July 2014: The Community Library

As part of the celebration of the 130 th anniversary of the arrival of the Oregon Short Line
railroad at Ketchum in 1884, I gave two presentations.

1. “History of the Oregon Short Line Railroad” https://www.slideshare.net/CommunityLibrary/osl-a-history-of-its-impact-on-the-wood-river-valley-idahopt01
2. “Impact of the Oregon Short Line Railroad on the Wood River Valley” https://www.slideshare.net/CommunityLibrary/osl-a-history-of-its-impact-on-the-wood-river-valley-idahopart02

2015: The Community Library

• February
  • “History of Wood River Valley’s Resort Hotels before Sun Valley: Hailey Hot Springs and
    Guyer Hot Springs.”
    • http://www.slideshare.net/CommunityLibrary/wood-river-valleys-hot-springs-resorts-by-john-lundin-2015
• July
  • “History of the Philadelphia Smelter: Key Component of the Silver Boom of the 1880s;
    Wood River Valley’s Largest Employer; and the Processing Facility for Most of the Silver
    Ore Mined Locally.”
    • http://www.slideshare.net/CommunityLibrary/philadelphia-smelter-a-key-component-of-the-wood-river-valley-idaho-silver-rush-in-the-1880s.

2016: The Community Library

• July
  • “Early Water Rights and Conflicts in the Wood River Valley.”
    • http://www.slideshare.net/CommunityLibrary/early-water-issues-and-conflicts-in-the-wood-
      river-valley .

2019:

• January: The Community Library
  • “Robert & Carrie Adell Stahorn, Union Pacific Publicists, Developers of New Railroad
    Towns, Chroniclers of the West, The Couple Who Convinced Union Pacific to Build a
    Branch into the Wood River Valley.”
    • https://www.slideshare.net/CommunityLibrary/robert-and-carrie-adell-strahorn
• June: Hailey Library
  • “Robert Strahorn: The Most Important Man You Never Heard of; U.P. Publicist,
    Developers of Railroad Towns; The Man Who Brought the Railroad to the
    Wood River Valley”
• September: Hailey Library
  • “Wood River Valley’s Hot Springs Resort Hotels before Sun Valley: Hailey and Guyer Hot
    Springs Resorts.”

2020 & 2021:

• December 2020: The Community Library:

  • “Skiing Sun Valley: a History from Union Pacific to the Holdings.” by John W. Lundin

    • https://vimeo.com/648734119
• February 2021: Hailey Library:
  • “Skiing Sun Valley: a History from Union Pacific to the Holdings.”
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpUJvUtWHyk
• 2021 Exhibit at the National Nordic Museum, Seattle
  • “Sublime Sights: Ski Jumping and Nordic America”
    • I helped organize this exhibit at Seattle’s National Nordic Museum in 2021, gave the
      introductory lecture, and co-hosted a forum with the state’s living Olympic ski jumpers.
      My lecture is available on the museum’s website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYxtnkyfB7Q.
    • The forum with Washington’s Olympian Ski Jumpers, Ragnar Ulland (1956) and Ron Steele
      (1972) can be seen on the museum’s website:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnEc8LmRaE
• 2021 – HAILEY LIBRARY FORUM ON WATER ISSUES
  • July
    • “Early Water Issues and Conflicts in the Wood River Valley.”
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L50ulEDGedI
  • October
    • “The Reclamation Act of 1902: Making the Desert Gloom and Creating an
      Agricultural Giant with the Help of the Union Pacific Railroad.”
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_uZWhHXP1M
• 2022
  • February
    • Dartmouth Law School Alumni, Limelight Room, Sun Valley. “Sun Valley’s Early Days: Union Pacific, Averell Harriman, Alf Engen &
      Dartmouth Skiers”
  • February
    • St. Luke Hospital’s Stroke Meeting, Limelight Room, Sun Valley
      “Sun Valley’s Early Days: Union Pacific, Averell Harriman & Alf Engen”
  • March: The Community Library
    • “Early Sun Valley: Union Pacific, Averell Harriman and Alf Engen”
      Early Sun Valley: Union Pacific, Averell Harriman and Alf Engen with John Lundin on Vimeo.
  • March: Sun Valley Limelight Room
    • First John Fry Memorial Lecture to the Annual Meeting of the International Ski History
      Association at Ski Week in Sun Valley with the U.S. Hall of Fame