Events

March 2008  - NLAPW Cape Canaveral Branch Hosts Community Outreach at Cocoa Florida Library 

 The Cape Canaveral Pen Women’s annual Community Outreach event for 2008 will be held at the Cocoa Library at 2 pm Saturday March 22, 308 Forrest Avenue, Cocoa, Florida (a few blocks North of Cocoa Village, west of new Whitley Marina Condominiums).

The featured speaker is author Steve Glassman who will talk about Maya and travel writing. Learn more about Steve at www.steveglassman.com. 

This cultural program for public outreach in the creative arts is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the Cape Canaveral Branch of NLAPW. The event is FREE and open to the public to visit and enjoy. 

Tables will be available for CCB Pen Women writers to display, sign and sell their works. Pen Women artists will display their works and Pen Women musicians will perform. This cooperative agreement with the library will be an ongoing opportunity, now and in the future to reach the community and attract new members by introducing the public to the Pen Women organization and its creative and artistic pursuits.

Professional authors who will be signing their books are Anna Flowers, Carol Jose, Mary Dall, Carolyn Cain, Fran Peterson, Marilyn Martin, Jo Anna O’Keefe, and Beverly Huttinger. Artists displaying their work are Carmen Beecher, Virginia King, Mary Dall and Toni Di Rocco.  Author/Musician Betty Yaroch will perform on the keyboard. A percentage of sales will be donated to the Cape Canaveral Pen Women Scholarship Fund.

Thanks to Marilyn Martin, Mary Dall and others who have helped with publicity for the event. 

 About speaker Steve Glassman:

 Reflecting his esoteric interests, Steve Glassman is hard to categorize. He’s written mystery novels, historical non-fiction, documented explorers, edited books of essays and crime fiction, and much more during his career. In 2003, he used his probing intellect to write an acclaimed travel-history of 19^th century explorer John Lloyd Stephens’ trek through Central America. He commemorated this exploration in the soft cover publication On the Trail of the Maya Explorer: A Travel Narrative Retracing John Lloyd Stephens Epic Journey of Discovery of the Maya.

After what he calls a misspent youth working as everything from a Fuller Brush salesman to a corn detassler, Glassman spent several years as a Peace Corps Volunteer on a tiny Micronesian island. For more than 20 years he’s taught English and writing courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach as Professor of Humanities and Communications.

 December 2008 - Community Outreach

As a Community Outreach endeavor, the Cape Canaveral Branch of NLAPW provides holiday gifts for children ages 6 through16 served by Operation Hope, an endeavor that delivers help to the children of poor migrant farm workers in Central Florida who might otherwise not receive any instruction in, or appreciation of the creative arts. Donated gifts are books, paint supplies, “how-to” books, musical instruments and other items related to the creative arts of writing, art and music. In 2006, vice president Jean Thomas coordinated the effort and delivered the items.