Lake County’s Big Read launch event set for Oct. 6
- Jan Cook
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Library will launch its NEA Big Read program in celebration of “Into the Beautiful North” by Luis Alberto Urrea with a rural skills fair on Saturday, Oct. 6.
The kickoff event will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Museum Park at 255 N. Main St. in Lakeport.
It will feature the Lake County Museum presenting rural skills like those used in rural towns across Mexico and here in the United States.
The NEA Big Read in Lake County is presented in partnership with Friends of the Lake County Library, Friends of Middletown Library, Lake County Friends of Mendocino College, Friends of the Mendocino College Library, Mendocino College Lake Center, Lake County Campus Woodland Community College, La Voz De La Esperanza Centro Latino, KPFZ 88.1FM Lake County Local Radio, Lake County Museums, Lake County Arts Council and Middletown Art Center.
Lake County is one of 79 communities nationwide participating in the NEA Big Read from September 2018 to June 2019.
From Oct. 3 through Oct. 27 our community will celebrate Urrea’s “Into the Beautiful North” with a full calendar of events including book discussions, a film screening, an art workshop, a poets and authors’ discussion and an on-air radio discussion of the book.
Free copies of the book will be available at Big Read events while supplies last.
“Into the Beautiful North” follows the adventures of 19-year-old Nayeli who works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father who journeyed to the United States when she was young.
Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village – they've all gone north.
While watching “The Magnificent Seven,” Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men – her own "Siete Magníficos” – to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over.
A national initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book.
For more information on this event, please contact the library at 707-263-8817. You also can view a full calendar of events for the NEA Big Read in Lake County at http://www.lakecountybigread.com.
The Lake County Library is on the internet at http://library.lakecountyca.gov and Facebook at www.facebook.com/LakeCountyLibrary.
Jan Cook is a library technician at the Lake County Library.