LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Lit-Fest on Saturday, Oct. 3, will kick off the Lake County Big Read.
Lit-Fest will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Mendocino College Lake Center, 2565 Parallel Drive in Lakeport.
The Lake County Lit-Fest is a reading festival featuring local authors, artists and organizations gathered in celebration of reading and literature.
Lit-Fest attendees will be able to receive a copy of this year’s Big Read novel selection, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” while supplies last. Light refreshments will be available.
Two local authors, Waights Taylor Jr. and Anna Fiorina Hess, are the featured speakers for Lit-Fest.
Waights Taylor Jr. will be presenting "The Author's Journey" at 1 p.m. to start the event.
He will explain how the long unpublished manuscript of Harper Lee’s newly-published “Go Set a Watchman” came to be found and published, and its relationship to “Mockingbird.” What does all this tell us, and what are we to make of it?
Waights Taylor Jr. is the author of award winning book “Our Southern Home: Scottsboro to Montgomery to Birmingham – The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century.”
Anna Fiorina Hess’ presentation, “Atticus, an American Hero” will talk about the metaphor of the mockingbird, a father's relationship with his children and the value of life in the 1930s.
Hess lives with her husband and her dog in the Riviera. They moved here permanently only two years ago after many years of vacations on the water.
“From my writing desk I see all the way up the lake which reminds me of Scotland where I am from,” she said.
Hess also has written and published a book entitled "Born in Internment," the story of an Italian/Scottish family united in love but slashed apart by the ambitions of Mussolini and Hitler.
Attendees can meet local authors and purchase their works. More than 20 authors will be present, including Steve Bartholomew, Hal Zina Bennett, Nicki Brandon, Steve Davis, Kit DeCanti, Sunny Franson, John Freedom, Linda Guebert, Robin C. Harris, Anna Fiorina Hess, Peter MacRae, Loretta McCarthy, Heather McIntosh, Nathan McQueen, Connel Murray, Gene Paleno, Denise Rushing, R. V. Schmidt, Hank Smith, Letitia Ursa Solomon, Dean Sparks, Waights Taylor Jr., and Vicky Werkley.
Local organizations that promote reading and literacy will be on hand at Lit-Fest.
The Lake County Literacy Coalition will be attending and promoting the Vineyard Run for Literacy, which takes place Oct. 11.
The Lake County Big Read will attend and hand out free copies of “To Kill a Mockingbird” while supplies last.
The Friends of the Lake County Library will be hosting a book exchange at Lit-Fest. They will be accepting donations of books in good condition for those affected by the Valley fire, only one bag per donor, and handing out books for free.
People can sign up to join a book club at the Big Read booth, or sign up to lead a pop-up discussion group about “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Guests can attend a writing workshop.
The Lake Center of Mendocino College is located at 2565 Parallel Drive in Lakeport. From Lakeport and north take Highway 29 south to the Highway 175 exit at the south end of Lakeport. Turn right on Highway 175 and immediately right on Parallel Drive. Drive about one-third of a mile and the Lake Center will be on the left.
From south of Lakeport, take Highway 29 north to the Highway 175 intersection at the south end of Lakeport. Turn left on Highway 175 and immediately right on Parallel Drive. Drive about one-third of a mile and the Lake Center will be on the left.
The Lake County Library thanks the Lake County Friends of Mendocino College and Friends of Mendocino College Library for sponsoring Lit-Fest.
The Lake County Library along with the Lake County Office of Education’s Literacy Task Force will present the Lake County Big Read during the program month of October 2015.
The Big Read is a community-wide reading program that promotes literature and brings people together through reading and discussing a common book.
For more information about the Lake County Big Read and Lit-Fest call the Lake County Library at 707-263-8817.
The Lake County Big Read is on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LakeCountyBigRead .
Oct. 3 Lit-Fest kicks off the Big Read
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