author Meredith May

SLO County Libraries Kicking off Cuesta College Book of the Year Program

Author: Becky Juretic for Library Administration
Date: 1/21/2020 1:49 PM

This year’s selection for the Cuesta College Book of the Year is The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees. Author Meredith May will be appearing at an event celebrating Earth Day’s 50th anniversary on April 22, 2020, from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. at the Cuesta College Harold J. Miossi Cultural and Performing Arts Center on Cuesta College’s San Luis Obispo campus.


 

SAN LUIS OBISPO – The Cuesta College Book of the Year Program is now underway with free events at several branches of the County of San Luis Obispo Public Libraries. This year’s selection is The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees. Author Meredith May will be appearing at an event celebrating Earth Day’s 50th anniversary on April 22, 2020, from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. at the Cuesta College Harold J. Miossi Cultural and Performing Arts Center on Cuesta College’s San Luis Obispo campus. General admission tickets are $15, and students are free. Tickets are available starting February 1 at cpactickets.cuesta.edu.

 

Leading up to the author event, SLO County Library branches are offering book discussions, beekeeping classes, classes on gardening for pollinators, bee-related art and craft workshops, movies and more. See below for a full list of free events.

 

Numerous copies of The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees are available for checkout at the Cuesta College and SLO County Libraries. The memoir depicts May’s struggles with growing up in a dysfunctional, divorced family, and finding inspiration and

renewal working with her beekeeper grandfather as she adjusts to life in rural Carmel Valley, California.

 

Meredith May is an award-winning journalist and fifth-generation beekeeper. During her sixteen-year career at the San Francisco Chronicle, her reporting won the PEN USA Literary

Award for Journalism, the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, and first place feature writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Associated Press. Her series about an Iraqi boy wounded during the second Gulf War was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize.

May is a former professor of journalism and podcasting at Mills College in Oakland, CA. She lives in San Francisco, where she rows on the Bay and cares for several beehives in a community garden.

 

The Book of the Year Program is a project of Cuesta College’s Academic Senate in partnership with San Luis Obispo County Public Library SLO Reads. For additional information, visit https://www.cuesta.edu/library/book.html, ​www.slolibrary.org, email [email protected], or call (805) 546-3190.

 

Free Book of the Year Programs at County of San Luis Obispo Public Libraries

 

BOOK DISCUSSIONS

ARROYO GRANDE LIBRARY

FRI, APRIL 17, 10:00

TUES, APRIL 21, 4:30

ATASCADERO LIBRARY

TUES, MARCH 3, 11:00

LOS OSOS LIBRARY

THURS, APRIL 2, 6:30

MORRO BAY LIBRARY

WEDS, APRIL 22, 10:30

NIPOMO LIBRARY

WEDS, FEB 5, 1:00

SAN LUIS OBISPO LIBRARY

THURS, APRIL 9, 10:30

SAN MIGUEL LIBRARY

SAT, MARCH 28, 4:00

SHELL BEACH LIBRARY

WEDS, APRIL 8, 4:00

 

PROGRAMS

ARROYO GRANDE LIBRARY

BEES IN SLO COUNTY

SAT, MARCH 14, 2:00 | Adult

 

GARDENING FOR POLLINATORS

SAT, APRIL 11, 2:00 | Adult

 

BEE FLOWERPOT WORKSHOP

SAT, APRIL 18, 11:00

Registration Required | Ages 7-13

 

ENCAUSTIC PAINTING

SAT, APRIL 18, 2:00

Registration Required | Ages 12 & up

 

ATASCADERO LIBRARY

 

BEES IN SLO COUNTY

SAT, MARCH 7, 11:00 | Adult

 

 

CAMBRIA LIBRARY

CITRUS PRINTING

SAT, MARCH 14, 3:00 | Ages 3 – 10

 

BEEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS

THURS, MARCH 26, 4:00 | Adult

 

CAYUCOS

BEES IN SLO COUNTY

FRI, FEB 28, 1:00 | Adult

 

CRESTON LIBRARY

ENCAUSTIC PAINTING

THURS, JAN 30, 3:00

Registration Required | Ages 12 & up

 

LOS OSOS LIBRARY

ENCAUSTIC PAINTING

SAT, MARCH 14, 9:30

Registration Required | Ages 12 & up

 

MORRO BAY LIBRARY

BEES IN SLO COUNTY

SAT, FEB 29, 2:00 | Adult

 

NIPOMO LIBRARY

BEES IN SLO COUNTY

SAT, APRIL 11, 2:00  | Adult

 

BEE FLOWERPOT WORKSHOP

SAT, APRIL 18, 2:00

Registration Required | Ages 7 & up