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Vol. 7, No. 2 Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Fall 2004

Mark your calendar Tickets These events take place in the library are still unless otherwise stated. Sunday, September 19 Jazz pianist Mark Seales opens the available annual Speakers Forum series at 4 p.m. “Jazz and its Historical Place in America.” for the seventh Tuesday, September 21 annual Library Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable. Susan Sloan, novelist and cookbook author dis- Speakers Forum— cusses “What makes a page-turner?” 7 p.m. and at reduced cost Wednesday, September 22 after September 20. Wills and Trusts seminar with estate planning specialist, Marite Butners and Mark Seales, noted attorney, Dorothy Foster, 9-11 a.m. jazz pianist, leads off Wednesday, October 6 the series, followed Library Book Group, The Known World by Edward P. Jones, 7 p.m. by Jill Jean, Anand Saturday, October 9 Yang, Dr. Edward Opera Preview: Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, 2 p.m. Miles, Admiral Bill Friends of the Library Book Sale, 10-2 p.m. Center, and bonus Sunday, October 10 speaker Bill Holm. Speakers Forum: Dr. Edward Miles presents “The Future of the Ocean; Prospects for Sustainability,” 4 p.m. Monday, October 11 Library Closed for All KRL Staff Training Day Speakers Forum opens seventh season Wednesday, October 13 Low Vision Support Group, 1-3 p.m. The 2004-2005 Library Speakers Prospects for Sustainability”. An of International Studies, addressees the Fridays, Oct. 15, 22, 29 Forum season gets under way this month, authority on ocean and atmospheric study subject: “India: the Next Super Power?” “Moments in Time”, a three-part and tickets are still available at $45 for and its environmental, ecological, and The final series event is a bonus workshop in memoir-writing, library the full season. economic significance, Dr. Miles was for program sponsored by Grant and research and artistic expression for For those who have not yet 11 years director of the School of Marine Barbara Winther. The renowned painter seniors. Hosted by Bainbridge Library and sponsored by the Bainbridge Island Arts subscribed and may have missed the Affairs at the University of Washington. and retired University of Washington and Humanities Council. 9:30-12:30 p.m. Mark Seales program on September 19, On October 24 Jill Jean, a Bainbridge professor Bill Holm will speak on For more information, call 842-4162. tickets for the remaining five programs Island resident and director of the central “Sundogs and Eagle Down: the Indian Saturday, October 16 will be available for only $35 beginning library for the Seattle Public Library, will Paintings of Bill Holm”­—and share his Island Theatre Play Reading at the September 20. speak on “Creating Seattle’s New Library: passionate interest in Native American Library, 7:30 p.m. “This is one of the most exciting A Place of Learning, A Place of Drama”. culture and art. Tuesday, October 19 programs we’ve offered,” says Susan Also, she has arranged a special optional For more information on the Speakers Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable. Fred Bray, originator and director of the forum. guided tour of the new library (for Speakers Forum, pick up a brochure in the library. Moody, journalist and nonfiction writer Seales is well known as a performing Forum subscribers only) on October 26. You may purchase tickets by filling out discusses “How does an author know what questions to ask in an interview?” 7 p.m. jazz musician, both in the Northwest and Admiral Bill Center, president of the the blank in the registration form in throughout the country. He also heads Washington Council on International the brochure, enclosing your payment, Wednesday, October 20 Travel program: Tour Provence with the jazz studies program at the University Trade, will speak November 7. His topic: and mailing it or dropping it off at the Danna Brumley, 7:30 p.m. Co-sponsored of Washington. His topic: “Jazz and Its “Can We Rebuild a Positive Consensus Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison by The Traveler Bookstore Historical Place in America”. in Support of International Trade?” Avenue North, Bainbridge 98110. (For Sunday, October 24 Dr. Edward Miles will speak October On November 14 Anand A. Yang, more information, call Susan Bray at Speakers Forum: Jill Jean, Director 10 on “The Future of the Ocean: director of the Henry M. Jackson School 842-4156.) of Seattle Public Library’s Main Library presents “Creating Seattle’s New Library: A Place of Learning, A Place of Dreams.” Field’s End fall lecture 4 p.m. Wednesday, November 3 Library Book Group, Balzac and the Little Andrew Ward returns to Bainbridge Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai, 7 p.m. Award-winning author and former door. Separate tickets will be sold for 1991 to 1995, his columns appeared Thursday, November 4 Year End Tax Planning seminar with Bainbridge resident Andrew Ward will a post-lecture reception with Ward at a regularly in the Washington Post and estate planning specialist, Marite Butners return to Bainbridge Island on Saturday, private Island home. International Herald Tribune. He has and attorney, Dorothy Foster. 9-11 a.m. October 16, as a guest lecturer for Three short stories, one of which was also written for National Geographic Friday, November 5 Field’s End. selected for Best American Short Stories and American Heritage. His work Maggie Ball shares the story of her Ward will speak at Island Center of 1972, launched Ward’s prolific writing has been reprinted in more than 30 Bainbridge community-supported quilting Hall about “Backing into the Past: career. Since then, he has authored textbooks and collections. outreach project in Mongolia, 7:30 p.m. An Essayist’s Journey into African dozens of stories, essays, commentaries, Ward moved from Connecticut to Sunday, November 7 American History.” Billed as a lecture, and documentaries, as well as six Bainbridge Island in 1987. He parlayed Speakers Forum: Admiral Bill Center presents “Can We Rebuild a Positive the event also will include “a little acclaimed books. Ward’s essays and that change of scene into humorous Consensus in Support of International reading of this and that,” says Ward. parodies have appeared in almost every commentaries on National Public Radio’s Trade?” 4 p.m. Ward’s lecture will begin at 5 p.m. major magazine in the country. All Things Considered, interspersed with Tuesday, November 9 Tickets are $10, or $7 for seniors and For seven years, Ward was a Island Theatre Middle School students, available in advance or at the contributing editor at the Atlantic. From Continued on Page 2 Storytelling Workshop: “Telling Scary Stories” with Megan Wells, time TBA Wednesday, November 10 Low Vision Support Group, 1-3 p.m. Also in this issue: Island Theatre Young Kids Family Concert with Megan Wells, time TBA Books, books, and more books for fun and information...... page 8-11 Thursday, November 11 Library Closed. Veterans’ Day Young People’s library activities...... pages 3, 6, 7

Continued on Page 11 Don Frothingham’s art is coming to the library in October..... page 12 Opinion, Events page 2 Fall 2004 Meet our contributing writers By VERDA AVERILL is facilitator for the Library Book Group, Library News Editor which meets the first week of every Is there something about living month. (Ask for details at the reference together in a family with other writers desk.) Pat also serves on the Kitsap that encourages the gifted to write easily Regional Library Foundation. See her and well? article on their upcoming Gala inside. I think so. Other contributors include Nan Some of the smoothest and most Wooldridge, who writes eloquently thought-provoking prose I read comes on art for us and has written travel from husbands and wives and mothers articles for national publications like the and daughters. Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. For example, Jonathan Kellerman, the We thank Susan Bottles for several best-selling, award-winning author and articles about the Field’s End writers’ child psychologist, spins terrific yarns, community. Susan is a former reporter as does his wife Faye. Their styles are for an Eastside newspaper and the current very different, but I can’t help but feel president of the Bainbridge Library that they share ideas about their work and Board. benefit from each other’s suggestions. Our library staff also contributes on a A mother-daughter team of writers, regular basis. For this issue Julie O’Neill, Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter Carol reference librarian and proofreader, Higgins Clark have sold millions of copies submitted a timely list of books to read of their best sellers and have coauthored around election time. The entire young Elizabeth Wiggs Pat Miller two suspense novels. Clearly their people’s library staff—Sharon Snyder, connection has contributed to their success. writers­—with no luck. Eleanot Wheeler and Gail Christensen also contributed. Here on Bainbridge, another mother-daughter team But we lucked out this summer, when Elizabeth— I think these many writers, each with her own has a gift for writing. inspired perhaps by mother Susan?—agreed to write writing style, contribute much to our publication and Susan Wiggs, a bright star in the firmament of another column for us. thank them all most sincerely. romance novels, has published more than 25 novels— Will this lead to snother writing career in the Wiggs If I’ve omitted anyone, it was by accident, not intent, each successive one to more acclaim, it seems. (She has family? Who knows. and we’ll catch up with them in the next issue. recently reached beyond the romance fiction genre and Certainly it makes for some enjoyable reading this Enjoy your reading. was featured by the Doubleday Book Club in its general summer. fiction category.) Soon Elizabeth will return to Pomona College to Susan has been contributing articles to our Library continue her studies. Enjoy her work while you can. News for four or five years now. In this issue we publish It’s time to introduce another regular contributor, Please remember her conversation with Tess Gerritsen, one of my favorite Patricia Miller. medical sleuths (and a real MD to boot.) Her book reviews have been appearmg here for a the library when Then, about three years ago, along came couple of years now. If you haven’t read one yet, now Elizabeth Wiggs, her daughter, who just for fun would be a good time to begin. you mark your decided to try her hand at writing columns on books Miller lived in many localities with her husband, during her junior and senior years at Bainbridge who died a few years ago. She grew up in Wyomng, High School. The result was outstanding: sparkling acquireed two degrees at the University of Wyoming, One Call for All prose for readers of all ages. and then taught English literature at the high school When Elizabeth went off to college, we looked for level. Since moving to Bainbridge a few years ago, she ballot. another teen to replace her on our staff of contributing has worked as a volunteer with the library, and currently

Continued from Cover Andrew Ward returns monologues on such disparate subjects as oil spills, bumper Cawnpore Massacres in the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and WGBH’s Public Television series, The American stickers, and the wisdom of children. In 1991, Ward Dark Midnight When I Rise. Experience. Other work for WGBH followed. For the published his Bainbridge-centered commentaries with Current book projects include two novels, a Hallmark Channel, he’s co-written two award-winning related essays in Out Here: A Newcomer’s Notes from the collection of photographs Ward took in Rajasthan, biographical documentaries on St. Francis of Assisi Great Northwest (Viking). The book became a nine-week nonfiction humor, and River Run Red, a Civil War (The Reluctant Saint) and St. Patrick (Patrick), and he’s best seller in the Northwest. Ward now lives in Seattle. history about the Battle of Fort Pillow, which will be working on one about Joan of Arc (Joan the Maid). Other books by Ward include a novel (Blood Seed) published by Viking/Penguin. Lecture and reception tickets will be available at and nonfiction:Fits & Starts: The Premature Memoirs Since 2000, Ward has written for film, too. Tapping Eagle Harbor Book Company after September 23. For of Andrew Ward, A Cry of Absence, and the award- his research for Dark Midnight, he co-wrote Sacrifice more information about the two events, go to www. winning histories Our Bones Are Scattered: The & Glory, a documentary that aired in May 2000 on fieldsend.org, or phone 842-4162. Fall 2004 classes are set for Field’s End One of the four highly diverse writing classes from inspiration, or story idea, to an emotionally tuition reflects the professional caliber of the instructor. offered by Field’s End in October and November will resonant piece of fiction. Tuition assistance is available through the Jack Olsen be a seminar giving Islanders a chance to hear a New Wiggs has been published by Avon, Tor, Memorial Writers’ Assistance Fund at Field’s End. York City top editor’s answer to the perennially asked HarperCollins, Harlequin, Mira, and Warner Books and A third Field’s End offering, “From Page question, “How do I get published?” has received numerous awards for her work, including to Stage,” will allow aspiring playwrights to The Saturday afternoon, Nov. 6, seminar at two RITA awards. She was the national keynote speaker spend three hours on four Saturday afternoons the library is titled “No Tricks and No Secrets: An to the Romance Writers of America in 2000, holds developing a one-act play under the expert tutelage Editor’s Perspective on Publishing Your Work.” writing workshops all over the country, and is a regular of Seattle playwright Amy Wheeler. Robin Desser, vice president and senior editor at the annual Maui Writers Conference and Retreat. Her Two plays will be selected for production in the of Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, will speak for about most recent novel, number 25, is The Ocean Between spring of 2005 through collaboration with Bainbridge 45 minutes on what happens once your manuscript Us, published this year by Mira Books Performing Arts. One opening may remain for this class. arrives in the publishing house mailroom. Her talk will “This course is for any writer who has felt that flash Finally, 12 writers will hone their craft at be followed by 45 minutes of questions and answers. of inspiration—the one that kept her pacing the floors at Pegasus Coffee House on four Tuesday evenings You should bring your curiosity and a notebook – but night or drove him from the couch to the computer—and under the coaching of popular returning instructor not your manuscript. Cost will be $30. is ready to take the next step on the journey of the Priscilla Long in a new course, “From Imitation to Another class will be taught by Bainbridge working storyteller,”—Wiggs wrote in her description of Imagination.” This class is full. best-selling author Susan Wiggs, one of the the class. Field’s End classes are open to writers of every nation’s foremost writers of historical romance and Although the class size could be as large as 60, skill level. Class flyers and registration forms are contemporary women’s literature. Wiggs—a very experienced writing teacher—promises available in the lobby of the Bainbridge Public Her five Monday-evening classes will meet from to personalize the class through discussions, creativity Library. Class information, instructor biographies, and Oct. 25 to Nov. 22, 7:15 to 9:15. “The Story Within: exercises, readings and small-group critiquing workshops. a downloadable registration form are available on the Structuring Your Fiction” will help writers progress Tuition will be $200. As always with Field’s End courses, Classes page of www.fieldsend.org. Fall 2004 page 3 History, Teens Island history goes to town By Barbara Winther president of the board and later as the long-time-serving museum curator. In 1908, when Bainbridge citizens He pioneered much of the collection voted for a $1500 bond issue to build and was such an avid researcher that the second Island Center Grade School, many islanders still refer to him as Mr. they could not have foreseen that the Bainbridge History. building would become a museum and A gift from the McCracken family end up in downtown Winslow. in the late 1900s gave the museum the Originally located near the present opportunity to add a prefabricated unit Island Center Hall, the one-room for storage and library facilities. building was a grade school until 1923. Then, at a crucial time in 2003, After that, because of school district as the society considered moving the consolidation, buses carried Island museum to Winslow but couldn’t raise Center students to Pleasant Beach enough money to do it, a bequest from School, and the little schoolhouse sat the estate of vacant for the next seven years except Helen Bucey for occasional community gatherings. paved the way.

