Five Really Important Events
October 16, 2017 11:02 Book stuff | Food for Thought
Freedom of Speech is so important in this day of government-sponsored fake news and alternate facts to read.
National Reading Group Month – October
Freedom of Speech Week – Third Week in October
Fun Read Week – October 16-22
National Dictionary Day – October 16
Black Poetry Day – October 17
It is so important in this day of fake news and alternate facts to read. It is also important to have freedom of speech. It is well documented that you can’t yell fire in a crowded movie theater or now yell bomb anywhere. But there are people, actually the President, who say you don’t have freedom of speech unless you agree with him. Freedom of speech is saying, whatever. If no one agrees with it that is OK.
A well-rounded and smart person uses dictionaries and reads. Poetry is good for the soul. This past weekend, an online site said Morgan Freeman was dead. You have to know enough to not believe and check it out yourself. Morgan Freeman is alive and kicking. Sift through the alternate facts and get the true ones. READ to find the correct information.
In this day of cell phones we still need to read. Put down the cell phone and pick up a book.
Barbe Awalt
Nov 12: 4th Annual Albuquerque Balloon Museum Arts & Crafts Fair, 9am to 5pm
HENRIETTA CHRISTMAS & PAUL RHETTS ("The Basic Genealogy Checklist")
Dec 9: Los Lunas Public Library, 10am
January 6: Hispanic Genealogy Research Center at National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, 10am
January 9: El Castillo Living Center, Santa Fe, NM, 7pm
RILEY MITCHELL ("The Essential Paranormal Bucket List")
Oct 21: Santa Fe Public Library, 2pm
Oct 30: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
SLIM RANDLES ("The Fly Fisherman's Bucket List")
Nov 9: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
JOSEPH SANCHEZ ("Historic Route 66")
Nov 4: Hispanic Genealogy Research Center at National Hispanic Cultural Center, 10am
Nov 18: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 3pm
JOHN TAYLOR & RICHARD MELZER ("Tragic Trails & Enchanted Journeys" & "Captain Maximiliano Luna")
Nov 11: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 16: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
ROBERT TORREZ ("Voices from the Past")
Nov 4: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 30: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
ROSS VAN DUSEN ("What Makes the Lightning?", "How the Crocka Dog Came to Be"; and "Lyle Got Stuck in a Tree")
Oct 28: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Dec 1: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 6pm
AT BOOKWORKS
Freedom of Speech Week – Third Week in October
Fun Read Week – October 16-22
National Dictionary Day – October 16
Black Poetry Day – October 17
It is so important in this day of fake news and alternate facts to read. It is also important to have freedom of speech. It is well documented that you can’t yell fire in a crowded movie theater or now yell bomb anywhere. But there are people, actually the President, who say you don’t have freedom of speech unless you agree with him. Freedom of speech is saying, whatever. If no one agrees with it that is OK.
A well-rounded and smart person uses dictionaries and reads. Poetry is good for the soul. This past weekend, an online site said Morgan Freeman was dead. You have to know enough to not believe and check it out yourself. Morgan Freeman is alive and kicking. Sift through the alternate facts and get the true ones. READ to find the correct information.
In this day of cell phones we still need to read. Put down the cell phone and pick up a book.
Barbe Awalt
UPCOMING CALENDAR:
RIO GRANDE BOOKSNov 12: 4th Annual Albuquerque Balloon Museum Arts & Crafts Fair, 9am to 5pm
HENRIETTA CHRISTMAS & PAUL RHETTS ("The Basic Genealogy Checklist")
Dec 9: Los Lunas Public Library, 10am
January 6: Hispanic Genealogy Research Center at National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, 10am
January 9: El Castillo Living Center, Santa Fe, NM, 7pm
RILEY MITCHELL ("The Essential Paranormal Bucket List")
Oct 21: Santa Fe Public Library, 2pm
Oct 30: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
SLIM RANDLES ("The Fly Fisherman's Bucket List")
Nov 9: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
JOSEPH SANCHEZ ("Historic Route 66")
Nov 4: Hispanic Genealogy Research Center at National Hispanic Cultural Center, 10am
Nov 18: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 3pm
JOHN TAYLOR & RICHARD MELZER ("Tragic Trails & Enchanted Journeys" & "Captain Maximiliano Luna")
Nov 11: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 16: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
ROBERT TORREZ ("Voices from the Past")
Nov 4: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 30: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
ROSS VAN DUSEN ("What Makes the Lightning?", "How the Crocka Dog Came to Be"; and "Lyle Got Stuck in a Tree")
Oct 28: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Dec 1: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 6pm
AT BOOKWORKS