Patricia Crandall Lane Trailing of the Sheep Archive Ribbon Cutting

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June 30, 2021

The Trailing of the Sheep Festival, which is celebrating 25 years in 2021, has gifted its historical archives to The Community Library in Ketchum. A special ribbon-cutting and dedication event will be held on June 30, 2021, at 5:00pm on the Library’s veranda (above 4th Street and accessible from the sidewalk) to recognize and celebrate the gift of the estate of Patricia Crandall Lane which helped make this project possible.

The Community Library will own, curate, and maintain the Trailing of the Sheep Festival archives, and an internship program has been established to help work on the project. The inaugural Patricia Crandall Lane Trailing of the Sheep Festival Archives intern is Kaili Smith, a Wood River Valley local of Basque descent. A graduate from the University of Redlands with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Anthropology, she is next starting her graduate degree at City University of London where she will be completing an MSc in Library Sciences. This summer, she will be processing part of the Trailing of the Sheep Festival archive that is now a part of The Community Library collection. ​

About Patricia Crandall Lane

Patty Lane regarded herself as an authentic Sun Valleyite. She was born in the Sun Valley hospital, then occupying the third floor of the Lodge.  Her mother was Jeanne Rodger Lane Moritz – one of the 17 women who founded The Community Library Association, and her father was John Crandall “Pete” Lane, a native Idahoan and the owner of Pete Lane’s, the Sun Valley ski store, and a founder of the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation.  Her grandfather was John Pusey “Jack” Lane, a merchant and livestock man who established his businesses in Ketchum a century ago. Her home growing up was on the Box L Ranch, the Lane family sheep property just south of Ketchum that spread the width of the Wood River Valley and up on Elkhorn Gulch. Patty’s happiest professional years were in sales at Pete Lane’s. In addition to many other jobs, she served as a trustee of The Community Library. She enjoyed retirement in Hailey with her friends and her dogs. She passed in 2016 and left a generous gift to the Trailing of the Sheep Festival from her estate.

“Cage Shuffle” by Paul Lazar

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June 21, 2021

Presented in collaboration with Sawtooth Productions, LLC.

Cage Shuffle is a 50-minute dance/theater solo. In Cage Shuffle Paul Lazar speaks a series of one-minute stories by John Cage from his 1963 score Indeterminacy, while simultaneously performing a complex choreographic score by Annie-B Parson, choreographer of David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway. The stories are spoken in random order with no predetermined relationship to the dancing, yet chance serves up its inevitable and uncanny connection between text and movement. Cage’s humor, intellect and iconoclasm find ideal expression in this new work which adds dance to Cage’s original performance instructions: Read stories aloud, paced so that each story takes one minute, using chance procedures or not.

This performance was held outdoors on the Library’s Donaldson Robb Family Green.

Cage Shuffle premiered in 2017 at the American Realness Festival in New York. It has since toured throughout the United States, Europe, and Brazil, at venues such as North Carolina’s Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Seattle’s Base: Experimental Arts + Space, Chicago’s Links Hall, Minneapolis’ Walker Art Museum, New York’s Town Hall, as well as at universities and festivals .

“One of my favorite pieces ever. The Cage stories are good to begin with, amusing in a zen kind of way, but when further randomized and amplified with the dance, and with Paul’s voice – well, it becomes no longer a rarified Cage piece but is transformed into something accessible to everyone.”
– David Byrne

Paul Lazar is a founding member, along with Annie-B Parson, of Big Dance Theater. He has directed, co-directed, and acted in works for Big Dance since 1991, including commissions from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Walker Art Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Classic Stage Company, and Japan Society. 

Outside of Big Dance, Paul has directed numerous productions including Young Jean Lee’s Obie Award-winning, “We’re Gonna Die.” Paul also directed “Bodycast: An Artist Lecture” by Suzanne Bocanegra and featuring Frances McDormand at the BAM Next Wave Festival in 2014, as well as “Major Bang” for The Foundry Theatre at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Paul has performed in numerous works by The Wooster Group, and he has acted in over 40 feature films, including Snowpiercer, The Host, Mickey Blue Eyes, Silence of the Lambs, Beloved, Lorenzo’s Oil and Philadelphia. His awards include two Bessies (2010, 2002), the Jacob’s Pillow Creativity Award in 2007, and the Prelude Festival’s Frankie Award in 2014, as well as an Obie Award for Big Dance in 2000. Paul has taught at Yale, Rutgers, The William Esper Studio, and The Michael Howard Studio, and he currently teaches at New York University.

Watch excerpts from Cage Shuffle HERE, courtesy of Wave Farm.

Paul is also directing the Sawtooth Production of Samuel Hunter’s A Case For the Existence of God, a play set in Twin Falls, Idaho, running June 30 through July 10, 2021, at the Reinheimer Ranch in Ketchum.

ZOOM – Tech Help Desk with Paul Zimmerman

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Second Tuesday of the Month | June-September

Do you need one-on-one technical support for some of those more difficult technology challenges you’re facing?

This virtual Help Desk offers 15-minute slots with Paul Zimmerman, the Library’s tech guru, to help you answer your most pressing questions.

The help desk is hosted on Zoom. Meeting information will be sent to registered attendees.

Email mwilliams@comlib.org to sign up.

OUTDOORS – Tech Help Desk with Paul Zimmerman

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Fourth Tuesday of the Month | June-September

Do you have questions regarding your computer, tablet, phone or smart watch? Paul Zimmerman can help you! Stop by the Library’s Cimino Plaza between 5:00 – 7:00 pm to have all of your questions answered.

The Cimino Plaza is outside the entrance to the Children’s Library at the corner of 4th and Walnut.

Email mwilliams@comlib.org with questions.

YOUTUBE: Stamping their Legacy: Honoring the Nisei Soldiers of WWII

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The United States Postal Service has issued a commemorative stamp titled Go for Broke: Japanese American Soldiers of WWII that will be available beginning June 3, 2021. The Postal Service announced:
 
With this commemorative stamp, the Postal Service recognizes the contributions of Japanese American soldiers, some 33,000 altogether, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
 
For a time, these second-generation Japanese Americans, known as Nisei, were denied the opportunity to fight despite being American citizens. Many were forcibly removed to incarceration camps for fear their loyalty lay with the country of their parents rather than the country in which they were born and raised.
 
They were, however, eventually formed into what became one of the most distinguished American fighting units of World War II: the all-Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team.
 
Thousands of other Nisei served as translators, interpreters, and interrogators in the Pacific Theater for the Military Intelligence Service (MIS), nearly a thousand served in the 1399th Engineer Construction Battalion, and more than 100 Nisei women joined the Women’s Army Corp.
 
The stamp art is based on a photograph of a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, whose motto was “Go for Broke.” The photograph was taken in 1944 at a railroad station in France. The stamp was printed in the intaglio print method. The color scheme of the stamp is patriotic, and the type runs up the side in a manner suggestive of the vertical style in which Japanese text was traditionally written. The stamp was designed by art director Antonio Alcalá.
 
As part of our 2021 virtual education series in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Minidoka National Historic Site, the National Park Service and Friends of Minidoka invite you to join on Sunday, June 13th, for a special program to dedicate the Go for Broke stamp and commemorate the rich legacy of Idaho’s Japanese American soldiers who served in the US Army during WWII. 
 
This program is brought to you by the National Park Service and Friends of Minidoka in partnership with Boise State University School of Public Service, ACLU of Idaho, The Community Library, the Boise City Department of Arts and History, and the Japanese American Citizens League and produced by Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages.
 
Join the livestream on the Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages YouTube or visit www.minidoka.org/events for more information. 

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