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Stay Connected through Library Programs
Weekly Program eNews
May 27, 2024
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The Gold Mine Thrift store will be OPEN on Memorial Day with new
Spring and Summer gear and apparel for men, women, and children,
plus housewares, electronics, furniture and more.
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with Author Gregg Colburn and Senator Ali Rabe
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University of Washington professor Gregg Colburn will discuss the regional variations in homelessness and the effects of housing market conditions on this phenomenon. Speakers will also include Idaho Senator Ali Rabe, who will present on legislative housing initiatives and challenges, Mary Fauth, Carol Barkes, Mandy Heward, and Carissa Connelly. In partnership with Blaine County Housing Authority and Spur Community Foundation.
Wednesday, May 29
5:30 - 6:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall + Livestream
More/register here.
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Our Children's and Young Adult Summer Reading program begins Saturday!
Drop in to the Children's Library anytime between 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. to REGISTER. Then celebrate with a summer reading craft and snack. This year we are offering programs for preschoolers, K-6th grade, tweens, and teens. Register, read, report, and win prizes! Summer Reading ends July 26.
Saturday, June 1
Drop-in 10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Children's Library
More/register here
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Featured in Regional History | |
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June 1 - 30
Wednesdays & Saturdays
Wood River Museum
Contact Brigid Miller
for more information.
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Your story matters and we want to preserve it! The Jeanne Rodger Lane Center for Regional History, in partnership with the Hailey Public Library, is collecting LGBTQIA2S+ stories and materials during the month of June. These items can be in any form that will help us document and preserve LGBTQIA2S+ history and stories in Central Idaho—documents, items, photographs, videos, journals, songs,
art, and oral history interviews. Materials can be donated at the Wood River Museum of History and Culture between 10am and 6pm on Wednesdays and Saturdays throughout June.
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Award-winning poet, Level II Reiki practitioner, and Writer-in-Residence
at the Hemingway House, Jo Blair Cipriano, will lead us in an afternoon
of reconnecting to our authentic selves. We will use guided meditations, writing exercises, and open discussion as means to explore what are the poems that
only we could write.
Thursday, May 30
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. • Idaho Room
More/register here.
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Upcoming Program Highlights | |
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June 3: Miracle of the Mind: Finding Purpose and Joy after Trauma
June 5: Library Book Club: Crazy Brave
June 6: Craters of the Moon: Celebrate the Centennial
June 11-14: Sun Valley Early Literacy Summit
June 18: The Crick with Jim Mangan and Judith Freeman
June 19: Juneteenth: Library & Wood River Museum CLOSED; Gold Mine Thrift & Consign OPEN
June 20: Reading and Conversation with Writers-in-Residence
Brittany Perham and Peter Kline
June 25: Saving Lives in Sub-Saharan Africa through Water Innovation
July 10: Sun Valley Jewish Film Festival begins
See our full calendar of events/register here.
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Book Review: Library Staff | |
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"The juxtaposition of these everyday lives set against the backdrop of a land ravaged by nuclear disaster, governmental corruption,
and mismanagement is as compelling as it is brutal."
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Gold Mine Processing Associate Ben Kreuzer recommends Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich.
Voices from Chernobyl is a collection of interviews done by the Nobel Prize winning Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich, which contains a series of interviews done with the survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
These interviews with firefighters, cleanup crewmembers, civilians, and scientists paint a tragic and complex picture of life in an area ravaged by a nuclear meltdown.
The book takes you through the stories of the many people caught up in the worst nuclear accident in history, from the wives and parents of the first firefighters, to the people tasked with burying homes and farmland irradiated by the disaster, to the people who resettled after forced evacuations displaced hundreds of villages....
Read Ben's entire review here.
Find more staff book recommendations here.
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Book Beat: Student Book Review | |
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Hi, I am Sarah. I am 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 Gulp by Mary Raoch.
Have you ever wondered why we love crunchy food, or why if something smells bad, it might still taste good? Have you wondered if constipation could kill, or whether it did actually kill Elvis? Have you ever truly wondered what really happens once food disappears down your gullet?
Whether or not you’ve actually had these wonderings, Gulp is probably your best bet in finding the answers—and the most hilarious.
What happens in our gut (and out our butt) is pretty taboo, yet intimately connected within our society, culture, evolution, and the biological process that literally keeps you kickin’...
Read Sarah's entire book review here.
See all Book Beat Reviews here.
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