WINTER READ Kickoff In-Person
Join us to kick off the 2025 Winter Read of Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang, a dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, about a young Chinese woman fighting to claim her place in the 1880s American West.
We'll be opening a new exhibit, celebrating the Lunar New Year, enjoying light refreshments, and sharing how you can participate in this community-wide read!
Come see Tracks and Traces: Reconstructing Chinese History in Southern Idaho, which will be on display in The Community Library’s Foyer through May 2025. The exhibit features objects from the library’s Jeanne Rodger Lane Center for Regional History, alongside items borrowed from the Blaine County Historical Museum and the Idaho State Museum. From daily objects like an iron and jars and bottles, to a Mahjong set and an abacus, these traces of the Chinese community offer windows into the everyday lives of the miners, laundry workers, farmers, and cooks who once called this region home, but of whom there very few traces remain.
The Winter Read is a community-wide read and collaboration with the Hailey Public Library, Bellevue Public Library, and Stanley Community Library. Read more about the Winter Read and upcoming events here.
- Date:
- Thursday, January 30, 2025
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 6:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- The Community Library
- Campus:
- The Community Library
- Audience:
- All Ages
- Categories:
- Lectures & Conversations Winter Read