The Posthumous Life of Ernest Hemingway By Martin L. Peterson Universiy of Idaho Editor’s Note: Fifty years ago this summer, novelist Ernest Hemingway took his own life in Ketchum, Idaho. In the fall of this year, the Community Library in Ketchum and the University of Idaho will host public programs on the life and work of Hemingway (see sidebar page 4). In preparation for this issue of Idaho Humanities, we asked IHC Board member Volume XV, No. 2 and devoted Hemingway aficionado Martin L. Peterson to The Newsletter of the Idaho Humanities Council Summer 2011 reflect upon the author’s enduring popularity. The Civility of Architecture By Doug StanWiens Boise High School

Robert “Bungalow Bob” Winter, the architectural history professor at Occidental College, who taught the favorite senior course: L.A. Architecture. Friday afternoon trips in a school bus around Los Angeles to see such amazing structures as the Gamble House and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House hooked me long before I had the guts to admit it to my circle of college buddies. Architecture seemed so intellectual, so civilized, so creative, especially to an economics major. Six years ago, when this latent interest crashed into a need to create a meaningful, post-Advanced Placement exam project for my U.S. History students at Timberline High School, I decided Idaho Falls aviator Pete Hill poses with Ernest Hemingway at the Ketchum to create a tribute to Professor house, 1959. Winter. Thus, the Boise Architecture hortly before she died from cancer in 2003, the Pulitzer Project was born. Prize-winning author Carol Shields was interviewed At first, the project (known as the S BAP) was one of those ubiquitous by Terry Gross on her National Public Radio program, Fresh Air. Shields was asked what her legacy would be as Power Point projects that students a writer. She responded that she would be like most famous do. But one of my technologically writers. Four months after she died, her name would fade off advanced students offered to create into obscurity. a website of our projects. He The Idanha Hotel in downtown Boise, at one time the tallest building in Idaho at five purchased web space, designed a Ernest Hemingway died fifty years ago on July 2, 1961. stories, features a French-chateau style, quite unusual in the area for its time. But Hemingway hasn’t faded off into obscurity as Shields page, and we secured the domain thought most great writers do. If anything, his star has gained Editor’s Note: In March of this year, Washington State name “boisearchitecture.org,” where we parked luster with every passing year. University’s Thomas Foley Center, in cooperation twelve of our quickly researched and photographed Hemingway’s death was arguably the most newsworthy with the state humanities councils of Idaho and buildings in Boise, Idaho. With the help of several event ever to occur in Idaho. University of North Carolina pro- Washington, sponsored a two-day conference on generous grants from the Idaho Humanities Council, fessor and Hemingway scholar John Bittner has commented, “Civility and Democracy,” which explored the Boise Arts and History Department, and others, “In July 1961, the life and the literature of Ernest Hemingway concept and practice of civility as reflected in history, students at Timberline, Capital High School, and created more press coverage than any other literary event in religion, philosophy, mass media, architecture, and Collister Elementary along with folks from the history.” It was the front-page headline story in newspapers more. Asked by the Foley Center to invite to the community, have created a resource where the throughout the country, including the New York Times, Boston conference a few Idaho library and museum program histories, photographs, and stories of more than Globe, Atlanta Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago managers, media professionals, teachers, and others two hundred buildings appear for public viewing. Daily News, Washington Post and Des Moines Register. involved in organizing programming around issues The BAP has grown from there too. Since 2005, Hemingway and Mark Twain, whose work Hemingway of public concern, we asked Boise High School BAP students have contributed hundreds of hours greatly admired, are probably the two most recognizable history and government teacher Doug StanWiens in volunteer service to preservation organizations American authors who have ever lived. In fact, with the addi- to attend the conference, given his enthusiastic and events, sat on boards of community groups, tion of William Shakespeare, they may be the most readily interest in architecture. Some years ago, StanWiens developed Wikipedia pages and documentary films recognizable authors in the world. launched with his students “The Boise Architecture on local structures, and blogged, facebooked, and Hemingway is one of the few authors who has sold more Project,” a student-focused digital media project tweeted about architecture, history, and culture in books since his death than before it, keeping in mind that dur- that documents local history and architectural Boise. During the short time that the BAP is ing his lifetime he was one of the world’s most popular writers, preservation. A recipient of grant support from the active each school year, students quickly learn about winning both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for literature. Idaho Humanities Council, the Boise Architecture architectural styles, preservation needs, and digital Amazon.com lists 3,928 different books and editions by Project (BAP) has caught the imaginations of project management. We’re not experts, but we’re and about Ernest Hemingway, including over 60 different edi- StanWiens’ students and inspired them to document over five hundred students strong, and we’ve helped tions and reading guides to The Sun Also Rises alone, which unique architecture in the city of Boise. The BAP bring Boise’s architecture to the web in a way that was first published 85 years ago. has become a model project for teachers to replicate enriches our democratic society through a focus on A Google search for Ernest Hemingway gets 7.8 million in other cities. Given his infectious interest in local history and preservation. hits, about the same number as Richard Nixon, as opposed to architecture, we asked StanWiens how architecture So, when Idaho Humanities Council Director 2.6 million for William Faulkner, 4.6 million for John Grisham, reflects “civility.” Rick Ardinger contacted me earlier this year and 2 million for Leo Tolstoy. about participating in a National Endowment for The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery tells have a confession to make . . . I love architecture. the Humanities-funded conference in Spokane, the history of America through individuals who have shaped its IMy 1990 Subaru Loyale has a bumper sticker Washington, titled “Civility and Democracy in culture. In 1999, the Gallery featured a tremendously success- on it that says “Random Acts of Architecture.” America,” and he mentioned that there would be ful exhibit titled Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time. When walking downtown anywhere, I look up at an architecture strand, I enthusiastically agreed. The Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, CNN and the the walls and the tops of buildings to see where The conference was attended by a large number Kansas City Star have at various times all had web sites the architects hid the cool stuff, often at my own of Northwest nonprofit and civic-related folk devoted to Hemingway. peril. I recently left a good job at a relatively new interested in considering and joining the conference’s Of course, nothing demonstrates the continuing interest in high school in Boise in part to teach at historic and discussion on the nature of civility in our democracy. Hemingway better than the plethora of posthumous books that century-old Boise High, where the heating system There were five discussion strands: history, religion, have come from unpublished manuscripts. The first was A creaks and groans and there are rumors of secret, philosophy and ethics, media, and . . . architecture. Moveable Feast, published in 1964, three years after his death. underground tunnels. Historic architecture causes While most of the participants deftly opined on the In 2009, 45-years after the publication of the first edition, a me to drive slowly through neighborhoods to ponder other subjects, architecture was an outlier. I have revised edition of A Movable Feast, edited by Hemingway what it would be like to live in one of those houses. found over the last five years of working on the BAP grandson Sean Hemingway, was published. Other posthumous But, I am not an architect. Clearly, I have a problem. that non-architects have a difficult time considering This infatuation with architecture started in (See HEMINGWAY, Page 4) college as many infatuations do. I blame it on (See ARCHITECTURE, Page 3) From the Director Help us widen the circle By Rick Ardinger ough times for the about Mari Sandoz’s Old Jules, remind us about civility Tpublic humanities. As when discussing the Constitution, promote tolerance and this newsletter goes to understanding of religious faith, sexual preference, political press, Congress is cutting federal persuasion, racial and cultural diversity, reveal the virtues programs to combat the deficit. of public service, alert us to the need for recorded memory, Vol. XV, No. 2, Summer 2011 The National Endowment for the teach us empathy. Idaho Humanities is published three times a Humanities took a big hit earlier At our tactical planning meeting, the IHC board spent year by the Idaho Humanities Council this spring, with deeper cuts a full day discussing our mission, the costs of programs, 217 W. State Street proposed for 2012. The impact target audiences, and ways of better serving Idahoans. We Boise, Idaho 83702 on state humanities councils is also had to remind ourselves later around a campfire, that (208) 345-5346 proportionately severe. In light humanities programming is more than logistics, scheduling, Toll Free: (888) 345-5346 of these realities, the Idaho funding, capacity building, and the other details of program Fax: (208) 345-5347 Humanities Council board met at delivery. We discussed our other required reading for our www.idahohumanities.org Harriman State Park in late June for a tactical planning retreat–Martha Nussbaum’s new manifesto Not for Profit: retreat to assess our programming priorities. Demand for Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, and J.D. Salinger’s Board of Directors IHC support for programs all over Idaho is growing, yet our Catcher in the Rye. financial resources to deliver those programs are stretching In Catcher, our narrator Holden Caulfield is a mixed- Chair thinner. IHC’s need for private donor support has never up kid who’s at loose ends and headed for a fall. He hasn’t Jeff Fox, Twin Falls been greater. quite recovered from the death of a brother, pretends to Smithsonian traveling exhibits, K-12 teacher institutes be older and less sensitive than he is, thinks too many Vice Chair and workshops, IHC’s Speakers Bureau, Let’s Talk About people are phonies, and doesn’t see the glass half-full of Katherine Aiken, Moscow It reading programs, grant support for community-building possibilities. He’s unreliable even as a narrator. initiatives, the City Club of Idaho Falls, Distinguished Around the campfire, after a very long day of flip-chart Margo Aragon, Lewiston Humanities Lectures, even this newsletter are made possible planning, IHC board members differed greatly in their Fran Bahr, Coeur d’Alene in part by the contributions of generous friends of the IHC. appreciation of this classic novel published in 1951. Yet, Lisa Brady, Boise Idaho libraries, museums, teachers, scholars, arts our discussion informed much of why we were there to Trent Clark, Soda Springs centers, colleges and universities, civic groups all look to begin with. Jenny Emery Davidson, Hailey the IHC for financial support, partnership opportunities, We need to widen the circle around that campfire. The Terry Engebretsen, Pocatello scholarly consultation, and other new ideas to bring to their humanities help us do that. Christine Hatch, Idaho Falls communities the new experiences that only the humanities The envelope you removed from the first page of this Marc Johnson, Boise can bring. newsletter to read the feature article is your opportunity to Mike Kennedy, Coeur d’Alene Humanities programs may educate about local history, help the IHC widen that circle and maintain its support for David Lachiondo, Boise distract us from TVs to the library on a winter night to talk humanities programs from Bonners Ferry to Bear Lake. v Bert Marley, Boise Ed Marohn, Idaho Falls Jo Ann Nelson, Coeur d’Alene Martin L. Peterson, Boise Ron Pisaneschi, Boise Christopher Riggs, Lewiston News & Opportunities Shelton Woods, Boise Governor Appoints New Member to IHC Board Second Treatise of Government, Mary Wollstonecraft’s Governor Butch Otter recently appointed Jo Ann Vindication of the Rights of Women, and Things Fall Apart Staff Nelson (Coeur d’Alene) as a new member to the board of by Chinua Achebe. Rick Ardinger directors of the Idaho Humanities The NEH “Enduring Questions” grant program supports Executive Director Council, the nonprofit, state- the development of new courses that foster intellectual [email protected] based affiliate of the National community through the study of an enduring question. Endowment for the Humanities. These courses encourage undergraduates and instructors Cindy Wang Nelson represents northern to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the Grants and Fiscal Officer Idaho. Of the 19 members humanities, and to join together in a deep and sustained [email protected] program of reading in order to encounter influential currently on the IHC board, the Jennifer Holley Governor appoints four. Nelson thinkers over the centuries and into the present day. This project originated with Dr. O’Connor’s participation Program Officer will serve a three-year term. [email protected] Nelson is an Idaho native and in a 2009 NEH Summer Institute on “The Rule of Law: a University of Idaho graduate Legal Studies and the Liberal Arts.” Although her interest Wilma Bowler who taught business at North in the intersections between law and humanities had Administrative Assistant Idaho College for 35 years before retiring several years ago. already found its way into her research on contemporary [email protected] She serves on the board of two other nonprofits, the Coeur American documentary theater, the focus and intensity d’Alene Public Library Foundation, and Coeur d’Alene of this five-week Institute led to a thorough reimagining Homes, an assisted living facility for seniors. For the past of her approach to literary studies and a renewal of her half-dozen years, she has served on a local committee commitment to multi-disciplinary inquiry. The Idaho Humanities Council, a nonprofit helping organize IHC’s annual Distinguished Humanities organization, receives funding from the National Lecture and Dinner in Coeur d’Alene each fall, a major Endowment for the Humanities and from cultural event at the Coeur d’Alene Resort. other foundations, private corporations, and Governor Otter also reappointed Marty Peterson individuals. IHC’s mission is to increase the (Boise), Trent Clark (Soda Springs), and Christine Hatch awareness, understanding, and appreciation of (Idaho Falls) to serve a second term on the board. Peterson the humanities in Idaho. It accomplishes this is Special Assistant to the President of the University of through educational projects for the general Idaho, Clark is the Director of Public and Governmental public and various target audiences. The Affairs for Monsanto, and Hatch is a community activist Council plans and conducts projects on its own and retired director of the Art Museum of Eastern Idaho. and in concert with other organizations such as universities, colleges, libraries, civic clubs, BSU English Professor Awarded NEH ‘Enduring professional associations, historical societies and museums, and other cultural, educational, and Questions’ Grant State historian Keith Petersen (L) and Moscow Mayor Nancy Chaney community entities. IHC also provides Congratulations to BSU English Professor Jacky (R) pose for a photo with Alf Robinson, son of Psychiana founder Frank Robinson, who attended Petersen’s lecture on Psychiana in Moscow City grant support for humanities O’Connor, who’s been awarded a National Endowment for Hall in June. projects throughout Idaho. the Humanities “Enduring Questions” Grant of $21,643 to Remember Psychiana? design and teach an introductory Opinions expressed in Idaho Humanities do not necessarily humanities course on “What Moscow City Hall celebrates its centennial in 2011, reflect views of the Idaho Humanities Council or the National is Justice?” The course will and is commemorating the anniversary with a number Endowment for the Humanities. guide undergraduate students of activities, including an IHC-funded exhibit of historic from all major programs in photographs and a series of lectures exploring the city’s the exploration of an issue that history. In June, State Historian Keith Petersen gave a compels interest from cradle to slide lecture at Moscow City Hall about a media-based, MISSION STATEMENT grave and occupies a foundational mail-order religion started in Moscow by Frank Robinson place in the humanities. Because in the 1930s that promoted self-help and positive thinking The mission of the Idaho Humanites debates about justice are raised to achieve health, wealth, and happiness as rewards from Council is to as frequently in myth, literature, God for Psychiana practitioners. Though few know about deepen understanding of and film as they are in political the religion today, Psychiana was a thriving media business human experience by theory, texts studied will include philosophy, drama, classic during the Great Depression, quickly gaining converts connecting people political tracts, fiction, film, music, and visual art. Readings across the nation and in 67 countries, as people sought with ideas. will include The Oresteia by Aeschylus, John Locke’s (See News, Page 4) Idaho Humanities 2 ARCHITECTURE (Continued from Page 1)

