
PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD

PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD

PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD
Rotary’s Christmas Market and Harvest Festival
By Idyllwild Town Crier




Idyllwild Arts young talent say goodbye to their long-time conductor Larry Livingston The talented students of the Idyllwild Arts High School Summer Chamber Festival Orchestra and Festival Choir didn’t just perform on the home stage of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, they owned it! Staff and students spent many hours preparing for what sounded like…
Annamarie Padula is a local resident and a brilliant quilter. For the second year, she and friend Nancy Borchers have collaborated in designing a quilt to be raffled to raise money for lemon lily propagation (see cover photo). “Nancy drew the flowers,” said Padula. The checkerboard blue background was Padula’s pick. “It looks like the…
After a well-attended successful launch of his third annual Idyllwild Author Series, Eduardo Santiago next presents Reyna Grande, author of “The Distance Between Us” (Atria Books, 2012). Grande recounts in her memoir how, when she was two, her family life was devastated by the departure of first her father, then her mother, as undocumented immigrants…
A long search for an executive director to replace Esther Kennedy has ended with Spirit Mountain Retreat landing in the good hands of Terri Sena. The path leading to her arrival seems spiritual itself to Sena. While she has been to Idyllwild many times to visit friends — Debbie and Bill Shepherd — in less…