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Like its sky-high counterpart, THE BiG DiPPER features seven leading lights spanning the seven regions of our state. Each storyteller takes a brilliant angle on this Idaho life. All told, connect the dots for a glowing overarching impression of this Gem of a place. Get your stargazing on. STARRY-TELLERS: Blair Williams (Coeur d'Alene) CMarie Fuhrman (McCall and Frank Church Wilderness) Darren Parry (Preston) Jessica Joy Harned (Boise) Michael Riley (Potlatch and Craters of the Moon) Reilly Hoy (Twin Falls) Ted Stout (Picabo and Craters of the Moon) Presented by Story Story Night Directed and edited by Jodi Eichelberger Music performed by the Classical Queens Quartet Music composed by Cassidy Robinson Musical track by Jün Campion Sponsors | The Idaho Humanities Council, Boise City Department of Arts & History, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Idaho, The Modern Hotel, Radio Boise

Winter tourism in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, has begun to heat up.Since early October, searches and bookings for Harbin winter tourism products on various online travel, group-buying and social media platforms have been steadily increasing, more so than during the same period last year, according to a recent Harbin Daily report.Data from major online services platform Meituan shows that searches for winter activities such as skiing, ice fishing, snow hiking, and aurora and rime viewing in areas around China have increased by 72 percent. Among them, Harbin has the highest search volume, with attractions such as Harbin Ice and Snow World, Harbin Ice Wonderland and the Yabuli Ski Resort dominating interest.Hotels and guesthouses in Harbin have already begun preparing for guests to ensure they have a comfortable, enjoyable experience.Data from the Harbin Market Supervision Bureau shows that in the first nine months of this year, the number of accommodation providers in the city has increased 198 percent year-on-year."Two new hotels located in the north of the Songhua River in Songbei district will open in early November," said Zhang Xinyu, the person in charge of Bochen Chain Hotels. "We have three hotels in the south of the river, and the two new ones are expected to provide our customers with a beautiful view of the Songhua River outside their windows during their stay."As Harbin is gearing up to host the 9th Asian Winter Games in 2025, Harbin Madieer Group Co is fully leveraging its strengths to provide high-standard service guarantees to tourists across the world, according to the company.For instance, its Modern Hotel, which is located on Central Avenue, is undergoing renovations and is upgrading its guest rooms to welcome the arrival of the Asian Winter Games and the ice and snow season."We have been receiving many phone inquiries recently regarding room booking," said Zhang Jinying, manager of the group's brand promotion department."To build a more optimal environment for our customers, we will continue to provide personalized services, such as prioritizing check-in for elderly guests to reduce their waiting time and offering children's books and toys, as well as children's toothbrushes, slippers and baby supplies for families traveling with children to enhance their travel experience."For female customers, we have prepared makeup storage boxes, hand jewelry storage bags, waterproof pads, brown sugar water and disposable face towels to enhance their comfort," said Zhang, adding that English explanations about the hotel's history and culture will be provided for foreign tourists.Despite its name, Modern Hotel boasts a history of over 100 years.Among the city's scenic spots, Harbin Ice and Snow World, which was recognized in January by Guinness World Records as the world's largest ice and snow park, is the most popular. This winter season, it will be expanded from 810,000 square meters to 1 million sq m.After 25 consecutive years of operation, the 26th Harbin Ice and Snow World will fully integrate Asian Winter Games elements to create a more dazzling park combining ice, snow, sound and lights.Liu Yuanqi, an English teacher in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, said she is already looking forward to the winter holiday and is paying attention to the ticket sales information of the Winter Games."During last year's Hangzhou Asian Games, I watched several matches in my city," she said. "This winter, I hope to visit Harbin to enjoy ice and snow, as well as the unique charm of ice and snow sports."

