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It is a fun to go back through the climate records and see what the extremes were here in Jackson. What I found this week was a record low temperature of 38-degrees below zero, set back on the Solstice in 1990. The high temperature that day was only 14 below zero, which was also a record low maximum here in mid-December. There was a lone record of 52 degrees below back on December 20, 1924. But that is not 100-percent verifiable.

Many would think that the most recent decades were some of the hottest ever in Jackson, but that is not the case in the month of December. On more than two-thirds of the days, the record high temperatures that still stand all occurred prior to 1950. The hottest it has ever been in Jackson during this week leading up to the Solstice is 55-degrees, and that was on December 21st, 1933. That was also our hottest December ever.

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That means the first full day of the winter season in Jackson will be next Tuesday, December 22nd. Although, with the nice dump of snow we received this past Sunday night, and with seasonably cool temperatures mid-week, we might as well say that winter has already arrived. In case you forgot, Monday is the shortest day of the year.

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Grow up, Jackson. Literally. That’s the solution to the housing problem here and it may just be the means to preserving the integrity of small town life throughout America. Urban style apartments and condos, 10-story mini-skyscrapers artistically rendered in the heart of downtown little America. I’m serious. Feel that knee-jerk reaction and then keep reading.

We’ve got a growing population on our hands, it’s a demographic fact. And why wouldn’t people want to come here to make a living, whether seasonal or full-time? A vibrant local economy, easy access to public lands, clean air and water, small town charm and a talented community of achievers, not to mention the Tetons as a backdrop, make Jackson what it is–great! But being great is a total catch-22. If a place is really wonderful, a lot of people want to be there, and if lots of people go there then the place changes and it’s often not so great anymore.

So we want to preserve the character of Jackson, the place we know and love, in order to maintain its integrity. But the people are coming, and this lovely place will continue to change whether we want it to or not. Jackson is different than it was 20 years ago, from what I’ve been told, and that 1996 version of Jackson is different from what the town people knew in ‘66. It’ll be different in 2026, too. There will be impacts from population growth; that much is guaranteed.

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But some of the qualities we like best about Jackson and small town America can be preserved through smart growth. We will grow, outward or upward. If we grow outward, our ranch land will become the suburbs. There will be more roads, increased traffic and air pollution, and less space available for game. We will become even more commuter oriented and covered in concrete.

In short, we will be just like everywhere else, and that’s not Jackson. If we choose to grow up instead of out, we’ll have a centralized population living in modern, energy and space efficient dwellings, a population who needn’t be automobile commuters. This will relieve pressure on ranchers to sell out to developers as well as commuter congestion from excessive traffic. It will keep our air clean and our noise pollution low. Preserving open space rather than becoming another suburban parking lot is more in tune with the spirit of old Jackson and small town America.

Keep the ranch land open, keep the game wild, keep the economy bustling.

Growing taller in a confined area is the best way to protect everything else around that area. It’s more efficient and it will significantly ease development pressure on open green space. Make the buildings look good, like art. Develop in areas that don’t obscure the mountain views. This is Jackson. We can do it better here. Who knows, we may even like it.

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n this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

- Ben Franklin

What level of taxation is too high? That seems to be the question of the day.

For a very small but vocal minority, all taxes are theft and should be abolished. The result of this policy, of course, would be a country with no military, no legal system, no health care, no roads, and virtually none of the things even the most primitive civilizations take for granted. I see no point in engaging that argument.

For the rest of us, there is no particular reason that 6 percent is the level that makes the most sense. Sometimes we will need more public funding. Sometimes we won’t.

But one thing we constantly hear today from our electeds is that “we need X, the voters want X, but we don’t have the money for X.” That’s a pretty clear sign that taxes are too low.

We desperately need to fund low-income housing and transportation, for example, and that’s just for starters. When we spend money on these things, we are advancing the interests of the vast majority of residents.

To do that, we need to raise money through taxes. There is no other way.

Those who are ideologically opposed to taxes love to point to underperforming government projects and claim that government can’t do anything right. This is nonsense. Our government sent humans to the moon and back more than 40 years ago. Demanding perfection in any human endeavor – public or private – is a fool’s errand, yet many insist on perfection for public investment.

What’s more, many of those imperfections are not a result of government failure, but of our failure to provide government with the funding it needs to do the job right. The Grove is a great example; hamstrung by a lack of funding, the Housing Authority was forced to prioritize cost savings over best design and now faces criticism from many of the same people who opposed funding housing properly in the first place. It’s like refusing to put oil in your engine, and then complaining when it seizes up.

We, through our local government, should be building a general fund for public investment. Opportunities will present

A small tax increase would not only be painless, it would solve the valley’s pressing issues concerning housing and transportation. So what are we waiting for? themselves for great public investment, and it’s shortsighted to not be fiscally prepared to take advantage of them. At last week’s Teton County/Jackson Joint Information Meeting, some asserted that we need to know specifically where taxes will be spent on before the money is collected. This makes no sense to me. I don’t know how I am going to spend every penny of my income before I go out and earn it; I know that I will need it one day, and I trust myself to know when that day will come.

So how much is too much? Teton County residents currently pay 6 percent sales tax, which comprises a state portion of 4 percent (69 percent of this goes to the state treasury, while 31 percent is returned to local governments based on population). Another 1 percent is allocated to the local general funds, and 1 percent to the Specific Purpose Excise Tax. We pay no income tax.

Compare this to Aspen, Colo., where residents pay 9.3 percent sales tax, or Crested Butte at 8.5 percent; Vail and Telluride residents doling out 8.4 percent. And all Coloradan’s pay 4.63 percent state income tax on top of that.

Six percent is far too low. We have the ability to raise the sales tax rate from 6 to 8 percent, and I think we should seriously consider doing that. We can have great roads here, well-designed low-cost affordable housing, a comprehensive transportation system, a well-funded social services sector, and so much more. These are the kinds of things the community needs to fund publicly; they will not exist if we wait around for the private sector to provide them.

For long-term residents, increased sales taxes are a screaming deal. More than anywhere else in the state, tourists and shortterm visitors support the retail sector, and they can and should help fund much of the infrastructure that they burden. We’ve seen how disruptive these impacts can be, and if

we want to maintain our community character, we’re going to have to start spending money to mitigate them.

A 2 percent increase in sales tax isn’t going to break anyone’s budget, especially when you consider the public gain in services and infrastructure. Someone spending $100 at Kmart will pay an extra $2, while someone spending $25,000 on an imported rug will be contributing an extra $500. Yes, that $2 will add up, but it will be offset by an increase in affordable housing, lower transportation costs, and a generally higher level of community investment in things everyone needs.

And no one is going to cancel their trip to Jackson because of a 2 percent increase in sales tax.

There is nothing magical about 6 percent.

I’m constantly told that no one will go for raising taxes, but I don’t believe that’s true.

Imagine a future where workers have housing; where public transportation can get us quickly and reliably and cheaply to anywhere we need to go; where the most vulnerable members of our community have reliable and consistent access to important social services. A future where we aren’t left to the mercy of the state as we pray they don’t cut our funding. I’ll happily pay more taxes for a future that looks like that.

Wyomingites take great pride in self-reliance, as they should. Properly funding our local government through appropriate levels of self-taxation is one of the most important ways our community can remain self-reliant.

Let’s stop being afraid of taxes, and instead appreciate what a well-funded and well-run local government can do. PJH

Pete Muldoon is a 15-year Jackson resident, a small-business owner, writer and musician.

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THE BUZZ

Gunning for Justice Taking sides and aim at the Second Amendment in the wake of mass shootings.

BY JAKE NICHOLS

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he candlelight vigil held last Thursday night on Town Square was to commemorate the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting tragedy. It was also held to recognize the 90,000 Americans who have been victims of gun violence since that time. Nonetheless, some residents viewed the event as more of a political rally aimed at gaining support for tighter gun control legislation.

“This ‘vigil’ was part of a national antigun campaign to promote gun control legislation,” declared Shep Humphries on his website Counter Violence Institute. Humphries, an ex-law enforcement officer, is now a shooting instructor and owner of Jackson Hole Shooting Experience. While company policy is to avoid taking an official stance on the issue of gun control, Humphries has been outspoken about his fear the Second

Amendment is under attack.

St. John’s Episcopal Church partnered with the Newtown Foundation to sponsor the vigil. Newtown Foundation (Newtown Action Alliance) is a nonprofit that launched following the Sandy Hook mass shooting. Its stated goal is “reversing the escalating gun violence epidemic in this nation,” though some claim the organization is actively lobbying for stricter gun laws.

Humphries also stated on his website: “This anti-gun political campaign wisely uses advanced propaganda and psychological operations techniques, including getting government officials to appear to be on their side. These officials must appear to be in agreement with their audience, so they will not ‘out’ fake events like this one as being political.”

Guns in Wyoming

The numbers don’t lie – the Cowboy State is gun-crazed.

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record from 2014, there are 114,052 registered firearms in Wyoming. That works out to 19.6 per 100 residents — easily leading the way among all states, and it’s not even close according to a recent Bloomberg ranking.

Battle lines over the Second Amendment are fast becoming a political issue as an epidemic of mass shootings plays out daily in newspaper headlines. Yes, daily. According to Mass Shooting Tracker, there have been to date 353 mass shooting incidents (defined by the FBI as involving four or more victims).

Firearm owners cite their statistics; gun control lobbyists have theirs.

The numbers rarely match. For instance, high gun ownership leads to increased rates of gun violence, according to data presented by several gun control interests like Smart Gun Laws.

Wyoming is often used as the perfect example. The state consistently ranks near the top in highest overall gun death rates. According to analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2011, Wyoming had a gun death rate of 16.92 per 100,000 people, ranking the state fourth most dangerous overall.

Wyoming consistently ranks near the top in highest overall gun death rates.

Wyoming is gun crazy.

Official tallies are hard to come by since state residents are not required to register guns and national background checks are reported differently state-by-state. But general estimates put the Cowboy State at the top of the pack with anywhere from 60 to 63 percent of households possessing at least one firearm, and an estimated total of more than half a million guns in the state.

According to data from the Bureau of

Wait just a minute, says Ken Willis. Willis, a retired Jackson Hole lawyer, is an impassioned activist and blogger (TeeJaw.com).

“Wyoming has pretty good gun laws. It’s not a shoot ’em up cowboy state like some people think,” Willis said. “And it’s not very honest to count suicide as gun violence.

Suicide is a whole separate problem issue in itself.”

Willis is referring to suicide numbers included in gun death statistics. Wyoming has the highest suicide rate of any state and more than two-thirds of self-inflicted mortality comes via the use of a firearm. When those numbers are pulled out of the equation, Wyoming looks a lot safer.

According to FBI crime statistics, eight people were murdered in the state of Wyoming in 2010 — five of those murders involved a gun. That works out to fewer than one gun murder per 100,000 people, ranking Wyoming in the top 10 safest. Vermont tops the list with just 0.3 gun murders per 100,000 residents, and that state has the laxest gun laws in the country.

“You are not going to get guns out of the hands of someone who really wants one.

There are three million guns in America,” Willis said. “And most of these statistics show guns aren’t the problem. Look at places like Plano, Texas. They are gun nuts central, and I don’t think they’ve have had a murder in decades. It’s one of the most law-abiding places on earth.”