Central Library fits this profile and role in developing more democratic architecture when pointed out that, because of their the new state was represented by the Idaho Building purpose, libraries should be the most at the 1893 Chicago World’s Exposition. That rough civil and democratic of all buildings wooden structure built out of Idaho logs was an early in a community. This new glass- influence leading to the American Arts and Crafts and-steel structure stands in stark movement and an architectural design more accessible contrast with the classic style of the for the native “hoi polloi.” Considering the journey of Carnegie libraries in Seattle, Boise, this style from world’s fair exhibit to Harris Ranch, and so many other communities one could argue that Sir Winston was speaking of throughout America. The talk in Idahoans. our Boise neighborhood right now Public space is also important in influencing is the replica medieval castle being civility within our democracy. Idaho is well known built along Warm Springs Avenue. for its public lands, featuring state parks used for a It has merlons, towers, parapets, and bevy of recreational activities. A great example of incredible stonework. For some, it is public space in an urban core is the city of Rupert’s so outrageously out of place, that all main square which, after a magnificent preservation it does is oddly call attention to itself effort, has served as a magnet for community events, and invites various Monty Python- shopping, and recreation. Certainly, well-designed related lines and jokes. For others, it public space can encourage us to behave more Some question whether the new Seattle Public Library reflects a welcoming sense to the public. sits as simply another non-conformist democratically as well. Many were concerned with among a variety of large mansions the recent remodel of the Idaho State Capitol building. architecture. It’s a paradox. Architecture for most along this historic avenue. I find it rather refreshing, If you are a history fan like me, you might have seems like a technical, academic study, best left to and hope it eventually contains the realm of designers and drafting tables. Yet, we all a moat. However, if a building have a sense of how buildings affect our work and is built primarily so people will home lives and what we like and dislike in design. In be either offended or enthralled, short, we all know architecture, but we can’t speak it. then is it civil? While often What is the link between architecture and civility? these buildings provide a chance One of the themes of the conference discussion panel to gawk or comment, they don’t on architecture was “Does architecture behave?” represent the civility Rybczynski Ed Feiner, panel speaker and former chief architect is suggesting. of the U.S. General Services Administration, asked Architecture also can reflect the relevant question, “How does a building present and form our democratic itself?” To answer this question, think about how values. Our interactions with you relate to the structure where you work. The and usage of architecture, be building’s entrance is a good place to start. For it in private homes or public example, arches beckon people into a structure, while spaces, molds us daily into who low-hanging beams can stand as both a visible and we are. Winston Churchill once mental barrier to entry. A local building illustrates commented that, “We shape our this well. Tully Gerlach, former City of Boise buildings; thereafter they shape Historian, has pointed out that the 1990s remodel us.” For example, the American Some love the new “castle” under construction on Boise’s Warm Springs, while others think it of the Boise State University Library created a Craftsman style, so popular in draws too much attention to itself so near the historic district. covered entrance that seems to say, “Don’t come the early twentieth century, is very prevalent in newer initially asked, “How could they have torn out those in!” In the same way, consider the façade of your homes today. As a historical response to the more trees planted by Presidents Harrison, Roosevelt, and favorite public building and its relation to those elegant and perhaps high-brow culture of the Victorian Taft?” But the space created by the addition of the home, the Craftsman style underground wings has allowed for much more public features a simpler, more involvement in the legislative process, as seen by natural aesthetic accessible recent standing-room-only gatherings on issues such to many. Craftsman homes as education reform and health-care nullification. show the work of the Now the public can gather in a civil way (mostly!) namesake with visible nails, to participate in the democratic process with their wooden crafted joints, and legislators. This is an excellent example of how rough stone foundations, all architecture can improve civil society and contribute reflecting the democratic to democracy. nature of the style. Despite Clarence Darrow’s pronouncement that Additionally, these homes Boise was the “Athens of the sagebrush,” not all of place the garage off the Boise’s architecture was constructed to be democratic. back alley and feature large In fact, many of Boise’s most notable buildings were front porches that promote a built not as a representation of the common man, but as sense of community along symbols of the mining, banking, and ranching wealth the neighborhood street. of the early 20th century. For example, the former Of course, Queen Anne- Idanha Hotel building was actually a rather outrageous style homes often feature structure for its day. The BAP website says this about a nice big porch as well, the Idanha: “The French-chateau style hotel featured emphasizing the importance somewhat unheard of architecture for the city of Boise of leisure in one’s daily life. and was indeed a landmark building. At five stories A classic American Craftsman home in Boise’s North End offers a wide porch for conversation and high, The Idanha was originally the tallest building “everyman comfort.” buildings around it. Does it fit with the purpose of the Community and leisure, after all, building, the surrounding community, and the local are important and shared American environment? Corporate, educational, religious, and values. governmental buildings should look appropriate and The “everyman” comfort reflect certain decorum within the community. For associated with Craftsman example, corporate buildings often reflect financial architecture must speak to the success, while schools look academic. Whether we modern homeowner because neo- think of the Tudor- and Gothic-style buildings at Craftsman and other modern twists the University of Idaho, or the Greek Revival Ionic on classic styles are represented in Columns of Boise High School, the presentation many new planned communities, of a building does form our concept of the role of such as East Boise’s Harris Ranch. institutions in a civil society. For example, the community’s Perhaps a better way to think of this is in the Residential Guidelines includes negative: can architecture be uncivil? Witold the following description: “Within Rybczynski, Professor of Modernism at University Harris Ranch neighborhoods, a of Pennsylvania, and also a WSU conference panel broad range of housing types and speaker suggested that civil buildings have a respect price levels will bring people of for their surroundings and a sense of propriety. diverse ages, gender and incomes Can you think of a building that doesn’t have a into daily interaction, strengthening sense of propriety? Some buildings simply call the bonds essential to a contributing Queen Anne-style homes reflect American values of community and leisure. attention to themselves in an ostentatious manner neighborhood of Boise.” Clearly, in the state of Idaho. It also held the state’s very and don’t “work well with others.” Conference the designers of this community believe that first elevator.” Historic downtown Boise buildings presenter Joan Ockman, also from the University of architecture can influence the democratic bonds Pennsylvania, suggested the relatively new Seattle between us. Perhaps appropriately, Idaho played a (See Architecture, Page 10)

