PHOTOS: A dash of winter …
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Although there is a little more than a month left in the summer, the Idyllwild Nature Center still has many special programs for everyone. On the weekend of Aug. 5 and 6, butterflies will be making their annual appearance at Butterfly Daze both days from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. People can enter butterfly pavilions and observe Monarch butterflies at close range. Volunteers will be there to explain the life cycle of a butterfly and other pertinent butterfly facts.
Dr. Patrick Smith, professor of geology at Mt. San Jacinto College, is the next featured speaker for the Idyllwild Community Center Speaker Series. His talk, “Earthquakes Between Two Faults,” will discuss what Idyllwild and its environs may experience in the near future as a result of being situated between two earthquake fault zones — the…
“Dear Elizabeth” by Sarah Ruhl is a theatrical adaptation from letters that passed between writers Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Touted as one of the greatest exposés between two American literary giants spanning a period of 30 years, the play is culled and scripted from more than 800 letters of intricate friendship and supportive critique,…
If you love butterflies, you won’t want to miss the annual Butterfly Daze extravaganza, a two-day event at the Nature Center. Expanding Butterfly Daze to two days instead of one enables more families and friends to learn all about butterflies, and join the live monarchs as you step into the pavilion to feed the butterflies…
Conversations over gin rummy in Pulitzer Prize-winning play Who wants to wind up in a nursing home and how does one adapt to the stasis and inactivity? In the 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Gin Game,” two elderly residents, bored with the residence routine, strike up a friendship. He offers to teach her gin rummy….