Guns in Jackson Jackson police chief Todd Smith, who spoke at the vigil in Jackson last week, carries a gun to work every day. And he doesn’t mind knowing that many of his non-cop friends and neighbors do too.

“It’s such a part of our culture here,” Smith said. “You could argue that when you look at gun ownership, maybe we’re an example for the country that you can have high gun ownership and low violent crime statistics.

Where the rest of the country is talking about high guns equals high crime.”

Smith said his officers have had little trouble adjusting to Wyoming’s concealed carry law, changed in 2013 to allow gun owners to carry a concealed firearm without a permit.

“The state Legislature process has done a good job of vetting those who may be allowed to carry. That puts an officer at ease in most cases,” Smith said. “It’s not required, but people are always encouraged to reveal they are carrying at a traffic stop, for example. It helps set a positive tone. Bottom line, if you are going to be a law enforcement officer in this state, you have to be cognizant and aware that people can possess firearms.”

A planned counter demonstration at last week’s anti-gun violence vigil never really materialized. Some in the community were calling for gun owners to attend the event with gun on hip. Smith has seen relatively few instances where open carry has caused concern.

“When the law first changed there were those on the extreme side of supporting the Second Amendment that wanted to test the waters,” Smith admitted. “We had an incident at a bank with someone carrying a firearm. It disturbed an employee there and they called. It turned out they were part of a group that does this around the country just trying to make a statement, push the envelope and make a report card on how each state responds. It was unfortunate because it puts an officer in an unnecessary situation trying to decide how to handle it.”

designed to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency,” read the subhead by the editorial board. It was the first editorial to grace the front page of The New York Times since 1920.

For argument’s sake Arguments on both sides of the gun issue are endless. Pro-gunners wrapping themselves in the Constitution say citizens should be armed in case their government goes all tyrannical. Opponents laugh at the absurdity of a band of freedom fighters opposing U.S. tanks, nuclear subs, and stealth bombers with their .44 revolvers.

The “good guy with a gun” scenario is more hotly debated. Could the presence of an armed citizen prevent or decrease the body count in a shooting spree scenario?

And, more importantly, do states offering concealed carry pose a significant deterrent to anyone thinking about committing a violent crime?

Wyoming is one of only five states where a shooting spree has never taken place.

“I have a good question for the ‘more gun control people,’” Willis posed. “Would it have been a good idea if a police officer was in that clinic in San Bernardino? Yes, they would answer. But that’s not going to be possible,

for police to be everywhere. What if a gun carrier was there? Would that have made a difference? If there had been one or two people there who had guns and knew how to use them, the outcome would have been different and a lot of lives could have been saved.”

Smith agrees that the prospect that someone in the vicinity, especially in Wyoming, is possibly armed creates a strong deterrent. “If I’m a bad guy in Wyoming it would probably cross my mind there is a strong possibility that someone in the room might be carrying,” Smith said.

But the police chief said just having a gun isn’t enough.

“I equate it to owning a horse. It’s easy to buy a horse at a Sunday auction but it doesn’t make you a horseman,” Smith explained.

“It’s easy to buy a gun in Wyoming but that doesn’t make you a marksman. It takes time and practice, learning the pros and cons of that tool, to develop a higher skill set. I hire police officers all the time who have never touched a gun before. They become an asset to the community through training.” PJH

Perhaps unsurprising to Wyomingites is that they rank as the most gun-toting bunch in the nation, with Montana holding strong in a close second.

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Unsurprisingly, all 10 of the states with the highest gun ownership rates are staunchly Republican. And nine of the 10 states with the lowest gun ownership rates are considered Democratic states.

“It’s true that most of the people calling for more gun control are Democrats,” Willis said. “It is worrisome because I believe if they are ever successful in accomplishing what they want, America would become a much more violent place. But I think a national movement is less and less likely. A Rasmussen poll shows a majority are opposed to more gun control.”

Humphries, for one, isn’t so sure the right to bear arms is safe. He points to an affecting New York Times editorial appearing on Dec. 4 calling for new legislation adjusting the Second Amendment. The editorial decried the ease with which people in this country can obtain guns crafted for mass destruction.

“It is a moral outrage and national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons

THEM ON US

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Snowboarder remembered Callagy Fahey Ross, 23, who died in a snowboarding accident at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort last Monday, was eulogized by Vermont’s Public Radio. The Boston native had made Stowe, Vermont, her most recent home before moving to Jackson five days before colliding with a tree on the Moran run.

“Callagy was raised on love, homemade bread, discipline, physical activity and generosity,” Ross’ family wrote in an obituary appearing in the Stowe Reporter. “To know Callagy was to witness true beauty and share in a vibrancy that made all happy to be around her.”

Her family named three Vermont charities for memorial donations: Vermont Works for Women, the Burton Chill Foundation and the University of Vermont sailing team.

Idaho lawmen leaving The Teton County, Idaho, Sheriff’s Department has been hit with a rash of resignations recently. Three deputies have quit in the past two months.

“It’s going to affect our investigations because I’m going to have to put my investigator on the road,” Teton County Sheriff Tony Liford told the Teton Valley News. “So yeah, it’s going to make it very difficult.”

Liford said six deputies, in total, have left the office because of the attitude of the county prosecutor’s office.

“It’s taken a long time to get a quality crew that we have, and now we’re losing them because we have a hostile deputy prosecutor,” the sheriff said.

State of decline Times continue to get tougher for Wyoming’s economy. The Equality State is one of four states experiencing shrinking revenues.

The state’s gross domestic product shrank 2.3 percent in the second quarter after a 6.1 percent drop during the first three months of the year, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The statistics are considered an indication of the downturn in the energy industry.

“Other energy-reliant states also saw GDP shrink. Oklahoma (-2.4 percent), West Virginia (-2 percent), North Dakota (-1.2 percent) all posted GDP declines,” The Washington Times reported.

Flying high November was a flurry of activity for Jackson Hole Airport with a record number of passengers tallied. An anticipated busy December will almost definitely mean Wyoming’s busiest airport should shatter last year’s record 316,181 passengers.

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Yet another article on the “other” Jackson Hole in the Far East has rekindled interest and initiated the uninformed on the alter-community in China fashioning itself after our beloved valley.

A New York Times piece by Andrew Jacobs on Dec. 8 recirculated its way around local social media last week.

“But unlike the bedraggled pioneers who settled the American West, the first inhabitants of Jackson Hole, a resort community on the outskirts of the Chinese capital, arrived

by Audi and Land Rover, their trunks filled with French wine and their bank accounts flush with cash,” Jacobs wrote.

According to the developer, Ju Yi International, more than 90 percent of the 1,500 homes in Jackson Hole, China, have been sold. Modest entry-level homes sell for $625,000. Larger spreads have fetched nearly $8 million.

Longest ride The next time you are tempted to complain about your commute, remember Victoria Nichols. The 15-year-old sophomore at Kelly Walsh High School certainly has one of the longest bus rides to school of anyone in the country.

Each weekday at 6:15 a.m., Nichols boards Bus 107 for the 120-mile, two-hour round trip trek to school. Heather Richards penned the story for the Casper Star Tribune.

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ABC News picked up a story by Ben Neary via the Associated Press that narrated Wyoming’s controversial new legislation barring the collection of data on private land with stricter trespassing laws.

A lawyer representing a coalition of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Center for Food Safety, National Press Photographers Association, Natural Resources Defense Council and Western Watersheds Project had a few words for a federal judge last Friday.

Mainly that two new Wyoming laws improperly bar them from gathering information about the impact of agriculture and other industries on private and public lands.

“The groups fear the measures will inspire other energy and development-friendly western states to follow Wyoming’s lead,” Neary wrote. PJH

Wait, What?

NEWS

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After certain takeoffs and landings were delayed on Nov. 7 at Paris’ Orly airport (several days before the terrorist attacks), a back trace on the problem forced the airport to disclose that its crucial “DECOR” computer system still runs on Windows 3.1 software (introduced in 1992). DECOR’s function is to estimate the spacing between aircraft on fog-bound, visually impossible runways, and apparently it must shut down whenever the airport scrambles to find an available 3.1-qualified technician.

than burglars did, according to FBI figures publicized by the independent Institute for Justice (and that did not count state and local government seizures, which are not uniformly reported). None of the governments is bound by law to await convictions before exercising seizure rights. (Some of the seized assets must eventually be returned to private-party victims, but news reports abound of suddenly enriched police departments and other agencies being “gifted” with brand-new cars and other assets acquired from suspects never convicted of crimes.)

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Cultural Diversity

Weird Japan (continued): Sony manufactured a robot dog (“Aibo”) from 1996 to 2006 for a legion of pet-fanciers, but now that supplies of spare parts and specialized repairers are dwindling, many of the beloved family “canines” are “dying” off. Not to worry, though, for many “surviving” owners are conducting elaborate, expensive—and even religious—burials with widely attended funerals for their Aibos. (A March 2015 Newsweek report offered a dazzling photographic array of Aibo funerals.)

Aibo support groups proliferate online because, said one repair service director, “(W)e think that somehow, (Aibos) really have souls.”

Leading Economic Indicators

Art Basel, the annual weeklong festival for “OnePercenters” in Miami Beach, is scheduled for Dec. 1 to Dec. 6, and among the many excesses is the sale of on-demand caviar, available by text message, to be delivered in person within the hour, at $275 for a 125-gram tin. Miami New Times calls Art Basel “ComicCon for the world’s moneyed elite,” and among the extravaganzas is an “exotic dance club sheltered inside a greenhouse.”

Four thousand artists, from 32 countries, are participating.

Government in Action

nThe federal government confiscated more property from citizens (through “civil asset forfeiture”) in 2014

People With Issues

Author Richard Brittain, 28 (and a former champion at the popular British Scrabble-like “Countdown” TV show), pleaded guilty in Scotland’s Glasgow Sheriff Court in November for his 2014 response to an unfavorable literary review by an 18-year-old supermarket worker posting on an Internet site. Brittain had acknowledged some criticisms of his book “The World Rose” in a blog, but said other critics had compared him to Dickens, Shakespeare and Rowling. However, he confessed, when he read the clerk’s review, he searched for her online, found where she worked, traveled 500 miles to the store and knocked her out with a wine bottle to the back of the head. (She was treated and released at a hospital.)

Least Competent Criminals

Recurring Theme: The job market in Wayne County, Michigan, is apparently tough to crack, which led John Rose, 25, to the county sheriff’s office looking for a job.

He finished the paper application in November and was awaiting his interview when deputies called him back.

As he walked through the door, he was arrested, since a routine check had turned up numerous outstanding charges in Kentucky including multiple counts of rape, sexual abuse and sodomy. nNot Ready for Prime Time: A crew of masked home invaders struck an Orlando, Florida, family in October and were preparing a haul of about $100,000 in cash and property when one of the perps got testy with the family’s barking dog. “Back up, Princess,” the masked man said, inadvertently revealing that he was on a first-name basis with the dog and therefore a family acquaintance.

The victims, piecing together other clues, identified Christopher Jara, who was soon arrested.