Idaho Humanities 3 HEMINGWAY (Continued from Page 1) books include Islands in the Stream (1970), 88 Poems (1979), Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters (1981), Garden of Eden (1986), The Dangerous Summer Two Idaho Hemingway conferences slated for October (1986), True at First Light (1999), and several short story collections using both newly and previously Professor Hilary Justice, who will present the published stories. public keynote on October 8th. Justice is the Hemingway had a love-hate author of The Bones of Others: The Hemingway relationship with the movies. Text from the Lost Manuscripts to the Posthumous Generally, and with good cause, Novels. This year’s Hemingway Foundation/PEN he had little use for movies Award-Winner, Brando Skyhorse, author of the made from his novels and short novel The Madonnas of Echo Park, also will be stories. He didn’t live to see attending. In addition to a public reading, Skyhorse any of the movies based on will teach undergraduate and graduate workshops biographical elements of his and visit Moscow High School. Events are open life, but if he had, he would to the public. For more information contact have found them equally University of Idaho English Professor Brandon poorly done. Perhaps the worst example Schrand at (208) 598-5084, or bschrand@uidaho. would be the movie In Love and War (1996), inspired edu. The festival is made possible in part by a by Hemingway’s real-life World War I relationship grant from the Idaho Humanities Council. with nurse Agnes von Kurowsky. It took such lib- On October 20-22, the Third Annual Ernest erties with the facts that it is doubtful Hemingway Hemingway Symposium will be held at The would have recognized it. Community Library in Ketchum. This year the The most recent successful movie adaptation of theme is “Hemingway and Women” and all events a Hemingway work was the animated version of The are free and open to the public. The symposium Old Man and the Sea that was released in 1999, win- will include presentations by several Hemingway ning many awards, including an Academy Award for scholars, film screenings and panel discussions. Animated Short Film. Featured presenters include Hemingway scholar Other posthumous movies Stacey Guill, Boise State novelists Brady Udall based on Hemingway novels and and Clay Morgan, and playwright Frederick stories include The Killers (1964, Hunter, author of The Hemingway Play. (Hunter with Lee Marvin and Angie Ernest Hemingway in Ketchum, 1959. will also give a public presentation in Boise, Dickinson; an earlier version on Oct. 19). For more information, contact with Burt Lancaster and Ava ctober 6-8, the University of Idaho will Sandra Hofferber at (208) 735-7355, or visit Gardner appeared in 1946), sponsor a three-day Ernest Hemingway www.thecommunitylibrary.org/hemingway. Islands in the Stream (1977), O The symposium is supported in part by Boise Festival to be held at several locations in My Old Man (1979), The Old Moscow. Events include public readings, open- State University and by a grant from the Idaho v Man and the Sea (1990; an earlier ver- mic opportunities for writers, lectures and panels. Humanities Council. sion with Spencer Tracy appeared in 1958), and Men The featured presenter is Illinois State University and Women: Stories of Seduction (1990, including an adaptation of the short story “Hills Like White Elephants”), After the Storm (2001), and Garden of Eden (2008). is a spin-off from an earlier movie proposal that would wife, Hadley, whom he married in 1921 and divorced The Sopranos There are other movie projects waiting in the have cast James Gandolfini of fame in in 1926, and tells the story of their life together. wings. Hemingway’s granddaughter, actress Mariel the role of Hemingway. Gandolfini is now the pro- Eighty-five years after their divorce, the public Hemingway, owns the movie ducer of the HBO project. remains intrigued with Hemingway’s private life. rights to A Moveable Feast There have been scores of Hemingway biogra- Two years ago, the head of Hemingway’s house- and at one time was hoping to phies published since his death. The best and most hold staff in Cuba, Rene Villarreal, wrote a revealing Hemingway’s Cuban Son work with director Spike Lee ambitious in the eyes of most Hemingway scholars is book titled . The book focus- on that project. the five-volume biography written by the late North es on Hemingway’s life in Cuba and the operation of Finca Vigia During his lifetime, the Carolina State University Professor the , Hemingway’s Cuban estate. only Hemingway home Michael Reynolds. Proof that Hemingway remains a cul- that had television was No element of Hemingway’s writ- tural icon is perhaps best demonstrated his house in Ketchum. ing or personal life seems to be beyond with the Hemingway family’s successful And that house had a scrutiny with current researchers and efforts to copyright his name and image in black-and-white TV that writers. The Hemingway Collection much the same way that the Elvis Presley received a single chan- at the Kennedy Library is one of the estate controls all things relating to Elvis. By nel from Twin Falls. most comprehensive collections of issuing licensing agreements, the family is But in the years since his death, materials relating to a single author. ensured both quality control and a source of Hemingway has been a steady source of mate- It contains thousands of his origi- income. Several years ago one family member rial for television programming. Earlier this year, a nal letters, photographs, and manu- indicated that the estate made more money in public television Masterpiece Classic presentation scripts. It serves as the basis for one year from their licensing agreement with titled Any Human Heart had Ernest Hemingway as much of the research conducted Thomasville Furniture than they made in that one of the characters. about Hemingway over the last forty same year from book royalties. Other recent Hemingway TV projects have includ- years. Fifty years after his death, Hemingway con- ed a C-SPAN Hemingway special televised live from The most ambitious of the current publishing tinues to be as much a part of our culture as he was Key West, a Food Network special on “Hemingway efforts is the “Hemingway Letters Project” of the in his lifetime. Perhaps nobody was more prophetic in Cuba,” and a PBS American Masters documen- Hemingway Society. The project has compiled copies about how Hemingway would be viewed fifty years tary on Hemingway, titled Rivers to the Sea. And, of of over 6,000 letters written by Hemingway during the after his death than another Nobel Prize-winning course, I need to note Hemingway in the Autumn, a course of his lifetime. The letters will be annotated and novelist, William Faulkner. Hearing of Hemingway’s documentary on Hemingway in Idaho produced by published in chronological order in twelve volumes. death, Faulkner said, “He is not dead. Generations not Boise TV station KTVB. There are others. The first volume will come out in 2011, followed by yet born of young men and women who want to write v HBO currently has under production Hemingway one each year over the next twelve years. will refute the word as applied to him.” The Paris Wife: A Novel and Gellhorn, a drama based on the lives of Earlier this year by Paula Martin L. Peterson is Special Assistant to the Hemingway and his third wife, Martha Gellhorn. McLain was released and immediately won a place on New York Times President of the University of Idaho and a member The cast includes Nicole Kidman as Gellhorn and the bestseller list. Hemingway was of the Idaho Humanities Council Board of Directors Clive Owen as Hemingway. It will air in 2012. This married four times. This novel is narrated by his first .

