The event is held in the Murray Board Room of the Wheelock Student Center, University of Puget Sound. Address details: 1500 N Warner is on the east side of U of Peget Sound. Wheelock Center parking is on 14th street. At this event, Eleanor Corey will be sharing slides, reading excerpts, and speaking of the Corey family connection to Tacoma history. Plan to hang around afterwards to meet several of Eleanor’s siblings who are coming to celebrate the book at the hometown of their grandparents. The facility is open all night! This event is sponsored by the Tacoma Historical Society. Eleanor Corey (Guderian), the author of Sticks, Stones & Songs—The Corey Story, a memoir set in the 1930s to 1950s, is the seventh of ten children. Although raised on the Olympic Peninsula, her roots are deep in Tacoma history. Her father, Arthur Corey, was one of eight children born to Merton Henry
This event will be held in the Sno-Isle Library Stanwood Branch Conference Room. The author will show slides, tell stories, and warn of ruts on the road to writing. Books will be available. This event is sponsored by Stanwood Sno-Isle library.
This event will be held at the Sno-Isle Library Clinton Branch (Whidbey Island) in the Clinton Community Center http://www.sno-isle.org/locations/clinton/.
Eleanor Corey Guderian shares stories from her family memoir, Sticks, Stones and Songs--The Corey Story. The hardscrabble rural life of her family of twelve is explored with humor in the framework of mid-1900s history.
Joyce Bible Church will host a book signing and selling event following the morning service. Copies of Sticks, Stones & Songs will also be available.
Eleanor Corey will have a front-row booth featuring her books, Pots, Pans & Peace and Sticks, Stones & Songs. Also available at her table will be jars of her sister Elizabeth's blackberry jelly and blackberry syrup. Please come by, meet members of the family, and sign in for a drawing.