PHOTOS: Idyllwild’s hometown July 4th parade
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Photo by J.P. Crumrine
The nonprofit Mountain Disaster Preparedness (MDP) has donated two automated external defibrillator (AED) units to the Idyllwild Community Center (ICC) for placement at Idyllwild Town Hall and Butterfield Amphitheater. Before moving off the Hill, volunteer MDP board member and Co-Chair Medical Director Dr. Dick Goldberg contacted ICC in May 2022 about emergency preparedness needs ICC…
This year marks the 108th anniversary of probably the most famous Christmas newspaper editorial of all time. It was written by Francis P. Church in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon. It was published on Sept. 21, 1897, in the New York Sun. We reprint it each year for the enjoyment of our…
Linda FrostReporter “The sound (of the hive) is a returning place, a way of returning ourselves to our harmonious original thought.” – Jaqueline Freeman, “The Song of Increase” Near a fork toward the top of the Deer Springs Trail, there stands a towering grandmother of a pine displaying a bright v-shaped lightning scar. This great…
Music educator and opera buff Diane Mitchell’s six-week musical journey will be an international smorgasbord. As previously reported in the Crier, this free course will examine the exotic influences on non-Western music and how they have permeated and profoundly changed Western music, from classical to jazz and everything in between. As Mitchell notes, “Where armies…
Chris Reba is in his second year as chair of the Idyllwild Arts Academy Music Department and is already expanding curricula offerings to better equip students to work professionally in multiple musical genres and specialties. He is the next speaker at the Associates of Idyllwild Arts Foundation’s Spotlight on Leadership series. As part of the…