Jennifer Williamson, deputy general manager of AC Hotel Glasgow, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report about her brand new 245-room hotel in the heart of the city. The property features a new wing and restored building that formerly served the Parish Halls during the Victoria era. The hotel, which offers a casual restaurant and an already popular bar, was the first stop on a five-day fam trip of Scotland hosted by VisitScotland. For more information, click on AC Hotel Glasgow. If interested, the original video of this podcast can be found on the Insider Travel Report Youtube channel or by searching for the podcast's title on Youtube.

Webb Wilson, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at KWC Management, talks about what it's like to be running a company that holds the legacy of one of the most famous hoteliers there is. How does the history of Kemmons Wilson drive his strategy for future success?

noWebb Wilson, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at KWC Management, talks about what it's like to be running a company that holds the legacy of one of the most famous hoteliers there is. How does the history of Kemmons Wilson drive his strategy for future success?

Ban Ruiqi and her family recently took a trip to Harbin in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. Despite the extremely cold weather there, the tourists from Beijing skied, shopped and generally had a good time during the three-day New Year holiday.恰逢三天元旦假期，来自北京的班瑞琪和她的家人前往中国东北部黑龙江省哈尔滨旅行。虽然天气极其寒冷，他们依然体验了滑雪、购物，总体上玩得很开心。"We went to the Chinese-Baroque Historic Block in the morning, and the Harbin Ice and Snow World in the afternoon, where I saw some local souvenirs and specialties. I bought some for my friends and relatives back home. I especially liked the hand-drawn postcards," Ban said.班瑞琪说：“我们上午去了中国巴洛克历史街区，下午去了哈尔滨冰雪大世界，在那里看到了一些当地纪念品和特产，就给家里的朋友和亲戚买了一些。我特别喜欢手绘明信片。”As an increasing number of travelers show greater enthusiasm for winter tourism, Harbin's ice and snow economy is booming.随着冬季旅游受到越来越多游客的青睐，哈尔滨的冰雪经济也得以蓬勃发展。With the opening of various ice and snow-themed parks, the city has become popular among tourists. In the two weeks since the opening of the Harbin Ice and Snow World on Dec 18, the city's popularity in searches on China's travel website Mafengwo surged 300 percent, making it an "internet celebrity" city, data from the online platform showed.随着各种冰雪主题公园的开放，哈尔滨吸引来了众多游客。在线平台数据显示，自12月18日哈尔滨冰雪大世界开放以来的两周内，哈尔滨在中国旅游网站马蜂窝的搜索频次飙升了300%，成为了一座“网红城市”。According to Harbin Taiping International Airport, the airport realized an annual throughput of 20 million passenger trips on Dec 20, setting a record for the Northeast China region.哈尔滨太平国际机场的数据显示，12月20日该机场年旅客吞吐量达2000万人次，创下了中国东北地区的纪录。A report released by online travel agency Ctrip showed Harbin ranked on a list of hot New Year holiday tourism destinations in China this year.携程在线旅游发布的一份报告显示，哈尔滨在今年中国春节热门旅游目的地名单中名列前茅。During the three-day holiday period, air and train ticket bookings to Harbin grew by 631 percent year-on-year.在为期三天的假期期间，飞往哈尔滨的机票和火车票预订量同比增长了631%。The Harbin airport added 11 domestic routes, and operated 463 flights, on Dec 22, transporting over 70,000 passengers, setting a record for passenger flow.12月22日，哈尔滨机场新增11条国内航线，运营航班463架次，运送旅客7万余人次，创下客流纪录。On Dec 26, hotel bookings in Harbin for the New Year holiday on Beijing-based online travel agency Qunar surged 2,570 percent on a yearly basis, while those for bed-and-breakfast stays on homestay platform Tujia soared 2,700 percent.12月26日，北京在线旅游去哪儿网显示，哈尔滨元旦假期酒店预订量同比飙升2570%，而民宿平台途家的民宿预订量飙升2700%。