WCU geoscientist Rob Young and Duke environmental scientist Orrin Pilkey will be at the store on Friday\, October 23rd at 7\:00 p.m. for a program based on their new book\, entitled The Rising Sea. The book\, which was prominently featured in a recent Sylva Herald story\, documents rising global sea levels and projects their impact for people around the world. The book\, published by Island Press\, is an accessible treatment of the subject\, aimed at the general public. The authors’ program at City Lights will be based on their research for The Rising Sea and will incorporate a general discussion of global climate change and the challenges it poses for nations around the world.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T204419Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091024T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091024T213000Z UID:http://www.citylightsnc.com/event/cleveland-jones-to-autograph-novel-about-growing-barker%E2%80%99s-creek URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.citylightsnc.com/event/cleveland-jones-to-autograph-novel-about-growing-barker%E2%80%99s-creek SUMMARY:Cleveland Jones to Autograph Novel about Growing up on Barker’s Creek DESCRIPTION:Cleveland Jones will be at the store on Saturday\, October 24th from 3\:30 to 5\:30 p.m. to autograph his new novel\, The Firescalds\: Road to the Sky. The book is in part a fictionalized account of his family’s life growing up on a farm in Jackson County’s Barker’s Creek community in the 1950s.
Mr. Jones will be available to talk with customers and autograph copies. This is a drop-in event\, so please come anytime during the two hours he’ll be here\, visiting from his current home in Virginia.