Wed. Sept. 14 at 7 pm: Docent Reading Group: Coast Salish Carving

For those of you that are interested in the book club:
I propose that we meet on Wednesday, September 14 in the evening at 7
pm.

Information about the book is below but hopefully you already know about
that!

Please let me know whether that date and time works for you, and if you
are planning to attend. Due to the smallish number of participants, I am
hoping that we can do it as a single group.

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares
Docent Coordinator
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To: ttamdocents.98402@blogger.com, tamdocents@googlegroups.com,
scampbell@tacomaartmuseum.org
Subject: Docent Reading Group: Coast Salish Carving
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005

BOOK:
This summer's Docent Reading Group will be focusing on native stories
for
the Coast Salish Carving exhibition. There are not many books out there
that
focus specifically on Coast Salish stories and are in print, affordable
and
easily available, so... I would like to suggest that you are free to
read
any book on that theme that you find at your library or bookstore or
already
own. (but I do also have a recommendation...) You can read as many or as
few
stories as you want!
If you want a specific recommendation, you might want to look for
"Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest" by Ella E. Clark.
This
book has been in publication for 50 years, and contains stories from
several
native groups around this area. I think it should be easy to find at
bookstores (I got mine at the UW bookstore) and even the library, not
too
expensive at about $16, and a good "general read" to add to
your
well-rounded bookshelf.

DATE:
Hopefully we will be able to meet sometime in Augest to discuss this
book,
but Shannon will have to let us know what date is available for that (to
be
determined).

other:
Lastly, I would like to encourage people to come to the Book Club
discussion
even if you haven't read the book. I think that you might learn
something
from the discussion (or at least find them interesting), and that you
can
still take part in the discussions, without having read the books
themselves.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me.
Heide Fernandez-Llamazares.