“进入冬季旺季，尤其是哈尔滨冰雪大世界开业后，我们的房间预订一直保持满员状态，这种情况将持续到春节期间，”哈尔滨现代酒店总经理助理邓一波说。"Entering the winter peak season, especially after the opening of the Harbin Ice and Snow World, our room reservations have remained full, and the situation will last until the Spring Festival period," said Deng Yibo, general manager assistant at the Modern Hotel in Harbin. “进入冬季旺季，尤其是哈尔滨冰雪大世界开业后，我们的房间预订一直保持满员状态，这种情况将持续到春节期间，”哈尔滨现代酒店总经理助理邓一波说。"Tourism souvenirs have mostly been sold out, especially hand-drawn postcards. Postcards of various tourist spots are popular; so are candies and chocolates from Russia. The shelves are basically empty," said Meng Fanbo, a staff member at a gift shop in Harbin.哈尔滨一家礼品店的工作人员孟凡波说：“旅游纪念品大多卖完了，尤其是手绘明信片。各种旅游景点的明信片很受欢迎；来自俄罗斯的糖果和巧克力也很受欢迎，货架基本都被扫空了。”Wang Hongxin, head of the bureau of culture, broadcasting, TV and tourism of Harbin, said, "The winter tourism season in Harbin has been so popular that we expect such a 'heat' will last until the end of March."哈尔滨市文化广电旅游局局长王洪新表示，“哈尔滨的冬季旅游旺季非常受欢迎，我们预计这样的‘热度'将持续到3月底。”In January 2023, the China Tourism Academy issued a report on the development of Harbin's ice and snow tourism.2023年1月，中国旅游研究院发布哈尔滨冰雪旅游发展报告。It said that with a high concentration of ice and snow resources in China, Harbin has gone through the primary stage of serving human transportation through ice and snow, and entered the advanced stage of using ice and snow resources to drive urban development.报告显示，哈尔滨已经走过以冰雪运动服务人类交通运输的初级阶段，进入了运用冰雪资源驱动城市发展的高级阶段。In May 2022, Harbin launched a development plan for its ice and snow economy.2022年5月，哈尔滨市启动了冰雪经济发展规划。According to the plan, by 2025, total output value of the city's ice and snow industry should reach 75 billion yuan ($10.5 billion), taking up over a quarter of the province's total in the sector.根据规划，到2025年，全市冰雪产业总产值要达到750亿元（105亿美元），占全省冰雪产业总产值的四分之一以上。By 2030, that should take up over a third of the province's total and surpass 150 billion yuan.到2030年，冰雪产业总值将占全省GDP的三分之一以上，超过1500亿元。Huang Dawei, deputy head of the bureau of culture, broadcasting, TV and tourism of Harbin, said, "Through coordinating the development of four key ice and snow industry clusters — ice and snow sports, ice and snow culture, ice and snow equipment, and ice and snow tourism — Harbin was successfully granted the right to host the 9th Asian Winter Games 2025."哈尔滨市文化广电旅游局副局长黄大伟说：“通过协调冰雪运动、冰雪文化、冰雪装备和冰雪旅游四个重点冰雪产业集群的发展，哈尔滨成功获得了2025年第九届亚洲冬季运动会的主办权。”Hong Yong, an associate research fellow at the e-commerce research institute of the Ministry of Commerce, said: "Harbin's ice and snow economy is on the rise, bringing real benefits to the local merchants. To promote the long-term development of the industry, it is suggested that the government offer more favorable policies, such as helping lower merchants' winter operating costs, and providing marketing platforms. Meanwhile, enterprises should offer high-quality goods and services to meet consumer demand against the backdrop of a consumption upgrade."商务部电子商务研究所副研究员洪勇表示：“哈尔滨的冰雪经济正在崛起，给我们本地商家带来了实实在在的好处。要促进行业的长期发展，政府还要提供更多优惠政策，如降低商家冬季运营成本、提供营销平台。同时，在消费升级的背景下，企业应该提供高质量的商品和服务来满足消费者需求。”homestay英 /ˈhəʊm.steɪ/ 美 /ˈhoʊm.steɪ/noun 寄宿，民宿boom英/buːm/ 美 /buːm/noun 蓬勃发展

V Jizerských horách začala demolice horské chaty Smědava. Známou chatu z roku 1935 v Bílém Potoce by měl nahradit wellness hotel. Soukromý vlastník má povolení od ochranářů i stavebních úřadů. Okolním obcím se ale přestavba, ke které se nemohly vyjádřit, nelíbí. A nadšení nejsou ani někteří turisté.

