To the Library and Beyond Joan’s book review this week is for the book titled, “Idaho Echoes in Time”, by R.G. Robertson and published in 1998. This is a great book about many different people and places in Idaho, written by a nonnative Idahoan who lived in Sun Valley when he wrote the book in 1998. The book has many facts about Idaho’s geology, including how and when its mountains, rivers, and prairies were formed. The book also covers much historical information about people and places important in Idaho’s past. Included are stories about such people as Sacajawea, David Thompson, the Astorians, Benjamin de Bonneville, Ben Hudspeth, Chief Pocatello, Orlando Robbins, Peg Leg Annie, George Carlin, Diamondfield Jack, and Al Faussett. Stories about Idaho places include those about Fort Henry, Pierre’s Hole, Fort Hall, the Hudspeth Cutoff on the Oregon Trail, Bear River, the Camas Prairie in southeast Idaho, Shoshone Falls, and Sun Valley. For those readers interested in the state’s geography, historical people, and geology, this is a very interesting book! Since school is now out for the summer, our library will be having a kids’ summer reading program which begins this week and ends on August 11. Kids don’t have to be library patrons to participate, and we will have a signup sheet at the library counter. Everyone who signs up for the program will get a small bag of goodies and tickets to put in a jar at the library. At the end of the program, tickets will be drawn and prizes awarded to the winners. Finally, in honor of the U.S.’s250th birthday and America’s military veterans, the library will be displaying military uniforms during the whole month of July. If any local vets have military uniforms that they would lend the library, we will be honored to hang them in our exhibit on the back wall of the library. Please come in or call us for this, and many thanks for your service to our country.
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