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Questions of play

Start of a new week, and the living feels a tad easier. Is it the approaching school year? The wind-down of travel and multi-event days and nights? Or just a natural progression from heated activity to the coolly benign? No matter the cause, the forthcoming week will ask questions about play, about how hard a person can dance, and why beavers do the things they do. And just for kicks, have you ever heard rock ‘n’ roll at a library?

 

Monday Aug. 24

• Sun Valley Writers’ Conference regular David Macaulay will give a talk entitled “Building Books” at The Community Library in Ketchum at 6 p.m. His detailed illustrations and sly humor have earned him fans of all ages across the globe. Following the presentation by Macaulay, Dr. Stuart Brown will talk about his book: “Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul.” http://www.thecommunitylibrary.org. Iconoclast Books will sell copies of the authors' books at the event.
   

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Tuesday, Aug. 25

• Two valley favorites come together when The Bobos play at Ketch ‘Em Alive at the Forest Service Park, at First and Washington Ave. in Ketchum. The opening act, Frida’s Eyebrows, will play at 7 p.m. Picnics are welcome; drinks are sold at the park.
   

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Wednesday, August 26

• The Environmental Resource Center Beaver Walk will be held from 6:30-9 p.m. Meet at the ERC in Ketchum to carpool to Greenhorn. For more details call 726-4333.
   
• Back Alley Party at the Wicked Spud will begin at 6 p.m. Tonight is a benefit for Mountain Rides, with music by FourStroke Bus. Proceeds from raffle tickets, tee shirts and beer and wine sales from the “charity” tent will go towards the community transit provider.
   
• The High Strung, a young band from Detroit, will stop in at the Community Library in Ketchum at 6 p.m. as part of a Rock and Roll Library Tour. Rolling Stone magazine called the pop trio’s songs “nervy and agitated melodies that get under your skin as much as they make you hum along.” While on the tour the band has played for more than 22,000 people in 48 states. Opening bands are The Lucky Stiffs, and Fletcher Brock and Friends at 5 p.m.