Brent and Jason return for a 7th season! Our first 4 episodes were recorded before OKT went on hiatus in March with the rest of the planet; the last 6 episodes were recorded 5 months later. They talk to Alexander Watson, author of the book River Queens: Saucy Boat, Stout Mates, Spotted Dog, America. Joined by his partner and intrepid shipmate, Dale Harris, they detail their refurbishing of a 1950s wooden Chris-Craft boat, visiting towns and rivers as they sail from Oklahoma to Ohio. The Fake History Sponsors are the 1915 Cloverport, KY Barbeque and The Modern Hotel of the Cumberland Mountains. Share comments here or on the Apple Podcasts app, iTunes or NPROne. Old Kentucky Tales is produced by sound engineer Todd Birdsong at WKCTC's Paducah School of Art and Design.

Wedding Venues the topic of discussion here, as Laura Redhead Benson speaks with Joanne from the Radisson Blu. No matter what type of venues you might be looking at for your Wedding you will find the conversation helpful. Joanne sets the screen by detailing the various parts of the Hotel form the Victorian House that is attached to the Modern Hotel, to the Banqueting Room, to the Ceremony space and of course all the other Hotel amenities that are available. That described allowed the conversation as to how Wedding Days happen in this type of Venue as well discussing differences to other Venues. The contrast outlined in the discussion is helpful to all. As Wedding Couples search for Venues, food and tasting are a major deciding factor. Laura and Joanne discuss seasonal menus and how the tasting works in Hotel venues. Additionally the viewing options available to couples be it a Hotel Showcase or have a sneak peak the morning of someones wedding. When viewing Hotels it is a good idea to get to know the team that will be working with you in the build up to your wedding day and on the big day itself. Booking your Venue is a big step so Joanne outlines the provisional holding dates policy and how to sure up your date with a confirmation. While the date is provisional advice is give on how to be confident in your choice and maximize the array of suppliers you may want for your wedding. Budgeting is a tricky task for Weddings, Laura and Joanne get into how to go about budgeting and what to be wary of (in the endless midfield of Wedding spending). Numbers and table plans are critical to the feel of your Wedding celebrations. Various types of Banqueting table layouts are discussed and how it is important that a room is capable of holding the number of guest you wish to cater for. The Wedding Cake has become an iconic part of Wedding Days, Joanne outlines how the Radisson Blu help accentuate the cake as oppose to leave it as an after thought. Speeches, the old devil of Wedding Days. Advice is given on fitting them into the service of food and discussed is how house rules can impact speeches to maintain the order of banqueting. Drink options are detailed, be it wine choices, gins, beers, whiskey, teas and coffees. Decor at the Venue is delved into. Photo ops are considered and much more in this Wedding Venue podcast. Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa, Cork website is: https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/hotels/radisson-blu-cork-spa Facebook is: https://www.facebook.com/RadissonBluHotelSpaCork/ Instgram is: https://www.instagram.com/radissonblucork You can follow Laura's daily stories on Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/lauraandbennyphotography/ For any business inquiries for Laura Redhead Benson channel see the website https://lauraredheadbenson.com/ The Long Form Podcasts are available to listen on all good Podcast Apps such as: Google Podcast https://bit.ly/2RqQxm1 and many more, search Laura Redhead Benson.

