| Highlights of 2005 Festival
Saturday,
September 10, 2005 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
San Luis Obispo, CA -- Mission Plaza
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Thank
Andrew Carnegie
Share why you continue to love your Public Libraries today. Adults
and children are invited to participate in a non-competitive writing
challenge. Selected essays will be read at the Festival.
The San Luis Obispo
County Historical Museum Building which will be the site for
Readings, Question and Answer sessions and workshops is the former
Carnegie Library Building, built in 1904/05. The building served
as the public library for the City of San Luis Obispo until 1955,
when a new library was built at the corner of Palm and Morro Streets.
 Funds
for the construction of the Carnegie Library building were provided
by a grant of $10,000 from steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie, who funded
the establishment of some 3,000 libraries worldwide. The Museum
building was designed by W.H. Weeks, an architect from Watsonville,
California, and was built by the construction firm of Stephens and
Maino of San Luis Obispo. The structure's sandstone was brought
from Los Berros, near Arroyo Grande. The granite in the building
was quarried from nearby Bishop's Peak and brought into the city
on a spur of the narrow gauge Pacific Coast Railway. The Museum
is the only building in San Luis Obispo County built with both of
these local stones.
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Featured Authors
Featured Authors for 2005 included Catherine
Ryan Hyde, author of "Pay it Forward," a blockbuster
novel-turned-screenplay, Franz Wisner ("Honeymoon
With My Brother"),Susan
Branch ("Heart of the Home"), and Paul B. Farrell ("The
Lazy Person's Guide to Investing").
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Catherine Ryan Hyde |
Paul B. Farrell |
Susan Branch |
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| 2005 Schedule
of Festival Events |
| Art Center |
| 12:00 |
Paul B. Farrell “CBS
MarketWatch Columnist,” “The Lazy Person’s
Guide To Investing,” “The Millionaire Code”
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| 1:00 |
Susan Branch “Heart
of the Home,” “Vineyard Seasons,”
“Love,” “The Summer Book,” Girlfriends
Forever”
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| 2:00 |
Franz & Kurt Wisner
“Honeymoon With My Brother” |
| 3:00 |
Catherine Ryan Hyde “Funerals
for Horses,” “Earthquake Weather,”
“Pay It
Forward,” “Electric God,” “Walter's
Purple Heart” |
| SLO Historical Society
Museum |
| 11:30 |
Marla Purl “What
the Heart Knows,” “ Christmas Angels,”
“ Cause and Conscience” |
| 12:30 |
Claire P. Gordon “My
Unforgettable Jazz Friends” |
| 1:30 |
Mick LaSalle “San
Francisco Chronicle Movie Critic,” “Complicated
Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood,” “Dangerous
Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern
Man” |
| 2:30 |
Robert L. Mott “Radio
Live! Television Live!” |
| 3:30 |
Chris Epting “James
Dean Died Here,” “ Marilyn Monroe Dyed Here,”
“Elvis Presley Passed Here,” “Roadside
Baseball”
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| Murray Adobe Patio |
| 11:00 |
Loraine Holden Workshop: Don’t
Get Thin, Get Healthy |
| 11:30 |
Katherine Shirek Doughtie Reading
“Aphrodite in Jeans” |
| 12:00 |
Robert H. Simmons Workshop: Lions
and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! |
| 12:30 |
Joel F. Pullen Reading
“It Always Happens Sometimes” |
| 1:00 |
Dean Mignola Workshop: The Single
Guy’s Survival Guide |
| 1:30 |
Ona Russell Ph.D. Reading
“O'Brien's Desk” |
| 2:00 |
Evelyn Cole Workshop: Purpose
of Sex Scenes in Fiction |
| 2:30 |
John Spivey Reading
“The Great Western Divide” |
| 3:00 |
Karen V. Bading Workshop: Saying
No |
| 3:30 |
Loren Nicolson Reading
“Rails Across the Ranchos” |
| Amphitheater |
| 11:30 |
Don Wallis’ World of Puppets |
| 12:00 |
Karen Garman’s Pacific
Dancers |
| 12:30 |
Blues for Kids with Valerie Johnson
and Al B. Blue |
| 1:30 |
Don Wallis’ World of Puppets |
| 2:00 |
Children’s Folk Singer
Damian Rollison |
| 3:00 |
Don Wallis’ World of Puppets |
| 3:30 |
My Favorite Library Memory |
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| At 3:30 p.m. in Mission Plaza, there will be a drawing to
award local vendor gift certificates to participants in the
"Thank Andrew Carnegie" writing
challenge. |
List of vendors at the 2005 Festival
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