In 1930 movers transported the For the third Historical Society and Bainbridge Winther Photo courtesy of Grant building on sturdy rollers south to High time, the old Museum now in Winslow. School Road and then east up and down schoolhouse steep inclines to the grounds of Bainbridge took a trip, Island High School. It was dubbed the this time on practically neighbors, patrons can dash “Annex” and became the practice room for flatbeds. With back and forth between the two places. If, the band and chorus for 40 years. an able crew for example, you want to read old Review When enlargement of the high in attendance, newspapers on microfilm, you do that school necessitated the removal of the the 96-year old at the library, but if you want to read the Annex, the school board gave it to the building moved actual newspapers, you go to the museum. Bainbridge Island Historical Society. The a slow 4.5 miles, Basic information about the Northwest Rotary Club moved the building in 1971. coordinated can be found at the library; more detailed Once again, up went the schoolhouse with the lifting information about people and places on onto rollers, and off it trundled down of phone and Second Island Center grade school, built in 1908 Bainbridge can be found at the museum in High School Road, west this time, to electrical pictures, files, artifacts and oral histories. Strawberry Hill Park, on land leased wires and police protection, west on for 90 years. The schoolhouse and the “We want you to know all about from the Park District for $1 a year. High School Road, north on Fletcher renovated prefabricated building sit with Bainbridge,” said Erica Varga, executive The museum was dedicated on Nov. Bay Road, east on Brooklyn Road, a connecting atrium on a newly built director of the museum. “Many 3, 1973 with Elnora Parfitt as its first south on Madison Avenue, through foundation with a storage basement islanders scarcely knew the museum director, a position she held until 1977. the roundabout, into the driveway by directly east of Bainbridge Performing existed. Now, we’re here in town and Jerry Elfendahl’s involvement with the city hall, past a cheering crowd Arts and facing Ericksen Avenue ready to serve the community as well as the historical society began in the and back to its new home in “Three- Now that the Bainbridge Public the tourists who walk up from the ferry. early 1980s, first as a trustee, then as tree Park,” land leased from the city Library and the Historical Museum are We belong to you.” “Moments in Time” Teen Matters & Teens Matter “Moments in Time” is a three-part library for conducting genealogical research, By Sharon Snyder space Teen Isle to match the nautical workshop for Islanders 55 and over involving and artistic approaches to presenting their theme of their branch. writing, library research and creative personal stories. Pizza & Books Post your suggestions on the bulletin expression. Memoir-writing instructor The workshops will take place on Friday Marcia Rudoff, artist Mary Louise Ott, and mornings from 9:30 to 12:30 on October 15, Fantasy/Science Fiction Book board in the young adult area upstairs. Kitsap Regional Library staff members will 22 and 28. All programs will take place in Discussion Group for Teens lead the sessions. the Bainbridge Library Meeting Room. There We’ll meet from 6:00-8:00 pm on Teen space update This program is sponsored by a generous will be a materials fee of $35. Participants the last Wednesday of the Month. Some Teen volunteers and teen board grant from the Bainbridge Island Arts and may bring a partner to assist with computer of you may have other commitments members have been discussing plans Humanities Council as well as support from work or other activities that may present and may only be able to make the first and buying furnishings for our new teen Bainbridge Public Library. challenges for them. hour, that’s okay. You’re welcome to space. We now have some good-looking The 20 participants will learn about For registration and further information, come anyway. We’re trying to find a striped cushions and a lime green rug. techniques for documenting their history, please contact the library at 842-4162. The archival techniques for preserving precious deadline for registration is September 30. time that works for enough of you to Presentations have been made to the photos and written records, resources at the make it interesting. library board and to the Friends of the The first two titles are: Library for funding. September 29 - The Seeing Stone, We’re going to need even more by Kevin Crossley-Holland teen creativity and hard work to come BAC & library collection proposal October 27 - The Kindling, by up with some fundraising ideas of our In keeping with its longstanding the county’s nine non-fiction library collections. Jennifer Armstrong and Nancy Butcher own,” said Shannon. philanthropic commitment to nurturing art on As an art specialist herself, Gail is thrilled by The group will decide the November “We’re also going to need some Bainbridge Island, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts this proposal to provide more art, architecture date and title. teen volunteers to help rearrange things is partnering with the Bainbridge Library to and design books for eager library patrons. upstairs at the library to make room for expand the library’s art book collection. In addition to seeking grants and other Susan Jackson, executive director of sources of funding, BAC and the library Help name our new space! our new space.” Teen Space? Teen Zone? Young BAC, proposed the fundraising project. will seek fine quality donations from the Email suggestions to sharon@krl. Bainbridge Branch Manager Cindy Harrison community that would enhance the collection. People’s Area? org or stop and offer some when you are Port Orchard teens named their and Kitsap Regional Library Collection Children and their parents, students, art in the library. Manager Gail Goodrick enthusiastically docents, art enthusiasts and professional welcomed the partnership. artists in the community use the library’s art Are you prepared for the Goodrick selects the majority of books for collection extensively. rising cost of college? I can show you several ways to save for higher education expenses. Call or stop by today.

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R Opinion, Events page 4 Fall 2004 Look for the red envelope AA GrandGrand OldOld FourthFourth in your mail by susan bottles Library Board President

Very soon you will open your mailbox and find a bright red One Call for All envelope, its vivid color making it stand out from all that junk mail that so often fills our boxes. In fact, you may have already received it. The arrival of the red envelope is a sign of autumn on the Island, just as predictable as the turning of the leaves. One morning in September, year after year, decade after decade, volunteers from all the worthy local non-profit agencies that belong to One Call for All get together. In a few short hours they stuff thousands of information packets into those bright wrappers. They send the envelopes out with a lot of hope, but confidence, too, that you and your neighbors will respond just as Bainbridge Islanders have for decades. We all understand that the special way of life we share in this community depends on private acts of generosity towards the groups and institutions that serve us all. When agencies join One Call for All, they agree they will do no other all-Island solicitation. They agree they won’t go door-to-door asking for funds, and they won’t make telephone pleas to everyone. One Call for All is an amazingly efficient way of fundraising that saves the agencies thousands of dollars and countless volunteer hours, both of which are scarce resources that can be better plowed directly into their charitable services. When you sit down, open your red envelope, and decide where to allocate your pledge, we at the Bainbridge Public Library hope you will designate a Bainbridge Library staff, volunteers and patrons turned out in force to celebrate portion of your gift to the library. Since its beginning in 1960, the library has been during the Island’s annual July 4 parade. wholly dependent on private donations to build, maintain and operate the library building, gardens and parking lots. During most of that time, donations to One Call for All raised nearly all the money the library needed to Field’s End welcomes writers keep the lights on, the computers running, the rooms warm and the restrooms clean. But when the library doubled in size in 1997, so did to second year of Roundtables the library’s bills. By 2001, the board decided it would All Island writers, published or not, are invited to or write to Field’s End at the library, 1270 Madison need to start an annual appeal although, following One join the Field’s End writers’ community by attending Avenue, Bainbridge. Call for All rules, we do not do a blanket solicitation. this fall’s free Writers’ Roundtables at the library. Roundtables are supported in part by a grant from The fourth annual appeal has just ended. Now concluding its second year, the Writers’ the City of Bainbridge Island’s Arts and Humanities While the annual appeal has been successful, it only Roundtable series will continue to meet on the third Fund, administered by the Arts and Humanities Council. meets a portion of the library’s annual expenses. Your Tuesday evening of each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the donations to One Call for All help make up the difference. library’s large meeting room. Newcomers are always very Even if you gave generously to the library earlier welcome – the evenings are structured to include everyone. Writers’ Workout is slated in the year, it would help if you could pledge a small On Oct. 19, journalist and non-fiction author amount to the library through One Call. In addition Fred Moody will introduce the topic, “How does an for November 3 at Central to the funds you designate specifically, each agency author know what questions to ask in an interview?” Field’s End’s third free Writers’ Workout, a skill- receives a portion of the undesignated funds once the Following established format, participants will enhancing evening for West Sound writers from final One Call for All accounting is done. As Verda then break into small discussion groups. After the beginners to professionals, is set for 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Averill wrote in this column last year, “Every little groups report back, Moody will summarize all the Nov. 3 at the Central Library, 1301 Sylvan Way in East gift helps. That’s just common sense.” ideas. Light refreshments and a chance to mingle Bremerton. By the way, you can give to the library with confidence conclude all Roundtables. The highly successful Bremerton-area romance that its board handles its finances professionally. Our A former Seattle Weekly managing editor, Moody is the novelist Debbie Macomber will help participants stretch treasurer Don Harrington and finance chairman Wyman author of several non-fiction books, including his landmark their creativity through a series of writing exercises Johnson are willing volunteers with professional expertise Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Story. organized around a theme. Afterwards, everyone in other fields, but the certified public accounting firm of Poet Sharon Svendsen will introduce the topic, will have a chance to mingle and network over light Clark Nuber has audited our 2002 reports and given us “What is a poem’s story arc?” at the Nov. 16 refreshments. a “clean” audit opinion, with no qualifications. They are Roundtable. In addition to pursing her own craft, The Writers’ Workout series is a West Sound currently compiling our 2003 statements. Svendsen is the founder of Writer’s Haven Reading outreach of Field’s End, the writers’ community While our focus is now on the One Call for All Series in Poulsbo. affiliated with the Bainbridge Public Library. Field’s End campaign, I would also like to especially thank a few The last Roundtable of the year will be is an all-volunteer program and not part of the regional of the people who made our Annual Appeal successful. Dec. 21. Anjali Banerjee will ask, “How does a library system. Because Field’s End highly values the Continued on Page 5 writer use specific detail and imagery to express program’s library connection, however, all Workouts are universal emotions?” held at Kitsap Regional libraries. Banerjee’s first two novels will be published by The first Writers’ Workout was held in Kingston Random House. Maya Running is due out in 2005. It March 1, followed by a second in July at the Poulsbo features the only Bengali girl growing up in a Canadian Library. Both were very well attended and received prairie town. Its sequel will appear in 2006. much favorable feedback. 