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May 2, 2008
On May 3: (Re)Discover Corning @ the Library
"Be a tourist in your own hometown." That's the theme for this
Saturday's (Re)Discover Corning celebration, featuring free admission,
special events and giveaways at dozens of venues including The Corning
Museum of Glass, Market Street Coffee & Tea and the
Southeast Steuben County Library.
Come to the Library on May 3 from 10 am to 2 pm to enjoy live readings
of poetry and prose by noted authors who live or work in town. For
example, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Lee Welles and Tina Field Howe will
appear in the Children's Department. Other great writers will appear at
stations throughout the Library. There will be music by Art Hoffsteader.
Schedule
10:00: Jyoti Pathak – Author of the cookbook, Taste of Nepal.
10:20: Louise Sullivan-Blum – You're Not From Around Here, Are You? &
Amnesty: A coming of age novel.
10:40:
Eileen DeClemente - Alive.
11:00: Karen Alpha – Short stories.
11:20:
Nina McPhilmy – Touching Bottom.
11:20: Tina Field Howe, appearing in the Children's Department, with
selections from Snailsworth, a slow little story.
11:40: Tina Field Howe - Selections from Alysa of the Fields -
appearing at a station in the Adult or Young Adult areas in the Library.
12:20:
Kathleen Richardson – Newspaper Columns
12:40:
Elizabeth Whitehouse - Children's Dept – Ogham in Orkney &
Bag Babies and the Secret of Civilization
1:00:
David Whitehouse – Various works
1:20:
Jerry Fong – Original Poetry
1:40: Lee Wells - Children's Dept – Selections from her Gaia Girls
series.
Author Bios:
Karen Alpha has lived much of her writing life in Corning, and
most of her stories are set either in the Finger Lakes region or in the
Caribbean, both having proved fertile ground for the imagination.
Primarily a fiction writer, she is widely published in literary
journals; a recent dabbling in poetry, however, has garnered a spate of
awards, interestingly. Ms. Alpha organizes the Friends of the Library's
Short Story Contest for students.
Tina Field Howe lives in Corning, NY. She writes a blend of
science fiction/fantasy for young adults and up, and writes and
illustrates for children. Her most recent works are the novel Alysa
of the Fields, Book One in the Tellings of Xunar-kun. The theme is
"finding the champion who lives inside of you." Her children's picture
book, Snailsworth, a slow little story, encourages young ones to
believe in themselves. Reviews, reader comments, and book event
information are available on her website at www.tinafieldhowe.com.
Jerry Fong has been writing poetry for over 20 years. He has been
the recipient of awards for his work from Penn Writers,
Paumanok Review and the Syracuse Herald and has published in
a variety of magazines. He co-authored a poetry chapbook with Mary Ginn,
All I've Known of Wanting, H & H Press, ISBN 0-9620790-2-2. He
teaches chemistry at SUNY Alfred State.
Nina McPhilmy (pen name Barbara Redmond) was a freelance writer
for 10 years. During that time, her work was published seven times in
national magazines and several of her articles appeared in local
newspapers. She also taught a class, "How to Get Published," for the
local community college. In later years, she worked as Assistant to the
Head of the Publications Department at The Corning Museum of Glass.
Jyoti Pathak was born and raised in Kathmandu. She has a degree
in Home Economics, and taught at the Vocational College in Sano Thimi,
Nepal before immigrating to the United States. A resident of the
Corning-Painted Post area for the past 32 years, she is an active member
of The Association of Nepalese in the Americas, The Corning World
Pluralism Group, and The Southern Tier Indian Cultural Association.
Kathleen Richardson's monthly column, "It's Your Life," has
appeared in the Star Gazette health & fitness magazine since
2004. Her "Transition" column premiered this month (May 2008) in the
newspaper's Twin Tiers business magazine.
Louise Sullivan-Blum is the author of two previously published
books. Amnesty, a coming of age novel, was nominated for a Lambda
Literary Award for best lesbian fiction. Her memoir, You're Not From
Around Here, Are You?, about being a lesbian in small-town America
and becoming pregnant by alternative insemination, was named an American
Library Association Honor Book in GLBT nonfiction. She is currently at
work on a new novel.
Lee Welles is the author of the award-winning Gaia Girls
book series. Her first book, Gaia Girls Enter the Earth won the
National Outdoor Book Award. The second book, Gaia Girls: Way of
Water recently received a Gold Nautilus Book Award. She also writes
the column "Real Wellness" for the Elmira Star-Gazette and blogs
for Green Options Media. She will read from the yet-to-be published,
Gaia Girls: Air Apparent.
Elizabeth Whitehouse retired from the travel industry at age 22
to become a writer. She finished her first book 35 years later, enjoying
a career as a bookbinder and bookseller in between. She is currently
writing a series of children's books about the Jensen family (which
bears a remarkable resemblance to her own family). Published books Ogham in Orkney
and Bag Babies and the Secret of Civilization, feature the Jensen
family.
For the first half of his career, David Whitehouse was an
archeologist. In the second half, he has studied glass made between AD 1
and 1500. Dr. David Whitehouse is Executive Director of The Corning Museum of Glass
and Curator of Ancient and Islamic Glass.
Many of his published works are descriptions and interpretations of
archeological excavations, others deal with the history of glass, and a
few are about economic history (which he likes to think of as
non-fiction).
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