Spring in Idyllwild has been especially fruitful this year, bringing not only the familiar trumpet-shaped daffodils  reaching for the Sun, and May’s customary light dusting of snow, but also a Daisy and Brownie Girl Scout Troop–the first on the Hill in several years. The youngsters in Kindergarten through 4th grade met for the first time…

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,…