1270 Madison Avenue, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Banerjee’s short fiction has been nominated for the Workouts borrow somewhat from the format of The Bainbridge Island Library News is published Pushcart Prize, she has contributed to three hardcover the Bainbridge-based Roundtable evenings, but add every quarter by the Bainbridge Library Board, a non- profit organization, and distributed to all Island residents history books, and she writes features for Puget writing exercises both as valuable in themselves and as and local library users. Verda Averill is editor; contributing Sound newspapers. an introduction to the kind of instruction Field’s End writers are all regular library volunteers. The 2004 list of Roundtable guest authors was offers in its formal writing classes. Both Workouts and Board members are Susan Bottles, president; Janet developed by best-selling Bainbridge author and library Roundtables seek to build relationships within the local Brookes, Marite Butners, Joan Gardiner, Don Harrington, Kevin Hawkins, Wyman Johnson, Jim Laughlin, Marlene volunteer Susan Wiggs, who was herself the first writing community. LeMire, Bob Linz, Ann Lovejoy, Channy Peters and Val Roundtable leader. Following the Roundtable format, each Workout is Tollefson. Teen advisory members are Jenine Adam and If you have an idea for a Writers’ Roundtable topic led by a professional author and is free to the public. As Sarah Kersten. Branch manager is Cindy Harrison, Kitsap or guest author, send an e-mail to [email protected] with the Roundtables, all guest authors volunteer their Regional Library representative is Althea Paulson. (please put Writers’ Roundtable in the subject line), services. Fall 2004 page 5 Author Interview

The doctor is in Tess Gerritsen understands her readers by Susan Wiggs The real shocker, though, loves stories with authentic medical detail. was that the killer’s father Ever since then, I’ve been using my medical Former physician Tess Gerritsen loves to keep was at that moment on Death background in my novels.” readers up all night. Row in California for having The result of an ordinary day of writing Body Double continues her forensic thriller series murdered girls and burying usually yields about four pages. starring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical them in his backyard. I “I don’t outline my books ahead of examiner Maura Isles, whom we first met inThe wondered what it was like time, so writing for me is very much an act Surgeon and then got to know even better in The for this young man—a law- of discovery. I write to find out how my Apprentice. In the latest, Maura returns home one night abiding citizen—to discover characters’ lives will evolve and how the from a Paris conference to find a crime scene in her that both his father and mystery will play out. I don’t always know own front yard. A woman has been shot to death in a grandfather were serial killers. how it’s going to end. I don’t even know car. As Maura approaches, the police and bystanders all What did it do to his sense of who will survive. The ending sometimes turn and stare at her in shock. When she finally sees the identity, knowing that he was turns out to be a surprise!” victim, she understands why – the dead woman looks descended from monsters? Like most writers you’ll meet, Tess exactly like Maura. That’s the crisis that Gerritsen is a passionate, lifelong library The investigation that follows reveals some Maura faces in Body Double.” patron. horrifying truths about Maura’s family roots–details Gerritsen, a Stanford “My best childhood memories that make her question her own sense of identity. alum, understands her arees were of being dropped off at my readers as well as she does neighborhood branch in San Diego and Her inspirations the field of medicine: “I discovering a Nancy Drew book I hadn’t “I was inspired by two things,” says Gerritsen. write for suspense readers who like forensic and yet read, or discovering a new mystery author. Even “The first was an experience I had in the autopsy room, medical detail in their mysteries—the same people then, I gravitated toward suspense.” as I watched a post-mortem on a young man. When I who are fans of the CSI TV series. I also find that Patrons may visit Tess on the Web at www. learned that the man was my son’s age, I was shaken many of my readers come from the health care tessgerritsen.com. by the sudden sense of emotional connection—by the professions, because they appreciate the medical thought: what if this was my son? Was there anything accuracy in the autopsy scenes. Anyone who likes a worse than watching an autopsy on someone you good, scary read!” knew? Then I thought: what if I was somehow able to watch my own autopsy—wouldn’t that be chilling? A physician first Prescription That led to the opening scenes of Body Double–when Although Tess Gerritsen has always considered Maura must confront the corpse of a woman who is her herself a storyteller, she started off as a physician and exact double. took the long way around to becoming a novelist. for entertainment “I was also inspired by a true-crime case I’d read “The practice of medicine is pretty demanding on about from Portland, Oregon, about a young man who mothers of young kids, and after five years of working Five great historical novels had called the police to report that his father might as a doctor, I realized I needed to stay home with my recommended by Tess Gerritsen be responsible for the disappearance of two young sons. That’s when I started writing my first novel, a girls in the neighborhood. The police investigated and romantic thriller—a genre I loved and still continue to Tokyo by Mo Hayder. A powerful, eventually searched the father’s backyard, where they read. In 1996, I wrote my first medical thriller,Harvest, unforgettable thriller about the horrors of the found the bodies of the girls buried beneath concrete. and I discovered there’s a huge audience out there that Japanese invasion of Nanking. Pompeii by Robert Harris. An absolute delight for ancient history fans. A novel set on the eve of Continued from Page 4 Pompeii’s destruction. Fire and Fog by Dianne Day. One of a mystery Red envelopes series set in the early 1900s, starring the intrepid sleuth Fremont Jones. First is Verda herself, who from the first appeal in 2001 promotional material about the appeal for display in the Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. The best on took responsibility for actually “making it happen,” library. This year, Elizabeth “Buff” Hungerland also Western novel ever written. I was sobbing at the from writing appeal letters to working directly with the produced a sophisticated presentation for the entry foyer end of it. printers and mailing firm. Although the board had the display case in support of the appeal. The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden. A novel initial idea for an appeal, it was Verda who moved it There are many others who have made and continue based on the life of Julius Caesar—again, for fans beyond the concept stage. to make the library fundraising possible. But the very of ancient history. Jeannette Alexander, a long-time friend of many non- most important person of all is you. Thank you for profits on the island, has twice designed and produced your donations.

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Samantha Marion tries spinning out during the Spinning Sound from Science Event for Teens held in July. Disc Jockeys Jamison Bourque, foreground, and Kyd Beeker of Turntable Logic instruct and assist. Teens react to the camera just before the Anime Film Festival began in August. Library can help with Civil War studies by eleanor wheeler illustrated volume with just enough text (born in 1846) was a freed slave who Soldier’s Heart, Gary Paulsen is Young People’s Staff to add a satisfying depth. This Dorling once belonged to the Van Lew family. another Young Adult book that the With the start of school in the fall, I Kindersley book is found in the Juvenile Together Miss Bet and Liza formed a reader will find unforgettable. This wanted to write about a serious subject Non-fiction section with the call number spying chain that supplied the union is the story of a 15-year-old enlistee. and to talk about some of the resources of J 973.7 STANCHA. generals with vital information. Ellen Like many other Civil War novels, it is available at your library. The Underground Railroad, by Bee was their code name. The real loosely based on a real story. And like Our country has seen some Raymond Bial, focuses on the courage of Elizabeth Van Lew (1818-1900) did keep other novels by the author, Soldier’s interesting times. One of the most those who ran the Underground Railroad a scrapbook for over 40 years, and that Heart will be hard to forget. The term dramatic periods in our history was the as well as the conditions of those who inspired this book. It is filed with our soldier’s heart was common in the War Between the States, or the Civil War. were living as slaves. The illustrations oversized juvenile fiction. era after the Civil War. It would later Families were divided. Some people and writing tell a powerful story that is Red Cap, by G. Clifton Wisler, is be called shell-shock, and then post- thought war was a glorious adventure, sure to inspire the reader. The writing the story of a 13-year-old boy who traumatic stress disorder. but others recognized it for the tragedy and pictures are not disturbingly graphic, runs away and joins the Union Army. Whether you are looking for that it surely was. But what was life but rather challenge the imagination. This book is well researched, and is information or just satisfying your really like during the Civil War, and what The Underground Railroad is filed based on a young drummer boy who curiosity, come see us. lessons can we learn? in juvenile non-fiction, J 973.7115 BIAL. was captured and became a prisoner of If you need information for a report, For another perspective on the war at Andersonville. The book makes or if you are just interested, we can help. Underground Railroad, young readers compelling reading for young people Book review To see history as it was made, one will find themselves absorbed in the story grades 5 and up. Reviewer: Isabel Klein, age 8 of the best resources is the Historical Stealing Freedom, by Elisa Carbone. This Joseph’s Choice: 1861, by Bonnie Boy Tales of Childhood, New York Times. Thanks to the is written as fiction, and is filed under Pryor, is the story of an 11-year-old boy by Roald Dahl internet, and Adobe Acrobat, you can the author’s name in the juvenile fiction who must decide whether to defend his Boy Tales of Childhood is search for stories dating back to 1851, section. It is based on the real story of Ann stepfather’s abolitionist beliefs or to Roald Dahl’s autobiography. I complete and unedited. Maria Weems, who was born in Maryland side with the Southern rights supporters like it because some parts are silly You will be able to focus on specific in the mid-1800s and was a slave on a in his hometown of Branson Mills, and others are serious. One of my articles, or just browse through whole farm. Stealing Freedom tells of being Kentucky. This book should provide favorite parts is the chapter “Goat’s sections. The database can be viewed separated from her family, and then of her food for thought for readers in grades 3 Tobacco,” because he makes tobacco either at the library or from home, but journey from slavery to freedom. and up. from goat’s poop. I think he does it you will need your library card number Dear Ellen Bee, by Mary E. Lyons From the Young Adult section because he doesn’t like his sister’s if you want access from home. Kitsap and Muriel M. Branch, is a fictional upstairs, I recommend Bull Run, boyfriend who smokes a pipe. Regional Library subscribes, which scrapbook based on the life of Elizabeth by Paul Fleischman. This is a story (Librarian’s note: this book means that you are also a subscriber. Our Van Lew who lived in Richmond, with the blended points of view of 16 can be found in the juvenile web address is www.krl.org. Virginia at the time of the Civil War. very diverse characters. As always, biography section downstairs at The Visual Dictionary of the Civil She was a wealthy white woman and Fleischman writes in a spare style that the library under the name, Dahl.) War, by John Stanchak, is a richly an abolitionist. Mary Elizabeth Bowser demands the reader’s attention.

