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Copperfields Petaluma - 140 Kentucky St. 707-762-0563 / Santa Rosa Montgomery Village 775 Village Ct. 707-578-8938 / Sebastopol 138 N. Main St. 707-823-2618 / Healdsburg 106 Matheson St. 707-433-9270Oct 3 ~ Leslie Margolis “We are the Party People” 4p,Pet.
Oct 7 ~ Kids Event - Terri Sloat Special Spooky Stories 11:30a Seb.
Oct 9 ~ Armistead Maupin “Tales of the City” 7p Pet
Oct 11 ~ Katherine Roy “How to be an Elephant”; 4p Pet
Oct 12 ~ Albert Flynn “Writing as a Path to Awakening” 7p Pet
Oct 13 ~ Wine County Spoken Word
Festival; 5p Pet
Oct 14 ~ Thomas Moore “Care of the Soul” 7p, Seb
Oct 17 ~ Armand Baltazar “Timeless” 4p, Pet
Oct 19 ~ Writers Forum: Cameron +
Company; 6:30p Pet
Oct 20 ~ Brian Allen Carr “Sip” 7p Pet
Oct 20 ~ Byron Katie “A mind at home with Itself” 7p Seb
Oct 20 ~ Lee Daniel Kravetz
“Strange Contagion” 7p MV
Oct 27 ~ Ross Lockhart & Friends
An evening of Ghost Stories 7p Pet
Sara Vowell - Headliner for Spoken Word Festival Oct. 13 in Petauma
SONOMA
Stories of a Region and its People
Edited by Robert Digitale
Delight yourself in this intriguing mix of
stories from Sonoma County,
California. Take in glimpses of little-known
history: the Sebastopol temple that became
a touchstone for the Japanese community
here before and after World War II; the
pioneering women’s rights advocate who
fought the forced retirement at age 32 of
airline stewardesses; the county’s lone
lesbian bar in the early 1980s; and the daring
race car driver and aviator who made the
nation’s first airmail flight here in 1911. This
anthology from award winning local writers
includes nearly 50 works of nonfiction,
fiction and poetry. Each piece is set in a
wondrous land of rugged coastline, river valleys, hillside vineyards, and redwood forests. And each tells a distinctly Sonoma story: the crestfallen young grape grower who learned his land wasn’t right for the “King” of the vines; author Jack London’s dream to develop a new kind of farming operation in the Valley of the Moon; and the Santa Rosa ice skating rink where early morning practitioners could routinely catch a glimpse of “Peanuts” comic strip creator Charles Schulz.
Central SR ~ Oct 25 ~ Energy Workshop 6:30p
Cloverdale ~ Oct 18 ~ InbeTWEEN HairBraiding 9-12 Guerneville ~ Oct 25 ~ Finish Folk Group 5p
Healdsburg ~ Oct 31 ! Trick or Treat for a Free Book All Day Northwest SR ~ Oct 12,19,26 Read to a Dog 3:30p Petaluma ~ Oct 9 How to set up an email address 6p Rincon Valley ~ Oct 14 Puppet Show Winne the Witch 2p Rohnert Park ~ Oct 20 Board Games 4p
Roseland ~ Oct 17 Music and Movement 10:30a Sebastopol ~ Oct 25 ~ Foodie Book Club 7p
Sonoma Valley ~ Oct 27 ~ Lego Club 3:30p
Windsor ~ Oct 10 ~ Adult Book Discussion 2:30p sonomacounty.libcal.com for a complete listing of events
This new collection by the Redwood Writers is one of their best. The book is rich with history and has wonderful stories (nonfiction and fiction) and poems about Sonoma County.
Established in 1975, Redwood Writers is the largest of 21 branches of the California Writers Club, a nonprofit association founded in 1909. Early honorary CWC members included Jack London, George Sterling, John Muir, Joaquin Miller, and the first California poet laureate, Ina Coolbrith. Redwood Writers conducts monthly meetings and community events dedicated to “writers helping writers.” Meetings are open to the public. For more information go to redwoodwriters.org.
Many of the authors will be reading from the anthology at Dine With Local Authors on Oct. 16, Monday 5:30-8:30 PM at Gaia’s Garden, 1899 Mendocino Ave. Santa Rosa For reservations email: info@jeaneslone.com
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