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May 29, 2023

In the Spotlight

2023 Ernest Hemingway Seminar

Registration is Open!

September 7-9, 2023

PHOTO: Jeanne Rodger Lane Center for Regional History

David Meeker Collection on Ernest Hemingway

Join us for literature, lectures, art, discussions, food, and fellowship.

Our theme this year is FATHERS & SONS, and we will focus on six short stories: “Indian Camp,” “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” “My Old Man,” “Ten Indians,” “Fathers and Sons,” and “An African Story.”

More/register here.

This Week at The Library

"My Pioneer Cabin Story" with Todd Schwarz

Todd Schwarz shares his experiences of Pioneer Cabin after nearly 50 years

of visiting and studying the historic structure. He'll include a geographic overview of the cabin's namesake Pioneer Range and the history of Sun Valley’s alpine touring operation there. He’ll also attempt to explain the allure of a place that has compelled him and others to return again and again.

Thursday, June 1

6:00 p.m. | Lecture Hall

More/register here.

The Regional History Museum

in Forest Service Park is CLOSING June 1!

We're preparing to open the NEW Wood River Museum

of History and Culture in July. In the meantime:

Don't miss your LAST CHANCE to see these two exhibits.

Spanish Lunchtime Language

Tuesday, May 30

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Brown Bag Poetry

Thursday, June 1

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Learning Commons

Later Language: Spanish

Thursday, June 1

5:15 - 6:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

In Case You Missed It

One True Sentence

A panel on Hemingway and writing featuring Jennifer Haigh – Writer-in-Residence at the Hemingway House – Andre Dubus III and book editors Mark Cirino and Michael Von Cannon.

Presented in partnership with

Porter Square Books, Godine, and Grub Street Creative Writing

Center in Boston.

Watch the Replay Here.

Upcoming Library Highlights

June 5: México en el Corazón at Sun Valley Pavilion

June 6: Open Book: A Pocketful of Pixie Dust with JJ Kapur

June 8: The Miracle of the Mind: Movement with Dr. Jason Reynolds

June 10: Summer Reading: Kids and Teens Snack & Craft event

June 13-16: Sun Valley Early Literacy Summit

June 17: A Future We Can Love with Susan Bauer-Wu

June 19: The Library will be CLOSED for the Juneteenth holiday

June 20: Together We Read! Book Club: The Kiss Quotient

June 21: People of the Moon with Ted Stout

June 22, 27, 29: Sun Valley Jewish Film Festival

June 30: Hemingway Distinguished Lecture: LUIS ALBERTO URREA

July 4: The Library will be CLOSED for the July 4th holiday

July 13: Idaho Centennial Trail Panel

July 19 and 25: Community Speaker Series in partnership with the Sun Valley Writers Conference: Javier Zamora and Curtis Sittenfeld

July 26: Grand Opening of the Wood River Museum of History and Culture

Book Review: Library Staff

“The way we think about, talk about, and administer blame

and punishment for cases of sexual assault is a thread that

remains largely unripped from the time of Lanah Sawyer.”

Regional History Librarian, Olivia Terry, recommends The Sewing Girl's Tale by John Wood Sweet.

Lanah Sawyer is a name not known by many today. But on a summer evening in 1793, the seventeen-year-old seamstress is raped in a New York Brothel by a man above her in class. She does something nearly unthinkable for the period; she charges him with the crime.

The trial that ensued sent shock waves across Revolutionary America, sparking debates about class, power, and sexual double standards.

But even when Lanah herself was alive and at the center of the monumental trial, her name and her story became an afterthought in the countless publications and arguments that sensationalized the trial.

Soon, the story of her rape appeared to be no longer hers at all...

Read Olivia's book review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Book Beat: Student Book Review

Hello! My name is Sarah. I am fourteen years old and an avid reader; it is one of my favorite things to do. Inspired by authors’ creations of magnificent places and surprising havens built by simple letters, I aspire to be an author and, meanwhile, nurture the love to write. For my Book Beat review, I read The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas.

El Reino del Sol is a shining isle of light in the looming threat of the evil obsidian gods. In order to protect this haven, ten semidioses are selected to compete in The Sunbearer Trials. The winner will replenish Sol’s light to the cities within the kingdom, but the loser has the greatest honor of all—to be sacrificed to Sol himself and continue their light for generations to come.

Seventeen-year-old Teo has always been dubious of this centuries-old tradition. As a Jade semidios, he is looked down upon...

Read Sarah's Book Beat Review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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