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gather for hearing a story read aloud. Snyder photos Sharon Fall Storytime Library resources for you Schedule By Gail Christensen Another series called Unlocking Two new circulating encyclopedias Pajama Storytime! Young People’s Staff the Secrets of Science (some portions are Artists and The Story of Music. These Terrific Twos, Preschoolers and Parents are welcome. Children may come written by local author Jim Whiting) is will be very helpful for local docents. wearing pajamas and carrying a favorite It’s report time, or research time, or found in the biography section. Each Diseases is an eight-volume set blanket or stuffed toy. science fair time or test time. What do I volume is filed individually according to in dictionary format. Each disease is Mondays 7:00-7:30 pm do? What does the library have for me? the person it is about. given in a simplified format with cause, October 18 & 25, November 1,8,15 & 22 In one word, loads. This must be the year of series. A incidence, symptoms, stages, treatment Terrific Twos: We have books, magazines, cdroms, third series is named How Are They options and prevention. For children 2 years of age and includes databases, online sources, and even a Built? The one about bridges naturally In this election year, there may be books, music, puppets, felt board stories vertical file with local information. discusses the Narrows Bridge among assignments relating to this topic. A recent and fingerplays. A caregiver must The library is consistently receiving others. Others in the series are dams, book is Women in Politics. A timeline is accompany children. Mondays 10:30 - 11:00 am new materials, updating the databases. houses, roller coasters, skyscrapers and given in the book with 1774 being the date October 18 & 25, November 1, 8, 15 & 22 Some of the items that have arrived roads and highways. of the first statement: “51 women in North will help you (parent, caregiver, docent, At some point a recipe from another Carolina signed a statement announcing Preschool: student) in your endeavors. Books, music, puppets, flannelboard country may be needed. Look no further that they will decide for themselves what stories and fingerplays for children age A new series called It’s My State than the Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbook. actions to take in the political struggle three through Kindergarten. has the state song (music and words), The book also throws in some historical between England and the colonies.” Wednesdays 10:30 - 11:00 am websites, recipe, craft, plus many and cultural facts. At this time 26 October 20 & 27, November 3, 10 & 17 other facts. countries have been included. Continued on Page 9

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Charles Carter, campus in excruciating, pace-slowing My school, Pomona College, is rated face when in fact the opposite was true, a magician of the Jazz Age, finds big detail down to the last brick and blade of by The Princeton Review as the college but Ackerman never once leaves her trouble when he invites President Harding grass, thus proving that they did, indeed, with the “happiest students”. What audience behind. Using her engaging and to assist him in a magic trick, and shortly go to Harvard and Princeton. You don’t makes us so happy? Well, for one thing, sometimes poetic voice, she glamorizes thereafter, the President mysteriously dies. need an advanced degree to enjoy this reading. I recommend: the wrinkly grey lump you’re carrying Fantastic chases, pirates, ferocious beasts, tale of mayhem, though. It’s a great Pompeii by Robert Harris. This is around in your skull, and by the end of the a touching romance and good’s triumph escape. Unlike my final recommendation, one of those books where you don’t book, I was convinced that CogSci was over evil all add up to first-rate reading. which is about the inescapable. need to enroll in Ancient History 101 going to be the new Louis Vuitton. I’m Then I went on a midrash binge. The Devil’s Playground, a to appreciate the story. The eruption of still waiting for Jessica Simpson to put out Don’t worry, I had to look it up, too. The documentary on DVD is available to Mount Vesuvius is chronicled from the a Brain Dessert line with Sephora. term is used to describe a post-biblical check out, so check it out. This is a gritty, perspective of a Roman engineer who A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine story that embellishes, explains or fills unexpected look at Amish youngsters has recently taken the job of Aquarius to L’Engle. I was wandering around my in some obscure or missing aspect of a experiencing “rumspringa” (running the Aqua Augusta. Although Pompeii is house trying to find something I hadn’t biblical story. The Red Tent by Anita around), when they leave the Amish a pretty hefty novel, it takes place over read and spotted my mom’s cherished, Diamant is the most popular midrash. community to explore the outside world. about four (very intense) days, and it it’s-worth-more-than-your-life signed copy I liked it so well that I also read The At the end of this period, they must decide paints a beautiful and dramatic picture of Madeline L’Engle’s famous fantasy. I’m Gilded Chamber by Rebecca Kohn about whether to leave the Amish or return and of ancient Italy. But let’s be honest here: a big believer in reading as many classics Queen Esther and Queenmaker by India join the church. This is an irreversible life the most important reason for reading this as possible, from The Iliad to The Cat in Edghill, which is about King David’s decision, and it’s both sad and compelling book is to load up on information about the Hat, and I realized I’d missed this one. queen. All I can say is, be glad we’re to watch these kids, who had to leave what would happen if Mt. Rainier blew. I read the whole thing in one sitting and women of the twenty-first century! school after the eighth grade (because I mean, I know I never took into account quickly put the rest in the series on hold at The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell education leads to pride), struggle with a heat wave that could cook me in about Pomona’s library for fall reading. and Dustin Thomasen. These first-time everything from Dish TV to alcohol a second and a half. Thank goodness we Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. authors are best friends who went to and drug addiction. Lucy Walker, the live by the water. Brown’s precursor to The Da Vinci Code Harvard and Princeton, and wrote a filmmaker, must have incredible patience An Alchemy of Mind by Diane pretty much held me hostage for about thriller about four gifted students at and powers of persuasion to be allowed to Ackerman. As a Cognitive Science major, three days. Certain author-slash-moms Princeton who discover the secrets of film such intimate and stark images. I opened this book expecting to snottily in my life have turned their noses up at an ancient manuscript. At first, I was (Former Library News columnist Elizabeth contradict every mistake the author made, Mr. Brown for his questionable literary worried that it would read like a cheesy Wiggs is now a junior and member of the Sagehens Water Polo and Swim Team at but to my pleasant surprise, I actually skill, and while his writing is chock- knockoff of The Da Vinci Code, so I Pomona College in Claremont, California. She learned a couple of things. An Alchemy full of cliches, he manages to tell a was pleasantly surprised to find myself is the daughter of writer and library volunteer of Mind explores the human brain and captivating story. caught up in the pages of this tale of Susan Wiggs.) Isn’t it romantic? News briefs Maggie Ball and her daughter Hazel spent the month of June in RITA awards are announced Mongolia teaching and demonstrating quilting to low-income and unemployed Romance Writers of America’s Best Inspirational