Penelope Engard, history buff and educator, will give a free lecture on American women authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 22, in the Idyllwild Library Community Room. The authors include Louisa May Alcott, Maya Angelou, Pearl Buck, Emily Dickinson, Edna Ferber, Helen Hunt Jackson, Harper Lee, Toni Morrison, Harriet…
When I was in grammar school in the ’50s, we were supposed to hate Russia because “their government spies on their own people.” Given the situation with the NSA spying on us, exactly how are we different? Michael Rasson Santa Monica/Idyllwild
The recent issue of the Friends of the Idyllwild Library’s newsletter had the wrong post office. box number. The Friends correct address is P.O. Box 2183. The Friends appreciates the person whose P.O. Box is 2083 for forwarding the mail to us. Adele Voell President Friends of the Idyllwild Library
The effort to re-establish the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog in its native habitat took a large step forward last week …
Town Hall Sports Coordinator Danny Richardson reported on Town Hall Youth Baseball for the week of June 10. T-ball Jayden Fogle, Griffin Kretsinger and Emily Brosterhous had the hot bats for the Padres. The whole team played excellent defense: Jackson Brunett, Micah McCaughey and Bobbyann Mabery, just to name a few. The Phillies’ Travis Rocha,…
This weekend, the 10th-annual Aroma Spring Jazz Festival will be a tribute to New Orleans jazz and food, according to Paul Carman, festival producer. Carman, local saxophone and bass musician, usually goes to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. “This year I wasn’t able to go, so I decided to bring the music here,”…
Diana Wagman, the next author at Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Author Series, explores how an unexpected event in an ordinary day can alter a city’s landscape and the course of a woman’s life. In her fourth novel, “The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets,” Wagman’s central character, Winnie, is a 38-year-old woman who, after a divorce,…
Ken Dahleen opens season 14 of the Idyllwild Summer Concert series with a Dixieland combo in the Fourth of July Parade and his Big Band Staff on the concert stage that night at the Idyllwild Community Center. “It’s the first time we’ve opened the series on the Fourth of July,” said Dahleen. His Dixieland six,…
This week, two local groups — Throw the Goat and PIE — and a third, CPA, a Hemet band led by Idyllwild native Paul Teel, will perform at the Rustic Theatre …
