The Trailing of the Sheep Festival, which is celebrating 25 years in 2021, has gifted its historical archives to The Community Library in Ketchum. A special ribbon-cutting and dedication event will be held on June 30 at 5 p.m. at the library to recognize and celebrate the gift of the estate of Patricia Crandall Lane, which helped make this project possible. This event is open to the public.
The Community Library will own, curate and maintain the Trailing of the Sheep Festival archives, and an internship program has been established to help work on the project. The inaugural Patricia Crandall Lane Trailing of the Sheep Festival Archives intern is Kaili Smith, a Wood River Valley local of Basque descent. A graduate of the University of Redlands with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and anthropology, Smith is next starting her graduate degree at City University of London where she will be completing an MSc in library sciences.
This summer, she will be processing part of the Trailing of the Sheep Festival archive that is now a part of The Community Library collection.