PHOTOS: Idyllwild’s hometown July 4th parade
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Photo by J.P. Crumrine
Drop into a Starbucks and there’s a pretty good chance you’ll run across something invented by Clay Alexander, who graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 1994. Nearly 4,600 Starbucks stores carry the temperature-controlled Ember Ceramic Mug (named by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of 2017), and about a thousand stores carry the Ember Travel Mug.
When Deanna Bogart saw Vic Sirkin of Idyllwild (and a jazz fest volunteer) relaxing on the grass in the front row during her performance, she literally got “down and dirty,” bringing her lively entertainment directly to him and then throughout the audience during the 21st Jazz in the Pines at Idyllwild Arts last Sunday.
College dean, teacher and avid horseman Dr. David Haddad volunteers his time and expertise for a cause close to his heart. The Idyllwild resident founded a nonprofit, the Sandia Creek Ranch Auxiliary Foundation, in 2014 to help facilitate creating a second life for race horses retired by injury, age or loss of funding. Sandia Creek…
Eric Bolton remembers being given the solo in “In Idyllwild” as part of four summers with the ISOMATA music program. He sang under the direction of Robert Evans Holmes for whom the Idyllwild Arts amphitheater is named. Now as a recent full-time resident of Idyllwild, he is singing under the direction of Dwight “Buzz” Holmes,…
“Louie, Take a Look at This! My Time with Huell Howser” is the subject of a talk Luis Fuerte will give at the Idyllwild Library from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 8. David Duron wrote the book based on what Fuerte told him. Howser, the exuberant, popular host of “California’s Gold” and other California…