Is International Adoption for You?
Jody Sciortino, Director of Services, Adoption Resource Center
Wednesday , March 1, 6:00 pm

Whether you are in the beginning stages of thinking about adoption, exploring country options, or in the process of choosing an agency, we invite you to a free informative meeting on international adoption.

This seminar covers the topics of where to begin; how children become available; risks and realities of international adoption; and process, costs, and timeline. It provides a perfect opportunity to learn about adoption options as you determine the path that is best suited to your family.

Related Links:

• Adoption.com Provides a wealth of knowledge and resources regarding adoption, adoption information, and adoption options.
• National Adoption Information Clearinghouse The NAIC within the U.S. Department of Health and Human services provides many resources for researching adoption information.
• Treasure Valley Adoption Council A web site with information specifically targeted toward the Treasure Valley (Boise) area of Idaho, but applicable to the rest of Idaho as well.

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Aprés Ski Vintage Film Series:
Chris Millspaugh, Regional History Librarian
Thursdays, March 2 & 9 at 4:00 pm

Free showings of classic ski films in the library's lecture room continue into March. On Thursdays at 4 pm, enjoy films in which skiing footage, shot in and around Sun Valley, is featured.

Sun Valley has been the setting for a number of ski films, and expert local skiers were often used as stunt doubles and instructors. Films and photos related to Sun Valley are archived in The Community Library's Regional History Department.

Related Links:

• Regional History Department Information about the resources available in the Library's Regional History Department. Historical images and other information about items in the collection can be found in the library's web catalog.
• Skiing Heritage This web site of the International Skiing History Association and its quarterly journal "Skiing Heritage" contains a wealth of information on the history of skiing, including an extensive Links section.

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Our Moveable Feast
a Gala Benefit
at the Community Library
Sunday, March 12, 5:30 pm

Enjoy delectable foods and wine followed by a silent auction at Our Moveable Feast, a gala dinner to benefit the Community Library.

Every room of the library will feature international gourmet fare evoking the spirit of literature that has won the hearts of readers throughout the Library's history: Memoirs of a Geisha (Japanese), Don Quixote (Spanish), Heidi (Swiss), A Thousand Days in Venice (Italian), Bitterbrush Country (American West), and for dessert, Alice in Wonderland!

Donation tickets are $100 each, and all proceeds support free library services at the Community Library.

More Information ...!

• Purchase Tickets For each tax deductible donation of $100, receive a complimentary ticket.
• History of The Community Library A short history of The Community Library.
• The Unique Library Learn what makes The Community Library unique .

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Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate
Richard B. Woodward
Thursday, March 16, 6:00 pm

Richard B. Woodward will discuss his career as a journalist, critic, and director of this documentary on Billy Collins, our nation's Poet Laureate between 2001-2003. Collins, who opened his life to a film crew, helps reveal the Poet Laureate's role in our culture.

Richard B. Woodward is an arts critic, journalist, and documentary filmmaker who writes "The Armchair Traveler" book review column for the New York Times. He has made two documentary films for the Checkerboard Film Foundation, John Szarkowski: A Life in Photography and Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate, which won Best Documentary at the Westchester Film Festival in 2004.

• Our Films: Billy Collins ... The web site describing the film by its producers, the Checkerboard Film Foundation.
• The Best Cigarette + Billy Collins Poems, books, recordings, and resources by and about Billy Collins.
• Poet Laureate Timeline An annotated listing of the U.S. Poets Laureate and further information presented by the Library of Congress.

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The Great Books Book Club
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Wednesday, March 22, 7:00 pm

Adam Smith, often called the “father of economics”, will be the topic of this month's meeting of the Community Library’s Great Books Book Club. Smith’s seminal book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) is considered the first modern work in the field of economics.

Smith’s arguments are still used and cited today in debates. Not everyone agrees with Smith’s ideas, and many see Smith as an advocate of ruthless individualism. Regardless of how Smith’s ideas are viewed, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is considered to be the most important book on the subject ever published. Read some or all of the book and come join the discussion.

The Great Books Book Club meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month at the Community Library and is free and open to all.

• Adam Smith. Biographical Sketch. Written by James Anson Farrer in 1881, this sketch is presented by McMaster University.
• Adam Smith Collection Short biography, links to online texts, and more presented by Bartleby.com.
• Adam Smith Institute A non-profit institute based in London seeking to lead innovation "of free-market economic and social policies."

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Humorous Poetry Readings
The Not So Dead Poets Society
in honor of April Fool's Day
Wednesday, March 29, 7:00 pm

You are most welcome to join the "Not So Dead" Poets Society for our usual open mike poetry readings, published as well as non-published. Anyone is welcome to read...or just sit back, have some tea and cookies and enjoy listening. Normally, the gamut runs from Shakespeare to Shelley to Shel Silverstein, Ginsburg and Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath and Edna St. Vincent Millet, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings, and YOUR OWN ...whatever people bring.

But to celebrate our free and foolish natures this upcoming April Fools Day, it would be wonderfully appropriate to devote as much of the evening as possible to humor and whimsey; some appropriate poets might be Ogden Nash, Edward Lear (think limericks!), Shel Silverstein, and, yes, even Charles Bukowski! Billy Collins, our current U.S. Poet Laureate is another writer of brilliantly wry poetry. Foolish costuming is of course optional, and foolish prizes will be awarded for the funniest, wittiest, most whimsical and/or most outrageous poems! See you there!

The Cruelest Miles
Gay Salisbury
Environmental Resource Center Armchair Adventure Series
co-sponsored by the Community Library
Thursday, March 30, 6:00 pm

Every March the nearly 1,200 mile Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race takes place from Anchorage to Nome. Billed as "The Last Great Race on Earth," the Iditarod is a dash across the Alaska wilderness that combines elements of the Kentucky Derby and the Daytona 500. It features the world's fastest dogs and dog drivers in a grueling contest of skill, speed and endurance.

The Iditarod commemorates the most heroic dogsled race in history, the 1925 diphtheria serum run to Nome, which is the subject of Gay Salisbury's book, The Cruelest Miles. Come join us for her dramatic slide show that pays tribute to the "first Iditarod," with never before published photographs and vintage film footage that brings this heart-pounding drama to life.

Gay Salisbury is a literary agent, former publishing executive and coauthor of the best selling book, The Cruelest Miles, that is published, to date, in 16 languages and will be the subject of a documentary and Imax film. Gay splits her time between New York City and Fairbanks, Alaska, where her husband and two stepsons live. Gay met her husband in the course of researching her book, and they were married in 2003 at Trail Creek Cabin in Sun Valley.

Related Links:

• The Cruelest Miles The description of the book from its publisher, W.W. Norton & Company.
• Diphtheria Facts A fact sheet on diphtheria from the World Health Organization.
• Serum Run The 1925 effort to bring diphtheria serum to Nome is reenacted each year by dog sled and snow machine.
• Iditarod The official site of the Iditarod sled dog race, in which participants race from Anchorage to Nome over the trail used in 1925.
• Environmental Resource Center The ERC's web site containing a mission statement, calendar, projects, resources, and more.

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