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- Written by: Linda Drake
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – A one-time date change is on tap for November’s Fiddlers Jam at Ely Stage Stop and Country Museum.
While jams are typically held the first Sunday of each month, a fundraiser activity in the barn the night before November’s first Sunday has resulted in a change to Nov. 9 for the next jam.
The museum will be open as usual, but the Jam will push out to the second Sunday, with the fiddlers playing in the barn from noon through 2 p.m.
Note: This is only for the month of November. In December and going forward, the schedule will revert to the first Sunday.
You can still come and enjoy the museum with all of its latest acquisitions and displays any Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The stage stop, operated by the Lake County Historical Society, is located at 9921 Soda Bay Road (Highway 281) in Kelseyville.
Learn more about the Saturday, Nov. 1, fundraiser to benefit the museum’s new blacksmith shop at www.elystagestop.com or www.lakecountyhistory.org , check out the stage stop on Facebook at www.facebook.com/elystagestop or call the museum at 707-533-9990.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Blues and rock ‘n roll band, The Hip Replacements, will appear at the Soper Reese Theatre at 7 p.m. Oct. 17 as part of the theater’s Third Friday Live Series.
The group features Jim Williams on guitar plus vocals, “Mojo” Larry Platz on guitars, and Tom Aiken on keyboards.
The dance floor will be open.
The group will be playing in place of the previously announced Double Standyrd.
All seats for “Third Friday Live” are $10.
Tickets are available online at www.soperreesetheatre.com ; at the theater box office, 275 S. Main St. in Lakeport on Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; or by phone at 707-263-0577.
Tickets also are available at The Travel Center, 1265 S. Main St. in Lakeport, Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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UKIAH, Calif. – Now in its 11th year, the Friends of the Mendocino College Library, an affiliate of the Mendocino College Foundation, is offering its fall reading series.
This series will kick off with well-known Ukiah Poet Laureate Bill Churchill.
The first reading, with Churchill, will take place on Thursday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. in room 4210 on the Mendocino College Ukiah Campus, 1000 Hensley Creek Road in Ukiah. Room 4210 can be found upstairs in the new college library.
Churchill is currently serving as the Ukiah poet laureate and teaches at Mendocino College and Santa Rosa Junior College, where he also has been a California Poet in the Schools since 1998.
His publications include Song of Seasons, Controlled Burn, Durmiendo Con Fantasmas/Sleeping with Ghosts and El Velo/The Veil.
Churchill's work has been included in journals such as First Leaves, Americas Review, Santa Clara Review and Frontera-Esquina.
He also has been a featured poet at the Summer Dream Poetry Festival in Vancouver, B.C. in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Following the reading, there will be an open mic session to allow audience members to recite their poetry. Sign ups will take place prior to the reading and during the break.
Additional authors in the series include Lake County Poet Laureate Casey Carney on Nov. 16 at Mendocino College’s new Lake Center in Lakeport, and novelist Waights Taylor Jr. on Nov. 20 at the Ukiah Campus.
For more information, please check the college Web site at www.mendocino.edu or call 707-468-3051.
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- Written by: Ted Kooser
Here’s a lovely poem for this lovely month, by Robert Haight, who lives in Michigan.
Early October Snow
It will not stay.
But this morning we wake to pale muslin
stretched across the grass.
The pumpkins, still in the fields, are planets
shrouded by clouds.
The Weber wears a dunce cap
and sits in the corner by the garage
where asters wrap scarves
around their necks to warm their blooms.
The leaves, still soldered to their branches
by a frozen drop of dew, splash
apple and pear paint along the roadsides.
It seems we have glanced out a window
into the near future, mid-December, say,
the black and white photo of winter
carefully laid over the present autumn,
like a morning we pause at the mirror
inspecting the single strand of hair
that overnight has turned to snow.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation ( www.poetryfoundation.org ), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright 2013 by Robert Haight from his most recent book of poems, Feeding Wild Birds, Mayapple Press, 2013. (Lines two and six are variations of lines by Herb Scott and John Woods.) Poem reprinted by permission of Robert Haight and the publisher. Introduction copyright 2014 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. They do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
