PHOTOS: Idyllwild’s hometown July 4th parade
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Guest speaker Edith Brix spoke at the Garden Club Annual Souper Membership Meeting at the Community Church Tuesday. Brix specializes in designs, centerpieces and floral arrangements made from natural materials from Idyllwild’s forest.
Jeff Stover and Chris Gore combined their respective bands, All Star Big Band and Jackson Garrett, to produce the Mixed Bag Orchestra (MBO), which headlines at the Thursday, July 28 Idyllwild Summer Concert Series (ISCS). “We’ll play jazz to country to salsa,” said Stover, leader, for this gig, of the wedded bands. Stover’s band plays…
The Idyllwild Town Crier has been serving the San Jacinto Mountains (“the Hill”) continuously for 75 years — since its first issue was published on Nov. 1, 1946. Ernie and Betty Maxwell founded the paper in the attic of their home, using a typewriter and a table-top mimeograph machine. The first issue, pictured here, was…
Guests gather during the HELP Center’s benefit concert Saturday, Dec. 17 at the Quiet Creek Inn in the Village. Barnaby Finch and Friends treated concert-goers to live music.