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Written by: Editor

Published: 22 January 2010

MENDOCINO COUNTY – Val Muchowski’s guests on the Feb. 1 “Women’s Voices” on KZYX and KZYZ – 90.7, 91.5 AND 88.1 FM in Mendocino County – will be Sherri Smith-Ferri and Alyson Glassey.

The program will begin at 7 p.m.

Sherrie Smith-Ferri is the director of the Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House. The Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah is an art, history and anthropology museum focusing on the lifeworks of artist Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865-1937) and her ethnologist husband, Dr. John W. Hudson (1857-1936).

Changing interdisciplinary exhibitions and public programs feature Western American art, California Indian cultures, histories of California's diverse North Coast region and the work of contemporary regional artists.

Alyson Glassey is the interm director of the Mendocino County Museum in Willits. The Mendocino County Museum was established in 1972. Through its internal divisions, it adds to collections that represent the heritage of Mendocino County. The museum presents items from the collection in public exhibits and provides access procedures for research of artifacts and archived documents.

Both museums are facing cuts in budget and services from both the county and the city of Ukiah. The directors struggle to keep exhibits presented and the doors open.

“Women’s Voices” is also streamed at www.kzyx.org .

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Written by: Editor

Published: 18 January 2010

MONTEREY – Entries are now being accepted for regional winners in the 18th annual National Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older in which the California Senior Poet Laureate is sought. Deadline is June 30.

 

Winning poems of state senior poets laureate will be named in July, following which they advance to final rounds of competition from which the winner of $500 and the 2010 National Senior Poet Laureate title will be announced around Sept. 1.

 

Dewell H. Byrd, retired school administrator from Eureka, won the 2009 California Senior Poet Laureate Award with his poem "Portrait Day."

Winner of the 2009 National Senior Poet Laureate Award was Patricia Frolander, 66, A rancher from Sundance, Wyo.

 

Co-sponsors Vera-Jane Goodin Schultz and Wanda Sue Parrott founded the contest administered by Amy Kitchener’s Angels Without Wings Fdn. In 1993.

The 2009 winners can be seen in Golden Words Anthology, along with rules for the 2010 Senior Poets Laureate Contest, at www.amykitchenerfdn.org .