Recurring Themes

Inexplicable: He was a “well-traveled professional with close to seven figures in the bank,” according to a November New York Times profile, who had recently, gradually given $718,000 to two Manhattan psychics who had vowed to help reunite him with a former love (even though she is dead and, said one, reachable only if he built an 80-mile bridge of gold past her “reincarnation portal”). Though the psychics have been identified, a private investigator said the very personality problems that made the man a victim will also make him a “terrible witness” in court.

Thanks This Week to Lisa Robinson and Joel Sullivan, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

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— Charles Smith, 62, is set to drive municipal buses for Broward County, Florida, until he retires in 2020, even though his record includes 14 accidents in a recent fiveyear period (not enough for discipline, in that, according to contract rules, not more than four were labeled “preventable” in any two consecutive years). The bus drivers’ union president told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that he “can’t figure out why” some drivers just get into more accidents than others. Elsewhere in transit news, notorious serial New York “joydriver” Darius McCollum, 50, commandeered yet another bus and was arrested on Nov. 11. He faces jail time, just as he has already served for more than two dozen bus- and train-”borrowing” incidents. (Based on news reports of McCollum over the years, he nonetheless might be a better bus driver than Charles Smith.)

(1) Carrie Pernula, 38, was arrested in Champlin, Minnesota, in October after a perhaps too-aggressive strategy for quieting raucous neighbor kids. According to the police report, Pernula, at wit’s end, apparently, wrote the kids’ parents by mail: “(Your) children look delicious.

May I have a taste?” (2) Robinson Pinilla-Bolivar, 24, was arrested in Midland, Texas, in November, accused of threatening a woman at knifepoint because (according to the police report) she would not “smell his arm pit.”

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nNew World Order: “Crowdsourcing” start-ups (such as GoFundMe and Kickstarter) raise money online for projects such as underappreciated entrepreneurial ventures or families needing help with medical expenses. Daytrading dabbler Joe Campbell went online in November to beg for assistance after being crushed by a bet of the type that many say wrecked the U.S. economy in 200708. He held a pessimistic “short” position in his account on KaloBios Pharmaceuticals (KBIO)—hoping to exploit traders overly optimistic about the company. However, overnight NASDAQ trading awakened him with news that KBIO’s price had skyrocketed in frenzied trading and that Campbell now owed his broker $131,000—and Campbell’s new GoFundMe post stoically asks strangers to please help him pay that off.

More Things to Worry About

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The conservation couple: Ted and Addie Donnan.

If I Knew Then …

Gleaning wisdom and perspective from the valley’s golden agers.

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ddie Donnan, 91, skied her last run at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort when she was in her late 80s. She stuck close to the side of the trail, making careful, tight turns to stay out of the way of the skiers and boarders who zoomed by. She’s always loved skiing and enjoyed that last run, but the rush of people flying past was disconcerting. Addie doesn’t think she’ll ski again.

It’s not just skiers who bomb by Jackson Hole’s elders. With the valley’s youthobsessed, partying, extreme sports culture, those who move slower and more carefully are often pushed to the side or ignored. But there is much to be learned, to contemplate from those who’ve spent multiple decades on this earth.

Folks today think they have it good living here now, but imagine what it was like to arrive 50-some years ago to find your own private paradise? Just ask your older neighbors about their youthful adventures and you may find yourself longing for the good old days.

If Donnan knew then — when she was 20 or so in the 1940s — what she knows now, she

says she would have moved to Jackson right away. “If I didn’t want to spoil Jackson Hole, I’d tell everyone to come out here,” she said.

Donnan first visited the valley when she was 12 to stay with her cousins who owned the Bear Paw Ranch, a guest ranch that was located near the southern entrance to Grand Teton National Park, just north of Teton Village. Donnan was put to work as a cabin girl. Her job was to make the dudes’ beds each morning. “I got to be really fast at making beds,” Donnan said, “because when I finished I could catch my horse and go riding.”

She rode up along the flanks of the Tetons above the ranch and beside the Snake River. She went on long pack trips into the mountains where they wouldn’t see another soul for two or more weeks. On Sundays, she and her cousins saddled their horses, put on their best riding clothes and headed up the Moose-Wilson Road to the Chapel of the Transfiguration for church, picking up other horse-riding churchgoers along the way. The town of Jackson — and Donnan’s life back in Connecticut — felt like another world during those idyllic summers on the ranch.

Donnan loved the riding and later the skiing she found in the Tetons, and the western migration from her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, to Jackson Hole became a regular part of her life — first for annual summer visits to her cousins, the Huylers, and later with her husband, Ted Donnan. The Donnans, who bought property and created a home from old motel cabins on what is now the Snake River Ranch, quickly established themselves as a conservation force in the valley.

“I think we were rather troublesome,” Donnan said. “But I thought Wyoming was so special. We didn’t want to keep people out, but we wanted them to care. We tried to keep people from harming the valley.”

Donnan doesn’t look back on her life with many regrets, although she does say she liked Jackson better when it was “little old Jackson” rather than the busy commercial center it has become. But in her mind the fact that so much of the valley has been protected as open space means the changes that have taken place over the years are OK. That young people today still get to experience many of the things that brought her joy living here for so many years.

Jackson’s early hippies

Addie and Ted Donnan (center) on a family ski date.

Evidence that Lou Breitenbach was more ‘fit’ than she let on.

Rod Newcomb after completing the first ascent of the East Buttress of Denali in 1963.

Jean Webber says she wishes she’d known how lucky she’d been when she was young.

It’s not that life was perfect — Webber, 83, is quick to point out the challenges and limitations women of her generation faced — but things were simpler, at least in Iowa and Minnesota, where she spent her youth.

Newcomb on the summit of the Grand Teton, 1979.

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More opportunity, more complications

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Mary Louise “Lou” Breitenbach, 79, arrived on the Jackson scene in 1959 when she was 23. Like Donnan, she says if she’d known what was out here, she’d have come even sooner. “We arrived at night and went to sleep in the campground,” Breitenbach said. “I woke up to the sunrise lighting up the Tetons. I had never seen anything like it. The mountains in the East are not like these. I was very impressed. I love it here; I’m going to die here.”

Breitenbach came to Jackson with famed skier and musician Bill Briggs. They settled down at what was then the CCC campground off Lupine Meadows Road in Grand Teton National Park, hooking up with a gang of other climbers and guides who were here to explore the area’s craggy peaks. Luminaries such as Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, Barry Corbet, an infamous group of climbers from New York’s Shawangunks called the Vulgarians, and Breitenbach’s future husband Jake Breitenbach were all camped out there together. They comprised a ragtag community of young people living out of their cars on the few dollars they could earn guiding.

They’d build a fire every night and sit around singing folksongs. Black bears routinely prowled the campground in search of bacon and other goodies the campers stored in their coolers. Breitenbach remembers waking up one night to the sound of a bear clambering over the canvas of her tent.

Everyone living in the campground got used to chasing the bears away and sharing their supplies if someone lost too much in a raid.

They got their drinking water straight out of Cottonwood Creek, scrounged a weekly shower at Signal Mountain and went to the bar at the Jackson Lake Lodge or into town to The Wort for dancing, drinking and singing.

During the day, they explored the high peaks.

Life was simple, Breitenbach remembers, and full of adventure, parties, friends and music. A free-spirited hippie, who believed in free love even though it wasn’t called that then, Breitenbach said among the crowd of climbers scrounging out a living during the short summer season there was an intimacy and freedom that foreshadowed the flower children of the ’60s and ’70s. Breitenbach was never a climber, but she hung out with the gang like a band groupie.

“I would describe myself as a wuss,” Breitenbach said. “I was always terrified. I was a terrible skier, a terrible climber, but they put up with me. Women didn’t have to be fit back then. I wouldn’t have changed that. I liked not being fit.”

Three years after he and Lou got together, Jake Breitenbach was killed in an icefall collapse while attempting to climb Mount Everest. Breitenbach found herself lost, alone and angry at god for killing Jake. She left Jackson for California where she became a fringe member of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters. Breitenbach said she was too scared to go all the way with the Pranksters and their casual dalliance with drugs, sex and alcohol. But she did her fair share of experimenting as she struggled to get her life back on track after Jake’s death. It wasn’t until she met the minister at the Episcopal Church in Jackson, Phil Zimmer, that she began to find a way to cope with her rage from losing her young husband. Zimmer and his wife allowed Breitenbach to live in one of the buildings on the church’s property for $50 a month and a little gardening work. She stayed there nine years while she learned to make peace with tragedy. After that interlude, she felt ready to reenter the world. With funding from friends in Jackson, she headed to Harvard to earn a counseling degree, returning after a year to work in Jackson. She’s never left.

When asked if she ever gets nostalgic for the old days hanging out with climbers at the CCC campground in Grand Teton National Park, Breitenbach smiled and shook her head.

“I thought that way for a long time,” she said.

“But it doesn’t do you any good. So I focus on my job of being here now. I ignore stuff like the traffic. I go up to Jenny Lake. I go into the mountains. I love reading. I fall in love with people. I take what comes each day. I don’t have time to be depressed or angry or to get caught up in the past.

“Life’s lessons are very hard and change is agonizing,” she said. “That’s why I look aside at change. I take it when I want it. All those cars on the road? I just pretend they are not there. All those people who are gone? I look back at them sideways. It’s too much pain to contemplate the change face on.”

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Jean Webber circa 1955 donning her handmade apron.

“We were so clueless,” Webber said. “We went to college to get married. I was married by the time I was 24. That’s what we were expected to do: get married, have kids, be a housewife. If you weren’t married by the end of your 20s, you were an old maid.

“It’s different now. There are lots of options for girls. But it’s harder too,” she said.

“Girls think they can have it all, but you can’t have it all. That sets you up for failure. Either you have someone help you with your kids or you don’t do as well at your job.”

Webber, The Planet’s “Galloping Grandma” columnist, says the changes that have occurred in the world since her youth came along so slowly that she didn’t really notice what was happening. She was too busy raising four little girls to pay attention to hippies, free love and changing opportunities for women. By the time she emerged out of her baby bubble, she says, women had a lot more going for them, and a lot more expectations. In retrospect, she’s grateful for the simplicity of her life. But she understands that the gender dynamics of yesteryear may seem absurd, and certainly unacceptable, to women of today. That you had to ask your husband for permission to get birth control (which was true when she was young), and that the only real job possibilities for women were in teaching or nursing.

“We know so much more about everything now,” Webber said. “I’m not sure that makes us happier though.”

Webber first came to Jackson Hole on camping trips with her young family. They had an old Rambler and a pop-up tent as they traveled through Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. “It was the only thing we could do as a family,” she said. “We didn’t have any money. But with all those kids, it could be a nightmare. I spent all my time cooking in the rain, combing hair. The girls sat on the backseat fighting with each other.”

But that trip opened the whole family’s eyes to the glory of Jackson Hole. They loved

Barbara, Bob and Bobby Shervin, 1954.

it. Later, two of their daughters got summer jobs in the valley. One, founding publisher of The Planet, Mary Grossman, stayed. Webber and her husband followed, buying a house in 1994 for $190,000. Webber says if she knew then what she knows now, she’d have bought 10 of those houses if she could have found the money.

