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Start: 11:30 am
Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!
Start: 2:00 pm
Historic preservationist Diana E. James' book, Shared Walls: Seattle Apartment Buildings, 1900 – 1939 (McFarland), began as a collaborative project with famed local historian Jacqueline B. Williams, and in the intervening years became a solo project. Now finally complete, this fascinating and essential volume offers a comprehensive account of apartment building history, styles, designs, and an account of some key individual building histories. Diana James will give a brief overview and also provide tips for researching your own building's history. Following the talk, Diana James will lead a short walking tour and discuss the history of some of the buildings in our Capitol Hill/First Hill neighborhood.
Start: 5:00 pm
Over from his home in the Ligurian countryside outside of Genoa is New Yorker writer Tom Mueller. His captivating book, Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil (W.W. Norton), blew out of booksellers' shelves over the holidays. His publisher couldn't keep up with demand for this story, which began as an arresting New Yorker piece on present-day scams going on with olive oil. The book delves further into that, at the same time giving a rich history of this remarkable substance. "How long have readers waited for a story like this? A century? A millennium? Finally, the earth's most poetic food has found its storyteller. Essential, smart, and ridiculously overdue." – Bill Buford.
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