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Weekly Program eNews

July 28, 2025

In this Issue

• Hero Redefined with Doug Levy and local

Olympian Gabriele Andersen-Schiess

• Create art with 3D pens

• Gold Mine Back-to-School Event Begins

• Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus

• Upcoming Program Highlights

• Staff Review: Growing Home

• Teen Book Beat: The Lightning Thief

• Ask a Librarian

• Two new apps

See our full calendar here.

Photo right: Huck Florence Returns to Valley as Golf Pro. From the Valley Sun Newspaper, July 20, 1951, at the Sun Valley Resort Golf Course. The paper's caption: "A lesson on proper rotation finds local pro Huck Florence (left) lending a helpful hand to Sally Holman of Omaha—one of the Valley’s prettiest golfers." Photo by Lou Holiday. More from Regional History here.

In the Spotlight

Join us in the children's library to create a piece of 3D art with our new 3D printing pens! This program required good fine motor skills and is for ages 8+.

Registration is required.

2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 30

Children's Library

"Hero Redefined" with Doug Levy and Gabriele Andersen-Schiess

In Hero Redefined: Profiles of Olympic Athletes Under the Radar, author Doug

Levy has chronicled the stories of 13 Olympic Games athletes spanning six

different continents, demonstrating for readers that true heroism goes beyond

the medal stand. More here.

5:30pm, Wednesday, July 30

Lecture Hall + Livestream

Gold Mine Thrift Back-to-School Event Begins

Students receive a 10% discount on all items—including tops, bottoms, backpacks, jackets, coats, hats, and more. That’s some math that really adds up! Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, literacy, and programs at The Community Library. Doors open at 10:00 a.m. More here.

Begins Friday, August 1

4th & Walnut in Ketchum

SV Winter Sports Hall of Fame

Nominations END August 1!

LAST CALL for nomintions! The Sun Valley Winter Sports Hall of Fame honors the significant contributions of legendary local athletes and visionaries. The honorees have achieved in their sport or industry and have also given back to the Wood River Valley community.

More/nominate here.

This Week at the Library

Story Time: Balloons

Monday, July 28

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Lecture Hall

History, Harriman, and a Hike!

Space is limited; registration is required. Due to popular demand, two additional hikes have been added; August 8 and 12. More/register here.

8:45 - 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 30

Meet at the Hemingway Memorial

on Sun Valley Road

Regional History Open Hours

Wednesdays & Fridays

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Betty Olsen Carr Reading Room

Virtual Creative Writing Workshop

Wednesday, July 30

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Zoom

Pop-in Poetry

This week:

In 2020, she won a Nobel for her "unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."

Thursday, July 31

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

Learning Commons

Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus

The Wood River Museum of History + Culture and Mountain Rides invite you on a free bus tour with local guides highlighting the area’s rich history. Advance registration is recommended as space is limited.

Friday, August 1

10:00 - 11:15 a.m.

Begins at Visitor Center/Starbuck's

Upcoming Program Highlights

August 5: Star Lab Planetarium with Scott Slonim

August 5: Churchill and de Gaulle with Lee Pollock and Marc Onetto

August 6: Library Book Club: The Women of Brewster Place

August 7: Upbeat with Alasdair: Celebrating Ravel

August 7: Robots, Telemetry, and the Sex Lives of Sage Grouse

August 8 & 12: History, Harriman, and a Hike!

August 9: Shoshone-Bannock Indian Festival Field Trip-See below for more

August 11: "First Gen": A Conversation with Alejandra Campoverdi

August 14, 21 & 28: History Half Hour: The Lewis Ore Wagons Tour

August 15: Blood and the Badge with Michael Cannell

August 20: Book around the Block: Celebrating 70 years!

August 26: Two Years in Ukraine: Living and Working in Kyiv at the Pace of War

August 28: Wood River Valley’s Mining Legacy with John Lundin

August 30: Wagon Days: Mining for Gems Museum Kid's activity

September 1: The Library will be CLOSED for Labor Day

September 4: New Hemingway Foyer Exhibit

September 4-6: Ernest Hemingway Seminar: "Never Any Ending to Paris"

See our full calendar of events/register here.

8Join The Community Library and Wood River Museum of History + Culture on a field trip with bus transportation provided to the 60th Annual Shoshone-Bannock Indian Festival at Fort Hall! This excursion promises a dynamic experience,

including Indian Relays and Grand Entry. More/register here.

8:15 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., Saturday, August 9

Begins and ends at the Wood River Museum of History + Culture

Title Review: Library Staff

"In this book, you meet a variety of characters, such as a

grumpy goldfish, two indoor plants, and the Tupper family..."

Children's Librarian Haley Christianson recommends Growing Home by Beth Ferry.

Working in the Children’s Library this past year I have been making more of a point of reading children’s and young adult chapter books. In doing so, it has been easy to remember why I fell in love with reading in the first place. I recently read Growing Home written by Beth Ferry and Illustrated by the Fan Brothers.

In this book, you meet a variety of characters, such as a grumpy goldfish, two indoor plants, and the Tupper family, which consists of two antiquarians and their daughter Jillian. Each of these characters have one big thing in common, they all reside at Number 3 Ramshorn Drive. Kids and adults alike will love the cheese puff and soccer loving goldfish, Toasty, the very confident indoor plant, Ivy, and other quirky characters. I personally thought that the non-human characters stole the show, or story, in this book.

As the story progresses, the family has no idea that the non-human characters in their home are utilizing magic and befriending each other. The Tuppers are focused on their never-ending bills, and a man who is trying to buy one of their most prized possessions—the fish tank Toasty the goldfish lives in. The creatures realize that it is up to them to stop a possible theft and keep their humans safe...

Read Haley's entire review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Book Beat: Student Book Review

Hi! My name is Judah. I like to play soccer, ski and play tennis. For my Book Beat review, I read The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.

The is the first of three book reviews in the Percy Jackson series.

Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief is the first book in a five-part Greek mythology series of Percy Jackson written by Rick Riordan. Percy is a twelve-year-old boy who struggles with ADHD and gets kicked out of most schools he is let into.

Early on in this book, he finds out that he is a half-blood of Poseidon which means he is half man but also half god. Since he is a half-blood, he is sent to a camp made especially for other demigods.

Suddenly disaster strikes as word spreads throughout the camp that Zeus’s mighty lightning bolt is stolen from Mount Olympus. Percy and his friends Anabeth and Grover then embark on a quest to find out where the lighting bolt has been taken. On their journey they are faced with creatures from the old legends of Greek mythology and many other monsters that hinder them on their quest...

Read Judah's entire Book Beat review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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