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Braiden Healy, visiting from Huntington Beach, delights in feeding a butterfly watermelon. Photo: Cid Castillo



Idyllwild Library is kicking off its annual Summer Reading program, a six-week reading party, from Monday, June 13, to Friday, July 22. An Idyll-Beast sighting is expected during the inaugural morning children’s session from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. the first day. The theme this year is “Reading beyond the beaten path,” encouraging people (and…
Millions of free books were hand-delivered to unsuspecting individuals on Monday, April 23, around the U.S., U.K. and Ireland as part of World Book Night 2012 — “Spreading the love of reading, person to person” — including in Idyllwild. These happy Café Aroma customers were visited by “Book Fairies,” representing INK Book Gathering in Idyllwild, who gave them a few titles from a list of 30. A discussion of World Book Night followed on Tuesday at INK.
“I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it than live a thousand years.” — Jack London On a very dark night on Friday the 13th, two white wolves visited the Idyllwild Nature Center as part of an “Ambassador Wolves” program presented by Project Wildsong, a nonprofit located in Murrieta. Called “The…
By Art Conner Apropos of an overall, underlying theme for the second Fall Concert offering of the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra Saturday night at Lowman Concert Hall, both the Orchestral Director Daniel Bassin and Music Department Chair Kai Potts-Smith presented the heading “The Healing Power of Music — Vibrations Across Generations” at the top of…
The Idyllwild’s Nature Center Junior Naturalist program for youngsters held Saturday, Aug.6 was titled “The Nose Knows: When a scent is worth a thousand words.” Under the supervision of center staffer Jyoti Kintz and the youngsters’ grandmother, Diane Johnson (not shown), three Junior Naturalists learn how to handle a small boa.