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Oak Group artists paint Eastern Sierra |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
Art for Conservation event benefits Eastern Sierra Land Trust
By Catherine Billey
Mammoth Times Staff Writer
 Submitted photo.The Pleasant Valley just outside of Bishop is portrayed in pastels by Oak Group artist Chris Chapman. While this piece has sold, other artwork from the area, including an oil, will be for sale at the Art for Conservation event.
The Eastern Sierra Land Trust (ESLT) has gathered about 50 artists for a juried Art for Conservation show at CreekHouse at Snowcreek Resort that will celebrate the beauty and natural diversity of the Eastern Sierra.
Fifty percent of all sales at the show will benefit the conservation work of the ESLT.
“We’re putting together an alliance of Eastern Sierra artists and the renowned Oak Group to create a collection of art that includes the ESLT conservation lands and other special landscapes,” said ESLT Executive Director Karen Ferrell-Ingram.
“What we’re trying to do is promote the beauty and natural diversity of our area in the Eastern Sierra by bringing these really prestigious artists together in one place.”
The nonprofit Eastern Sierra Land Trust (ESLT) works with private land owners and the public to conserve natural areas, historical and biological resources, and working farms and ranches.
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Teaching Iraq |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
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A novel by Kirk Stapp
Review by Becky St. Marie
Mammoth Times Staff
 Reviewing a book by a high school English teacher is a daunting task. You know the teacher has read every book worth reading and analyzed each one into oblivion – each and every year with different students. You know he knows characters and plots, devices and details, commas and quotations, but can that teacher write – can he take all he’s taught and put it into words? In short, can he practice what he’s preached for all these years?
That is the question I had when I volunteered to review Teaching Iraq by Mammoth Lakes’ resident, recently retired high school English teacher and longtime town council member Kirk Stapp.
In this novel, Stapp presents a character not too unlike himself it would seem, high school teacher Jason Cord, who teaches in a small town called Lake Mary.
Cord teaches American literature and government and it is in his government class that the story unfolds of how he is to teach about Iraq; not as history, but a current affair – as the war for his students’ generation; their Vietnam.
Cord’s views are what would be labeled “liberal” by most standards, creating tension with the more “right-wing” parents and school administration in Lake Mary.
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A musical trip: 2009 Mammoth Lakes Music Festival |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
 photo by yves rubin. The Felici Trio welcome international guest musicians for the sixth annual Mammoth Lakes Music Festival. Brian Schuldt, cello; Steven Vanhauwaert, piano; and Rebecca Hang, violin.
Concerts are performed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings during the two-week festival, when international guest artists join Mammoth’s resident Felici Trio for eight performances in the intimate lobby-turned-concert-hall of Cerro Coso College.
Bookending the 2009 festival are two works by Felix Mendelssohn, whose 200th birthday is celebrated this year. And in between, audiences will take an aural trip to Russia, Spain, Norway, Italy, and take in America the Beautiful as well.
On July 15, the gala opening concert A Midsummer Night’s Dream showcases cellist Mark Kosower in Mendelssohn’s Cello Sonata No. 2 and violinist Hagai Shaham in Edvard Grieg’s Third Violin Sonata, culminating with Brahms’ cherished String Sextet No. 1.
In The Russia House on July 17, you’ll not only rub shoulders with Tchaikovsky, Arensky and company, but also with a Russian Count in Beethoven’s aristocratic Razumovsky String Quartet No. 3.
On July 20, America the Beautiful is graced by the resident diva of Prairie Home Companion, soprano Maria Jette, with a great selection of American songs, as well as a fiery quintet by the “Passionate Victorian,” Amy Beach.
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Local photographer’s work on U.S. postage stamp |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
By Mike Bodine
Special to the Mammoth Times
 Photo by Dennis Flaherty. The photo of the Grand Tetons by local Dennis Flaherty will be the image on the new 98 cent international U.S. postage stamp. He said he took the shot from the popular Snake River Overlook, but was lucky to get the perfect combination of light and mist for an “ethereal” or other-worldly effect.
Dennis Flaherty, who has run his own photography studio in Bishop for more than 20 years, was recently notified that one of his photos of the Grand Tetons, Wyo. will be the image on the U.S. Post Office’s newest $0.98 international stamp.
The stamp went on sale June 28.
He explained that the art director for the Postal Service contacted him four years ago interested in the Teton shot. “I’ve been in the running for a couple years. Galen Rowell beat me out the first time,” Flaherty said Thursday, referring to the late, world-famous photographer who opened Mountain Light Gallery in Bishop in 2000.
But new stamps are not issued quickly, “and if the government’s involved, things are going to move slowly anyway” and after Rowell had been chosen that first time, Flaherty said, “I just kind of forgot about it.”
He said the stamp-image decision-making process is not necessarily a contest, as only “top-tier” artists are chosen to submit their work. However, Flaherty said not too many photographers get their artistic work on a stamp, and so the honor is quite prestigious.
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Jazz Jubilee: Spotlight on Scott Martin |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
By Diane Eagle
Mammoth Times Editor
 submitted photo. The Scott Martin Latin Jazz Band, one of more than 30 bands lined up for the 21st Mammoth Lakes Jazz Jubilee.
Mammoth residents turn out in large numbers to volunteer, and people come from all over the country to hear the variety of Dixieland, BeBop, Swing, Zydeco and straight-ahead jazz that is presented for 5 days every summer. The musicians love to come to Mammoth, for the appreciative audiences and for the chance to jam, sit in on others’ sessions and hear each other play.
What started as a one-day, one-tent concert in 1988, has evolved into a five-day, many-tented splendor, still run with love and sweet notes by Flossie and Ken Coulter, who juggle the music and musicians with their magical touch.
The music is a mix of musicians who have been playing here since the beginning with new groups being rotated in as schedules allow. Almost every tent has a dance floor, because when the music starts it has a way of getting under the skin and moving even the shyest folk to dance to the music.
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