We talk Pride Month with DJ, club promoter, bartender and all around jack of trades Yooey Kim. Wang Chungs bartender Chris Sierra mixes up amazing drinks and we celebrate with the word of the day, appropriately chosen as lesbian. Yooey was a known name in Honolulu nightlife by age 19, and by 21 she quickly became one of Honolulu’s top bartenders. She crashed into the party promotion scene when she co-founded Honolulu’s premiere monthly party, ChittyBang. It wasn’t until she had been throwing parties and slanging drinks for Hawaii’s top headliners for almost 12 years that she finally decided to pursue her music career and become one of them. Yooey is an open format club DJ who weaves in hip-hop, trap, future bass, and house to shape her eclectic signature sound. In less than one year in Honolulu’s DJ industry, Yooey has opened sold-out shows for nationally renowned headliners including Nervo, Cash Cash and more. She has also been mentioned in favorite local blogs as “Best Newcomer DJ.” You can find Yooey spinning at some of Honolulu’s most popular venues including The Safehouse, Bar 35, Nextdoor, The Manifest, The Republik, The Electron Room, and the Sunset Pool at the Modern Hotel. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/maleko-and-flash/support

Today we bring you a surprise BONUS EPISODE with an incredible man. Award-winning Chef Fred DeAngelo’s cuisine has taken several Hawaiian restaurants to unparalleled heights. Well-respected within the Hawaiian culinary community, Chef DeAngelo is now bringing his 20 years’ experience to a new restaurant, Ravish, a collaboration of Pacific cuisines at the Modern Hotel (taking the place of the famed Morimoto’s). We met Fred at Grappling Unlimited where we all train in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Fred is not only a talented chef, he is also a decorated Jiu Jitsu athlete, father, and a sharp business owner whose entrepreneurial mindset is fascinating. In addition to hard work and dedication, Chef Fred shares how his spirituality and perspective on life helped him create his award-winning culinary success. Get the scoops on Fred’s latest venture in Honolulu and put the kids to bed for this one, there’s some colorful language. http://www.themodernhonolulu.com/ravish-restaurant-honolulu Please help us reach more ears! Leave us an itunes review! Come play with us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Periscope, Pinterest twitter.com/kimiandpua facebook.com/kimiandpua instagram.com/kimiandpua pinterest.com/kimiandpua youTube.com

This summer, the Modern Hotel and Radio Boise began hosting Campfire Stories, a series of readings produced by Christian Winn and showcasing the work of Idaho’s rich literary community. Featuring original fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, and other forms of writing, the series can be heard every second Monday throughout the summer and will continue into the fall. Campfire Stories, No. 6 features Alan Heathcock and David Abrams ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Alan Heathcock’s VOLT was a “Best Book” selection from numerous newspapers and magazines, including GQ, Publishers Weekly, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, and Cleveland Plain Dealer, was named as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, selected as a Barnes and Noble Best Book of the Month, as well as a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize. Heathcock has won a Whiting Award, the GLCA New Writers Award, a National Magazine Award, has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Lannan Foundation, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts. A native of Chicago, he lives and works in Boise, Idaho. David Abrams is the author of Fobbit (Grove/Atlantic, 2012), a comedy about the Iraq War which Publishers Weekly called “an instant classic” and named a Top 10 Pick for Literary Fiction in Fall 2012. It was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, an Indie Next pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a Montana Honor Book, and a finalist for the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. His short stories have appeared in Fire and Forget (Da Capo Press, 2013) and Home of the Brave: Somewhere in the Sand (Press 53), anthologies of short fiction about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Other stories, essays and reviews have been published in Esquire, Narrative, Salon, Salamander, Connecticut Review, The Greensboro Review, Consequence, and many other publications. He earned a BA in English from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He retired from active-duty after serving in the U.S. Army for 20 years, a career which took him to Alaska, Texas, Georgia, the Pentagon, and Iraq. He now lives in Butte, Montana with his wife. His blog, The Quivering Pen, can be found at: www.davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com Visit his website at: www.davidabramsbooks.com

