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| Events for day: Thursday 12 November 2009 |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm Lorraine McConaghy‘s Sick Lecture Category : General Join Lorraine McConaghy, author of WARSHIP UNDER SAIL, for the Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography “The U.S. Navy in the Antebellum West” A lecture based on WARSHIP UNDER SAIL: THE USS DECATUR IN THE PACIFIC WEST By Lorraine McConaghy Thursday, November 12, at 4 p.m. Petersen Room, Allen Library University of Washington The lecture will be followed by a reception and is free to the public. Books will be provided for sale by University Book Store. This lecture is the tenth in a series sp ... 6:30pm - 8:00pm Joann Byrd at Tea Party Bookshop, Salem, OR Category : General Join Joann Byrd, author of CALAMITY, at Tea Party Bookshop in Salem, OR, on November 12 at 6:30 p.m. June 14, 1903, was a typical, hot Sunday in Heppner, a small farm town in northeastern Oregon. People went to church, ate dinner, and relaxed with family and friends. But late that afternoon, calamity struck when a violent thunderstorm brought heavy rain and hail to the mountains and bare hills south of town. When the fierce downpour reached Heppner, people gathered their children and hurried inside. Most everyone closed their doors and windows against the racket. The thunder and pounding hail masked the sound of ... |
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