NEWS (Continued from Page 2) APPLY ONLINE FOR AN IHC GRANT some hope from their economic desperation. By the having him there, and he met quite a few old friends.” Interested in applying for an IHC grant by September 1940s it was one of the world’s largest mail order The photo was taken in the Moscow City Council 15? The process has gotten a little easier, less religions. Robinson fashioned a religion for people Chambers, the former federal court room, where Frank expensive, and more “green.” By the September 15 who were groping the way he had. “If there is anything Robinson was acquitted of passport falsification in the deadline, applicants will be able to submit applications to religion, it ought to produce results; it should work,” 1930s in one of the most publicized federal court cases online, quite a change from the longstanding tradition Robinson said. The religion dissolved in 1953. in Moscow history. v of postmarking or delivering 20 paper copies of an At Petersen’s recent lecture in the Moscow City application by the deadline at www.idahohumanities. Council Chambers, sitting in the audience was Frank org. Check this summer to see how the system works. Robinson’s son Alf, who now lives in Pullman, For questions, contact IHC Grants and Fiscal Officer Washington. “It was the first time I’d ever given a Cindy Wang at [email protected]. IHC presentation about Psychiana with Alf Robinson in staff is happy to review rough draft proposals a few the room,” Petersen said. “But he is a fine gentleman, weeks before the deadline. and didn’t criticize. It really made the evening special

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he Idaho Humanities Council awarded $85,096 Knickerbocker. open in July, 2011, with live demonstrations of music, Tin grants to organizations and individuals at dance, and art from local Shoshone Bannock tribal its February board meeting in Idaho Falls. Weippe Community Club, Weippe, received members. The project director is Becky Smith. The IHC awarded twenty-eight grants for public $1,500 for presenters at the Weippe Camas Festival humanities programs, ten Teacher Incentive Grants, on May 21, 2011. The theme was “Fires along The Trailing of the Sheep Festival, Hailey, was and three planning grants. The grants were supported the Trail,” focusing on how fires have impacted awarded $4,000 to help support a symposium titled in part by funding from the National Endowment for history. The speakers were Jack Nisbet, author of The “Women Writing and Living the West” in conjunction the Humanities and IHC’s Endowment for Humanities Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History with its 15th annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival Education. The following projects were funded: of the Northwest, Robbin Johnson, anthropologist held October 7-9, 2011. The symposium will kickoff and historian, and Gene Eastman, local historian the festival on October 7, featuring six major western PUBLIC PROGRAM GRANTS: and author of Bitterroot Crossing: Lewis & Clark women writers. Mary Austin Crofts is the project Across the Lolo Trail. The project director is Marge director. The Boundary County Historical Society, Bonners Kuchynka. Ferry, $2,000 was awarded for a project interpreting The Owyhee County Historical Society, Murphy, the history of Boundary County to complement the The “History from the Ashes” Project, Boise, received $2,000 for an interpretive photo exhibit Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit The Way We Worked was awarded $2,000 for Boise storyteller Benjamin exploring buckaroo culture in southwest Idaho and that the museum will host in May of 2012. One local Kemper, to develop a program on the story of the the Great Basin. exhibit will explore the role of mining, logging, 1910 fire that destroyed millions of acres of forests Owyhee County agriculture, and railroads in the development of in northern Idaho and Montana. Programs will be photographer Boundary County. A second exhibit will feature presented in Boise and northern Idaho. Benjamin Andrea Scott will the story of the Kootenai River. John Standal is the Kemper is the project director. illustrate through project director. photos and text what University of Idaho, Moscow, received $2,000 to buckaroo “style” is, The City of Hailey Historic Preservation help support a three-day Ernest Hemingway Festival how it evolved, and Commission, Hailey, received $4,000 to develop in Moscow October 6-8, how it is evidenced an interpretive exhibit on the history of the Hailey 2011. Hilary Justice, Illinois in horsemanship, Rodeo Park. State University, will present craftsmanship, and The exhibit, the public keynote address dress. The exhibit “Rodeo: A on October 8th. Justice is will open during Story of the author of The Bones of Murphy Outpost Community,” Others: The Hemingway Text Days at the Owyhee County Historical Museum will open from the Lost Manuscripts to with a talk by Scott and then travel to schools and January 2012 the Posthumous Novels. The communities throughout Idaho. Andrea Scott is the and will project director is Brandon project director. explore how Schrand. Hilary Justice the rodeo has The Idaho State University Department of History, evolved and The Community Library Association, Ketchum, Pocatello, was awarded $2,000 to help digitally scan its importance was awarded $3,000 to help support the third annual and archive historical photos from southeastern Idaho, in Hailey’s Ernest Hemingway Symposium in Ketchum, October and develop an interactive website that showcases development. 20-22, exploring the theme of “Hemingway and and makes the photos more accessible to researchers Rob Lonning Women.” The symposium is free and open to the and the general public. The project will explore the is the project public. The symposium will include presentations heritage of a major railroad town in the west. Kevin director. by several Hemingway scholars speaking about Marsh is the project director. Hemingway’s legacy of influence. Sandra Hofferber Boise State University, Boise, received $2,000 to is the project director. Malad Valley Welsh Foundation, Malad City, was help support a public program during the 14th annual awarded $3,000 to help support presenters at the Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference held in The Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Boise, received seventh annual Welsh Festival on July 1-2, 2011. Boise April 16-18, 2011. The theme was “Aristotelian $5,000 to help support the 2011 season of The festival featured music, food, and a variety Themes in Contemporary Metaphysics.” Kit Fine, Shakespearience, a statewide educational touring of workshops on the history, language, traditions, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at program reaching about 20,000 Idaho students. The and culture of Wales. Presentations explored Welsh New York University, presented a talk accessible to ISF will present a performance of Twelfth Night to folklore and superstition, Welsh poetry, and early the general public titled “Mathematics: Invented or school classes and assemblies followed by post- settlers of the Malad Valley. Gloria Jean Thomas is Discovered?” on April 15. The project director is performance workshops. The project director is the project director. Andrew Cortens. Renee Knappenberger. Mujeres Unidas de Idaho, Boise, received $5,000 The Idaho Botanical Gardens, Boise, received The Historical Museum of St. Gertrude, for Phase II of a Corrido Music Project. Planners $1,535 for support of the 2011 summer lecture series. Cottonwood, was awarded $2,660 to work with brought Seattle musician Juan Manuel Barco to Idaho Speakers include: Lauren Fins, “Chocolate: Food independent scholar in May to conduct workshops with student musicians, for the Gods”; Ray Vizgirdas, “Summer Solstice Gary Eller of Nampa helping them write corridos (Mexican ballads) about Celebration of Local Ethnobotany”; Barbara Perry to produce two CDs contemporary and historical figures and events. Bauer, “Exploring the Electric Railway in the Treasure and interpretive Phase II included local school presentations as well. Valley”; Keith Petersen, “Idaho’s Capitol”; and John booklets of early Idaho The corridos will be produced on a CD with an Bieter, “The Owyhees: American Identity and the music. One CD will accompanying booklet and performed for a general West.” Elizabeth Dickey is the project director. complement the tour of public audience in September. Ana Maria Schachtell the Smithsonian exhibit is the project director. The Idaho Library Association Planning The Way We Worked, Committee, Pocatello, was awarded $1,500 to support touring Idaho in 2011- The Idaho Human Rights Education Center, Boise, the keynote speaker for the 2012. The second CD was awarded $2,500 for the public keynote address at Regional Spring Conference will record poems and a summer institute on human rights for teachers, June on May 6, 2011, in Fort Hall. songs by Clarence 13-17, 2011. Mark Trahant, a member of the Idaho poet-prospector Clarence Eddy, a poet-prospector Shoshone Bannock Tribe, and Eddy who worked in central Global Lounge Group, Boise, was awarded $1,500 former editor for the Seattle Idaho mining towns in the early-20th century. Sam to facilitate workshops on the history, traditions, Post Intelligencer, spoke about Couch is the project director. dance, and other folkways of recent refugees who his book The Last Great Battle have resettled in Idaho. The workshops will explore of the Indian Wars. Sandra Confluence Press, Lewiston, was awarded $2,500 traditional music style from Indian, African, Latin Clough is the project director. for support of “Everybody Reads,” a program American, and South American cultures, and explore Mark Trahant promoting the reading of the same book throughout the way communities integrate over time. The project The Adams County Historical Society, New the local region. The book chosen for 2011 is Blue director is Ekundayo Ayodele. Meadows, was awarded $750 to help with a centennial Heaven, a thriller set in northern Idaho, by C.J. commemoration on September 3, 2011. The early Box. Box, an award-winning author from Wyoming, The Idaho Association of Museums (Statewide), history of the community will be displayed through will make presentations November 6-11, 2011 in received $2,441 to support hands-on regional interpretive photo and artifact exhibits and historical Lapwai, Lewiston, and Moscow, Idaho, and the workshops in Lewiston, Boise and Gooding for publications. Rosemary Hoff is the project director. bordering towns of Clarkston, Colfax, and Pullman, museum staff and volunteers to learn the many uses Washington. Heather Stout and Jennifer Ashby are of software to manage collections, create digital The College of Idaho, Caldwell, received $1,000 the project directors. presentations, and manipulate images for use in to help bring author and landscape photographer exhibits, programs, and publications. Mary Reed is Tim Palmer, author of The Snake River: Window to The National Oregon/California Trail Center, the project director. the West, to the College of Idaho for a public lecture Montpelier, received $2,500 to support a cross- in March. “The Rivers of America” explored the cultural exhibit titled “When Two Trails Cross,” The City of Moscow, Moscow, was awarded $3,000 environmental and historical importance of river focusing on the impact of the westward migration on to support an interpretive photographic exhibit systems in the U.S. The project director is Scott Native Americans in southeast Idaho. The exhibit will (See Grants, Page 6)

