Everybody and Their Mother

Tucked neatly in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California is a small village called Idyllwild. The place is quirky and so are the residents. The mayor is a golden retriever. The village mascot is the Idyll-Beast who serves on the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. While the village clearly has a sense of humor, it takes the arts and community very seriously. For the past twenty years, award-winning musicians gather from all over the country for Jazz in the Pines, raising...
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Tucked neatly in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California is a small village called Idyllwild. The place is quirky and so are the residents. The mayor is a golden retriever. The village mascot is the Idyll-Beast who serves on the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. While the village clearly has a sense of humor, it takes the arts and community very seriously. For the past twenty years, award-winning musicians gather from all over the country for Jazz in the Pines, raising money for students of Idyllwild Arts Academy, the famous high school for international teenagers talented in music, visual arts, fashion design, film, and more. Everybody And Their Mother - Idyllwild, CA Volume 1 is a book of environmental portraits by Photographer Gina Genis. Meet the unique citizens of Idyllwild depicted in their most comfortable surroundings: work, home, or the forest. Free spirits, shop owners, professors, and those down on their luck grace the pages. Read in their own words what brought them to Idyllwild, why they stay in a remote rugged place, and what they like best about living among the stars and pines. Volume 1 of Everybody And Their Mother - Idyllwild, CA begins Gina Genis' journey to document the population of the entire village. Consecutive volumes will follow every year.