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Testimonial from recent workshop student:
Your class helped so much ... Because of your class, I was awarded a fellowship to travel to Japan and will be making a small documentary ... Thank you for all your help and wisdom.
November 21, 2010 - Panel discussion: 1935 and the Enduring New Deal, at the FDR Memorial Library, 4079 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY 2:00 pm. Details here.
November 14, 2010 - Creativity, Science, and the Brain. An exploration of science and creativity at The Writer's Center with Joram Piatigorsky and Michael Salcman, 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda, MD 2:00 pm. Details here.
November 5, 2010 - First Friday Talk: Weaving Stories and Articles into a Book-length Narrative. 25 E. Market St., Leesburg, VA 7:30 - 9:30 pm. Details here.
October 27, 2010 - Soul of a People presentation with Stetson Kennedy and Andrea Kalin at the annual meeting of the Oral History Association, in Atlanta, GA. Details to come.
October 22, 2010 - Screening of Soul of a People followed by discussion and book signing, at the Ridgewood Public Library, 125 N. Maple Ave., Ridgewood, NJ 07450. 7:30 pm. Details here.
October 13, 2010 - Noontime book talk and signing of Soul of a People, at the Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA 23219. Details to come.
July 18, 2010 - Book talk and signing of Soul of a People, Barnes & Noble, 3333 Oakview Dr., Omaha, NE 2:00 pm. Details here.
July 17, 2010 - Book talk and signing, Raven Bookstore, 940 New Hampshire St., Lawrence, KS 7:00 pm. Details here.
July 16, 2010 - Screening and talk of Soul of a People at the University of Kansas seminar on Richard Wright, Lawrence, KS.
July 15, 2010 - Screening and book signing of Soul of a People at Wichita State University Library, Wichita, KS 7:00 pm.
June 29, 2010 - Discussion of Soul of a People at the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine St., Philadelphia, PA 7:30 pm. Details here.
June 12, 2010 - Panel discussion at American Independent Writers spring conference. George Washington University Cafritz Center, 800 21st St., NW, Washington, DC, 2:30 - 3:45 pm. Program and details here.
May 22, 2010 - Panel talk at LitArtlantic, about The Writer's Life: A Report from the Field, with fellow writers C.M. Mayo, Alan Elsner, Kevin Quirk and Jessie Seigel. The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda, MD noon. Details here.
May 17, 2010 - Screening and book signing of Soul of a People at the DC Popular Library at Martin Luther King Jr. public library, 6:00 pm. Details here.
May 15, 2010 - Screening and panel discussion of Soul of a People at the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL 11:00 am. Details here.
May 8, 2010 - Talk and book signing at the Common Ground International Book Fest 2010, at The Shepherd University Wellness Center in Shepherdstown, WV 11:00 am - 3:00 pm.
April 29, 2010 - AIW pubspeak: History and Travel Writing, and Soul of a People. Organized by American Independent Writers at La Madeleine, 7606 Old Georgetown Rd., Bethesda, MD 7:00 pm.
March 21, 2010 - Screening and book signing of Soul of a People, at the Washington County public library in Hagerstown, MD 2:00 pm. Details here.
March 19, 2010 - Panel talk and book signing at the Virginia Festival of the Book, City Council Chambers, 605 E. Main Street, Charlottesville, VA 6:00 pm. Details here.
December 9, 2009 - Screening and book signing at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC 7:00 pm. Details here.
November 3, 2009 - Book talk and signing at the Tattered Cover bookstore, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, CO 7:30 pm. More information.
October 31, 2009 - Book talk and signing at the Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX 1:30 - 2:15 pm. Details here.
October 25, 2009 - Screening and book signing of Soul of a People at Busboys and Poets, Shirlington, Alexandria, VA 8:00 - 10:00 pm. Details here.
October 20, 2009 - Book talk and signing of Soul of a People, at the Duncan branch library, 2501 Commonwealth Ave., Alexandria, VA 22301, 7:30 pm.
October 18, 2009 - Screening and book signing of Soul of a People at Busboys and Poets, 5th and K Streets, NW, Washington, DC 8:00 - 10:00 pm. Details here.
October 11, 2009 - Book discussion and signing at the Wisconsin Book Festival, Madison, WI 12:00 pm. Details here.
October 7, 2009 - Bookslut Reading Series and book signing - The Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 7:30 pm.
October 4, 2009 - Screening and discussion at the City of Fairfax Regional Library, Fairfax, VA 2:00 pm. Details here.
October 3, 2009 – Book discussion and screening of excerpts from Soul of a People: Writing America's Story, at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 1:00 pm.
September 26, 2009 - Book talk with historian Douglas Brinkley at the National Book Festival, National Mall, Washington, DC 10:30 am. Details here.
September 23, 2009 – Book talk and signing at the Alexandria Historical Society, The Lyceum, Alexandria, VA. More information is here.
June 20, 2009 - Book talk and signing at the Roosevelt Reading Festival, FDR Presidential Library, 4079 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY 12538. More information at www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu.
June 18, 2009 - Book signing at Virginia State Bar Convention Expo, Cavalier Hotel, Virginia Beach, VA 4:00 - 6:00 pm. More information at www.vsb.org.
June 5, 2009 - Book talk and signing at Quail Ridge Books, 3522 Wade Ave., Raleigh, NC 7:00 pm.
May 21, 2009 - Book talk and signing at Fountain Bookstore, 1312 E. Cary St., Richmond, VA 6:30 pm.