Beginning the summer of 2014, the Modern Hotel and Radio Boise will host Modern Campfire Stories, produced by Christian Winn. On Monday nights throughout the summer and fall, hear the best writers Idaho has to offer. September 8, 2014 features Martin Corless-Smith and Christian Winn ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Christian Winn is a fiction writer, poet, journalist, and teacher of creative writing. His fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, Greensboro Review, Chattahoochee Review, Gulf Coast, Bat City Review, Every Day Fiction, The Pinch, Santa Monica Review, Handful of Dust, The Strip, and Revolver. His collection of short stories, NAKED ME, is out from Dock Street Press. He has written for The Boise Weekly, Thrive, The Idaho Statesman, and Idaho Magazine. He is the founder of the Writers Write fiction workshop series, co-founder and committee member of Storyfort, and curator of Modern Campfire Stories. He teaches fiction writing at Boise State University, and though Writers In The Schools and the Cabin's summer camps. Christian Winn will be reading from NAKED ME, his collection of short stories, released August 1st from Dock Street Press. Martin Corless-Smith is the author of English Fragments: A Brief History of the Soul; Swallows; Nota; Complete Travels; and Of Piscator. A limited edition chapbook, Roman and Moscow Poems, was published in 2011. Born and raised in Worcestershire, England, he has studied painting and poetry, with degrees from the University of Reading, Southern Methodist University, the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. He is currently a professor of creative writing in the Boise State University MFA program.

This summer, the Modern Hotel and Radio Boise began hosting Campfire Stories, a series of readings produced by Christian Winn and showcasing the work of Idaho’s rich literary community. Featuring original fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, and other forms of writing, the series can be heard every second Monday throughout the summer and will continue into the fall. October 13, 2014 features Samantha Silva, Stacy Ericson and Tish Thornton ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Samantha Silva is a screenwriter who dabbles in short and long-form fiction. She has sold projects to Paramount, Universal and New Line Cinema. Her Untitled Dickens Project will film in the UK in 2015. Stacy Ericson is a photographer, poet, playwright, writer and editor. Her work has appeared in online juried anthologies, the online art journal, "Escape into Life," and on her blog, swanmind.com Tish Thornton is a professional ritualist and amateur writer. Her writing has been featured in anthologies, small literary publications and on NPR.

Beginning this summer, the Modern Hotel and RadioBoise will host Modern Campfire Stories, produced by Christian Winn. On Monday nights throughout the summer and fall, hear the best writers Idaho has to offer. August 11, 2014 features Laura Roghaar and John Rember ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Laura Mei Roghaar is a poet. She teaches at Boise State and at The Cabin. Her first chapbook, SISTERHOUSE, is out from dancing girl press. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ John Rember was born in Sun Valley, Idaho, quite some time ago. He graduated from Wood River High School in Hailey, received his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.F.A. from the University of Montana. His is the author of the short story collections Coyote in the Mountains, Cheerleaders from Gomorrah, and Sudden Death, Over Time, the memoir Traplines, and the why-to-write book MFA in a Box. He is a columnist for Boise Weekly and has—just in time— finished a new book, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World. His contribution to Modern Campfire Stories is “Poetry Can Wait,” a dramatic monologue from Sudden Death, Over Time that examines the many things that can go awry when a small college attempting to hire a poet and composition teacher puts the wrong faculty member on the selection committee.

Beginning this summer, the Modern Hotel and RadioBoise will host Modern Campfire Stories, produced by Christian Winn. On Monday nights throughout the summer and fall, hear the best writers Idaho has to offer. July 14, 2014 features Kerri Webster and Nichole Cullen ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Kerri Webster is the author of Grand & Arsenal (Iowa, 2012) and We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone (Georgia, 2005). The recipient of a Whiting Award, she has taught in the MFA programs at Washington University in St. Louis and Boise State University. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nicole Cullen was raised in Salmon, Idaho, and earned an MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas-Austin in 2011. She was the 2011-2012 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and a 2012-2014 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her short story, “Long Tom Lookout,” which first appeared in The Idaho Review, is forthcoming in The Best American Short Stories 2014.

