Labor Day weekend on the Hill
By Idyllwild Town Crier
By Mary KnabIdyllwild-area resident Editor’s note: This column, to run occasionally, is writtten by new resident Mary Knab, a bibliophile. This book was offered free on my Kindle app, and it sounded like it was in my fiction wheelhouse, so I gave it a try. A pregnant woman 40,000 years ago, Rebaa is left alone…
By Holly ParsonsCorrespondent Julia is a 17-year-old from Seattle, Washington who began hiking the PCTalone on May 25^(th) during the summer prior to her senior year in highschool. I was her driver on several occasions in Idyllwild and found herthoughts refreshingly unvarnished, colorful and succinct. She is by farthe youngest lone PCT hiker I’d met….
“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.” Margaret Wise-Brown’s tiny and tender children’s book “Goodnight Moon” is familiar to generations of children and parents. In seven stanzas, Wise-Brown introduced entranced readers to the great Green Room inhabited by bears, kittens, mittens, a toy house, a mouse, a comb and a brush, a bowlful of mush…
Ken Luber, one of the first American Film Institute fellows, is a writer and director with a long film and television career in Los Angeles. Since relocating to the Idyllwild area in 2003, Luber has continued to write. He has penned the novel “Match to the Heart,” a book of poetry “Everybody’s Shadow” and a…
Argentina-born Monica Dietrich overheard a mother pig’s conversation with her piglets when she was eight. She thought nothing was out of the ordinary until she told others. “I thought everyone does this,” she recalled.
The family of Idyllwild resident Earlie Mae Brosterhous is preparing to celebrate her 99th birthday, which will occur Thursday, Sept. 14. Although census figures are a little vague, she may be our oldest resident. The Crier spoke with Earlie Mae and her son Gary this week to find out more about her life and times….