Idaho Humanities 5 GRANTS IHC honored two teachers (Continued from Page 5) and lecture series for the 100th anniversary of the information and motivation for teachers to implement for Outstanding Teaching of completion of the City Hall building. The focus will curricula exploring the culture of locally grown food the Humanities and school gardens. daho Falls High School teacher James Francis Shirley Ewing, Idaho Museum of Mining and and Lapwai Elementary School teacher D’Lisa Geology, Boise, was awarded $450 for the third I Penney-Pinkham received awards in May and year of the museum’s Rock Party, an event involving June respectively from the IHC for “Outstanding students and teachers in fossil digs, mine mapping, Teaching of the Humanities.” The teachers were gold panning, and more about historical geology. recognized because of their passion for the humanities, their ability to inspire students through their love of Angela Harvey-Dugan, Holocaust Educators their subject, their innovative teaching methods, and Network, Boise, was awarded $1,000 to support a their contributions to the teaching profession. Each six-day workshop for Idaho teachers on effective ways teacher received $1,000 for personal use and $1,000 to teach social justice issues, and how students may for their school to devote to improving the teaching of explore human rights issues in their communities. the humanities. Jim Engledow, Kamiah School District, Kamiah, received $692 to support an interactive student project Built in 1911, Moscow City Hall celebrates its centennial. called “A Trip to Somewhere,” where students select be on events, trends, and struggles that have defined a country to study, and then present their research in a Moscow, highlighting the community’s identity for presentation to the community. the past 100 years. The project director is Kathleen Burns. Cherie Hoff-Bowman, American Falls Schools, American Falls, was awarded $749 to help support Madison Library District, Rexburg, received a Balinese Cultural Workshop for American Falls $4,950 for a community reading program exploring High School and Hillcrest the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Elementary School. Wilder. Along with the reading of the book, the The workshop focuses program will include lectures, book discussions, on Balinese percussion instruments. Students learn films, and other programming. Presentations will Idaho Falls High School teacher Jim Francis (L) was recognized explore South American colonialism, theater, Incan about Balinese culture and by IHC Board Member Christine Crapo Hatch in May for bridge building, and the philosophical themes of the are encouraged to dress in outstanding teaching of the humanities. traditional dress, experience book. Partnering libraries in Rexburg, Sugar City, St. James Francis taught history in Idaho Falls for 34 Anthony, and Terreton will participate. The project the cuisine, learn Balinese phrases, and engage in other activities. years, beginning in 1977 at O.E. Bell Junior High, director is Catherine Stanton. later at Clair E. Gale Junior High, and, since 1988 at Ruth Ann Rose, Idaho Falls School District, received Idaho Falls High School. He is noted by his students The City of Boise was awarded $3,000 to help th and colleagues for his creative, interdisciplinary support the 8th season of the Fettuccine Forum, $500 to help support the 4 Grade Rendezvous in May. approaches to teaching, his collaborative work with October 2011-May 2012. The forum’s purpose is to other teachers, his promotion of student writing in promote civil, public dialogue on a variety of topics Students experienced six educational stations about The Snake River Review, his legendary classroom through free public presentations. Mark Baltes is the th role-playing, his emphasis on critical thinking and project director. 19 century traditional ways of cooking, games, analytical writing, and his encouragement of students gold panning, candle- to write for publication. Francis is a National Board The Silver Sage Girl Scout Council, Boise, was Certified Teacher and was Idaho Teacher of the Year awarded $3,000 for an historical research project on making, leather and bead-working, and other in 1997. He was presented with his award for teaching the history of Girl Scouting in Idaho. Idaho State on the secondary level in May. University English Professor Susan Swetnam will activities. offer five workshops for Girl Scouts to train them in oral history research. The final outcome will be Jamessa Williams, Lapwai Elementary School, a booklet about the history of the Silver Sage Girl Lapwai, received $935 for the third year of a popular Scout Council and an illustrated talk for the 2012 program teaching her students to write and publish centennial of Girl Scouting in America. Jill Barbour their own family stories. Williams will help students is the project director. conduct family surveys, collect photos, and write The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, received about their family histories $4,500 to complete a video about the history of the and traditions. The stories Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868. In commemoration of and pictures are compiled the 140th anniversary of the treaty, Sho-Ban News into hard-bound books and collected a number of videotaped interviews with shared with the community. tribal elders about the significance of the treaty and Each child receives a copy the impact it had on the tribes. These interviews will of the book, and one copy is be edited into a documentary for use at educational added to the school library. seminars. Lori Suppah is the project director. Andrew Whipple, Kootenai School District, TEACHER INCENTIVE GRANTS: Kootenai, was awarded $1000 to help facilitate a new project for school juniors called “The Living West IHC Chair-elect Kathy Aiken (L) recognized Lapwai Elementary teacher D’Lisa Penney-Pinkham in June. The IHC awards grants of up to $1,000 twice a year to and History of Idaho.” Students choose a topic related K-12 teachers to enhance teaching of the humanities to Idaho and Pacific Northwest history, research it, Elementary school teacher D’Lisa Penney-Pinkham in the classroom. These grants were supported by conduct interviews, re-enact historical situations in has been at Lapwai Elementary School for the last IHC’s Endowment for Humanities Education. digital format or create a PowerPoint presentations, seven years, currently teaching 5th grade in the heart and post presentations on the school website. v of the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. She is active in Erin Waller, Rolling Hills the local education association and is working towards Charter School, Boise, her doctorate in Native American Indigenous Learning received $608 to support the THE NEXT DEADLINE Theories at the University of Idaho. Penney-Pinkham use of web photos and videos FOR IHC GRANTS: is astute in tribal customs and traditions and is noted to explore Idaho history. The The next deadline for Idaho Humanities for her storytelling, incorporating Native American year’s study will culminate Council grant proposals and Research cultural perspectives into her teaching assignments. in a hands-on field trip Fellowships is September 15, 2011. IHC She is most recently commended for immersing her reenactment of a “day on the strongly recommends that prospective students in the study of African American history frontier.” applicants contact staff to discuss as well, in particular the history of the Civil Rights their project ideas before writing their Movement. She collaborates with other teachers and Kelly Brannock, American Falls Academy, proposals. Applicants also are strongly involves students from other grades in telling and American Falls, received $500 to enhance study of encouraged to submit a rough draft of retelling the story of the Civil Rights Movement. In the life and work of William Shakespeare and involve their proposal for staff critique several February, for example, when she heard that Civil other students in a production of scenes from Romeo weeks prior to the deadline. Grant Rights leader Jesse Jackson was speaking at the and Juliet. guidelines and application forms, as well University of Idaho, she made it possible for two as information about IHC grants and busloads of Lapwai Elementary students to travel to Sharon Hanson, Boise High School, received $1000 activities, are available on IHC’s website Moscow and meet Rev. Jackson in person after his for a teacher reading program titled “Tasting what’s at www.idahohumanities.org, or lecture. Penney-Pinkham was presented her award in New: Idaho School Gardens and the Local Food by calling 208-345-5346. early June. v Movement.” The program will provide background