Beginning this summer, the Modern Hotel and RadioBoise will host Modern Campfire Stories, produced by Christian Winn. On Monday nights throughout the summer and fall, hear the best writers Idaho has to offer. June 16, 2014 features J. Reuben Appelman and Matthew R.K. Haynes ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Matthew R. K. Haynes is an assistant professor of English at College of Western Idaho. He was a State of Idaho Writing Fellow in 2010, named Honors Professor of the Year in 2005 and 2011. He earned his M.A. in Fiction and M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Boise State University. His first novel, Moving Towards Home, was published 1999. Subsequently, his work has appeared in several anthologies and journals including SOMA Literary Journal, O’iwi, Native Literatures, Fringe and Yellow Medicine Review. He was been a finalist for the Faulkner Award in Nonfiction and Writer’s Digest Award in Fiction. His collection of multi-genre writing, titled Shall We Not Go Missing, has been chosen for the Wayne Kaumuali’i Westlake Monograph Series, and is forthcoming from Kuleana Press. READING: I will be reading short short fiction for a new working collection, which are in, or about, Hawai'i. The collection began with the idea: why do we go to Hawai'i? The genesis story attempts to answer this question when a couple leave for Kona to celebrate their second honeymoon after a renewal of vows. Maybe people go to Hawai'i to see a new version of their lover, or a better version of themselves. But, can that version/illusion maintain beyond the "power" of the islands? Is Hawai'i the geographical version of buying a dog, buying a house, having a kid, renewing a vow? Each story connects to the next, by character. For the Modern, I'll be reading a batch that address what it means to want, and how that might be different than what it means to desire, and how, if at all, either can lead to a state of receiving, having, accepting. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ J. Reuben Appelman has spent the past ten years working as a film writer, scripting and producing documentaries such as Jens Pulver: Driven (Warner Bros.) and Playground, a film about the child sex trade, Executive Produced by George Clooney. All of last year he hosted The Writers Block radio show on Boise’s KRBX, interviewing writers, artists, politicians, reporters, ex porn stars, and other manner of people with a story to tell. His writing projects and research, focused on issues related to commercial sexual exploitation, child endangerment, and related law enforcement issues, have earned him a spot as a guest lecturer on the issue of Human Trafficking for the Honor’s College at Boise State University. His work has been featured by National Public Radio literary reviewer, Andrei Codrescu, American Public Media’s “The Story, with Dick Gordon,” and by the glossy arts quarterly, BOMB Magazine, which featured Appelman’s poetry collection, Make Loneliness, as an international Editor’s Pick. He has received multiple writing grants, including a prestigious State of Idaho Writing Fellowship for Investigative Writing. He currently works full time as a fraud investigator for the medical insurance industry. Project Description: In 1977, a man fitting the description of a suspected serial killer tried to abduct Appelman from a shopping mall outside of Detroit. He fled and told no one. In his late thirties, the memory of that near abduction sent him on a five-year mission to solve a decades-old cold case whose police files told the story of ongoing cover-ups, moneyed confidence men, child pornography rings, and high-level corruption. He worked with surviving family members, original task force cops from the 1970s, and a variety of anonymous sources who came out of the shadows. The deeper he dug into the case, the closer it hit to home. At some point, he looked around the casket of a failed marriage and there was nothing left on its walls but the photos of four dead kids nobody but Appelman seemed to be thinking about anymore. 37 Winters is the story of his hunt for their killer. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ About The Series: Produced by Christian Winn, who also produces Storyfort, the literary add-on to this year’s Treefort Music Fest, who invites writers from around Idaho to read their work. Original fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, screenplays and more will be offered from Boise's rich literary community.