Writing his own ticket

A pioneer of ski culture, Rod Newcomb was born in 1934. He was backcountry skiing before anyone knew what backcountry skiing was, and in the winter of 1960 he and Frank Ewing, another Jackson notable, skied from Moran to Cody. They wore single-layer, leather boots, carried Kelty frame packs, and used “backcountry” skis that allowed their heels to rise about an inch off the ski when they traveled. They did not see anyone. In fact, even today, there aren’t many people who’d make such a trip.

Newcomb, 81, says that they had no idea what Jackson Hole would become. They were just figuring things out as they explored the area’s mountains on skis in the winter and on foot in the summer. He said they were smart enough not to ski Glory Bowl until the spring when it corned up. During most of their ski tours they used vegetation clues to help them identify avalanche paths. But they didn’t have any idea about snow science and weren’t even talking about risk management.

In those days, Neil Rafferty set up two ropes tows on Teton Pass’s Telemark Bowl that pulled the skiers up the hill for some turns before Snow King opened. Newcomb and his buddies often took a longer line and hitched their way back to the top when they were done.

In the winter of 1963/64, the Tetons had what is now called a continental snowpack.

Basically the bottom layers of snow were made up of sugary, unstable depth hoar and when a big storm hit, the upper faces of Snow

Shervin, Bobby and Darrell get high at the King, 1959.

King slid to the ground. For Newcomb, that experience marked a turning point that would define the trajectory of his life. He began studying avalanches.

To do that, he spent time with snow rangers in Utah who were doing the most advanced avalanche control work in the country at the time. Later he got a research job in Colorado, where he studied snow for three years. But as soon as he finished his training, he returned home to Jackson with his family, which now included three kids.

Although the valley became his home base in 1959, Newcomb says if he knew then what he knows now, he’d have moved permanently to the valley even earlier.

Newcomb spearheaded the American Avalanche Institute (AAI) in 1974. His approach to avalanche education was revolutionary.Unlike the only other avalanche educator operating at that time, Newcomb believed classroom work on snow science had to be coupled with backcountry travel. To really learn about snow, he says, you have to get out and touch it, dig in it, play in it and, of course, ski it.

“I was in the right place at the right time,” Newcomb said. “There was a market for people interested in learning about snow and avalanches. Looking back, I see that if I had moved here 10 years later, I don’t think it would have worked. I was in on the beginning. If I’d tried to do what I did in 1984, someone would have already beaten me to it. And there’s no way to start something like AAI now. No way to get the permits. You have to buy an existing business to get started now.

“In those days we could pretty much write our own ticket. We didn’t really know that at the time, but that’s what I did.”

Newcomb first saw the Tetons in 1953 when he got a job through a friend of his family’s at a guest ranch in Grand Teton National Park. The guest ranch, called the Square G, is long gone, but Rod was hooked.

He came back the next year and learned how to climb after borrowing a rope from Paul Petzoldt. He had to skip a couple of years to serve in the army, but in 1959 he returned to Jackson and stayed for good. He met his wife, Anne, and the pair got married in 1964.

They borrowed money from a banker friend and got a little help from their parents, and with $17,000 bought 1.25 acres near Heckof-a-Hill south of Jackson, where they built a home. Newcomb fell into a life of patrolling and teaching avalanche courses in the winter, guiding in the summer and raising kids. In the meantime, the valley changed around them.

“We were kind of isolated for a long time,” Newcomb said. “I didn’t really pay attention to what was going on in town. The only thing I noticed was when a new stoplight would interfere with my travel plans.

“No one envisioned what would happen to this valley. Coming from a working class family, I couldn’t envision there were enough people in the moneyed class who would fall in love with Jackson Hole. I should have seen it.

I guided people who had money and loved it here. But it never entered my mind that they would buy land and build second homes in the valley.”

Newcomb says the changes began after Jackson Hole Mountain Resort opened, but it didn’t happen overnight. The resort struggled in its early years. In 1965/66, there were only three chairs: bunny chair No. 1, bunny chair No. 2 and a lift that took you to the top of Apres Vous. The tram was finished the following year. But it wasn’t lift tickets that kept the resort afloat, it was the sale of land in Teton Village. Even then, the Kemmerers eventually had to buy the founders out to keep the mountain going. The founders’ vision for the mountain was sound, but their timing was a bit off for their pocketbooks.

The valley, however, would never be the same once Jackson Hole Mountain Resort was established.

“Winter was slow economically since

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As Newcomb pointed out, Snow King provided critical sustenance for those who tried to stick it out year-round in the valley.

Breitenbach worked for Neil Rafferty and, as Newcomb mentioned, one of Bob Shervin’s many jobs during his life was lift operator at Snow King. But unlike the other subjects of this story, Shervin was born and raised in Jackson Hole. His grandparents homesteaded in what is now Grand Teton National Park near the Triangle X Ranch. By the time Bob was born in 1933, the family had moved to another ranch where he grew up milking cows. He says he left the valley for a few years when he was a teenager to work on a ranch near Big Piney. And he did a stint working in the oil patch, but he returned to Jackson and set down roots, raising five children, running

Shervin Independent Oil, and serving as Jackson’s mayor for six years and as a county commissioner for eight. Once he settled back in his hometown, he never left.

“Why would I leave?” Shervin said.

“When you drive out of here heading over any rim to leave the valley, it gets pretty bleak. Coming home, it always feels like you are coming into a dream world. I have been blessed with everything a guy would ever want.”

Shervin thinks that Jackson has changed and not necessarily for the better, however.

He says if he had to do things over again, he might have done something in the 1980s to limit growth, which, he admits for a conservative like him, is a bit of an odd position.

“I’m pro property rights,” Shervin said.

“But maybe that was the wrong thing. Maybe we should have limited growth when we could. Still it’s tricky. I am not sure what you can do. The world has changed and I am not thinking it’s really been for the best.”

Still for Shervin, Jackson Hole remains a kind of paradise. He’s climbed every peak in the Tetons except the Grand. He’s hunted and fished and snow-machined all over the area. He feels lucky he was born here and sees no reason anyone would ever leave.

His main words of wisdom for today’s youth are “get an education, keep your nose clean, stay out of dope, work hard and take care of yourself.” Shervin says those were always his rules to live by, and he’s pretty satisfied with the way his life has gone. If he has any regrets, it’s that maybe he didn’t put aside a bit more money for himself. But he has always been generous with what he has and is proud of how he’s helped his family and friends, so that regret isn’t really one that he loses sleep over. He has enough, he says. PJH

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there was no reason to come here except for Snow King Ski Area,” Newcomb remembered about the days before JHMR. “Dude ranches, the national forests and Grand Teton National Park were mostly closed for the winter and not hiring. As a result there was no work for a ski bum or anyone else. Except for Snow King. There was a saying that anyone who came here for the winter and needed a job would end up working for Neil Rafferty.

Even Bob Shervin, who subsequently became mayor worked as a lift operator for Neil.

“So with the opening of Jackson Hole Ski Area — that was the name then — all of a sudden there were work opportunities in the winter,” Newcomb explained. “Slowly, Jackson Hole turned into a tourist economy year-round. A booming tourist economy needs workers of all kinds. In the 1970s and ’80s opportunities for everyone were abundant.

“Those of us who were here when the ski area opened and stayed for good were able to become established,” Newcomb said. “The tragedy is that this is not possible today.”

Bob Shervin has worn myriad hats during his tenure in the valley, from lift operator to mayor and business owner.

CREATIVE PEAKS Diverse Pallettes Vast array of artists hang for annual salon show.

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shows, classes and the art community that Jackson offers for artists to engage in.

A painter, she has primarily focused on watercolor for the past few years.

Every year at least one artist Byrne knows well surprises her at the show with new work that pushes boundaries or explores new technique.

This show is one of the most popular among the artists, but also patrons who use it as a chance to buy work from their friends, neighbors and favorite artists, Macker said.

Much of the art varies in price range and is accessible to the masses too, with some pieces selling for about $30 while other works are going for several thousand.

The show is often held in January, but this year it’s closing out the year and doubling as the Art Association’s holiday party as a way to say thank you to members and the community, Macker said.

Each piece is displayed with its title, price and the artist’s name and years as an Art Association member.

Members range from full-time professional artists, to instructors, to those who take classes.

While the show offers heavy local representation, the Art Association’s reach extends regionally and even nationally, Macker said.

The salon show is a great reminder of that reach. And, of course, it’s a perfect place to buy holiday gifts. PJH

The Jackson Salon Show, JH Art Association member’s exhibition and Christmas party, opening reception 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Friday at the Art Association inside the Center for the Arts. The show hangs through Jan. 15.

‘Wolf Attack’ by Haley Badenhop (left), and ‘Ravens Spring’ by Kay Stratman are among local works hanging at the Jackson Hole Art Association’s annual Salon Show.

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everal centuries ago, salons in Paris offered a chance for guests to view a variety of the latest creations from the who’s who of the art world. Art lovers gathered to look at work from a range of artists.

Today the tradition lives on in Jackson when members of the Jackson Hole Art Association are invited to showcase a piece of new work in the annual Jackson Salon Show.

The show usually features about 100 pieces of work — not every member opts to participate — ranging from glassware and belt buckles to large bronze sculptures, mixed media, videos and more traditional art like painting and drawing, explained Thomas Macker, gallery director at the Art Association. The work is eclectic and extensive.

“This is one of our most well-received and highly anticipated shows of the year,” Macker said.

There is always a lot of energy at the opening reception, which this year falls on Friday.

Many artists use this exhibition as a chance to show what they’ve learned or worked on in the last year. It’s a welcoming environment to debut work in new mediums

or styles, Macker said.

For artists, it’s also a chance to see the work their colleagues have been creating and the ways they’ve experimented or progressed. They can support each other and gain inspiration.

Haley Badenhop will show a watercolor of a growling wolf. Badenhop only recently started working in watercolor after taking a class through the Art Association last year.

She participated in the show the first year she was in Jackson, three years ago.

Originally from Ohio, she was drawn to Jackson for its dynamic art scene, which she saw while leading national tours through the area. She says she has been blown away by everything the Art Association offers once she moved to Jackson.

The salon show is the perfect place for Badenhop to share work in a medium that is still new to her. Before moving to Jackson, she mostly worked in graphite and colored pencils, but she started painting with acrylics before finding some watercolors. After playing with the paints, she took the Art Association class.

The show is one of her favorite art events of the year.

“You see the whole community,” she said.

The show is always a reminder of how much talent is in the valley, Badenhop continued, and you get to see a variety of arts representing a breadth of subject matter.