Idaho Humanities 6 Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War historian James McPherson to speak in Coeur d’Alene, October 6 MADE POSSIBLE BY CONTRIBUTIONS FROM: ulitzer Prize-winning Revolution; PAmerican Civil War and Fields of historian James McPherson Fury. An active will be the speaker at the IHC’s 8th preservationist, Annual Distinguished Humanities McPherson Lecture and Dinner on Thursday, has served on October 6, 2011, 7 p.m., at the the Civil War Coeur d’Alene Resort. McPherson Sites Advisory is professor emeritus of history at Commission IHC’s North Idaho Distinguished Humanities Lecture & Dinner with James Princeton University and one of since 1991. In McPherson, 7:00 p.m., Thursday, October 6, 2011, Coeur d’Alene Resort the most distinguished historians 2000, he was of our time. The title of his talk is honored by Name ______Telephone (____)______“Why the Civil War Still Matters.” the National Address ______City ______Zip ______The event will help commemorate Endowment for # ______Benefactor Tickets @ $100/ person the 150th anniversary of the start of the Humanities the Civil War. as one of the ______Benefactor Tables for 8 @ $800 McPherson is a prolific nation’s top # ______General Tickets @ $45/person author. His most recent book, historians. ______General Tables for 8 @ $360 Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln Since 2004, as Commander in Chief (2008), the IHC has # ______Vegetarian Meals (include name of guest) explores how Lincoln had almost been bringing 3 ______Donation for student scholarship tickets no military experience when he historians, was elected in 1860 but went on to define the journalists, and fiction writers Paying $ ______by check. Make checks payable to: Idaho Humanities Council role of the American commander-in-chief as to Coeur d’Alene, including Charge $ ______to my credit card: he led the country through the Civil War. presidential biographer Robert q Visa McPherson draws on almost 50 years of Dallek (2004), western writer q Mastercard research to present a cogent and concise Ivan Doig (2005), journalist Susan q American Express narrative of how Lincoln, working against Orlean (2006), War Letters collector Card # ______Exp. Date ______enormous odds, preserved the union and Andrew Carroll (2007), former Please print name as it appears on the card ______the United States of America. National Public Radio News Analyst Signature ______In 1988, McPherson’s book Battle Cry of Juan Williams (2008), National Book q I am unable to attend, but enclosed is my donation to the IHC $ ______Freedom: The Civil War Era found a popular audience as it Award winner Timothy Egan (2009), was accessible to the general public. Although historians had and detective novelist Sara Paretsky (2010). If purchasing a table, please attach a sheet with names of guests. Otherwise, their tickets will be been writing about the Civil War for decades, McPherson’s Tickets are available now for purchase held under your name at the door. book broke ground in exploring the complexities of the war online at www.idahohumanities.org under If paying by credit card, you may use this form and fax it to (208) 345-5347. Reservations will be while maintaining an appealing narrative. Battle Cry went “IHC Events,” or by calling the IHC toll made upon receipt of payment. All reservations will be confirmed by letter. Tickets will not be sent, and table designations will be available at the door. If you are supporting student scholarships to on to win the Pulitzer Prize and has since sold more than free at 888-345-5346. General tickets are attend, you will receive a special acknowledgement letter and recognition from IHC at the dinner. 600,000 copies. $45. Benefactor tickets are $100, offering Idaho civics teachers are working with the IHC to identify scholarship recipients. For more informa- His other bestselling books include For Cause and an invitation to a pre-dinner reception with tion, call (888) 345-5346. Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War; Drawn with McPherson in a private home and preferred the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War; What seating at the dinner and lecture. IHC always Please clip and complete this form and return it to: Idaho Humanities Council They Fought For, 1861-1865; Gettysburg: The Paintings of recommends reserving tickets early as the 217 W. State St., Boise, ID 83702 Mort Kunstler; Abraham Lincoln and the Second American event often sells out. v

Author and humorist Calvin Trillin to speak in Boise, October 21 MADE POSSIBLE BY CONTRIBUTIONS FROM: est-selling author, reporter, and From 1967 to 1982, he Bhumorist Calvin Trillin will be produced a highly praised the featured speaker at the Idaho series of articles for The Humanities Council’s 15th Annual New Yorker called “U. S. Distinguished Humanities Lecture and Journal” -- 3,000-word pieces every three weeks Dinner on Friday, October 21, 2011, IHC’s Distinguished Humanities Lecture & Dinner with Calvin Trillin from somewhere in the at 7:00 p.m. at Boise’s Centre on the 7:00 p.m., Friday, October 21, 2011, Boise Centre Grove. Trillin is the author of numerous United States, on subjects books, including his soon-to-be-released that ranged from the Name ______Telephone (____)______collection Quite Enough of Calvin murder of a farmer’s Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff. The wife in Iowa to the Address ______City ______Zip ______event is made possible in part by the author’s effort to write # ______Benefactor Tickets @ $125/ person OfficeMax Boise Community Fund and the definitive history of ______Benefactor Tables for10 @ $1000 (a discount of $250!) Futura Corporation, with additional a Louisiana restaurant support from Idaho Public Television called Didee’s “or to eat # ______General Tickets @ $55/person and the Idaho Statesman. an awful lot of baked duck ______General Tables for 10 @ $550 and dirty rice trying.” Tickets are available now for purchase # ______Vegetarian Meals (include name of guest) online at www.idahohumanities.org From 1978 through under “IHC Events,” or by calling the 1985, Trillin was a 3 ______Donation for student scholarship tickets IHC at 345-5346. General tickets are $55. Benefactor tickets columnist for The Nation, writing what are $125, offering an invitation to a pre-dinner reception with USA Today called “simply the funniest Paying $ ______by check. Make checks payable to: Idaho Humanities Council Trillin in a private home and preferred seating at the dinner regular column in journalism.” From 1986 Charge $ ______to my credit card: and lecture. IHC always recommends reserving tickets early through 1995, the column was syndicated to q Visa as the event usually sells out. Trillin’s books will be for sale newspapers. From 1996 to 2001, Trillin did q Mastercard at the event. a column for Time. His columns have been q American Express Trillin has published solidly reported pieces in The New collected in five books. Card # ______Exp. Date ______Yorker for forty years, and has been called “perhaps the Since 1990, Trillin has written a weekly Please print name as it appears on the card ______finest reporter in America.” His wry commentary on the piece of comic verse for The Nation. His Signature ______American scene and his books chronicling his adventures books of what he calls deadline poetry – as a “happy eater” have earned him renown as “a classic most recently, Deciding the Next Decider: q I am unable to attend, but enclosed is my donation to the IHC $ ______American humorist.” His memoir about his late wife entitled The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme – have If purchasing a table, please attach a sheet with names of guests. Otherwise, their tickets will be About Alice -- a 2007 New York Times best seller that was all been New York Times best sellers. held under your name at the door. hailed as “a miniature masterpiece” -- followed two other Trillin’s books have included three comic If paying by credit card, you may use this form and fax it to (208) 345-5347. Reservations will be best-selling memoirs, Remembering Denny and Messages novels (most recently the national best-seller made upon receipt of payment. All reservations will be confirmed by letter. Tickets will not be sent, from my Father. Tepper Isn’t Going Out), a collection of and table designations will be available at the door. If you are supporting student scholarships to Trillin was born and raised in Kansas City, Mo., and short stories, a travel book and an account attend, you will receive a special acknowledgement letter and recognition from IHC at the dinner. now lives in New York. He graduated from Yale in 1957, of the desegregation of the University of Idaho civics teachers are working with the IHC to identify scholarship recipients. For more informa- did a hitch in the army, and then joined Time. After a year Georgia. Three of his antic books on eating tion, call (888) 345-5346. covering the South from the Atlanta bureau, he became a – American Fried, Alice, Let’s Eat and Third Please clip and complete this form and return it to: writer for Time in New York. Helpings–were compiled in 1994 into a Idaho Humanities Council In 1963, he became a staff writer for The New Yorker. single volume called The Tummy Trilogy. v 217 W. State St., Boise, ID 83702

