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Visions of Idaho Artwalk on display

January 24, 2023 By Salmon Library Staff Leave a Comment

Salmon Arts Council
Come on down to the library to vote for the “People’s Choice Award” in this year’s Salmon Arts Council Visions of Idaho art contest. Three categories are on display 18+, 13-18, 12 and under. The gallery of work will be on display through the end of the week! See you there!

 

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Let’s Talk About It Book Discussion Series

January 24, 2023 By Salmon Library Staff Leave a Comment

Let's Talk About It
Better late than never! Let’s Talk About Book Discussion series is back. This year our theme is a bit of a mixed bag. (Autobiographies/Biographies, Set in the Modern Rural West, American Voices)
How you can participate:
Stop by the library and pick up the current book selection
Read it
Show up and participate in a book discussion moderated by a local scholar
The three books and program discussion dates are below: (we’re trying Saturday afternoon’s this year to see if that is better timing for participants)

February 25th, 2023 1:00pm, Salmon Public Library

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

Cussy Mary Carter works as a librarian through FDR’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, carrying books to rural households throughout Troublesome Creek. She spends long days delivering library reading materials and scrapbooks full of useful information to families struggling to make a living in the mountain community. Her job is challenging because of the terrain, but also because of the prejudice she faces as a blue-skinned woman, a color she inherited from her parents that is increasingly rare in her mountain home. As she searches and suffers for a cure for her condition, Cussy Mary also builds strong friendships with the people she visits, and these relationships help her to face the persecution and dangers that come her way.

March 18th, 2023 1:00pm, Salmon Public Library

Messages From My Father by Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin, the celebrated New Yorker writer, offers a rich and engaging biography of his father, as well as a literate and entertaining fanfare for the common (and decent, and hard-working) man. Abe Trillin had the western Missouri accent of someone who had grown up in St. Joseph and the dreams of America of someone who had been born is Russia. In Kansas City, he was a grocer, at least until he swore off the grocery business. He was given to swearing off things―coffee, tobacco, alcohol, all neckties that were not yellow in color. Presumably he had also sworn off swearing, although he was a collector of curses, such as “May you have an injury that is not covered by workman’s compensation.” Although he had a strong vision of the sort of person he wanted his son to be, his explicit advice about how to behave didn’t go beyond an almost lackadaisical “You might as well be a mensch.” Somehow, though, Abe Trillin’s messages got through clearly. The author’s unerring sense of the American character is everywhere apparent in this quietly powerful memoir.

April 8th, 2023 1:00pm Salmon Public Library

My Grandma Smoked Cigars by Sabine R Ulibarri

These stories present a series of carefully drawn human sketches of individuals–family members, like the grandmother and uncle Cirilo; friends and acquaintances, like the all-around cowboy Negro Aguilar; and Elacio Sandoval, the boyhood friend of the narrator whose fear of marriage and “love them or leave them” approach to the opposite sex makes exciting and humorous reading; and Roberto, who after going to town for nails, reappears after a three-year absence to continue as if nothing has happened. Ulibarri establishes a careful balance between childhood memories and an adult perspective while carefully analyzing the proud, independent, and sturdy atmosphere of rural New Mexico. Classic, legendary heroes of the Hispanic past reappear in these pages and, in the words of the author, “…sweetened and enriched my life then and, now, I remember it tenderly” (Chicano Literature: A Reference…393).

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LIBRARY CLOSED for Martin Luther King Jr Day

January 11, 2023 By Salmon Library Staff Leave a Comment

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CLOSED New Year’s

December 29, 2022 By Salmon Library Staff Leave a Comment

Happy New Year

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Holiday Hours

December 16, 2022 By Salmon Library Staff Leave a Comment

Holiday Hours

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