Photos tend to be in the moment and this workshop is to help organize your photo albums. No more running out of space, no more struggling to share photos, and no more spending hours organizing photos. There is a better way and this workshop will take you through it all.
Evening Exhibition Tour: Who Writes History?: Frontier Voices, Native Realities
Join us for a museum tour of Who Writes History? Frontier Voices, Native Realities, the pop-up exhibition that investigates the co-existence between Native Americans and Wood River Valley non-native newcomers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibit includes photos, territory maps, a court case and newspaper accounts describing the interaction.
NOTE: This is a two-part tour with the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.
At 5:30 the Center curators will guide a tour of their exhibition: Unravelling: Reimagining the Colonization of the Americas and
the second part is a tour at the Regional History Museum.
5:30 pm. Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 191 Fifth Street East, Ketchum
6:30 p.m. Regional History Museum, 180 1st St. at Washington Ave. (entrance is in Forest Service Park), Ketchum
Drop-In: Make a May / Mother’s Day Card
Drop-In any time from 10:00 am – 6:00 pm and make a card in The Children’s Library for the month of May or Mother’s Day. Supplies provided.
Suddenly Sunday!
A special Sunday afternoon opening at The Community Library. In addition to our regular library services, we will have several special activities.
Kids: Noon-5:00 pm, Drop in for pretend play with the puppet theater play-scape!
Teens: Noon – 5:00 pm, Hunker down in the teen lounge to finish your end-of-school-year projects. (Study break snacks provided!)
Everyone: 1:00 – 3:00 pm, Movie Time! We’ll start with, “Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China” a short from our new video streaming service, Kanopy. Then “Mulan,” Disney’s animated musical action adventure film about a young girl who disguises herself as a male warrior in order to save her father, will be shown as the feature movie.
3:30 pm – Learn about Tanzania in a special program by Tanzanian conservationists from the Honeyguide organization.
A reading with award-winning author Pete Fromm
Join five-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association’s Book Award, Pete Fromm, for a reading from his new novel, A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How to Do, a “love story about a family full of hope and resilience and second chances” – a novel that “beautifully captures people
who, isolated by land and by their actions, end up building a life that is both unexpected
and brave”.
Over eleven books and over twenty years, Pete Fromm has become one of the West’s
literary legends. He is on the faculty of Pacific University’s low-residency MFA
program, and lives in Montana with his family.
“How the West Was Won, and What It Has to Lose” with Dr. David Kennedy
August 20, 2019
In conjunction with The Community Library’s Center for Regional History and its “West Where We Are” initiative, please join Pulitzer Prize winner Dr. David Kennedy, Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, for his talk, “How the West Was Won, and What It Has to Lose.”
David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, at Stanford University. His teaching has included courses in the history of the twentieth-century United States, American political and social thought, American foreign policy, national security strategies, American literature, and the comparative development of democracy in Europe and America.
Reflecting his interdisciplinary training in American Studies, which combined the fields of history, literature, and economics, Kennedy’s scholarship is notable for its integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history, and for its attention to the concept of the American national character. His 1970 book, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, embraced the medical, legal, political, and religious dimensions of the subject and helped to pioneer the emerging field of women’s history. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980) used the history of American involvement in World War I to analyze the American political system, economy, and culture in the early twentieth century. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999) recounts the history of the American people in the two great crises of the Great Depression and World War II, and was awarded the Pulitzer and Francis Parkman Prizes in 2000. With Thomas A. Bailey and Lizabeth Cohen, Kennedy is also the co-author of a textbook in American history, The American Pageant, now in its sixteenth edition. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and other publications and media outlets.