Living in Jackson also changed Sally Byrne’s work. Since moving to the valley she found herself painting landscapes. She moved to Jackson about 15 years ago from Houston, and one reason she picked the valley to retire in was the art offerings such as

THIS WEEK: December 16-22, 2015

WEDNESDAY DEC. 16

n Vertical Harvest Winter Party 5:00pm, Lucky’s, Free, 307413-2901 n Shannon Troxler Exhibit & Opening: Neverland - Gallery 5:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Santa on the Square 5:00pm, Town Square, Free, 307-201-2309 n Avalanche Level 1 5:30pm, CWC-Jackson, $375.00, 307-733-7425 n Evening Yoga 6:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Handbuilding Clay Vessels + Surface Techniques 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $130.00 $155.00, 307-733-6379 n Mother Daughter Book Club Victor 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Cocktails and Creatives 6:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025 n Salsa at Dancers’ Workshop 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n The Center Presents Brett Dennen 7:00pm, Center for the Arts, $37.00 - $47.00, 307-733-4900 n Oneness Deeksha Meditation 7:30pm, Akasha Yoga, $5.00, 307-413-3965 n Tavern Trivia w/ Crazy Tom 8:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n Songwriter’s Alley 8:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Vinyl Night hosted by KHOL 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Brad O’Brien 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

THURSDAY DEC. 17 n Kettlebells 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025

n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Intermediate/Advanced Ballet @ Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free, 733-2164 ext. 218 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Storytime 11:00am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Teton Toastmasters 12:00pm, Teton County Commissioners Chambers, Free n Crystal Sound Bowl Experience with Daniela Botur 12:00pm, Intencions, Free, 307-733-9290 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025 n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n bootybarre® at Dancers’ Workshop 1:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n All About Handbuilding 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $125.00, 307733-6379 n Yoga 4:15pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 4:30pm, Town Square, Free n Alliance Winter Open House 4:30pm, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Free, 307-7339417 n Art Walk 5:00pm, Town of Jackson, Free

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n Boot Camp 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 10:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n Grand Opening: Local Butcher 10:00am, Local Butcher, Free, 307-203-2322 n Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free, 733-2164 ext. 218 n Open Hockey 10:15am, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Fables, Feathers, and Fur 10:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-733-5771 n Lap Sit 11:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Chess Club: Grades K to 12 3:30pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 x118 n Semi-Private Painting + Drawing 4:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $20.00 - $130.00, 307-733-6379 n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 4:30pm, Town Square, Free

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18 | DECEMBER 16, 2015

JH CENTER FOR THE ARTS

MUSIC BOX

Deep Chords Folksinger’s lyrics delve into the human condition.

BY JUSTIN SMITH

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e need a little more Brett Dennen in our lives. The man exemplifies the concept of “life is art.” He is a deep-felt poet, artist and seeker in the truest sense.

He lives to hike, ski, climb, think, write and create. He has even created his own wine — Charismatic Fool Rosé — and designed a label for the bottles. He inserts all of these passions into his live performances. The result is a convincing display of musical authenticity.

When Dennen takes the stage Wednesday at the Center for the Arts, there will be one man and one guitar. In this stripped-down, intimate setting, the audience will enjoy the subtle moments and soft melodies that are signature Brett Dennen. Dennen’s lyrics take us on a journey into ourselves

Brett Dennen brings his introspective folk sensibilities to the stage Wednesday at the Center for the Arts. and remind listeners that, in hard times we must not forget to love who we are and follow our hearts.

Dennen is a master of connecting to his audience, and his fans love him for it. Just view any number of his YouTube videos for evidence of his song craft, and how deeply he delves into the human condition with his words.

Even if you don’t think you know Brett Dennen you will probably recognize his song “Ain’t No Reason.” Early in his career this catchy single shot him straight to folk stardom.

Shortly thereafter he was earning praise from Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly as an artist to watch. He played at the Newport Folk Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Fest and on the “David Letterman Show” and then his songs found their way to the television and movie spheres. His track “Ain’t Going To Lose You” was featured in “Gray’s Anatomy.” “She’s Mine” was in the movie “According to Gretta” and “Darlin’ Do Not Fear” was picked up for the primetime series “Parenthood.”

Rolling Stone described Dennen’s fifth and most recent album “Smoke and Mirrors” (2013) as “cheerful hook-heavy … shifting gracefully from lilting, breezy pop to heartfelt balladry.”

Dennen describes the album as a personal record with an easy vibe. He explained that moving back to the mountains and being inspired by nature was a way to reconnect to his childhood, giving him the strength to accomplish all that he has. The single, “Wild Child” is a mantra for Dennen, reminding him not to live up to anyone’s plan but his own. In “Out of My Head” he sings, “Get out of my head and into my heart” as another guidepost for the soul.

Perhaps what will most align Dennen with an adventorous Jackson Hole audience is that he climbed Mount Everest with G. Love to raise money and awareness for the music-centric cancer charity, Love Hope Strength.

Jackson Hole music lovers may expand their own personal quests by plopping down in a seat at this show. PJH Brett Dennen performs 7 p.m., Wednesday, December 16 at the Center for the Arts. $37-47 at the Center box office. 7334900; jhcenterforthearts.org.

Justin Smith is a life-loving, guitar pickin’ dad and founding member of One Ton Pig and Bootleg Flyer.

FRIDAY DEC. 18

n Boot Camp 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n Breakfast Club Meetup: Co-Hosted by Spark 8:30am, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-739-1026 n bootybarre® at Dancers’ Workshop 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Ballet Workout at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 10:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 10:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n Mini Gingerbread Houses 10:00am, Lucky’s Market, $5.00 donation, 307-413-2901 n Open Hockey 10:15am, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Feathered Friday 12:00pm, Jackson Hole & Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center, Free, 307-739-9322 n Yoga 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n Eat, Drink & Be Merry: Free Holiday Gathering 12:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer, Free, 307-733-0450 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Story Time - Driggs 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Librabry, Free

n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Celebrate Yum! Jackson Hole Haagen-Dazs Grand Re-Opening 3:30pm, Haagen-Dazs, Free n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 4:30pm, Town Square, Free n Santa on the Square 5:00pm, Town Square, Free, 307-201-2309 n The Jackson Salon Show: Annual Member’s Show & Christmas Party 5:30pm, Art Association Gallery, 307-733-6379 n Movie Premier - Sierra Quitiquit: How Did I Get Here 5:30pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $8.00, 307-733-1500 n Processing: MotherMoment-Memory 5:30pm, The Center Theater Gallery, Free, 307-733-4900 n Friday Night Meditation 6:00pm, Zendler Chiropractic, Free, 307-699-8300 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-0925 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307-7338833 n “Merry & Bright” - Festive Holiday Concerts for the Entire Family 7:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, Free, 307-774-5497 n Free Public Stargazing 7:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 3074134779 n Jackson Hole Moose Hockey 7:30pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $5.00 - $10.00, 307-201-1633 n Hellbound Glory 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Richiebeats 10:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-733-1500 n Jesse Lestitian 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

SATURDAY DEC. 19

n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398

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n Disco Night 10:00pm, Stagecoach Bar, Free, 307-733-4407 n BOGDOG 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

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n Santa on the Square 5:00pm, Town Square, Free, 307-201-2309 n Jazzercise 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Total Fitness 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Health Insurance Marketplace Assistance 5:45pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164 n Friends and Family Mental Health Support Group 6:00pm, Board Room of St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-732-1161 n Maximizing College Scholarships and Financial Aid 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Knit Nite 6:00pm, Knit on Pearl, Free, 307-733-5648 n Drink + Draw 6:00pm, Art Association, $35.00, 307-733-6379 n The Met: Live in HD Tannhäuser 6:00pm, The Center Theater, $10.00 - $18.00, 307-733-4900 n LGBT Monthly Social 6:00pm, Call 307-699-0234 for directions, Free n Sustainability Series presents Solar Energy Workshop 6:00pm, Spark JH, Free, 307732-8515 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Modern Dance Class at Dancers’ Workshop 6:15pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-0925 n Ceremony of Carols 6:30pm, JH Classical Academy, Free, 307-201-5040 n Major Zephyr 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n DIY Holiday Decorations, Cookie Decorating, and Spiked Cider 8:00pm, Roam, Mercantile & Makery, $25.00 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Karaoke 9:00pm, Virginian Saloon, Free, 307-739-9891

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SUNDAY DEC. 20

n World Snowboard Day 2015 9:00am, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Free, 307-733-2292 n Jackson Reads 12:00pm, KHOL Radio Show, 307-733-2164 n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 12:00pm, Town Square, Free n Holiday Spectacular On Ice 2:00pm, The Snow King Ice Arena & Event Center, $10.00 - $15.00, 865-200-9822 n Open Gym - Adult Volleyball 4:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307739-9025

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n Grand Opening Teton Lift and Piste Restaurant 9:00am, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, 307733-2292 n Barre Fusion at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Adult Oil Painting 10:00am, The Local Galleria, $25.00 - $80.00, 208-270-0883 n Health Insurance Marketplace Assistance 10:00am, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-733-2164 n Open Hockey 10:15am, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-201-1633 n Tram Jam 11:00am, Base of the Bridger Gondola, Free n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 12:00pm, Town Square, Free n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $10.00 - $12.00, 307-203-2551 n “Merry & Bright” - Festive Holiday Concerts for the Entire Family 3:00pm, Jackson Hole High School Auditorium, Free, 307-774-5497 n Santa on the Square 5:00pm, Town Square, Free, 307-201-2309 n Wine Dinner 6:00pm, Dornans, 307-733-2415 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307739-0925 n Live Music 7:00pm, The Virginian Saloon, Free, 307-7399891 n Holiday Concert 7:00pm, Center Theater, Free, 307-200-9463 n Jackson Hole Moose Hockey 7:30pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $5.00 - $10.00, 307-201-1633 n Hellbound Glory 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307732-3939 n The Miller Sisters 8:00pm, Knotty Pine, Free, 208-787-2866 n Wyatt Lowe 10:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n The WyKnotts 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-7333886

GET OUT

Ice Me Down When the best part of an outdoor adventure is the (safe) art of spectating.

BY ELIZABETH KOUTRELAKOS

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is the season to enjoy long days in the cold outdoors. The omnipresent mountains seem to provide somewhat chippy conditions, so, it’s natural to look for different methods of travel and recreation.

We are currently approaching a small space in time found after the cold of winter hits but before too much snow has fallen. When everything aligns, this little window provides ideal conditions for ice skating.

The outdoor rinks around town are open as long as the cold persists, and now is the perfect time to begin watching the local bodies of water that are a mere jaunt from home.

The idea behind ice skating is quite congruent with many other sports in Jackson, entailing a self-propelled way of moving fast in nature.

Skating on random lakes, while fun, can be dangerous. I’m not a good swimmer and consequences from falling through the ice in the dead of winter can be pretty bleak. Thus, prior to this attempt, I did a little research on how lakes freeze. After looking into this miracle of ice, my brain stretched from the

It is that time of year again, for ice adventures that may come with cold, slippery consequences. scientific complexities of water, I was able to make out some facts in normal human terms.

It is important to think about density. Lakes lose heat when the surface temperature of the water cools from contact with cold air.

This colder water then sinks and mixes with warm water throughout the lake. Think of this as a natural blender to even out the temperature of the water. When the entire lake temperature reaches around 40 degrees, the colder water at the surface becomes less dense as it reaches its freezing point and turns to ice. In my research, I learned that large or deep lakes do not freeze entirely, but only the surface freezes. Once the surface ice is thick enough, there is the necessary tension to hold snow, and even humans, atop the cold water below. Learning this eased my childhood fears of lonely fish, dying in the winter.

Depending on late fall and early winter temperatures, lakes can easily freeze to more than a foot in depth. During warmer seasons, however, the lakes may have as little as three to five inches of ice covering their surfaces before the snow covers them and the ice skating window closes. With the risks in mind, I attempted ice skating on a lake with some trepidation.

The activity itself was quite amusing for the first few minutes, but I chose to spend most of my time by the lakeside sipping hot chocolate for a couple different reasons. The first had to do with my ability as an ice skater.