April 28, 2009 - Discussion and signing of Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America, at the Library of Congress, Mumford Room in the Madison Building, 3:00 pm. Independence Ave. at First Street, SE, Washington, DC. A webcast of this event is online at the Library of Congress site.
March 18, 2009 - Reading from Success: Stories and panel talk at the Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA. 6:00 pm. Details here.
February 20, 2009 - Reading from Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America, at the Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD. 7:30 pm. Details at www.writer.org.
December 17, 2008 - Fiction reading from Success: Stories at Riverby Books, 417 E. Capitol St., Washington, DC. 7:00 pm.
December 9, 2008 - Fiction reading from Success: Stories and book signing with poet Brandel France de Bravo at Grace Church, 1041 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. 7:30 pm.
December 2, 2008 - Fiction reading from Success: Stories at Baltimore's central library, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD. 6:30 pm. Details here. A Baltimore City Paper Critic's Choice!
November 24, 2008 - Reading and book signing with poet Brandel France de Bravo at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC. 6:30 pm. Details here.
November 2, 2008 - Reading from Success: Stories. WWPH contest winners at Politics and Prose bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC. 1:00 pm. Details at www.politics-prose.com.
October 19, 2008 - Reading with poet Brandel France de Bravo at The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD. 2:00 pm. Details at www.writer.org.
October 18, 2008 - Responding to Outsider Art, a reading and workshop at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. 2:00 pm. Details here.
September 25, 2008 - Reading and book signing of Success: Stories at the Fall for the Book Festival, George Mason University campus, Fairfax, VA. Noon.
April 15, 2008 - Pubspeak with Washington Independent Writers on "Storytelling in Three Modes: Writing About Travel, Science and History." Summary available here.
April 5, 2008 - Second Annual Conversations and Connections conference, Nonfiction panel. Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC campus: 1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW. 10:30 - noon. More information here.
March 19, 2008 - Washington Writers' Publishing House reading, Petworth Neighborhood Library, 4200 Kansas Ave., NW, Washington, DC 7:00 pm
March 7, 2008 - Lunch talk on American Medicinal Herbs at the U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC. Noon.
February 24, 2008 - Washington Writers' Publishing House reading, Mount Pleasant Public Library, 3160 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 2:00 pm
February 22, 2008 - Talk and book signing at the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, Natchez Convention Center, Natchez, MS 10:30 am. More information here.
February 10, 2008 - Reading with other workshop leaders at The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 2:00 pm.
February 3, 2008 - Slide talk, part of the Lunar New Year Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, NY 1:30 - 2:15 pm.
October 13, 2007 - Herb Day at the U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC.
August 11, 2007 - Signing at Burgundy Books, 4 Norwich Rd., East Haddam, CT 2:00 pm.
June 19, 2007 - Fountain Bookstore, 1312 E. Cary St., Richmond, VA 6:30 pm.
June 12-15, 2007 - Association for the Study of Literature & Environment, 2007 conference, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC.
June 11, 2007 - North Carolina Botanical Garden, Totten Center, Old Mason Farm Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 7:00 pm.
May 1, 2007 - 6th International Conference on the Science of Botanicals, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 12:30 pm.
March 28, 2007 - Alexandria Historical Society, at the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St., Alexandria, VA 7:30 pm. Talk on "Virginia and the China Trade." Information at the Historical Society's website.
March 22, 2007 - Untold Stories of American Culture, a panel discussion at the Virginia Book Festival: UVa Bookstore, 400 Emmet Street South, Charlottesville, VA 6:00 pm. See VA Book Festival for details.
Feb. 21, 2007 - U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 6:30 pm. Talk and book signing.
Nov. 12, 2006 - Book Bash 2006, Hunt Valley Town Centre, Hunt Valley, MD 6:00 - 9:00 pm. Fundraiser for Literacy Works, Inc.
Nov. 2, 2006 - Quail Ridge Books, 3522 Wade Ave., Raleigh, NC 7:00 pm.
Oct. 15, 2006 - The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 2:00 pm
Oct. 8, 2006 - 5th Annual Catskill Mountain Ginseng/Medicinal Herb Festival, Historic Catskill Point in Greene County NY 11:00 am.
Oct. 1, 2006 - Baltimore Book Festival, Food for Thought stage, Mount Vernon Place, 600 block North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 11:00 am
July 27, 2006 - Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge, MA 7:00 pm
July 23, 2006 - Park Road Books, 4139 Park Road Shopping Center, Charlotte, NC 1:00 pm
July 22, 2006 - Osondu Booksellers, 184 N. Main St., Waynesville, NC 1:00 pm
July 21, 2006 - Malaprop's, 55 Haywood St., Asheville, NC 7:00 pm
July 20, 2006 - Native Plant Society Conference at Cullowhee, NC, 8:30 pm
July 19, 2006 - Reading and Book Signing at Empire Books, 30 Pullman Square, Huntington, WV 6:30 pm
July 18, 2006 - Book Signing at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 161 Lexington Green Circle, Lexington, KY 7:00 pm
July 15, 2006 - Reading and Book Signing at Prince Books, 109 E. Main Street, Norfolk, VA 5:30 pm
July 8, 2006 - Reading and Book Signing at Busboys and Poets, 14th and V Streets, NW, Washington, DC 3:00 pm
July 6, 2006 - Reading and Book Signing at Barnes & Noble, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA 7:30 pm
June 28, 2006 - Reading and Book Signing at Enoch Pratt Free Library -
400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD
6:30 pm
June 27, 2006 - Reading and Book Signing at Olsson's Books & Music -
106 S. Union Street, Old Town Alexandria, VA
7:30 pm