Romance: Best Romantic Novella: “Prisoner women. Her lecture-slide show RITA® is the highest award of excellence Autumn Dreams by Gayle Roper, of the Tower” in The Wedding Chase describes their experiences teaching and in the genre of romance fiction. The published by Multnomah Publishers. by Gayle Wilson, published by traveling in Mongolia, a land rich in golden statuette, named after RWA’s first Harlequin Books. tradition and beauty. Many Islanders, president, Rita Clay Estrada, is a symbol Best First Book: Back Roads by including quilting groups and the for the very best that romance fiction Susan Crandall, published by Warner Bainbridge Rotary supported Maggie’s has to offer each year. Of more than Books. unique service project. Her presentation 1,000 romance novels entered, a panel Best Regency Romance: Prospero’s will be Friday, November 5, at 7:30 p.m. of judges names the best in each of 12 Daughter by published by Signet. THE CONSTITUTION: An different categories. Best Short Historical Romance: Ongoing Conversation is the topic for You can find more information about Worth Any Price by Lisa Kleypas, three public meetings (Wednesdays Sept. RWA and the RITA Award at www. published by Avon Books. 29, Oct. 6, Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m.) in the rwanational.org and through the library Best Long Historical Romance: The library’s large meeting room. website, www.krl.org. Destiny by Kathleen Givens, published The series is co-sponsored by the The 2004 winners are: by Warner Books. Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Best Traditional Romance: Best Romantic Suspense: Council. Series tickets are $25 adults Her Royal Baby by Marion Lennox, Remember When - Part 1 by Nora and $10 students are available through published by Harlequin Mills & Boon. Roberts, published by G.P. Putnam BIAHC (842-7901 for information) or at Best Short Contemporary Series: & Sons. the door. Single programs are $10 adults The Knight’s Kiss by Nicole Burnham, Best Novel with Strong Romantic and $5 students on a space available basis. published by Silhouette Books. Elements: Between Sisters by Kristin BOOK SALES by the Friends of the Best Long Contemporary Series: Hannah (Bainbridge author) published Library continue every second Saturday, The Top Gun’s Return by Kathleen by Ballantine. with extra sale days occasionally as Creighton, published by Harlequin Best Contemporary Single Title: announced. The Friends column will Books. Birthright by Nora Roberts, published return in the next Library News issue in Best Paranormal Romance: Shades by G.P. Putnam & Sons. December. Meanwhile, keep watching of Midnight by Linda Fallon, published the library bulletin board for more by Kensington. Friends information. Fall 2004 page 9 Donors, Gala Your donations keep library doors open For 42 years, the Bainbridge Public Library building Rosemary & Fred Gutt Don & Ellen Fisher Wyman & Karoline Johnson Dave & Sue Lindsey and grounds have been funded entirely by donations from Island School Kids Andrew & Sallie Maron Dr. Frederick & Marge Philip Hosterman & individuals, groups and local businesses. (No taxes are Arthur F. & Virginia Redfield Frank Vibrans Jr.Trust Geisert Bonnie Wallace Wanda R. Stanley Lee Walton William A. & Charlotte P. Mara Hilderman levied.) Without your gifts, there would be no library Dennis & Kimberly Gawlik Mary B. Harmon Paine David & Lynn Hunting building. Your library staff and patrons appreciate every Joan P. Montgomery Garret Veley Diana & Ed Sheridan Larry & Sandy Nakata gift, and thank you warmly. Clark & Cookie Gaulding Bud Alger Steven & Christine Stephanie & Clifton Steele The following donors contributed to the 2004 Annual Kris Vail & Meghan Skotheim Susan Guffey & Christensen Tim & Susie Gleason Appeal (May 20 through Labor Day.) Jerry & Barbara Anderson Gene Priestman Don & Kay Yockey Albert E. & Janice Jeffcoat Bob & Sherry Burke Helene Smart Natasha Moni Karl Petersen & Joan Pearson Richard & Janet Keating George & Delores Bussell Franklin Walker Bradley T. Jones Paul & Dorothy Amis Bob & Jean Satterwhite Barbara B. Kowalski W.T. & Jean Fenn Farwell MacKichan Software Inc. Sarah Mathews Arnie & Jan Droge Retta Sullivan Andrea & Everett Paup Joan & Tom Gardiner Helen M. Cook Craig & Theresa Olson Candace & Erik Jagel Edward & Peg Treanor Jim & Zona Piper Colin & Gillian Bull Kathleen Alcala & Suzanne Peters Mr. & Mrs. Bill Peyton Col. John D. & Dorothy Roberts Arlene Hobbs Wayne Roth Earl & Arlene Johnson Leslie & Richard Helen D. 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Miller Druse & Eva Neumann Galen Johnson Here, too, we have help—Writing with fair projects, and science for fun William & Pamela John R. & Laila Paus Denise Garcia & Style in J372.623. The author says experiments. Some ideas that are Harrison Nakao Albert M. Pollmar Eric Schmidt Marcia Rudoff Al & Lu Simpson Bob & Pauline Deschamps good writing is planned writing. Style included are experiments on easy-to- Jean & Jack Sargent Marc & Jane Stewart David & Robin Guterson is the result of the four P’s: planning, make projects on magnets, sound, light, Jo Schaffer William & Connie Reid & Barbara Hansen producing, polishing, and presenting. electricity and much, much more. Douglas Smith Waddington Steve & Anna Neff For the science fair projects there are Another wonderful source is the Mildred H. Smith Glenn C. Waterman Mary & John Buffington quite a few books in the 500’s that will library’s database collection, which Mary & Gary Tate-Phillips Barbara & Grant Winther Richard & Angelina Alexander & Joan Robert & Ellen Gedney Huang Dykstra be helpful. can be accessed from home or here on Leslie Vassiliadis Ann & Bill LeVeque Wendy & Juan del Valle Beginning with the book How to www.krl.org. For the younger group, R Bruce & Sandra Anderson Robert & Barbara Miller Henry & Ellen Hays do successful science projects will get Kid’s InfoBits gives access to full-text Benjamin Bevis Mary Piette Tom & Carolyn Leigh you headed in the right direction with magazines, newspapers, reference books Susan & Kim Bottles Bruce & Ivy Stevens Robert K. & Sharon Winn information on choosing a topic, to for information on current events, the arts, Deborah & Ralph Cheadle W. 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In addition, this reports and lifelong learners of all enough to attend the Kitsap Regional Outback Steakhouse are on the menu year’s projects include Replenishment ages. It includes hard-to-find statistics Library Foundation Gala. Live as well, promising an afternoon of fine of the Multimedia Collection of and sources. music and refreshments provided entertainment. The Gala will take place DVD’s and CD’s and The Community For the college bound, there is on Sunday, October 3, from 2:00 to 4:00 Living Room, providing furnishings Learning Express Library (LearnATest). p.m. at the Sylvan Way Library in East for comfortable reading spaces in all This helps with SAT’s. First-time users Bremerton; tickets are available at $20.00 nine branches of the Regional Library should click on the New User button to per person. If you haven’t yet received system. The Foundation is also raising register. 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CFA � MORTGAGE BANKERS/BROKERS Books page 10 Fall 2004 Music and fiction: The composers’ world By Martha Bayley In Ophelia’s Fan, Christine Balint introduces us whom he ultimately wed. Nightmusic, by Harrison to the 19th century Irish actress, Harriet Smithson, Slater (who also wrote the scholarly In Mozart’s The lives of classical musicians and composers the muse who inspired Hector Berlioz to write the Footsteps), attempts to fuse the magic of Mozart with continue to fascinate patrons of the arts, as well as Symphonie Fantastique. The review in Booklist the suspense genre. In this literary thriller a poor music readers of biographies and history. The careers of praised the author’s ability” to reconstruct the vibrantly scholar stumbles on what appears to be an early Mozart Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin, to name a few, have intoxicating atmosphere of the theatrical world in the diary, one that may make his fortune if he doesn’t get been the subject of many books and popular films. In early nineteenth century”. killed first. fact public interest in these musical “rock stars” of the On a lighter note, Sleeping with Schubert, by Last but not least, Imagining Don Giovanni, 18th and 19th century continues to grow, as evidenced Bonnie Maron, imagines what would happen if a cranky by Anthony Rudel imagines Mozart’s meeting with by a number of recent novels about great composers. 