Sunday March 15, 12pm-2pm: Pat Duval, author of From Colored Town to Pebble Beach: The Story of the Singing Sheriff will be at Old Capitol Books for a book signing.
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The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Presents: Ellen Hart & Illia Thompson
The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Presents: Ellen Hart & Illia Thompson
Live at the Bookstore – The Brothers Strong & Co!
Here at Old Capitol Books, it’s not only great literature that we love, but great music as well! So we’re happy to announce a performance by The Brothers Strong & Co. Come down for your fix of BOOKS and BLUEGRASS!
“Ask the Author: Ups and Downs of Producing Artists’ Honeymoon”
February 22nd, 2015 – 3pm-5pm: Julianne Burton-Carvajal is back to share some of the amazing photographs that have been discovered showing Monterey’s art colonies in the 1910s and 1920s, and has printed selections of them in her new work Artists’ Honeymoon: Rowena Meeks Abdy & Harry Bennett Abdy – At Work & Play in MontereyContinue reading ““Ask the Author: Ups and Downs of Producing Artists’ Honeymoon””
Networking Aloud! A Monthly Opening mic – January features: Sharon Law Tucker & P. A. Speers
A free monthly event open to the public every second Tuesday: A WRITERS OPEN MIKE. Come early & sign up for a five to seven minute reading from any genre: prose, screenplay, poetry & essay that follows 15 minutes from a featured published reader. We applaud one another, no critique allowed. Bring your work inContinue reading “Networking Aloud! A Monthly Opening mic – January features: Sharon Law Tucker & P. A. Speers”
Book Signing: Kristen Comello, author of The Castle Church
Saturday January 31st 2015, 12pm-2pm: Come down to Old Capitol Books to meet local children’s book author Kristen Comello and hear her read from her book, The Castle Church.
History of African Americans of Monterey County
Meet local author of the newest addition to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America series is African Americans of Monterey County, Jan Batiste Adkins. The book boasts more than 200 vintage images and memories from the unique California African American heritage. Ms. Adkins will be at Old Capitol Books on Saturday, January 31 from 3PMContinue reading “History of African Americans of Monterey County”
Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium presents Stephen Kessler and Deborah Wenzler
Sunday January 11th, 2015 – 2pm-4pm: The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium presents Stephen Kessler and Deborah Wenzler
Thinking Critically About Society Winter 2015 Seminar Series
Ahoy there local book-lovers! Old Capitol Books is excited to start up our Thinking Critically about Society Series again this winter together with the Direct Action Monterey Network and the Monterey Community Education Project.
African Americans of Monterey County – Discussion and Book Signing
31 January, 2015 – 3pm-5pm: We’re super excited to have Jan Batiste Adkins, author of African Americans of San Francisco, come to Old Capitol Books to discuss her latest work: African Americans of Monterey County.
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