It takes a lot more nimbleness than I thought, and I slipped around quite often. Perhaps next time I shall choose to obtain skates that aren’t two sizes too big. In most outdoor

ventures, I use my mom’s old shoes and make due in the oversized travel pieces. With ice skating, I learned that having ankle support is essential in the fine line of success between balance and support. Additionally, whipping around quickly on the ice in frigid conditions is not for the ill-prepared. Whatever temperature it was in town, the lake was much colder and quite damp, reminding me of an East Coast winter. Lastly, I quit because the idea of tromping around on the ice freaked me out. The sound that the fresh ice makes as it cracks and shoots is like something from a science fiction movie, pinging and ponging lasers every which way. I’ve gone on lakes in the winter with skis on and, although the risk is the same, I felt more secure with my bodyweight spread out below me.

My friends did not share these same fears.

They played full-fledged hockey on the lake without a care in the world. Watching people ice skate was entertainment in and of itself.

No longer did I have to worry about the tailbone bruises or feebly attempting to remain upright while moving. The security of knowing my body would remain in one piece that day was more than I could hope for. Also, it is always nice to be outside. My favorite part about ice skating was knowing that there was always a foreseeable end to the adventure.

You see, this time of year it gets dark so early that the latest I would be waiting would be four or five o’clock.

Perhaps in the future I’ll just stick with what I know and observe that which I am unfamiliar with. PJH

‘Serial’ Strikes Back Season 2 launches wtih another gripping tale of mystery.

BY ANDREW MUNZ

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The case of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl will be dissected in the nation’s most popular podcast.

MONDAY DEC. 21

n Boot Camp 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n Jazzercise 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 10:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n Open Hockey 10:15am, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Little Hands, Little Feet 10:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $70.00 - $80.00, 307-733-6379 n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Story Time - Victor 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633

n Open Range 4:30pm, Archery Range at the Recreation Center, $8.00 $82.50, 307-739-9025 n Santa on the Square 5:00pm, Town Square, Free, 307-201-2309 n Barre Fusion at Dancers’ Workshop 5:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Hootenanny at Dornans 6:00pm, Dornans, Free, 307733-2415 n Monday Sitting Group 6:00pm, Chiropractic and Sports Injury Center, , 307-7337584 n Evening Yoga 6:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Women’s Avalanche Awareness & Backcountry Freedom Clinic 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $299.00, 307-733-7425 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Open Level Ballet at Dancers’ Workshop 6:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025

TUESDAY DEC. 22

n Kettlebells 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Women’s Avalanche Awareness & Backcountry Freedom Clinic 8:00am, CWC-Jackson, $299.00, 307-733-7425 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398 n Yoga 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Ballet Workout at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library, Free, 733-2164 ext. 118 n Processing: MotherMoment-Memory 10:30am, The Center Theater Gallery, Free, 307-733-4900 n Crystal Sound Bowl Experience with Daniela Botur 12:00pm, Intencions, Free, 307-733-9290

n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025 n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n MELT at Dancers’ Workshop 12:10pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n bootybarre® at Dancers’ Workshop 1:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Yoga 4:15pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 4:30pm, Town Square, Free n Santa on the Square 5:00pm, Town Square, Free, 307-201-2309 n Jazzercise 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Total Fitness 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Christmas Caroling SingAlong 6:00pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 307-774-5497 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Open Gym - Adult Volleyball 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025 n Hip Hop at Dancers’ Workshop 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Adult Oil Painting 7:00pm, The Local Galleria, $25.00 - $80.00, 208-270-0883 n Language Exchange Night 7:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Bootleg Flyer 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Longest Night Winter Solstice Party with Jeff Crosby & the Refugees 9:00pm, Grand Targhee Resort, $5.00, 800-TARGHEE n Whiskey Duo 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

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Taliban forces. Just like the previous season, Koenig kicks off “Episode 01: DUSTWUN” with a massive kick to the proverbial groin.

Bergdahl’s case is something of an anomaly when it comes to POW stories. While he was allegedly captured against his will, his actions leading up to his capture are subject for debate. As outlined in the first episode, in 2009 Bergdahl abandoned his platoon, filled his CamelBak with water and set out on a 20-mile journey on foot to the U.S. Field Artillery Battalion base. At some point during that journey, he was abducted by the enemy and eventually held prisoner in Pakistan.

Five years later, in 2014, Bergdahl was exchanged for five Taliban prisoners in U.S. custody in a controversial trade that continues to be hotly debated and investigated among the branches of U.S. government. President Obama calls him a hero.

Republicans call him a deserter. In October, Donald Trump said he was tired of Bergdahl, calling him “a traitor, a no-good traitor, who should have been executed.”

“Thirty years ago,” Trump added. “[Bergdahl] would have been shot.”

The question that lingers is why Bergdahl abandoned his post in the first place, and why the Taliban, an organization notorious for executing American soldiers on camera, kept Bergdahl safe for five years before allowing him to go home.

To answer that question and many more, Koenig is not afraid get her hands dirty.

She teams up with screenwriter Mark Boal (“The Hurt Locker,” “Zero Dark Thirty”), who has been in contact with Bergdahl since his release and has personally recorded nearly 25 hours of interviews in hopes of making a film about Bergdahl’s story.

But just like with Adnan Syed’s story in Season 1, something doesn’t feel right with Bergdahl’s account. If the ending of Episode 01 (and holy crap, what an ending!) is any indication, it appears that this season will be delivering twice the intrigue, quadruple the controversy and, hopefully, plenty more of the famous “Mail...kimp?” advertisements.

Welcome back, Ms. Koenig.

Listeners? Atten-shun! PJH

n Winter Soltice Celebration and Stargazing at R-Park 4:00pm, 4270 River Springs Dr, Free n Santa on the Square 5:00pm, Town Square, Free, 307-201-2309 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n Taize 6:00pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 307-733-2603 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Hospitality / Industry Night 9:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-733-1500 n Uncle Stackhouse 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

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little more than a year ago when this column was just gaining its legs, I wrote about “Serial,” the podcast that was taking the world by storm. The first season fell into my lap while I was driving around Iceland with some friends from Wyoming. I’ll never forget it because it was the day I saw my first real live reindeer.

Last Thursday I was driving with some new Icelandic friends near Egilsstaðir when, sure enough, the first episode of “Serial” Season 2 was released. In traditional Icelandic, weird, fairylike, why-does-this-shit-always-happen-here fashion, there were also a few reindeer next to the road. It was the second time I’ve ever seen them.

But enough about Iceland’s weird way of making beautiful magic happen. Let’s talk about Season 2.

When I got back home, I asked my Polish coworker, Maja, if she was interested in listening to the podcast. Podcasts, I learned, are quite an American pastime and haven’t really caught on overseas. Maja had never listened to one, but she is always down for something different. Even my young, hip 19-year-old Icelandic coworker, Tristan, asked me, “So, what’s the deal with podcasts?” So we sat on my bed, pressed play and let host Sarah Koenig’s voice wash over the room.

Last season, “Serial” covered a little-known murder mystery that took place in Baltimore, circa 1999. Over 12 episodes, listeners got to experience Koenig’s personal investigation into the murder, hearing from suspects as well as witnesses despite the case happening 15 years ago. This season, Koenig veers away from small-town crime to the big leagues: The much-lauded case of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s five-year imprisonment by

U.S. ARMY

WELL, THAT HAPPENED

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ANNIE FENN, MD

THE FOODIE FILES

Cookie Crumbles Biscotti with coffee, biscotti with milk, biscotti with wine — have a biscotti with everything.

BY ANNIE FENN, M.D. @jacksonfoodie

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he first time I ever had cookies for breakfast was at my grandmother’s apartment in Rochester, New York. I thought my Nonna was just indulging me — after all, I was the youngest grandchild and the only one who liked to hang out in the kitchen while she cooked. I didn’t know that back in her native Sicily, a few biscotti dunked in caffé latte was a typical light breakfast.

My Nonna was not a baker so the biscotti I cut my teeth on were always from Stella’s Italian Bakery down the street. The almond-flecked nubs of cookie were hard as a rock, perfect for dunking and for soothing teething babies.

The word “biscotti” has a double meaning. The root name stems from “bis,” which means “more than one” and “cotto,” which means “cooking” in Italian. To make typical biscotti, the cookie dough is formed into logs and baked once; then the baked logs are sliced diagonally and returned to the oven for a second baking.

The name “biscotti” is also a generic term for all the various types of Italian cookies. Italians love their cookies and give them wonderful names: “brutti ma buoni” (ugly but good), “baci di dama” (lady’s kisses), “bocche di lupe” (wolve’s mouths). They have them for breakfast, as a midmorning snack with coffee and as a little treat with cheese at the end of the midday meal. They are often served again after supper, this time dunked in wine or Vin Santo, the local sweet wine of Tuscany.

Nostalgic grandma time aside, if I had to pick a favorite cookie it would have to be a biscotto. (Biscotto = one cookie; biscotti = more than one cookie.) And just like the Italians, if given a steady supply of homemade biscotti, I’d eat them all day long.

I make my own biscotti year-round but production definitely ramps up in December. A small bag of biscotti makes the perfect gift, especially with a bottle of Vin Santo for dunking or a bag of good coffee beans. They pack well into tins or Mason jars and stand up to holiday shipping and schlepping without breaking into pieces.

I like biscotti that aren’t too sweet and have some texture and substance. I am partial to a cookie fragrant with citrus and almond, packed with nuts and sometimes chocolate.

Tucked into my backcountry pack, biscotti like this are a great snack to have while skiing. Biscotti al Cioccolato e

Left: Savory Biscotti di Vino, made with red wine and olive oil, are perfect with cheese. Middle: Chocolate and almond biscotti get a generous topping of coarse sugar for a nice crunch. Right: Orange-flavored chocolate and almond biscotti make a nice light breakfast.

Arancia are my go-to biscotti of this sort.

Not all biscotti are sweet. There is a whole world of savory biscotti enjoyed by those ingenious Italians who have figured out how to eat cookies all day. I like to make Biscotti di Vino, made with red wine and olive oil, to serve with cheese and wine over the holidays. Other savory biscotti I have come across are made with rosemary, peppercorns, walnuts and cornmeal, and packed with cheeses like Parmigiano Reggiano, Gouda, and Gorgonzola.

Biscotti al Cioccolato e Mandorle are the ultimate Italian cookies for chocoholics. Made with good quality cocoa powder, toasted almonds and mini chocolate chips, these biscotti have intense chocolate flavor. Whenever I am able to shop at Tony Caputo’s Market and Deli in Salt Lake City, I stock up on Valrhona dark chocolate powder just for this recipe.

The advantage of making your own biscotti is that you can make them as crispy or as soft as you want. I don’t really care for those rock hard cookies of my youth. I prefer biscotti that will stand up to hot coffee, but won’t make me feel like I’m going to break a tooth. You can even skip the second round of baking for a softer cookie, but I like to bake them twice until crispy on the outside and still a bit chewy on the inside.

Cookies can be tricky to bake at high altitude but biscotti are pretty forgiving with a few minor adjustments. To keep the logs from spreading while baking, I raise the oven temperature by 25 degrees, increase the flour, decrease the sugar and reduce the leavening agent. Since baked goods dry out easily at high altitude, I add a bit more liquid to the cookie dough in the form of water, milk, or an extract.

