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Chestnut Hill Book Festival 3rd Annual Great Authors of Philadelphia HistorysDramasFictionsPoetry July 9 & 10 Pre-event First Person Arts Story Slam July 8 2 4 3 5 1 7 6 This map in not drawn to scale. Use roads & buildings as reference KEY points and color coded grid markers to find businesses. 1 The Stagecrafters Theater 5 Buckley Park A supplement to the 2 Jenks Tent 6 Chestnut Hill Academy 3 Roller’s at Flying Fish 4 Chestnut Hill Hotel 7 Venetian Club For more information visit our website at www.chestnuthillpa.com Page 2 CHESTnUT Hill loCAl Thursday, July 7, 2011 FRI First Person Arts Story Slam 7:30-9:30 Venetian Club - 8030 Germantown Ave. CHESTNUT HILL HOTEL BUCKLEY PARK JENKS TENT STAGECRAFTERS CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY - BOMBAY ROOM - ROLLER’S 8201 GERMANTOWN AVE. 8301 GERMANTOWN AVE. SAT 8130 GERMANTOWN AVE. 500 W. WILLOW GROVE 8229 GERMANTOWN AVE. 8142 GERMANTOWN AVE. Philadelphia Stories Writer Workshops Fee per Workshop: $10; Kathy O’Connell 90 Minutes Each Open to the Public WXPN Kids Corner 10 - NOON Getting Started 12:15 - 1:45 Pam Jenoff and Susan Barr-Toman ‘Emerging Writers’ Dr. Arthur Caplan 1 - 2 10 a.m. Bio Ethics in Susan Barr-Toman ‘Chestnut Hill Improv’ Modern World and Sarah Barr Andrew Gilmore, 1 - 2 Phyllis Gosfield Singer/Songwriter 11 a.m. The Art of Revision and Joe McCann Slam Ponder Goembel Dr. James Zogby 2:30 - 4 2 - 3 2 - 4:15 Arab American Voices Noon - David Lubar 2 - 3 Historical Fiction Panel 1 p.m. - Matt Phelan Cordelia Biddle, 2 p.m. - Jason Deeble Shaping a Story Simone Zelitch and 4:30 - 6 S.A. Williams Allen Hornblum 3:15 - 4:15 Andy Maher Hair-raising Musician Philadelphia History 3:15 - 4:15 Local 10 - 2 Literary Voices Iain Pollock, Shane 7 - 9 Book, Ahmed Dilruba ‘Emerging Poets” Alex Kudera 4:30-5:30 Adventures of an Adjunct Instructor Erin Arvedlund 4:30 - 5:30 The Rise & Fall of Bernie Madoff 5:30-6:30 Neil Lanctot George Anastasia The Life of American Gangsters Roy Campanella 7:30 - 9 6:30-7:30 SUN Philadelphia Story Panel Discussions Fee per Workshop: $10; 90 minutes eachOpen to Public Poetry Workshop: Deconstructed Full Body Breath Verse Bonnie A. McAllister 10:30 - NOON Andy Waskie Free Lunch Travel Pennsylvania & w/ Local Authors Emilie C. Harting, Joanne Greco The Civil War 12:30 - 1:45 1 - 2 and Reid Bramblett 1 - 2 Liars Club Panel Joanne The Business of Green Galzarano Hint Fiction Becoming a Starting a Writing Robert Swartwood Rain Date Published Writer Workshop 2 - 3 2 - 3 2 - 3 Singer/Songwriter Slam 2 - 4:15 Elijah Anderson Tips for Brett Mandel Race & Civility in Marketing Government Reform Everyday Life your Work Philadelphia 3:15 - 4:15 3:15 - 4:15 3:15 - 4:15 Chestnut Hill Steve McLaughlin Lorene Cary Historical Society Chestnut Hill How to Iconic American Stories Tickets: Local Poetry Award Self Publish Members Free 4:30 - 5:30 4:30 - 5:30 4:30 - 5:30 Non-Members $15 Authors: David Contosta Carol Franklin and Eugene Stackhouse 4-6 Michael Capuzzo True Crime & The Poetry Reading Vidocq Society and Open Mic 7 - 9 7 - 9 Thursday, July 7, 2011 CHESTnUT Hill loCAl Page 3 GEORGE ANASTASIA LORENE CARY MICHAEL CAPUZZO DR. JAMES J. ZOGBY George Anastasia, a veteran reporter for The Lorene Cary’s nationally acclaimed memoir, Black Michael Capuzzo is the author of the New York Times Dr James J. Zogby is the author of Arab Voices bestseller Close to Shore and a former feature writer fo Philadelphia Inquirer, is the author of five books of Ice , was heralded by Arnold Rampersad as “probably (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2010) and the founder rthe Philadelphia Inquirer and the Miami Herald . He lives nonfiction, including Blood and Honor , which Jimmy the most beautifully written and moving African and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Washington, D.C.-based organization which serves Breslin called the "best gangster book ever written." American autobiographical narrative since Maya Capuzzo's latest book The Murder Room: The Heirs of as the political and policy research arm of the Arab- A graduate of Dartmouth College, he is the grand - Angelou’s celebrated I Know Why The Caged Bird Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Per - son of Sicilian immigrants who settled in South Sings. ” The New York Times Book Review praised plexing Cold Cases the true story of the pro bono Vidocq American community. Dr Zogby writes a weekly col - Philadelphia. He has been writing about organized Cary, in her debut novel, The Price of A Child , as “a Society of Philadelphia, a private group of famous detec - umn, ‘Washington Watch’ and from 2001 until now hosts the award winning “Viewpoint with James Zog - and disorganized crime for 35 years, covering casino powerful storyteller, frankly sensual, mortally funny, tives from 19 states and 11 foreign