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Last Thursday, Feb. 19, the “Hillbilly Games” were held at the Idyllwild Library. The first event pitted two teams in a game of Idyllwild Jeopardy. Here, members of Team One — Barbara Hunt, Bud Hunt and Gina Genis — prepare to answer the first question, “Who was named homecoming queen the same year her brother, David, came home from the Air Force?” All the questions were based on archived copies of the Idyllwild Town Crier, available at the Idyllwild Library or online, from 1949 through 1956.
With less locations and more bands, this year’s Idyllwild StrongBenefit Music Festival event promises to deliver. The event is organized to make sure that patrons are able to travel easily between venues. The popular fire engine will be back this year with stops at or very near venue locations. This year’s main stage will be…
The 15th-annual Idyllwild Home Tour sponsored by the Idyllwild Area Historical Society is Saturday, Sept. 19. Again this year, IAHS will present five unique homes on the Hill, which Charlotte Groty, the Home Tour chair, said, “… vary in age, style and setting, each open to the public for the first time. They will introduce…
For J. Barrett Cooper, Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Department chair, a playwright’s words are the most important component in producing and presenting a play. “I’m not going to lose the play for a director’s concept,” he said. “The text must support the concept. We serve the playwright, not the director’s concept of a play.” He…
Janet Fitch’s mega-bestselling 1999 debut novel “White Oleander” makes her well qualified to lead the April 5 to 7 Spring Writers Retreat (idyllwildarts.org/spring-writers-retreat/) on the Idyllwild Arts campus. The course description promises an attempt to “reinforce participants’ connection with their creative sources, and explore aspects of craft,” and the craft that Fitch lavished on “White…
Town Hall Recreation sponsored a trip to the Bowers Museum in Orange County this past weekend …