I’ve been tweaking my favorite biscotti recipes over the years so that they are now perfect for living at 6,500 feet. All you will need to make these cookies is a few baking sheets, some parchment paper and a long, serrated bread knife. I also find a dough scraper to be useful to shape the logs into neat rectangles, but a ruler would work fine.

Once I got into baking biscotti on a regular basis, I invested in a pan just for that. My biscotti pan, made by USA Pans, is the perfect size for baking a double log of biscotti with sides shaped perfectly for straight edges.

Your homemade biscotti will keep for up to two weeks. So pour yourself a glass of Vin Santo — or a good cup of coffee — and dunk away like the Italians. Salut!

Find recipes for Biscotti di Vino and Biscotti al Cioccolato e Arancia at jacksonholefoodie.com.

Biscotti al Cioccolato e Mandorle recipe Makes about 50 cookies Adapted for altitude from David Lebovitz’s recipe

Biscotti ingredients 2 cups flour

¾ cups natural or Dutch process cocoa powder ¾ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt 3 large eggs at room temperature 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon almond extract 2 teaspoons water 1 cup raw almonds, toasted and coarsely chopped ¾ cups mini semisweet chocolate chips

Glaze ingredients

1 egg 2 tablespoons coarse or crystal sugar (such as Sugar in the Raw or Demurara sugar)

Preheat oven to 370 degrees.

In a small bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.

In a large mixing bowl, or the bowl of a standing mixer, beat together three eggs, sugar, vanilla and almond extracts.

Gradually add the dry ingredients, nuts and chocolate. Mix just until the dough holds together.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Divide dough in half onto a surface lightly dusted with flour. Using a rolling pin or your hands, flatten each half of dough out into a rectangular log almost as long as the baking pan. Each log should be 3-4 inches wide and 1 inch tall.

Gently flatten the tops of the logs.

Prepare the glaze by beating an egg in a cup with a fork.

Use a brush to coat the logs with the egg. Sprinkle the tops with coarse sugar.

Bake for 25 minutes or until the dough is firm to the touch.

Remove the pans from the oven and cool for 15 minutes.

Reduce the oven temperature to 300 degrees.

Carefully transfer the logs to a cutting board. Using a serrated bread knife, cut the cookies diagonally into ½-inch slices.

Transfer the cookie slices back to the baking pans and place cut side down. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes until the cookies are as crispy as you like.

Cool completely and store in an airtight container for up to two weeks. PJH

After delivering babies and practicing gynecology for 20 years in Jackson, Annie traded her life as a doctor to pursue her other passion: writing about food, health, sustainability and the local food scene. Follow her snippets of mountain life, with recipes, at www.jacksonholefoodie.com and on Instagram @jacksonholefoodie.

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Bargain Bubbly Make your New Year’s Eve sparkle without breaking the bank.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

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f you read this column frequently, you might know that my favorite Champagne is Salon Blanc de Blancs Le Mesnil Cuvée “S.” However, that’s an unfortunate choice because a bottle of Salon sells for around $470. It’s a Champagne I certainly won’t be serving or sipping this New Year’s Eve, unless a very generous benefactor comes my way in the next week or so.

However, you don’t have to break the bank to drink bodacious bubbly on New Year’s Eve, or any other time for that matter. There are plenty of super sparkling wines that are modestly priced and will help make your evening pop. Here are a few of my faves.

I think pink bubbly is especially festive and a good choice for celebrating New Year’s

Eve. One of my very favorite bottles is Gloria Ferrer Blanc de Noirs ($18.99), from Sonoma.

It’s made from vibrant, hand-harvested Pinot Noir, along with a small amount of Vin Gris, which gives this sparkler its creaminess and rosy tint. It’s a terrific, easy-drinking party wine, with hints of strawberry and black cherry, and a touch of marzipan on the palate.

I also like Rotari Brut Rosé ($13.99), a pink-hued, fragrant and elegant sparkling wine born in the Dolomites of Italy. It’s made with hand-grown and hand-harvested Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes from the hills of Trentino, and has a bouquet of strawberries and currants with hints of yeast on the palate. It’s serves as a very nice aperitif, or pairs well with fish and seafood.

Here’s a fun little test for your New Year’s guests. Pour them a glass of Gruet Brut ($16.99) and then ask them to wager a guess about where it came from. They will inevitably guess France, since this lovely sparkler tastes like French Champagne that sells for three to four times the prices of Gruet. Then, tell them it comes from Albuquerque. Yep, it’s made in New Mexico, with roots originating in Gilbert Gruet’s Champagne house in Bethon, France. Gruet also produces a wonderful Brut Rosé ($18.99) and an equally appealing Blanc de Noirs ($16.99).

When thinking about sparkling wine, South Africa doesn’t usually spring to mind. However, I recently got to taste

IMBIBE the outstanding, well-crafted Graham Beck Brut Rosé ($17) from South Africa’s Western Cape. It’s an amazing wine for the price, with cherry and raspberry fragrances, and more red berries to kiss the palate.

Try it with oysters on the half shell.

Napa Valley’s Domaine Chandon produces some of this country’s best sparkling wines and I’m especially fond of Chandon Blanc de Noirs ($20.99).

An American pioneer of Blanc de Noirs-style wines, Chandon uses Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier to produce this one.

It’s fruit-driven with mid-palate flavors of strawberry, cherry and currant, and offers a creamy, soft texture.

Think you can’t afford to pour French bubbly for New Year’s Eve? Wrong. Made in the Loire, Marquis de la Tour Brut is a French sparkling wine that is

bargain-priced at $11.99. It’s got crisp acidity which makes it especially food-friendly, with fresh green apple, peach and citrus notes.

Anna de Codorniu Brut ($13.99) is an interesting sparkling wine from Spain, made with 70 percent Chardonnay and 30 percent Parellada grapes. The name Anna is an homage to the last Codorniu heiress to bear the family name. The Codorniu winery, by the way, dates back to 1551, and Anna de Codorniu lived in the 1600s. The aromas and flavors of this crisp, dry sparkler include apples, pineapple and pears, along with yeasty hints of baked brioche.

Enjoy your New Year’s Eve, no matter which corks you choose to pop!

PJH

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A Jackson Hole favorite for 37 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Ask a local about our rack of lamb.

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LOCAL Local, a modern American steakhouse and bar, is located on Jackson’s historic town square. Our menu features both classic and specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, house-ground burgers, and seasonally-inspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locallysourced products. Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am.

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America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour 4 to 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing.com.

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TRIO Owned and operated by Chefs with a passion for good food, Trio is located right off the Town square in downtown Jackson. Featuring a variety of cuisines in a relaxed atmosphere, Trio is famous for its wood-oven pizzas, specialty cocktails and waffle fries with bleu cheese fondue. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations. (307) 734-8038 or bistrotrio.com.

ITALIAN CALICO A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m. 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

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PINKY G’S The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012, 2013 and 2014. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, stromboli’s, calzones and many appetizers to choose from. Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special.Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. Sun.- Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts.

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PIZZERIA CALDERA Jackson Hole’s only dedicated stone-hearth oven pizzeria, serving Napolitana-style pies using the freshest ingredients in traditional and creative combinations. Five local micro-brews on tap, a great selection of red and white wines by the glass and bottle, and one of the best views of the Town Square from our upstairs deck. Daily lunch special includes slice, salad or soup, any two for $8. Happy hour: half off drinks by the glass from 4 - 6 daily. Dine in or carry out. Or order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com, or download our app for iOS or Android. Open from 11am - 9:30pm daily at 20 West Broadway.

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Stifle the Flame Fight inflammation with natural remedies.

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Curcumin

Enzymes Unlike enzymes that help you digest food, proteolytic enzymes enter the blood stream and break down the proteins that contribute to inflammation. In supplement form, they

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are taken on an empty stomach, but these enzymes can also be found in foods like pineapple, papaya and ginger.

Ginger Derived from the same family as turmeric, ginger is another COX-1, COX2 and 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor. It relieves muscle and joint pain, menstrual cramps and migraines and is delicious in cooking. Try minced ginger in hot water with two tablespoons of honey and lemon juice for a great-tasting inflammation fighter.

Boswellia Also known as frankincense, boswellia’s active constituent, boswellic acid, has been shown to decrease osteoarthritic pain in only seven days and slow the progression of cartilage damage in three months. Its mechanism of action is also on the 5-lipoxygenase pathway.

Fish oil One of the easiest and most beneficial ways to decrease inflammation is by changing your fat ratio by increasing your consumption of omega-3 oils and decreasing saturated fats. Good quality fish oil is available at every supermarket in pill and liquid form.

However, most people do not take enough to get the anti-inflammatory response.

Upwards of three grams is necessary to have a therapeutic effect.

Remember Some of nutrients listed above will interact with medications or are contraindicated with certain diseases. Check in with your doctor if you are unsure about using a supplement.

These are just a few substances that can treat your inflammation. Next time you feel sore, instead of grabbing for the ibuprofen try a natural, less damaging approach.PJH A 15-year Jackson resident, Monique Lai, ND, is an alternative health expert with a family practice. Some of her areas of focus include autoimmune disease, thyroid disease, digestive disorders, menopause and diabetes.

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Found in turmeric, curcumin not only has anti-inflammatory properties, it is also cancer fighting, an antibiotic, and an antioxidant. Its anti-inflammatory mechanism is its ability to inhibit COX-2 and 5-lipoxygenase enzymes, prime causes of inflammation. Chinese and Ayurvedic medical practitioners have been using turmeric alone or in combination for nearly 4,000 years.

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n terms of your health, inflammation is the root of all evil. It is linked to heart disease, cancer, autoimmune disease, depression and eczema, to name a few. It also causes pain.

But not all inflammation is bad. In the case of an injury, viral/bacterial invasion or exposure to a toxic chemical, inflammation is part of a healthy, healing immunological response.

Chronic inflammation, however, occurs when the body is overwhelmed or the immune system fails to turn off its inflammatory response at the proper time. Most people who are chronically inflamed don’t realize it, but if you’re reaching for the Advil every night, you are one of them.

Here in exercise-obsessed Jackson, it’s common to think that one’s activity level is the reason for routine inflammation. If that is the case, here are some tools found in foods and supplements to help reduce inflammation:

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SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9.

No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

L.A.TIMES “LA-LA LAND” By Garry Morse

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ACROSS

10 Dance with a queen 50 Facebook tally 10 Bug 13 Conductor’s setting 18 Texter’s guffaw 19 The Little Mermaid 20 Catching-on cry 21 Survived the test 22 Cocktail made with Southern Comfort 25 Rat, for one 26 Plural French pronoun 27 Mets’ rival 28 Starbucks order 30 Origins 32 Common Market inits.

34 From, in German names 35 Texter’s “Beats me” 36 __ student 37 How some flowers are planted 39 Kate, before being “tamed” 41 Joined in a film lab 43 Eponymous band location 45 Geologic time unit 46 22-year-old golf phenom Jordan who won the Masters, U.S. Open and FedExCup in 2015 47 Syrup source 49 Disreputable 50 12-member oil gp.