countries, named for by” on Abu Dhabi Television, LinkTV, Dish Network, gambling in Atlantic City, mob hits in Philadelphia and gifted with an ear for the pounce and ragged inconse - the legendary 19th Century Parisian sleuth E. F. Vidocq, and DirecTV. criminal prosecutions throughout the country. quentiality of real speech and an eye for the shifts and who investigate cold murders they first consider over a white-tablecloth lunch in a Victorian dining room. The He is co-host of a radio show, “Crime Guys,” on subterfuges by which ordinary people get by.” With WPHT every Sunday night from 8 to 10 p.m. and is book focuses on the Vidocq Society's three founders, her latest novel, If Sons, Then Heirs , Cary illumi - featured on MyFoxPhilly’s “MobTalk”, a regular Friday who Capuzzo says combine to form the archetypal great nates yet another iconic American story, largely segment of the Channel 29 newscast. detective. untold: that of African-American land ownership and its tragic loss. Saturday 7:30 Sunday 4:30 Sunday 7 Saturday 2 STAGECRAFTERS STAGECRAFTERS STAGECRAFTERS STAGECRAFTERS 8130 GERMANTOWN 8130 GERMANTOWN 8130 GERMANTOWN 8130 GERMANTOWN CHESTNUT HILL ELIJAH ANDERSON ALLEN M. HORNBLUM DR. ANDY WASKIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Pro - Allen M. Hornblum was born and raised in Andy is a Civil War historian, published author and fessor of Sociology at Yale University. He is one of the Philadelphia and has become a noted chronicler of extremely active in Civil War history, research and The Chestnut Hill Historical Society's program leading urban ethnographers in the United States. His some of the more contentious and hair-raising chap - preservation. He is a specialist on the life and career for the third annual Chestnut Hill Book Festival will publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Vio - ters in the city’s history. of Gen. George Meade whom he portrays in a 1 st per - take place on Sunday, July 10, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the lence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), His years as a prison worker and political organiz - son – style living-history performance. Dr. Waskie lobby of Chestnut Hill Academy on West Willow winner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern er helped nurture a pronounced distaste for injustice also is knowledgeable on the history of Philadelphia Grove Avenue. Featured speakers this year include Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and and interest in the plight of the downtrodden. Much and does history tours there. David Contosta , Carol Franklin and Eugene Stack - Change in an Urban Community (1990), winner of of Allen’s research and policy interests would focus Presently, Dr.Waskie is engaged in researching house . Contosta and Franklin have recently published the American Sociological Association’s Robert E. on the exploited and leveling the political and eco - and writing the regimental history of the 110 th Penna. a monumental work on the Wissahickon Valley and Park Award for the best published book in the area of nomic playing field. Acres of Skin , Allen’s ground - Volunteers. He has completed a new book on the will discuss the architectural history of that area. Mr. Urban Sociology; and the classic sociological work, A breaking investigation of this dark chapter in Washington Brigade of Philadelphia, First Volunteers Stackhouse has recently written a book on German - Place on the Corner (1978; 2nd ed., 2003). Ander - American medical history – and the complicity of to the Front. He has also collaborated on a Guide town and the Civil War that will be the topic of his son’s most recent ethnographic work, The Cos - many penal systems across the country – has now Book for Civil War Sites in Philadelphia with his col - talk. mopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life , become the classic work on the subject and a recipi - league, Dr. Rick Sauers. For members of the CHHS, there is no charge; for was published by W.W. Norton in March 2011. ent of considerable media attention. non-members a $15 fee. Sunday 3:15 Saturday 3:15 Sunday 1 Sunday 4 STAGECRAFTERS STAGECRAFTERS STAGECRAFTERS CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY 8130 GERMANTOWN 8130 GERMANTOWN 8130 GERMANTOWN 500 W. WILLOW GROVE FIRST PERSON SINGER SONGWRITER SLAM ART STORY SLAM KIDS FESTIVAL THE LIARS CLUB A SEARCH FOR THIS YEAR’S BEST SINGER/SONGWRITER Winner of “Best in Philly,” First Person Sto - For children, a special Kids Festival will They want to tell everybody what it took rySlams are monthly storytelling competitions appear on Saturday, July 9th 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. them 20 years to learn about the business of Outdoor & Live • FREE Event and are appearing for the first time in Chestnut at the Jenks Playground where there will be becoming a published writer.