21st-century Brooklyn lawyer were possessed by the Casanova and their discussion of a new opera based on In Clara award-winning Scottish novelist spirit of Franz Schubert. The Washington Post calls this the life of the legendary lover, Don Giovanni. Booklist Janice Galloway presents a sympathetic portrait of “a dazzling, touching, funny and original tale.” praises Rudel’s ability to” take a moment in history… both the brilliant pianist Clara Schumann and her Mozart has inspired a veritable cottage industry of and expand it into a wonderful story of passion and tormented genius of a husband, Robert, who ended writers who have fictionalized his life and work. Three freedom”. What more could we want from a novel about his life in an insane asylum. Britain’s Independent recent “Mozart” novels include Marrying Mozart, music? on Sunday calls this.” a deeply moving study of Stephanie Cowell’s engaging portrayal of Mozart’s (Martha Bayley, a Bainbridge resident, is Kitsap love, loss and solitude”. relationship with the Weber sisters, the youngest of Regional Library’s fiction collection manager.) Recent non-fiction volumes A look at some musicians and composers by Gail Goodrick helps us understand the life (and depth) of this No Woman No Cry by Rita Marley and Hettie Jones Nonfiction Collection Manager complicated composer. From her early life in the ghetto of Kingston, Escaping the Delta by Elijah Wald Jamaica, to her role as band member, business partner The lives of musicians and composers shed light on Wald explains how Robert Johnson rose from an and wife, Rita Marley adds important background to the the nature of their musical vision and creative output. unknown guitarist to become one of the most influential story of Bob Marley and the reggae music phenomenon. Here are some recent entries in the field: musicians in rock and roll—even though he died in Ticket to Ride: Inside the Beatles’ 1964 Tour That Broken Music: A Memoir by Sting 1938. We also get a look at the origin of the blues Changed the World by Larry Kane Not a conventional autobiography, this book and how the blues has different meanings for black Kane has unique insight as the only American explores Sting’s early life experiences as he attempts to Americans and white Americans. reporter to travel with the group for every stop of their understand how he became the man he is today. Sure to Higher Ground by Craig Werner 1964 and 1965 tours. Being only 22 at the time, he be followed by another volume: Werner uses three important musicians/singers (Aretha quickly identified with the group. Kane recalls the Cole Porter: A Biography by William McBrien Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield) to illuminate music of the concerts, the pandemonium of the fans, A wonderful portrait of this witty sophisticate his cultural history of American pop music of the 1960s the important personalities they encountered and the enriched by lyrics and many illustrations. Why do and ‘70s. Civil rights, black power and gospel music are all revolution they helped bring about. his lyrics still resonate with us today? This book parts of the story of what became known as Soul.

Book review ‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’ by patricia miller Through the eyes of 12-year-old Alexandra, the “The sick, the swollen-bellied, the bleeding, the reader witnesses the chaotic changes that follow malarial, all sit at the end of the road” where they “The valley could send you into a spiral of madness Rhodesia’s painful transition to Zimbabwe. wait for a ride into town sometimes for days, “for the overnight if you were white and highly strung. Which She and her white schoolmates are dumbfounded suddenly flooded, socialized health care system to take we were.” by the sudden arrival of the first black child at their care of them,” Fuller writes. This is Alexandra Fuller describing the Burma Valley boarding school. Their experience with blacks has Fueled by their father’s restlessness, by their mother’s in Rhodesia, but she could have been describing any been confined to the swarms of uneducated, underfed mania, and by alcohol, the Fuller family’s lives serve one of the several countries in Africa where her English and sickly children on the farms; this one arrives in a as a metaphor for the discordant and dysfunctional immigrant family scratched out a living. chauffeur-driven “white people’s car”. His clothing, African continent where year after year the hapless native Alexandra and her older sister Vanessa grew up in manners and speech are faultless. Most surprising? His inhabitants suffer brutality served up by forces from a place where cobras slither out of the pantry, where name: Oliver Tendai Chisweshe. within and without, by disease and drought, by corrupt disastrous rain and drought are the norm, where “I am learning,” says young Alexandra, “that officials and by prowling armies of conscripted children. infestation of intestinal worms is as common as mosquito Africans, too, have full names.” Fuller faithfully records the worst that the continent bites, where fathers go off to fight black insurgents, where The new black Prime Minister Robert Mugabe has to offer; at the same time, she reflects the same mothers arm themselves with AK-47s and work the farm redistributes the white owned lands. The best farms deep love of Africa that one encounters in the works of alone, and where children die as easily as puppies. go to his political allies and his cronies, the smaller writers like Isaac Dinesen. No matter the hardship and Fuller’s mother is possessed of manic energy and productive farms go to black war veterans, the poorest the terrifying circumstances she endured as a child, she emotion, rightly so as it turns out; by the end of the book farms, like the ones Alexandra’s family has worked, still harks back to a time when her family is returning she has been diagnosed bi-polar. those “closest to existing minefields, with sporadic rains, to Africa from England. Her mother calls her to the Her father loves his two girls and their mother, and (and) unreliable soil”, are given to his enemies in a ship’s deck as they near the coast to catch the “spicy, he labors under unimaginably miserable circumstances pretended gesture of appeasement. woody scent of Africa on the changing wind.” She holds to provide for them. His judgment, however, is abysmal; The poor blacks receive no land; their lives are Alexandra up to “face the earthy air.” each time he relocates his family he takes them to a part changed, of course, but only for the worse. They’ve “’Smell that,’ she whispers. ‘That’s home.’” of Africa more poverty stricken and more treacherous than been accustomed to seek both food and medical care For an earlier view of the English immigrant what they left behind. Both parents alleviate the hardship from the white farmers’ wives who ran basic clinics experience in Africa, you might want to seek out a and grief of their lives with alcohol, especially Mum, who out of their kitchens. No thought has been given to copy of Doris Lessing’s novel, The Grass Is Singing, regularly drinks herself into a rage or into a stupor. provision for their care when the whites have gone. published in 1919.