Idaho Humanities 7 U.S. Bancorp supports 2011-2012 ‘Let’s Talk About It’ program

The U.S. Bancorp Foundation Ada Community Library (Victory Branch, Boise), grant will help support scholar American Falls District Library, DeMary Memorial honoraria and travel to libraries to Library (Rupert), Grangeville Centennial Library, moderate discussions, new books, Hailey Public Library, Jerome Public Library, and promotion. The program is Kimberly Public Library, Larsen-Sant Public a partnership of U.S. Bank, the Library (Preston), Lewiston City Library, Lizard IHC, and the Idaho Commission Butte Public Library (Marsing), McCall Public for Libraries. The ICL has managed Library, Oneida Public Library (Malad), Salmon the program for more than 25 years. Public Library, Snake River School Community Project Director Dian Scott selects Library (Blackfoot), Stanley Community Library participating libraries, contracts District, and the Twin Falls Public Library. with scholars, and ships multiple Thanks to US Bancorp’s generous support (since copies of books to the libraries. 1998), the program continues reaching Idahoans of all “U.S. Bank is happy to support ages through valuable reading and discussion. this great program that brings “Let’s Talk About It” has been a flagship program people together all over Idaho to of the Idaho Humanities Council and the Idaho discuss books and ideas,” said Commission for Libraries for many years,” said L to R: LTAI Coordinator Dian Scott, U.S. Bank VP Rob Aravich, and IHC Director Rick Ardinger pose for a check presentation in June. U.S. Bank Senior Vice President IHC Chairman Jeff Fox, Executive Vice President of Rob Aravich, while presenting a College of Southern Idaho. “This is what lifelong ifteen Idaho libraries from Lewiston to Preston check at the Idaho Humanities Council offices learning in the humanities is all about, and we’re will participate in the 2011-2012 “Let’s Talk F recently. “This is a program that educates and happy U.S. Bank has been such a loyal supporter of About It” program, thanks to a generous builds community relationships, and it touches so the program.” grant to the Idaho Humanities Council from the U.S. many towns throughout Idaho.” Each participating For more information about Let’s Talk About Bancorp Foundation. “Let’s Talk About It” (LTAI) library will host five scholar-led discussions over It, see the Idaho Commission for Libraries website is the library reading and discussion program that the course of a season. Themes include “Across at http://libraries.idaho.gov/landing/lets-talk-about- brings people together with scholars in mostly rural Cultures and Continents,” “Living in the Modern it, or contact Project Director Dian Scott, Idaho community libraries for discussions of books exploring West,” “Our Earth, Our Ethics,” “We Are What We Commission for Libraries at (208) 334-2150. v a variety of themes. It is a program that is greatly Eat,” “American Characters,” “Working: Making appreciated by library patrons, mostly in rural areas, A Living, Making A Life,” and other themes. who don’t often have access to informative scholar- Scholars from nearly all of Idaho’s institutions of led discussion programs. The U.S. Bancorp grant will higher education participate in the program as book help support five reading-discussion programs over discussion leaders in 75 library meetings. the course of a season in each of the 15 libraries, for a Participating libraries in 2011-2012 include total of 75 library book discussions. Smithsonian exhibit on Work to begin Idaho tour in September he Idaho Humanities Council is bringing Press, 1987) and several other books, is the project diversity of the American workforce is one of its Ta unique Smithsonian Institution traveling scholar and will give opening night lectures in each of strengths, providing an opportunity to explore exhibit to six Idaho communities from the communities. how people of all races and ethnicities identified September through June 2012 titled The Way We The Way We Worked focuses on why we work commonalities and worked to knock down barriers Worked. The exhibit, adapted from an original and the needs that our jobs fulfill. Our work takesin the professional world. And, finally, the exhibition exhibition developed by the National Archives, place everywhere – on the land, on the streets of our shows how we identify with work – as individuals and explores how work became such a central element in communities, in offices and factories, in our homes, as communities. Whether you live in “Steel Town, American culture by tracing the many changes that and even in space. An exploration of the tools and USA” or wear a uniform each day, work assigns affected the workforce and work environments over cultural meanings and puts us and our communities in the past 150 years. The exhibition draws from the a larger context. Archives’ rich collections to tell this compelling story. The Way We Worked, an exhibit created by the The exhibit will visit the Beardmore Block (Priest National Archives, is part of Museum on Main Street, River), the McCall Arts and Commerce Center a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution (McCall), the Coeur d’Alene Public Library (Coeur and state humanities councils nationwide. Support d’Alene), the Burley Public Library (Burley), the for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the Twin Falls Center for the Arts (Twin Falls) and the United States Congress. Boundary County Historical Museum (Bonners The Way We Worked has been made possible in Ferry). Idaho by the IHC and by a generous grant from All locations will have the exhibit on view for six the Inland Northwest Community Foundation. v weeks. While on display, each community will develop around the exhibit its own local programming, ranging from school projects, to lectures, films, local displays, and other activities. technologies that enabled and assisted workers also Idaho State Historian Keith Petersen, author of reveals how workers sometimes found themselves Company Town: Potlatch, Idaho, and the Potlatch with better tools, but also with faster, more complex Lumber Company (Washington State University and often more stressful work environments. The

Adler honored for Outstanding Achievement

he IHC honored McClure Center for Public discourse. Several years ago, he collaborated with TIdaho Falls resident Policy Research. He Idaho Falls civic leaders to help found the City Club of and University currently divides his time Idaho Falls, which sponsors monthly public forums on of Idaho James A. & between Moscow, Boise, issues of public concern in a nonpartisan manner. Louise McClure Center and Idaho Falls. Adler holds degrees from Michigan State University Director David Gray Adler From 1985 to 2009, and the University of Utah and is the author of with IHC’s Award for Adler taught political American Constitutional Law, The Presidency and the “Outstanding Achievement science at Idaho State Law: The Clinton Legacy, and several other books. He in the Humanities” at University. He has lectured is a frequent contributor to the editorial pages of Idaho a reception and award throughout the state and the newspapers, and a commentator for television and ceremony in February in nation about constitutional radio, including Idaho Public Television. David Adler (hands folded) surrounded by his “roasters”, L to Idaho Falls. The award, R: Idaho Falls attorney Tim Hopkins, IHC Chair Jeff Fox, IHC issues, directed summer “Dave Adler exemplifies civility in his manner and presented to Adler for Vice Chair Kathy Aiken, Idaho State University Associate Dean institutes on the history in his command of his subject,” said Idaho Humanities his work as a scholar of Ron Hatzenbuehler, and Idaho Falls High School teacher Honore of the presidency and the Council Chair Jeff Fox, Executive Vice President and the U.S. Constitution, as Storms. Constitution for K-12 Chief Academic Officer at the College of Southern an exemplary teacher, and as an inspired speaker in teachers, and published a half-dozen books and a Idaho in Twin Falls. “His way with teachers and communities large and small throughout Idaho, carried substantial number of articles exploring the Bill of students is inspiring. He’s most deserving of this award with it a $1,000 honorarium. Rights, the American presidency, civility, and other for outstanding achievement in the humanities.” A professor of political science at Idaho State issues. The IHC presents its award annually to individuals University for 25 years, Adler assumed the James A. Adler is a well-traveled ambassador of the who have made outstanding contributions to the public McClure Chair in Political Science at the University of humanities, who has brought together people of humanities. Nominations are made annually by current Idaho in 2010, and serves as director of the university’s all political persuasions and urged them into civil and former members of the IHC Board of Directors. v

Idaho Humanities 8 IHC Warmly Thanks Idaho Humanities Council Donors! Contributions made between November 1, 2010 and June 1, 2011

