Mountain Folk
By Idyllwild Town Crier
The Town Crier has been unable to capture a photograph of this year’s winners of the Town Crier’s annual snow guessing contest.
The winners voted the correct date of Dec. 12, 2022, at Middle Ridge Winery Tasting Gallery. Their names were picked from a hat.
The winners are Bernie Hoffinger and Jill Murphy. Sadly, Murphy died just a few days before the winners were chosen.
Hoffinger won $100 shopping dollars to any of the contest’s participating businesses.
Idyllwild Arts Academy and Summer Program announces its spring 2019 off-site student performances, catering to Idyllwild Arts’ family of supporters in the desert cities. On April 17, the student showcase will be held at the Rancho Mirage Library, a cultural oasis for the desert. This evening of dance, music, theater, fashion and creative writing will…
“Will in the Woods: A Shakespeare Collage” is the latest production from Idyllwild’s Stratford Players. Sunday’s rain didn’t dampen the event since the players moved the St. Hugh’s Episcopal Church outdoor performance to the Christian Science Church across from Town Hall. But for those who missed Saturday’s outdoor event, the Stratford Players will be performing…
On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana coast with a direct hit on New Orleans. Idyllwild resident Karla Leopold led a team of art therapists to an evacuation center just north of Baton Rouge to help Katrina survivors, many of them children, to express and externalize the trauma they had experienced…
(Editor’s note: The following is from a press release from the Idyllwild Forest Health Project.) On Wednesday, Oct. 10, the Idyllwild Forest Health Project will host “From Ashes: Lessons from the Cranston Fire,” a fire ecology learning event at Idyllwild Arts Academy. The event will begin with a tour of the burned area at the…
This year marks the 125th anniversary of probably the most famous Christmas newspaper editorial of all time. It was written by Francis P. Church in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon. It was published on Sept. 21, 1897, in the New York Sun. We try to reprint it each year for the enjoyment…
