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Words and Wine Author Event
Each month Kona Stories hosts an event with local and traveling authors. This event happens the first Tuesday evening of the month starting at 6 PM. Authors are available to talk story while you are getting your plate of pupus and glass of complimentary wine. Authors then give a 15 minute talk about their book and themselves, the writing and publishing process or a short reading from the book. After all the authors presentations there is a time for individual questions and book signings with the authors. Expect 3 -5 authors to attend each month and the evening to wrap up around 9 PM. Dress is Aloha casual wear.
 Store Owners to help you: Joy Vogelgesang & Brenda Eng. Staff to help you: Sharon Cannon & Tiare Tolzmann
Authors for March
Kona Historial Society
"Keahi's Special Bread Day" a Hawaiian boy named Keahi describes his day helping his Portuguese auntie bake bread. He discovers that it tales many people, working together, to make it happen. The book also includes fun facts about Hawai'i in 1883, a secret Portuguese sweet bread recipe, and steps in construction of a Portuguese stone oven.
 Lisa Corker
Reconnect with your Italian roots when you enjoy the Sicilian life stories in the book "Carmela" edited by Lisa Kempton Corker. These stories are full of energy and vitality. This book explores the human nature of the Italian immigrant's life in the early 20th century and examines cultural and universal themes we all can identify with.
 Pat Kurtz
The seeds of a cross-cultural friendship were first sowed in 1955 when author Pat Lindgren-Kurtz's family first met indigenous Mountain Maidu basket makers Lilly Baker and her mother, Daisy. As the friendship grew, the contrasts in their backgrounds only enriched their experiences. In her heartfelt memoir, Lindgren-Kurtz not only retells the story of a lifelong friendship, but also details how two cultures intertwined while Daisy and Lilly create beautiful baskets to be cherished by many generations.As she shares charming anecdotes from her life living with the California Mountain Maidu people, picking willows, and observing their basket-making techniques, she offers an intriguing glimpse into the Maidu culture, their personal trials and tragedies, and the dramatic environmental changes affecting Maidu life from the Gold Rush to contemporary times. Lindgren-Kurtz details that Lilly and Daisy, as part of a large family of skilled basket-makers, persisted in sharing their culture and and traditional art through hands-on demonstrations for thousands. Women basket makers from Daisy's and Lilly's Maidu family are recognized as some of the best artisans of Indian basketry in North America."A charming basket of untold California history, family memoir, and especially friendships among talented artists from two different cultures."-Bruce Shelly, screenwriter and author.
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