North Texas/USA: Dallas Book Festival, Saturday, April 12th

[L. A. Starks]

Join us 12 PM-5 PM at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street. Parking underground at Wood or nearby at Wood & Ervay.

     The Festival offers a range of events for readers, authors, artists, musicians, and children including Alma y Corazaon Tejano Ballet Folkorico, the Black Vegetarian Society, a Discovery Wall "trip" to the Cleveland Institute of Music complete with performances by its students, and a young poets' workshop.

     AuthorSpeak will include a panel of local authors Karen Blumenthal, Harry Hunsicker, and L. A. Starks, moderated by Robert Wilonsky of the Dallas Morning News.

     Many other authors will be featured, including award-winning Gary Vineyard, already a master of the western-mystery genre  in his debut novel, The Grave on Peckerwood Hill.

     The seventh floor of the J. Erik Jonsson library showcases Shakespeare's First Folio, compiled in 1623, and a (once-lost) broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed July 4, 1776.