Events
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Start: 11:00 am
Join us for this fun hour of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!
Start: 2:00 pm
Our recent move to Capitol Hill has inspired us to host a series of talks having to do with our new (to us) neighborhood's history, beginning with this story of the man who built and briefly inhabited the "Sam Hill House" located on north Capitol Hill, near the St. Mark's greenbelt. Sam Hill was one of the great railway magnates of his day and an entrepreneur whose more well-known hilltop mansion is Maryhill, located 200-some miles southeast of Seattle's Capitol Hill. Sam Hill built both Maryhill and its famous, nearby Stonehenge replica for his lover Mona Bell. A Woman Alone: Mona Bell, Sam Hill and the Mansion on Bonneville Rock (Frank Amato) is John A. Harrison's account of both Mona Bell and Sam Hill, and of the former's court battle to retain title to her home. More programs on Capitol Hill (most a little more germane to Capitol Hill) to come. This meanwhile, sheds new light on an intriguing Northwest story.
Start: 7:00 pm
Comic book artist Roberta Gregory and her partner Bruce Taylor have been longtime fixtures at literary fairs at Bumbershoot, Hugo House, and elsewhere throughout the region. Tonight we welcome them both to Elliott Bay to read from and talk about new work published by Landis Review Press. Bruce Taylor, sometimes known as "Mr. Magical Realism," reads from Mountains of the Night, in which he explores living with a chronic illness through the metaphor of hiking through a wilderness. Roberta Gregory, creator of Bitchy Bitch, speaks about her new collection, Follow Your Art: Roberta's Comic Trips, which includes pieces on her residency at Hedgebrook, a cross-country Amtrak trip, and some entertaining stories about budget book tours.
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