54 Eighth-century year 57 Windows material 59 Italy’s La __ 60 Like some hygiene 61 Prince __ Khan 62 Chicago mayor Emanuel 63 Reproductive units 64 Like an ill-equipped rowboat 66 Wranglers, e.g.

68 Sub compartment 69 King who succeeds his father, say 70 Of the highest quality

71 Old televangelist org.

72 Old, to Oskar 73 Takes it easy 74 With “The,” 2002 Steven Pinker best-seller subtitled “The Modern Denial of Human Nature” 77 School barometer 78 Ltr.-bottom letters 79 __ cum laude 80 Cough drop 82 “The Joy Luck Club” author 84 Dog days mo.

85 Cut back on food intake 89 How food may be salted 91 Threaded hardware 93 “... baked __” 94 Passel 95 GPS offering 96 School attendance drop-off cause 97 __ Miguel, largest of the Azores 99 Balearic island 100 Security measure 104 Machu Picchu dweller 106 Film lover’s collectible 107 Web browser?

108 Modifying words 111 Nuts in some ice cream 112 Fair-hiring initials 113 Gradually gather 114 Anesthetize 115 “Later!”

116 One of 400,000-plus in the U.S. 117 Before the crowd 118 Drive-thru transactions: Abbr.

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10 Grassland 20 Deodorant options 30 In some respects 40 Diamond org.

50 Dalai __ 60 Steamed 70 X’s in some letters

80 Slender fish 90 Pole or Croat 10 Irritated response to “Aren’t you awake yet?”

11 Bonn’s river, in Bonn 12 Marx not seen in films 13 Mechanic’s set 14 “Ring Cycle” goddess 15 Tryster’s request 16 Gave up the ball 17 Chose, with “for” 21 Basketball Hall of Famer who was inducted while a U.S. senator 23 Comeback 24 Expert 29 Fatty compounds 31 Steinbeck novel set in Monterey 33 Look the wrong way, maybe 38 Look beyond 40 Leeway metaphor 41 Muscle malady 42 Dog once shunned because it wasn’t black 44 Blinking and sweating, in poker 46 Persian sovereigns 48 For instance 49 Offended smack 51 __ officer 52 Chooses 53 Vampire’s bed?

54 Idle drawing 55 Drawing stick 56 Envelope-to-theforehead TV persona 58 __ salad 59 It starts in Mar. 63 Sailing component?

65 Superman’s symbol 66 Big name in fabric stores 67 Sicilian resort 68 Attending an

afternoon social 70 Pond plants 71 Guerra’s opposite 74 One swinging in a box 75 Derogatory remark 76 Theater sections 79 “Goodness me!”

81 Friendly 83 1963 hit on the flip side of “Candy Girl” 84 Integra maker 86 Gastronome 87 Judges 88 What landlubbers lack 89 Piece on top 90 How chop suey may be served 91 Race with gates 92 Relinquishing of rights 94 Cookbook amts.

96 Speedy 98 Oscar winner at age 10 101 Down Under howdy 102 Vicinity 103 Monthly budget amt.

105 Harlem sch.

109 Dockworker’s org.

110 Stick in

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19) The Neanderthals were a different human species that co-existed with our ancestors, homo sapiens, for at least 5,000 years. But they eventually died out while our people thrived. Why? One reason, says science writer Marcus Chown, is that we alone invented sewing needles. Our newborn babies had well-made clothes to keep them warm and healthy through frigid winters. Neanderthal infants, covered with ill-fitting animal skins, had a lower survival rate. Chown suggests that although this provided us with a mere one percent survival advantage, that turned out to be significant. I think you’re ready to find and use a small yet ultimately crucial edge like that over your competitors, Aries.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Artist Robert Barry created “30 Pieces,” an installation that consisted of pieces of paper on which he had typed the following statement: “Something which is very near in place and time, but not yet known to me.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, this theme captures the spirit of the phase you’re now entering. But I think it will evolve in the coming weeks. First it’ll be “Something which is very near in place and time, and is becoming known to me.” By mid-January it could turn into “Something which is very near and dear, and has become known to me.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is uncanny, wild, and lawless.” Greek philosopher Plato wrote that in his book The Republic, and I’m bringing it to your attention just in time for your Season of Awakening and Deepening Desire. The coming days will be a time when you can, if you choose, more fully tune in to the uncanny, wild, and lawless aspects of your primal yearnings. But wait a minute! I’m not suggesting you should immediately take action to gratify them. For now, just feel them and observe them. Find out what they have to teach you. Wait until the new year before you consider the possibility of expressing them.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Congratulations! You have broken all your previous records for doing boring tasks that are good for you. In behalf of the other eleven signs, I thank you for your heroic, if unexciting, campaign of self-improvement. You have not only purified your emotional resources and cleared out some breathing room for yourself, but you have also made it easier for people to help you and feel close to you.

Your duty has not yet been completed, however. There are a few more details to take care of before the gods of healthy tedium will be finished with you. But start looking for signs of your big chance to make a break for freedom.

They’ll arrive soon.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The English word “fluke” means “lucky stroke.” It was originally used in the game of billiards when a player made a good shot that he or she wasn’t even trying to accomplish.

Later its definition expanded to include any fortuitous event that happens by chance rather than because of skill: good fortune generated accidentally. I suspect that you are about to be the beneficiary of what may seem to be a series of flukes, Leo. In at least one case, though, your lucky break will have been earned by the steady work you’ve done without any fanfare.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You may not have to use a literal crowbar in the coming weeks, but this rough tool will serve you well as a metaphor. Wherever you go, imagine that you’ve got one with you. Why? It’s time to jimmy open glued-shut portals … to pry loose mental blocks … to coax unyielding influences to budge … to nudge intransigent people free of their fixations. Anything that is stuck or jammed needs to get unstuck or unjammed through the power of your willful intervention.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to consort with hidden depths and unknown riches. In every way you can imagine, I urge you to go deeper down and further in. Cultivate a more conscious connection with the core resources you sometimes take for granted. This is one time when delving into the darkness can lead you to pleasure and treasure. As you explore, keep in mind this advice from author T. Harv Eker: “In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, what’s under the ground creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits you have already grown is futile. You can’t change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree.

But you can change tomorrow’s fruits. To do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In the coming weeks, the pursuit of pleasure could drain your creative powers, diminish your collaborative possibilities, and wear you out. But it’s also possible that the pursuit of pleasure will enhance your creative powers, synergize your alliances, and lead you to new opportunities. Which way will you go? It all depends on the kinds of pleasures you pursue. The dumb, numbing, mediocre type will shrink your soul. The smart, intriguing, invigorating variety will expand your mind. Got all that? Say “hell, no” to trivializing decadence so you can say “wow, yes” to uplifting bliss.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Garnets are considered less valuable than diamonds. But out in the wild, there’s an intimate connection between these two gemstones. Wherever you find garnets near the surface of the earth, you can be reasonably sure that diamonds are buried deeper down in the same location. Let’s use this relationship as a metaphor for your life, Sagittarius.

I suspect you have recently chanced upon a metaphorical version of garnets, or will do so soon. Maybe you should make plans to search for the bigger treasure towards which they point the way.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Ready for the Cool Anger Contest? You can earn maximum points by expressing your dissatisfaction in ways that generate the most constructive transformations. Bonus points will be awarded for your ability to tactfully articulate complicated feelings, as well as for your emotionally intelligent analyses that inspire people to respond empathetically rather than defensively. What are the prizes? First prize is a breakthrough in your relationship with an ally who could be crucial to your expansion in 2016. Second prize is a liberation from one of your limiting beliefs.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) A fourth-century monk named Martin was a pioneer wine-maker in France. He founded the Marmoutier Abbey and planted vineyards on the surrounding land. According to legend, Martin’s donkey had a crucial role in lifting viticulture out of its primitive state. Midway through one growing season, the beast escaped its tether and nibbled on a lot of the grapevines. All the monks freaked out, fearing that the crop was wrecked. But ultimately the grapes grew better than they had in previous years, and the wine they produced was fabulous. Thus was born the practice of pruning, which became de rigueur for all grape-growers. What’s your equivalent of Martin’s donkey, Aquarius? I bet it’ll exert its influence very soon.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important,” said educator John Dewey. If that’s true, Pisces, you are on the verge of having your deepest urge fulfilled more than it has in a long time. The astrological alignments suggest that you are reaching the peak of your value to other people. You’re unusually likely to be seen and appreciated and acknowledged for who you really are.

If you have been underestimating your worth, I doubt you will be able to continue doing so. Here’s your homework: Take a realistic inventory of the ways your life has had a positive impact on the lives of people you have known.

Go to RealAstrology.com for Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text-message horoscopes. Audio horoscopes also available by phone at 877-873-4888 or 900-950-7700.

Nourish Your Mind Books to expand your horizons and spark conversations about science, spirituality and personal evolution.

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urious to learn more about this past year’s Cosmic Café topics? Here’s a selection of nonfiction books from the Cosmic Café bookshelf that address topics I’ve explored in this column. These books promise to expand your horizons and stimulate interesting conversations, introducing you to what is being discovered and what is possible in our world. Maybe there are some suggestions here for your holiday wish list.

Authors bridging science and spirituality

Gregg Braden is a scientist, scholar and visionary who is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality. His books include “The Divine Matrix,” “Fractal Time,” The Science of Miracles” and “Resilience From the Heart.”

Bruce Lipton is a developmental biologist, researcher, professor and best-selling author who is known for studying and promoting the idea that genes and DNA can be manipulated by a person’s beliefs. He is the author of “The Biology of Belief,” “Spontaneous Evolution” and “The Honeymoon Effect.”

An investigative journalist, Lynn McTaggart’s books connect the dots between well-documented scientific discoveries, pointing to a unifying concept of the universe that reconciles mind with matter, and classic Newtonian science with quantum physics and spirituality. Check out “The Field: Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe,” “The Intention Experiment: Using Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World” and “The Bond: How to Fix Your Falling Down World.”

Authors for your personal evolution

Don Miguel Ruiz is a long-time best-selling author, shamanic teacher and healer who synthesizes sacred indigenous wisdom into practical, down-to-earth guidebooks for expanding and upgrading our lives. His books include “The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom,” “The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship” and “The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace.”

The author of 16 books, three plays, a television series and two iPhone apps, Pam Grout encourages us to practice the power of our consciousness to live better lives.

I recommend “E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality” and “E-Cubed: Nine More Energy Experiments That Prove Manifesting Magic and Miracles is Your Full-Time Gig.” Brian Weiss, M.D., is a renowned psychiatrist who initially used hypnotic regression with his patients to locate and heal buried early childhood trauma. In the process he discovered that past life experiences also influence our current psyche and hold another powerful way to heal. His books are based on true case histories using past life regression in his work as a psychotherapist. They include “Many Lives, Many Masters” and “Only Love Is Real.”

Enjoy the journey Enjoy nourishing your mind and soul with these books. I know from experience that one book will lead to another and one author to another. This may open new worlds of discovery about who we are and the exquisite, awe-inspiring, interactive living matrix of which we are a part. PJH

Carol Mann is a longtime Jackson resident, radio personality, former Grand Targhee Resort owner, author, and clairvoyant.

Got a Cosmic Question? Email carol@yourcosmiccafe.com

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