St.
Columba Episcopal Church, Parish Hall
52nd St.,
Gulf
Thursday afternoons -
1:00p.m. to 3:00p.m.
January 6
Matt Lawrence's "Dying
To Get Here" is the story of the
Robaina family's
heroic struggle to cross the cross the
Florida Straits to
escape Castro's oppression, no matter
what the risk.
Lawrence flew rescue missions with Freedom
Flight International
and Brothers To the Rescue for
eighteen months and
witnessed hundreds of Cubans rowing in
rafts or inner tubes,
many drowned or were eaten by
sharks.
January
13
Always spellbinding,
Tom Corcoran will talk about three of
his favorite books,
"Remembering Ernest Hemingway" by
Plath & Simons,
"Key West Collection" by Dorothy Raymer,
and "The Young Wrecker
on the Florida Keys" by Richard
Meade Bache. Tom will
also read from his soon to be
published Florida
mystery novel, "Air Dance Iguana."
January
20
Key West artist,
writer and dancer, Judi Bradford will
show slides of key
West in 1980-84 before tourism took
over. Judi will also
sign copies of "Lizard Licks: A
Comic History of Key
West in the 1980s", a collection of
her comic strips
published in Solares Hill Newspaper from
1984 t0
1994.
January
27
Key West writer, poet
and Miami Herald columnist Michael
Suib will read some of
his humorous yet touching essays
about querky life in
Key West. Suib will also sign copies
of his book,
"Confessions of A Key West Cabby."
February
3
Key West Disk Jockey,
radio personality and satirist, Bill
Hoebee will read some
of his bitingly hilarious "Key Weird"
columns published
every Thursday in the Key West Citizen.
Hoebee's work will
soon be published in Grntlemen's
Quarterly. Bill has a
radio program from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00
a.m. Monday through
Friday on WAIL 99.5 F.M. This presentation
will be at Kirk of the
Keys.
February
10
James Born, the chief
of the Broward County district of the
Florida Department of
Law Enforcement, has written "Walking
Money", an exciting,
well written crime novel set in South
Florida Full of great
characters and lots of plot twists, this
novel is sure to grab
your attention.
February
17
Always a favorite,
renowned Tampa humorist and mystery writer
Tim Dorsey will
entertain us with his latest wacko Florida
novel," Torpedo
Juice." Yes, Serge A. Storm is back and this time
and this time he
brings his brand of chaos to our Florida
Keys.
February
24
Popular Key Colony
Beach lady and bright spirit, Irene Rhoda
will tell us about the
national bestseller, "The Devil In the
White City," an
historical thriller about Chicago's "Jack the
Ripper" set in the
Columbia Exposition otherwise known as the
1893 Chicago World's
Fair. This presentation will be at Kirk
of the Keys.
March 3
Charming and
ebullient, our much loved Jo Lee Scarborough
will review Jon
Meacham's "Franklin and Winston, An Intimate
Portrait of An Epic
Friendship."
March 10
Born and bred in Old
Virginia, key West author Ranny
Fitzgerald will read
from her short stories, "The Pink
Paper", "The Gift" and
"Come With Me", and tell us about the
novel she is currently
writing about growing up in the South
during the sixties.
March 17
The fascinating and
learned Roland Fisch, Professor of
Anthropology and
Education at Florida Keys Community
College,
will discuss the
momentous lives of five African Americans
who lived in Florida
before the Civil War.
March 24
Key West author
Barbara Bowers will read from and sign her
latest book, "Cats I
Have Known." Bowers pairs the behavior
and personality traits
of felines who live on her property
with those of the
"human cats who come and go". A must read
for those who love
cats and Key West!
