekly Drop-In Poetry Discussion

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Wednesdays, June 17 to July 15 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. on Zoom

In response to nation-wide and community events, The Community Library seeks to advance a dialogue around race, equity, inclusion, and understanding. We are choosing to do this through the lens of poetry, specifically the poetry of Americans of color.

Each Wednesday, from June 17 to July 15, we will gather to read a poem together and discuss its challenges and inspirations to how we understand our society and our world. Library staff and guests will lead each discussion, beginning with a reading of the selected poem.

Register here for any or all of the scheduled discussions.

 

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The Only Girl at “That Girl”: Writing TV Comedy in the 60s and 70s with Peggy Goldwyn

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June 25, 2020

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Some of the best known television shows of the 1960s and 1970s featured a young woman by the name of Peggy Elliott in their writing credits. Writing for television situation comedy for 20 years, her work included season and episode scripts for That Girl; Love, American Style; Happy Days; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; and The Odd Couple. She was the only young woman in the boys’ club at the age of 23, but learned from experts in the industry. That Girl was the first sitcom about a young, single woman, and Peggy’s work on The Odd Couple earned her a place on the Writers Guild of America list of the 100 best comedy scripts for television.

Join us for a virtual evening with Peggy as she share clips from these shows and stories about her time in the television industry.

Peggy Elliott Goldwyn is an author, writer for television and film, and documentary producer.  She moved to Idaho in 2004 and has been active in the community ever since. For three years she produced Our Movable Feast for The Community Library, and she has served on the Boards of The Advocates for Survivors of Domestic Abuse, The Wood River Women’s Foundation, and, currently, the Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University. She is a founding member of The International Women’s Forum-Idaho, and received IWF’s national “Women Who Make a Difference” award.  She has presented The Family of Woman Film Festival for the past 12 years in Sun Valley and Boise in support of the United Nations Population Fund, on whose board she serves. In this capacity, she has led several delegations to Sub-Saharan African countries, and also serves on the Advisory Boards of non-profits in Rwanda and South Africa. A Small Part of History, her first novel, was originally published in Great Britain, where she resides part-time.

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