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The sixth-annual Lemon Lily Festival begins Thursday, July 9, with the increasingly popular and favorite Lemon Lily Launch and the Taste of Idyllwild. Then the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12, is filled with special events for children and adults. The festival was started to honor a once very common native flower in…
For many years, the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program has been known as a gathering place for some of the country’s finest poets and writers. This year, summer faculty Amy Friedman, Samantha Dunn and Ed Skoog launched the first Writers Week, a cross-discipline conversation among poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, memoirists, essayists and screenwriters. “For years,…
Steven Reigns, poet and next presenter at Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Author Series, is from St. Louis. And although place of birth does not necessarily define one, it can inform one’s choices and determine how one navigates the world. Reigns’ poetry has been called plainspoken. In fact his poems, though difficult of subject matter, are sparse,…
Inaugural Idyllwild tradition enjoyed …