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PHOTOS: Idyllwild’s 24th Earth Fair
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GREENWOOD AWARD: Earth Fair is when the Greenwood Award recipient is announced; this year’s was Wilbur “Bill” Mayhew, emeritus professor of zoology at University of California, Riverside. Earth Fair organizer Holly Owens (left) presents the award to Dr. Jennifer Gee (right), director of UC’s James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, who accepted the award for Mayhew, who could not be at the presentation. Photo by J.P. Crumrine


Saturday evening, April 12, the Art Alliance of Idyllwild is inviting the community to an old-fashioned, community event, “To greet, meet and eat,” according to Gary Kuscher, AAI president. He stressed that this is not an AAI art event or meeting, rather it is to get individuals and members of the various community groups to…
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The Idyllwild Master Chorale and the Idyllwild Arts Academy are inextricably linked by shared history. They will be linked again with a shared future. Robert Evans Holmes, who began the Idyllwild Master Chorale in 1975, also inaugurated the Idyllwild (ISOMATA) Summer Program Festival Choir in 1957. The Idyllwild Master Chorale, now conducted by Robert Evans…