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The Central Texas Area Museum Presents:
The 50th Annual Readers & Writers Roundtable
Saturday March 27th, 2010 at 1:30 p.m.
Central Texas Area Museum Hall of the Clans
Come join us to meet and greet these exciting Texas Authors! Paul Christian, Central Texas Area Museum Executive Director, will convene the Roundtable and spotlight the works and talents of these Texas Authors!
The Readers & Writers Roundtable is an opportunity for select Texas authors to showcase and discuss their works with any and all interested parties. There will be a reception following the forum where the featured books may be purchased and, when available, autographed by the authors present. A $5.00 donation, $2.50 for Children and Students with a valid ID, is requested for the Central Texas Area Museum Library.
Featured Works for 2010:
- Alzheimer's: by Deanna Lueckenotte
This book is designed to be an easy read for all dealing with someone with Alzheimer's; from the caregiver in the personal home to professional caregivers working in the long term care setting. It includes an overview of dementias as well as ways to cope with behaviors. Communication is also an important aspect covered. Research updates as well as possible resources for the caregiver are included. Activities of daily living and a lifestyle enhancement program are featured. The focus is toward helping caregivers cope with their current situation of taking care of someone with Alzheimer's. Short summaries of caregivers that found their "light in the tunnel" are included as the last chapter.
- More Eggs In My Pocket : by Mary Fenoglio
This sequel to the original Eggs In My Pocket continues the chronicle of farm and family life. The essays reflect the everyday, life-affecting events that beset us collectively and individually, whether it is the weather, our association with the members of our animal family or simply interaction with one another.
- Earhart's Flight Into Yesterday-The Facts without the Fiction: by Robert Payne
Amelia Earhart was one of aviation's great heroines. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, and the second, after Charles Lindberg, to fly across solo. Attempting to fly around the world in 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were tragically lost en route from New Guinea, attempting to locate a tiny speck of land in the western Pacific. Her disappearance is still a mystery.
- Images of America-Jarrell: by Mary Hodge
In 1909, real estate developer Orlando D. Jarrell had a vision: He would sell lots near the Bartlett Western Railroad site and name the town Jarrell. When the railroad bypassed the nearby town of Corn Hill and Jarrell's lots began to sell, the residents of of Corn Hill-and their houses-moved to the promising new town. Rock quarries became and are still a mainstay of this area, shipping limestone all over the world. About 200 vintage photographs illustrate the time between 1855 and more recent years, including the monstrous 1997 tornado that put Jarrell into the national spotlight.
Reader & Writers Roundtable 2009.
*Program and Author availability subject to change without notice.