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IHC seeks two SW Idaho academics to IN MEMORIAM In memory of Barbara Cimino In memory of Katherine Troutner Jim Cimino fill board vacancies Earnest Johnson In memory of Harriet Badesheim In memory of Ilene Berenter Nelson Joe & Harriet Berenter he Idaho Humanities Council seeks June, and October to award grants and conduct other Joe & Harriet Berenter J.E. & Lynda Smithman Tapplications to fill two academic positions on business. In memory of Maryjane Quinn Dobson In memory of Jim Countryman its volunteer board of directors, representing IHC is dedicated to advancing greater public Roger & Bonnie Brazier Peggy Countryman southwest Idaho, defined by IHC as the region awareness, appreciation, and understanding of the In memory of George Nakano In memory of Jean McDowell south of Riggins and west of the Twin Falls County humanities in Idaho and meets its mission by Robert Bilow & Jeannine Mehrhoff Robert & Anne DeBord western border. Information about the Council and awarding grant funds to local communities for In memory of William V. Studebaker In memory of Gladys Barker Sheila Saunders applications are available from the IHC office by public programs in history, literature, languages, Louie & Barbara Attebery In memory of Carole Lowinger In memory of Bob Auth calling (888) 345-5346 or online under the link archaeology, law, and other humanities disciplines. Gary Williams & Joy Passanante Lee & Jody Mabe “About Us” at www.idahohumanities.org. The The IHC also conducts special initiatives of In memory of Amy Margaret Christie In memory of Carver Long deadline for applications is September 15, 2011. its own, such as annual Distinguished Humanities Alan & Anne Christie Katherine Aiken The board will review applications and elect the Lectures, weeklong summer institutes in the In memory of MaryLu Burns new member at the Council’s October meeting. humanities for Idaho teachers, a Humanities Ann Ryan IN HONOR The IHC is a non-profit organization that has Speakers Bureau, special lectures, the statewide In memory of Louise Shadduck In honor of Arthur Hart served as the state-based affiliate of the National touring of a series of Smithsonian traveling exhibits, Orval & June Hansen The Fort Boise Questers In honor of Mary Trail Endowment for the Humanities for nearly 40 years. and other programs and activities. IHC receives In memory of Jane Oppenheimer Katherine Aiken J.E. & Lynda Smithman The Council maintains a balance on the board funding from the National Endowment for the Stephen & Carol Trott In honor of Robert C. Sims of public and academic members, strives for fair Humanities and donations from foundations, In memory of David Samuelson Hope Benedict & Stewart Carrington regional representation, and encourages ethnic, corporations and individuals. Barbara Hawley In honor of Lindy High racial, and cultural diversity. An academic member For more information, prospective applicants In memory of Gary and Shane Graves Marilyn Howard currently is defined as a scholar in the humanities or are invited to call Executive Director Rick Ardinger Betty Moore In honor of Tom and Alice Hennessey an administrator of an educational institution. toll free at (208) 345-5346, or email rick@ In memory of Alyn Andrus John and Karen Rosholt Members serve three-year terms, with the idahohumanities.org. Board member applications Jerry & Julie Glenn possibility of renewal for a second three-year term. v In memory of Kathleen Powers can be emailed to this same email address. Katherine Aiken The board meets three times each year in February,

Thank you, Mary Inman The IHC lost a friend last October, Mary Inman of Twin Falls. Mary was a long time member of the IHC’s Speakers Bureau and enjoyed talking in character as a 19th century pioneer about the struggles of migrating west and life on the Oregon Trail. Mary loved history and writing and was interested in nature and conservancy. Mary was active in the Twin Falls community, organized walking tours of the original Twin Falls Village and wrote the book Twin Falls Centurybook, 1904-2004. Mary also believed in the work of the IHC. We are deeply thankful to Mary for remembering the IHC in her will with a planned gift. She was humble, she did not want an obituary or a service, but she will be remembered for leaving a legacy of support to the IHC. Thank you for thinking of us, Mary.

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ARCHITECTURE (Continued from Page 3) have seemed inaccessible and perhaps even that otherwise seek to tear us apart. Through pretentious. Today, however, these homes architecture, we know what our community is are classic representations of Boise’s past and by extension what our community isn’t. and represent an historic civility which Boise’s architecture makes the city unique: an starkly contrasts so-called McMansions that Athens of democracy in a sagebrush landscape. dominate some suburban neighborhoods. So, when the city decides to build a new Boise Architecture helps promote what Public LIBRARY!, I only hope the building “Civility and Democracy” conference behaves itself! v keynote speaker, Stephen Carter, called our “common project.” Boise’s architecture is unique in this respect, as it defines our community for visitors and inhabitants. The Doug StanWiens is a Social Studies educator at BAP has attempted to further this by making Boise High School where he currently teaches our stories available for all. Consider the AP U.S. History and American Government. architecture of Boise’s Basque Block or He has a Masters degree in Education from the North End bungalow scene. Ponder the University of Washington and is a National the uniqueness of architect Art Troutner’s Board Certified teacher. His interest in history designs, the republican nature of the Idaho and architecture led him to create the Boise State Capitol building, and the cultural Architecture Project (BAP), a student- focused A Georgian-style home on Boise’s Warm Springs reflects stately civility. values of the Adelman building. Think digital media project that documents local include a Greek-revival temple, a Flemish Romantic about what experiences you have had at the Boise Depot. history and studies architectural preservation. facade, and a Romanesque tower. Not exactly everyday Now, allow yourself to work backwards and decide on Students involved in the project volunteer for fare for a “sagebrush” community! Furthermore, your favorite restaurant, bar, or social gathering. What is many local events, and the project’s website at to the common sheep hand, the Georgian, Spanish that building like? Architecture defines our environment www.boisearchitecture.org includes histories Mission, high Tudor, and Queen Anne mansions along at work, home, or play and can provide the glue in a and pictures of more than two hundred buildings. Boise’s Warm Springs and Harrison Boulevard must civil society. It can help us overcome the uncivil forces

What Are You Reading? In each issue of Idaho Humanities, several readers tell us what they've been reading and what they recommend.

Reader: Kaye M. Caldwell Reader: Alan Heathcock Reader: Mark Young Occupation: Retired academic, Coeur d’Alene Occupation: Novelist, Author of Volt, Boise Occupation: Branch Manager, Raymond Book: American Primitive by Mary Oliver Book: Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead James Financial Services, Idaho Falls Book: The Big Burn by Tim Egan

When our 11-year When a man is There is one book that old grandson visits named Napoleon, has received more our home, he looks of my attention as of you know he’ll forward to hearing late. The Big Burn by find trouble, and verse before bedtime. Timothy Egan had such is the case in His grandfather and me smelling smoke as I grew up in Indiana, Robert Olmstead’s he guides the reader so stories and poems Far Bright Star. through the politics containing Midwestern Napoleon Childs, a and geography of sensibilities help us grizzled and wise the largest fire in our share the nuances of cavalryman, veteran history. The author, our childhood history. of countless battles, leads his young soldiers through his well researched imagery, made The Midwestern poet Mary Oliver is one though the brutal Mexican terrain and into a you feel like you were in Taft, Montana, of our favorites. The poems in American searing ambush that decimates his squad and drinking whiskey while burning embers were Primitive, declared a Pulitzer Prize winner in leaves him bare to the truth he’s long avoided: falling. Egan allows us to see the birth of 1983, glisten around a deep affinity with Henry it isn’t always best to survive. But survive the conservation movement through the eyes David Thoreau’s consciousness and love of he does, without glory, without joy or grace, of John Muir. The incredible storytelling the natural world and its gifts of solitude. Our for such is war amongst men. This is a tough transports us to the podium with Theodore grandson likes the poem “John Chapman,” novel, unflinching in its depictions of combat, Roosevelt, while he battles the timber interests. a more grown up description of Johnny We all are aware of our “politics” today, unsparing in conveying, with full empathy, Appleseed who planted apple trees across early but the bare-knuckled raw power of Senator the effects of combat on a man. This is also a Indiana. Heyburn is something every Idahoan should novel of tremendous truth and beauty, written Mary Oliver’s poems tremble with a certain know. feminist urgency and imaginative courage. The by an acclaimed master in the prime of his This story takes place not so long ago; themes are grounded in renewal and love. Her career. its coattails stretch well past today. It is our 1986 Dreamwork contains the poem “Wild history and we should know of the struggle to Geese” which directly addresses ‘you’ through build a stewardship of this great land through a lilt of incantation and call and response. Gifford Pinchot and the men and women of the Forest Service. This thought of public land was born of struggles and death. I thank Egan for bringing this to our attention.