PRINTING Fall 2004 page 11 Books, People Political mysteries: Great election year reads By Julie O’Neill close childhood friend who is running up. When a campaign aid takes a bullet White House insider, the son of Franklin Reference Librarian for governor, realizes that his fellow meant for him, Flannery hunts for the and Eleanor Roosevelt. It’s 1934 and partygoers are being killed off. This is killer. Booklist says “as always, fine an Alabama congressman is found shot With the evenings cooling down and a tightly woven and highly entertaining entertainment from Campbell.” dead in the Oval Office, which has the election campaigns heating up, this look at Chicago politics. Murder in Foggy Bottom by been locked from the inside. Eleanor would be a great time to curl up with a Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs. Margaret Truman. Harry Truman’s is convinced it wasn’t suicide, so she good political thriller or mystery. Here Tempe Brennan, a forensic daughter has written over 20 popular calmly takes on the role of amateur are a few candidates that deserve your anthropologist, is called to the site of mystery novels set in all the best sleuth. While the mystery is pretty vote. an airplane crash in North Carolina places in Washington, D.C., from the ordinary, the fun comes in watching The Nominee by Brian McGrory. to help identify victims. When a foot White House to the Capitol, Library Eleanor and FDR’s relationship, their Jack Flynn, a reporter for the Boston found at the crash site doesn’t match of Congress, the National Gallery daily White House life and the cast of Record, finds his life complicated by the anyone on the passenger list, she begins and Watergate. This time a body is famous people at state dinners. There are murder of the paper’s publisher, a killing an investigation, only to be fired by the discovered in Foggy Bottom, the former cameo appearances by J. Edgar Hoover, that is linked to confirmation hearings for Lt. Governor who is taking an unusual swamp now home to the U.S. State Sally Rand, a junior Army officer the nominee for U.S. Attorney General. interest in the crash. Reichs is one of the Department. A few days later, three named Dwight Eisenhower and a rising Author McGrory, a columnist for the newer forensic mystery writers, and one commercial passenger planes crash politician named Lyndon Johnson. The Boston Globe, has created a likeable hero of the best. in different parts of the country, with New York Times calls Eleanor, as private in Flynn who never misses a chance to Pigeon Pie by Robert Campbell. witnesses reporting seeing missiles strike eye, “utterly endearing.” take a crack at politicians. Booklist calls In this eleventh novel in the series the planes. Truman’s style is closer to Here are a few other titles to try: this a suspenseful thriller that “benefits about Chicago sewer inspector, Jimmy Agatha Christie than Tom Clancy, but she Capital Crimes by Stuart Woods, Dirty from its insider’s take on the newspaper Flannery, party leaders have let him delivers suspenseful, fast-paced action Laundry by Paula Woods, The Zero world.” know that he’s up for committeeman and raises some important questions Game by Brad Meltzer, Protect and Life Sentence by David Ellis. Years in the mayor’s ward. The job will be a about how the U.S. copes with terrorism. Defend by Richard North Patterson, Ties after a party that resulted in a teen’s springboard to the city council, so new Murder in the Oval Office by Elliott That Bind by Phillip Margolin, Absolute death, Jon Soliday, legal counsel to a friends and old enemies begin to turn Roosevelt. Here’s another series by a Power by David Baldacci. Meet the staff: Karen Jeyes-Morin Continued from Page 12 Don Frothingham Karen Jeyes-Morin is occasional general-interest a relative newcomer to the column for the North Kitsap to denote the individual. show will be Tabula Rasa, (def. the mind Bainbridge Public Library— Herald. Don never wanted the onus of having at birth) a blank paper with a sketch she’s been here since She works about three to earn a living by painting. After a beside it of a painting. June—but no stranger to days a week at the library, brief stint at Harvard in the foreign Zen? Tao? Jung? Don Frothingham the Kitsap Regional Library which allows her time to world of physics, he found his way into has been labeled a Northwest Zen painter, system, where she’s worked homeschool Emily. architecture, an obvious field since he his artworks described as “landscapes of for five years. “I’ve learned a lot already thought in three dimensions and the soul.” They have been on exhibit at Born in Vancouver, B. homeschooling her,” she could now be allowed room to pursue Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, Keiku and C., she was raised in the noted, “and the library has other creative avenues in his life work. Kurt Lidke galleries in Seattle, and the Shoreline area, graduated been invaluable to us.” The most inspiring course he took Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla. from Shoreline High When she’s not working, at Harvard, he claims, was one he just He hastens to clarify that he is not School, and moved with her Karen Jeyes-Morin reading, or homeschooling happened to wander into, the study of depicting the meaning of life, but rather daughter to Kingston in 1995. Emily, she enjoys quilting and doing early Chinese poetry and philosophy, “the experience of being alive.” Gazing She’s always loved books and has other handiwork, design, and gardening. taught by Archibald MacLeish. Those out the barn window to Mandus Olsen fond memories of her grandparents and Before coming to KRL, Karen worked ancient truths have imbued his thinking Road where farms used to be, he says,“ I great-grandparents sitting by the fire for 13 years at the Elliott Bay Book Co. and shaped his outreach ever since. like to think my paintings just reflect you, reading. in Seattle, took some time off to volunteer The last framed piece in the library me, and a glimpse of the color purple.” “My whole family loves to read,” she in her daughter’s pre-school, then began said, so it was natural that she and her her library work as a substitute in Little New series for children 12-year-old daughter Emily would also. Boston and Kingston libraries. Warriors, a fast paced series (five books (the hero), Onewhisker, Darkstripe, Cloudkit, Karen especially enjoys literary Here at the Bainbridge library you’ll so far) about four cat clans: Riverclan, Brackenpaw. There are Twolegs (humans), fiction—Ann Tyler is a favorite—and often find her at the front desk in the Windclan Shadowclan, Thunderclan. Each kittypet (cats raised by humans), Thunderpath enjoys sharing her views on books. She evenings. She also still works part-time clan consists of a leader, deputy, medicine cat, (roads). Erin Hunter has created a wonderful writes a regular book review column in at the Kingston branch. warriors, apprentices, queens, elders. These fantasy world for fourth grade and up. These the Kingston Community News, and an books are filled with cats named Fireheart need to be read in order. Library art page 12 Spring 2004 Don Frothingham finds wonder in silence by nan wooldridge In the book he has written, Images “Soon,” he warns, “we shall have to unknown after death. He works in a from an Unknown, a compilation of pay more for water than for gasoline.” series often using abstract symbols and As I turn the corner on Windsong journal recollections and his paintings Tacked on the ceiling over Don verticals zigzagged with horizontals to Loop, I’m startled by the full-on view of with explanations, he speaks of his and Ann’s four-poster bed are seven trace man’s ascent. One series segues the barn, stark white with its big orange childhood, the wonder of much time paintings, some still in process. “ˆI like into another as his thoughts intermesh. door, a picture-book illustration against spent alone. He remembers “the small to see them as I wake in almost no light, An early epiphany that led to one this Sunday morning blue sky. boy in his red rowboat on the Connecticut and then watch the light as it grows and of his most significant symbols was his Déjà vu, 1980. A birthday party here saltwater marsh watching the tide creep wanes through the day,” he says. encounter with a painting by Morris for Ann, Don’s wife. We christened this up on sandbars, mudflats, oyster shoals, As ideas come to him he makes Graves called Consciousness Achieving old barn that he had just converted to a flat rocks, watching fascinated, transfixed pencil sketches in his ever-present the Form of a Crane. house. We square danced to callers in the as the tide slowly covered each previously notebook, and covers the wide margins “It struck a deep chord,” he says.” I went loft, “Dosido and circle-to-the-left!” and dry bit until the last iota suddenly with tiny writing about them. Writing and home and at two in the morning painted a we played baseball in the empty meadow, disappeared under water.” drawing go hand in hand, a natural way car changing from one state to another.” now leveled with a sea of houses. The land of the swamp, the Scotts to learn he believes. His many notations A few years later, after college and He ambles out to my car, toast in Cove marshes immersed him in a are essential to the outcome of his after visiting silent chapels and shrines hand. “I’ll fix you a piece,” he says, magical time that set the tone of who he paintings as he transfers his sketches to in Greece and Turkey when living in “with Manuka honey, the best.” He raises was. The meeting of the ocean and the watercolor on the small table where we Zurich, he began a series of signs in a his eyebrows. land and the sky are pervasive threads sit or on a larger dining room table. field to indicate consciousness. The signs By the time I climb the inside stair- running through his work. “It’s like looking through a crack evolved into entity blocks or temples ladder, my toast and tea are waiting on A few of the 12 or 14 paintings in the door,” Don says of his paintings. which eventually became the circle in a the round table, the loft filled with the in the show date from 20 or 30 years “Picture life the way a plant grows.” square, the mandala which he uses today warmth of wood and kitchen fragrances. ago—Rainwater, Meditation, Village Just so does an individual progress SILENCE, a word we hardly know today. before the Rain, Alone—remark on the self from the unknown before birth to the Continued on Page 11 Don Frothingham’s watercolor unadorned, the self not owned by anything, show at the library from October washes of one pale gray upon another. through December will explore Silence In contrast, three from his new series, and You. He spreads his arms wide, The Empty House, express the antithesis looks up, “ What is this all about?” of silence. He hands me a sketch of a he muses.“˙Here we are, a thin sliver small house crowned around by thorns of light at the surface of this planet shaded in angry red, a bombardment of ...My thinking in quiet times is about things that own you—clocks, schedules, consciousness, the basic gift usually corporations—“a house of serenity The artist taken for granted, basic to the simple surrounded by garbage.” His kinship at home in notion of being alive. You have to with the natural world prompted his appreciate that I can reach out and most ominous painting—Without Water, stark white touch something—a pebble, a tree, Without Air. barn. you. That is consciousness.” As he demonstrates, touches a single petal of a soft, coral rose in a bouquet on the table, his eyes are like candles, slowly igniting. Philosopher, poet, painter, architect, perhaps in that order—Don talks about silence with a kind of reverence, laments its absence, even in libraries today, with computers clacking away. A smile creases his boyish face as he recalls an exchange with a friend. “Andy,” he asked, “do you think there is anybody left who knows the sound of snowflakes falling on still water?” “I do,” replied his Native-American friend, a fisherman on the Skagit River. “Silence allows one to be aware, to

sense, to think, to respond,” says Don. photos Wooldridge Nan

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