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
