Assistance League® of Sacramento Hosts Authors' Day Event

Second Annual Authors Day Event Hosted by Assistance League^® of Sacramento

 "Can You Dig It:  Unearthing California's Legends and Lore."

Sacramento, CA - A resident of Fair Oaks, Charlotte Stott, President of Assistance League of Sacramento announced that it will hold the second annual Authors' Day Event on Saturday, March 31, 2012, at the Sacramento Marriott Hotel, 11211 Point East Drive, Rancho Cordova, CA, from 9 am to 4 pm.   The theme is “Can You Dig It:  Unearthing California's Legends and Lore."  President Stott said that six authors will present interesting facts and information about their books and experiences above and beneath California. 

Included in the fee of $75 are morning refreshments, luncheon, authors' reception, opportunity prizes, jewelry and art vendors, and a silent auction.  Registration forms are available on-line at www.Sacramento.Assistance League.org, and by calling (916) 485-2307, or at Assistance League of Sacramento's thrift shop at 2538 Yorktown Avenue, Suite C (near the corner of Watt & El Camino).  

President Stott said that the six featured authors and their books are:

Burrill, Richard - Ishi's Untold Story in His First World.A 1968 University of California (Santa Barbara) graduate holds a Masters Degree from California State University at Sacramento, and is a noted anthropologist.  Richard Burrill who has devoted his professional life to research on Ishi resulting in a massive compilation of information about Ishi, the Stone Age male survivor of the Yahi Tribe of Northern California.  Burrill established the annual Ishi Gathering and Seminar --now sponsored and hosted by Butte County Historical Society.  He owns the publishing house, The Anthro Company."  Semi-retired, he previously was a high school and college educator. In 1988, he published "River of Sorrows:  Life History of the Maidu-Niseanan Indians."  The Maidu Indians lived in the Sacramento area, and Burrill lives in Chico, CA.  Contact:  www.ishifacts.com, E-mail:  richardburrill2011@gmail.com, or (530) 809-2451.  

Carol Firenze - The Passionate Olive, 101 Things To Do With Olive Oil (8th printing).  Carol Firenze will demonstrate the amazing uses of olive oil and the history of the growing business of the olive oil phenomena in California.  Firenze recently returned from one month in Umbria and Tuscany hosting two Olive Harvest Adventure groups, where ten women from St. Louis on the first tour and three couples on the second tour experienced an authentic Italian week of food, wine, art, music, fun, and olive oil!  She lives in Los Gatos.  Contact:  www.thepassionateolive,com, www.facebook.com/passionateolive, Skype:  thepassionateolive, iPhone/iPad app: GoEVOO or E-Mail: carol@thepassionateolive.com.

Scott Lankford - Tahoe Beneath the Surface was the bronze medal winner of the Foreword Magazine's 2010 "Nature Book of the Year."  Scott Lankford is a well-known environmentalist and he is a full-time tenured Professor of English at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA.  Lankford actively pursues Western American Environmental History, History of Mountaineering, South East Asian History, and Gay & Lesbian Literature.  He has a PhD from Stanford University and lives in Daly City, CA.  Contact:  www.minsurfing.typepad.com/tahoe, www.facebook.tahoebeneaththesurface, 

E-mail:  scottatfoothill@yahoo.com. 

McAvoy Layne (Luncheon Speaker Appearing as Mark Twain) - Hooked on Twain.  For the last 28 years, McAvoy Layne has embodied the Spirit of Mark Twain or the Ghost of Mark Twain.  Layne's rendition of Twain's literature is as authentic as his white suit and big cigar.  Actor and Twain impersonator, Hal Holbrook, was one of his mentors.  Layne donates his time to literacy organizations, libraries, and schools.  He just completed a sell-out tour performing as Mark Twain in the Pacific Northwest.  He has presented at numerous events -- most notably for the Sacramento Public Library Foundation's One Book promotion of Mark Twain in 2011.  He lives in Incline Village, NEV.  Contact:  www.ghostoftwain.com. E-Mail:  twain1601@AOL.com, (775) 833-1835, or (775) 847-0433.

John Poswall – Lawyers:  Class of ‘69, and The Altar Boys - A Sacramento native and a well-known lawyer in the Sacramento area, John Poswall graduated in 1969 from the UC-Berkeley School of Law.  Poswell is listed in Best Lawyers in America and has been honored as Humanitarian of the Year by the Sacramento County Bar Assn.  His first book, Lawyers:  Class of 1969, is about the civil rights movement in California from 1960-80.  Although written as a novel, it expresses the upheaval and political maneuvering of a state government awash in change.  Poswall, raised in the Catholic Church, was an altar boy at the Sacramento Cathedral.  In his second book, The Altar Boys, he used facts that tell a true story but with changes enough to make it a novel.  He lives in Lincoln, CA. Contact:  Web Sites:  www.johnposwall.com, Amazon.com: The Altar Boys (9780972999250): John M. Poswall ...Amazon.com: The Lawyers: Class of '69 (9780972999243): John M. Poswall ... E-Mail:  goldentemplepub@aol.com

 Big Jim Williams -  Audio Books:  The Old West, Tall Tales of the Old West, Credits in Anthologies:  Murder to Mil-Spec, the Last Man Anthology:  Tales of Catastrophe, Disaster & Woe, and At Home and Abroad:  Prize Winning Stories (All available at Books on Amazon)

Short Listing of Short Stories:  Hutch Higgins Ain't No Horse Thief, The Last Mountain Man, A Deserted Mansion.  Big Jim Williams said that he loves the history of the Old West, the people and tales; and what an exciting time it would be to be in California’s '49 Gold Rush, ride the Oregon Trail, or explore with Lewis and Clark.  That is why Big Jim loves writing westerns.   Big Jim became Santa Barbara Community College District’s first public information officer (retired in 1992) after a lifetime in broadcasting, including known as “The Voice of Santa Barbara” while a long-time morning personality and program director in Santa Barbara radio. His radio drama, “A Close Encounter of The Confederate Kind,” broadcast over 100 public radio stations, was also produced, and aired by the American Museum of Radio and Electricity's KRME Midnight Radio Players, Bellingham, WA.  He lives in Goleta, CA. Contact:  Web Sites:  www.ropeandwire.com/MainPages/StorySections/Big_Jim_Williams.html, 

and www.Sniplits.com/bigjimwilliams.jsp, E-mail:  bigjimwilliams2@cox.net, or (805) 961-8559.

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