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EVENT NEWS RELEASE/September 21, 2007

Rosalie Sorrels Opens Fettuccine Forum Season with a Look Back at Boise's Earlier Days

Folksinger Rosalie Sorrels will recall a simpler Boise through music and stories when the Fettuccine Forum convenes for the opening lecture of the 2007-08 season. The free event is Oct. 4 in the Rose Room in the historic Union Block, 718 W. Idaho Street. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the hour-long presentation begins at 5:30 p.m. Free appetizers will be served and fettuccine will be available for $5.

Sorrels is an Idaho treasure whose music is deeply personal, reflecting many of the challenges she has faced in her life — including raising five children as a single mother while she traveled cross-country for her music, and surviving both a brain aneurism and breast cancer. She is an avid collector and performer of folk songs, a genre she came to love after taking a class on American folk songs. Sorrels has recorded more than 20 albums and written three books, including “Way Out in Idaho,”

Each forum features a companion workshop offered for graduate and undergraduate credit. Students can register for workshops online through BroncoWeb. In addition, copies of Sorrels’ CDs will be available for purchase.

Upcoming speakers are:
• Nov. 1 — Peter Lutze, “Boob Tube: News, sports and less.” Accompanying workshop, “Alternative Media in the Treasure Valley,” taught by Boise State communication professor Lutze.
• Feb. 7 — Miguel Gaddi. “West Side Story: A global perspective on Boise’s next big thing.” Accompanying workshop, “New Urbanism” taught by Boise State history professor Todd Shallat and Tacke.
• March 6 — Ellen Greenberg. “The Opposite of Traffic: Counterintuitive thoughts about city streets.” Accompanying workshop, “Transportation in Crisis,” taught by Boise City planner Kathleen Lacey.
• April 3 — Michael Hoffman. “We Ought to be in Pictures: Hollywood in Idaho.” Accompanying workshop, “Art and Culture,” taught by Karen Bubb of the Boise City Arts Commission and Tacke.
• May 1 — Barbara Perry Bauer. “Once Upon the Trolly: Boise’s electric road.” Accompanying workshop, “Boise’s Historic Streetscape,” taught by historian Bauer.

Additional sponsors include the Idaho Council for History Education, Boise Tour Train, erstad Architects, the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at Boise State and Grape Escape.


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Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208) 426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu

For the 10th time in the last 11 years, Boise State University has set an all-time record for Idaho higher education institutions with an enrollment of 19,540 – an overall increase of 3.5 percent. A record freshman class of 2,280 students is also the most academically talented group ever to enter Boise State, including 12 National Merit finalists.

 

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Last reviewed on Friday, September 21, 2007